Was Shi an aristocrat in ancient times?

Shi's surname originated from Gui's surname, and came from the vassal state of Xia Dynasty. According to the historical book "Examination of Surnames", the Xia Dynasty warlord You Shi established a historical country, the former site of which was in Enshi County, Hubei Province.

After the destruction of Shang Tang, the historical country also perished. Later, the descendants of the Shi kingdom took the name of the old country as their surname, which was passed down from generation to generation and was one of the very old surnames.

Migration and distribution of historical surnames;

In the pre-Qin period, Shi began to live in Shandong, Anhui and other places, and was forced to move westward to northern Henan, then southward to Enshi, Hubei, and then southward to Hunan and Guizhou. One of them moved westward to Luzhou, Sichuan and Eryuan, Yunnan, forming the main residence of Shi surname in southwest China. Among them, the southern branch of Gushi State in Anhui Province is the most important. In the Tang Dynasty, Xing Wu County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, formed a large family of Shishi.

By the Tang and Song Dynasties, Shi had spread all over the south of the Yangtze River. In the Song Dynasty, there were about 1.3 million people, accounting for 0. 1.3% of the national population, ranking 93rd.

Zhejiang and Sichuan are big provinces with Shi surname, accounting for about 17% of the total population of Shi surname in China respectively. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei, accounting for about 70% of the total population, followed by Shandong, Fujian and Hebei provinces. At that time, the distribution of historical surnames formed two gathering areas centered on Sichuan and Hubei in the west and Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui in the east.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 250,000 Shi surnames, accounting for 0.25% of the national population, ranking 83rd. Zhejiang is the largest province with Shi surname, accounting for about 4 1% of the total population of Shi surname.

The distribution is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Jiangsu, accounting for about 865,438+0% of the total population. During the 600 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the population of Shi mainly migrated to the southeast, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian were the gathering centers of Shi at that time.