The origin of the surname "Ran"

Looking for the roots

There are five sources of the surname Ran: 1. It comes from the surname Ji. According to "A Study of Surnames" and "Looking for the Origin of Surnames", Ji Zai, the tenth son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, was granted the title of Ran (first named Dan, the old city is in Nakou City, Jingkou County, Hubei Province today), and was destroyed by Zheng in the Spring and Autumn Period. The descendants take the country as their surname, or Dan Quer as Ran. 2. According to the "Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames", it is said that the surname Ran came after Gao Xin (namely Emperor Ku). 3. According to the "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu doctor Shu Shanran was named after him. 4. According to the "Book of Han·Yan Shigu Annotation", in the Tang Dynasty, there were many natives in Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing) and Kaizhou (now Kaixian, Chongqing) in Sichuan with this surname, all of whom were of Ran origin (Ran was an ancient country founded by the Western Yi people in the Han Dynasty, Later, he may take Ran as his surname). 5. From other tribes. During the Han Dynasty, the Xiyi Ran tribe lived in the area of ??today's Maowen Qiang Autonomous County in Sichuan. Their clan members took their clan name as their surname; the Tujia people in the area where today's Hubei, Sichuan and Hunan meet have this surname.

The ancestor who got the surname Ran Jizai.

Ming Zai, Zi Ji. The royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the tenth son of King Wen of Zhou and the younger brother of King Wu, the youngest. After King Wu conquered Shang and destroyed Zhou, he enfeoffed the princes and enfeoffed his young brother to Ran. Because of Ji Zai's good deeds, when he became king, he was promoted to Sikong, in charge of military affairs, and became an important minister of the Zhou royal family. He assisted the king and gained a wide reputation. He was a famous royal leader in the early Zhou Dynasty. His descendants took the feudal state as their surname and called Ran Jizai their surname. They respected Ran Jizai as the ancestor of their surname.

Proliferation and Migration

There are many versions of the location of the Gu Ran Kingdom. Some say it is in Jingkou, Hubei Province today, some say it is in Jingmen, Hubei Province today, and others say it is in Pingyu, Henan, Kaifeng, Henan, and Maoxian, Sichuan. said. Although there are different opinions, we can judge from the historical data at that time after the Ran surname was acquired in the early Zhou Dynasty. The entire Ran family was mainly active in what is now Shandong. During the Spring and Autumn Period, among the many disciples of the most sage teacher Confucius, there were five disciples named Ran, who were also known as the Five Sages of the Holy Sect. They are: Ran Qiu, Ran Ru, Ran Yong, Ran Geng, and Ran Ji. All of them are outstanding and famous throughout the ages. Moreover, all five of them are from the state of Lu. Therefore, in future generations, the county with the surname Ran will be known as Dong Lu. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, people with the surname Ran gradually moved from Shandong to Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other northern lands. A family of Ran from Shandong moved to Xupu and other places in Hunan to multiply, and later prospered into a large local clan. In ancient times, this place It belongs to Wuling County, so later generations of people with the surname Ran took Wuling as their county hall name. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Ran surname that multiplied in Linzhang, Hebei Province today also showed a prosperous situation with a large family, and prospered as the Ran surname Wei Junwang. Among them, Ran Min, who established the Wei State during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, is an outstanding representative of this county. According to the "College Notes of Huayang Guozhi", the surname of the southwestern Yi leader in Kuizhou and Kaizhou was Duo Ran. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were also Ran Shi, Ran Zuyong and his son from Yunan in Kuizhou (now Yunyang, Chongqing), and Ran Anchang from Badong (now Fengjie, Chongqing) who were mentioned in the annals of history. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, a man named Ran from Chongqing moved to Guizhou. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Ran surname in the north had spread to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River provinces such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Ran surname was one of the surnames of the people who migrated to Hongdong's large locust tree, and was moved to Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui and other places. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu and Qing armies massacred Sichuan, causing a sharp decline in the population of Sichuan. Later, Huguang occupied Sichuan, and people with the surname Ran from Hubei and Hunan moved to present-day Sichuan and Chongqing. After the Kangxi and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, people with the Ran surname from Hebei, Henan, and Shandong broke into Guandong and entered the Northeast. Today, the surname Ran is widely distributed across the country, especially in Sichuan and Chongqing, accounting for about 49% of the country's Han population with the surname Ran. It is also common in Guizhou and Hebei. People from the above four places have the surname Ran. The surname Ran accounts for about 79% of the Han population in the country.