Is Zhong an ancient aristocrat?

Zhong's surname originated from the won surname and was later changed by the compound surname. Judging from the fiefs of the descendants of Boyi in Zhou Dynasty, it belongs to the national title. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang sealed the descendants of Boyi, the leader of the ancient Dongyi ethnic group, in the middle and later Jianzhong, also known as Tonglu Kingdom, which was a small vassal state. The viscount and the monarch call Li Zhong.

Zhong originally belonged to Shandong, and moved to the middle reaches of Huaihe River (now Bengbu, Anhui) in the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty. By the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Zhong was captured by the powerful Chu State in the seventh year of Zhou Jingji's reign as King Gui (the third year of Chu Ling Xiong Qian, 538 BC), and Li Zhong was forced to become a subordinate of Chu State.

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Both the compound surname and the single surname Zhong originated in today's Anhui. During the pre-Qin period, bells were mainly active in Hubei, Hunan and Shandong of Chu State.

During the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhong's family had spread eastward and spread to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and the Central Plains, among which Zhong's family in Yingchuan later became the main source of clocks all over the country.

During the Sui Dynasty, influenced by the lingnan slang Zhong surname in the border area between Guangxi and Hunan, the Zhong surname in Guangdong and Guangxi developed rapidly, and local aborigines joined the Han nationality one after another. During the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains moved south to Fujian twice. Zhong surname in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties has actually become a famous surname in the south.

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