Migration and distribution of Shi surname

Shi is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group, ranking seventh1in the current surname list, belonging to the big surname series, with a population of about 443. 1 10,000, accounting for about 0.27% of the total population in China.

About 2,000 years ago, thanks to Shijie's devotion to the family, their family has been thriving all over the country for a long time, and their descendants have been expensive doctors for generations. It can be seen that the stone clan originated from the land of defending the country at that time, which is today's northern Henan.

The original direction of the stone people who originated from Wei is now Shandong, which is adjacent to Henan and is the territory of the former Lu State. To be exact, since Duke Zhou of Wei Qi urged Lu to kill the king, the stone people have been active in Lu.

Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Stone Clans mainly propagated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and some people migrated to the south of the Yangtze River.

In the Han Dynasty, the Stone Clan people had spread to the northern part of Shandong Province, the southern part of Hebei Province and the area north of the Yellow River in Henan Province, and soon became the early breeding center of the Stone Clan people.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, two counties, Bohai and Plain, flourished. The members of the stone clan in these two counties are all descendants of Shi, and they respect Sun Shifen, the descendant of Shi, as their ancestor. In addition, there are three settlements of Shi clan in the north, namely Wuwei, Shangdang and Henan. Among them, Shangdang Shishi is a descendant of Xerox in the post-Zhao Dynasty during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and Henan Shishi is a descendant of Xianbei Shi Lan. People named Shi in the plain moved to Guangling (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu) before Tang and Yuan Dynasties, while people named Shi in Henan moved to Zhouguo (now Lingbao, Henan) before Tang and Yuan Dynasties.

In the early Tang Dynasty, people with the surname Shi entered Fujian with Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang to settle down. In the fourth year of Tang Tiancheng (AD 929), Shi Ju moved from Shouxian County, Anhui Province to Tongan, Fujian Province, and later dispersed in Fujian and Guangdong.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the stone clan people have spread all over most areas in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, Shi was moved to Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places as one of the surnames of people who moved Sophora japonica trees in Hongdong. At this time, Shi Yuquan started his career in Li Yongfeng, Nanjing, Fujian. Later, many descendants went to Taiwan Province Province and spread abroad.

Today, the distribution of stone clan people is mostly in Sichuan, Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Henan and other provinces, which account for about 63% of the stone population of Han nationality in China.