The history of the Mei family

Mei family originated in Shang Dynasty.

The ancestor of Mei's surname is Mei Bo. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wang served as an official in the dynasty. He was honest and outspoken. Seeing that Zhou Wang was dissolute and heartless, he made several remonstrances, but Zhou Wang refused. Sometimes, I advised him to give advice when most needed is least heeded, so as to avoid being killed. However, Mei Bo made a generous statement: "If everyone dares not speak out, what does the court need us ministers for?" He remained the same. Whenever Zhou Wang had no choice, he pointed out in court that Zhou Wang couldn't bear it, so he killed Mei Bo and cruelly chopped Mei Bo's body into a paste. Mabel died for speaking out, and remained loyal and unyielding. After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendant of Mei Bo was named Zhong Hou in Huangmei, and his descendants took the feudal city of their ancestors as their surname, named Mei. They revere Mei Bo as their ancestor. Mei's county looks like Runan County, and the world is called Runan Shidi. Runan County was established in the reign of Emperor Gaozu, and its land is equivalent to the area south of central Henan and north of Huaihe River in Anhui. People with Mei surname live all over the country

The origin of Mei surname

There are two origins of Mei (Méi) surname:

1. They are descendants of Tang Wang. According to "A Brief History of the Clan" and "A List of Prime Ministers' Genealogy in Tang Dynasty", in the Shang Dynasty, the king Tai Ding named his brother Yu Mei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as an earl, who was known as Mei Bo. To Shang Zhou, Mei Bo, the monarch of the United States, was taken by Zhou Wang, and later generations took the feudal city as their surname.

2. It was changed by other people. According to Wei Shu, there was a Mei surname in Nan Man in Han Dynasty. According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, the chief of North Dixi has a surname of Mei; Manchu surname in Qing dynasty, living in Shenyang; In addition, the Manchu Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Mei Jia; In the Qing Dynasty, the chieftain in Kaizhou, Guiyang Prefecture, Guizhou Province, had a surname of Mei; Today, Manchu, Tujia, Yi, Mongolia, Li, Dongxiang, Xibo and other ethnic groups all have this surname.

migration and distribution of Mei surname

Mei surname originated in Huangmei area of Hubei Province today, and later, for unknown reasons, it migrated to Runan, Henan Province in large numbers. According to the records in the Textual Research on Surnames, the early Mei surnames were mainly active in the present runan county area. After the pre-Qin period, people with Mei surname were scattered in the history books. In Qin Dynasty, there was a Meigu from Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui Province), a Meigu from Yiyang (now Hunan Province) in the early Han Dynasty, a Meimian from Nanyang (now Henan Province) in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and a Meifu from Shouchun, Jiujiang (now Shouxian, Anhui Province) in Xinmang. These historical facts show that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, most Mei surnames moved to the relatively rich Central Plains, while other Mei surnames spread radially around with Huangmei as the center. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Mei's family name was particularly prosperous in Runan County, and it became the most important county in the history of Mei's family name-Runan County. At this time, there are still not many people named Mei who go down in history. In addition to the above-mentioned father and son Mei and Mei Tao from Runan County, there are also Mei Chonger from Xing Wu (now Zhejiang Province). It can be seen that before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Mei's surname had been distributed in the vast areas of the south of the Yangtze River, such as Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui and Zhejiang. At the end of Sui Dynasty, peasant rebels rose everywhere, and Yang Guang was militaristic, so the Central Plains area was empty, and the surname of Mei in Runan was doomed, so it was imperative to live in the south, and one of them moved to Sichuan. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion added the regime of the vassal region, castrated the official, and the reinforcements requested by the Tang Dynasty burned, killed and plundered Uighurs. The Huang Chao Uprising followed, and the social drama was turbulent. The Mei surname was more widely distributed in the south, and now there are Mei surnames living in Guangdong. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Mei's surname flourished in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. It can be said that people were prosperous and celebrities came forth in large numbers, and at this time Mei's surname had been settled in Gansu. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Mei, as one of the surnames of the people who moved to the pagoda tree in Hongdong, Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty, was moved to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places. At the end of Ming and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Sichuan Mei family members took refuge in Yunnan in Tuchuan, Zhang Xianzhong. After the Qing Dynasty, Mei's surname was more widely distributed throughout the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan and lived overseas. Today, the Mei surname is widely distributed in the whole country, especially in Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Henan. The Mei surname in these six provinces accounts for about 74% of the population of the Han nationality in China. Mei is the 136th surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about .1% of the Han population in China. The historical development of Mei's surname

1. Originated from Zi's surname, it came from the fief of Mei Bo, the younger brother of Tai Ding, a descendant of Shang Tang, and belonged to the name of the fief.

After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendant of Feng Meibo was named Zhong Hou in Meiyi (now Meicheng, Huaining, Anhui). Later generations took their ancestors' fiefs as their surnames, and called them Mei's, which was called Mei's authentic history.

2. It originated from the surname of Gui, and was sealed in Meili after Gou Jian, the King of Yue, in the Spring and Autumn Period, taking the name of the feudal city as the surname, and then scattered in Yuanxiang. 3. It originated from the change of surname, belonging to the Chinese family name: ① It originated from Baiyue nationality, from the An clan of Baiyue in Wang Mei in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, belonging to the Chinese family name change.

Mei, a member of the Nanman ethnic group in Jingchu, lived in Wanxian County, Nanyang County (now Nanyang, Henan Province) during the Han Dynasty. Because there was Meixi River in the territory, it was called Mei's family. Most of them later merged into the Han nationality, and a few of them flowed into Annan (now Vietnam). (2) It originated from the Guyue nationality, from Mai Thuc Loan, an ancient canal in the early Tang Dynasty, and belonged to the sinicization and changed its surname to surname.

Mai Thuc Loan's family is a descendant of Guyue nationality, Li nationality. Because there is Meishan (now Hejing Shihe River in Vietnam) in Meibu area, it is called Mei's family. (3) originated from Manchu, belonging to the Chinese family name.

Manchu Meijia, whose ancestor was the Han nationality, was captured by the Wuhuan Department of Xianbei in Liaodong at the end of the Han Dynasty and merged into Xianbei nationality. Later, it gradually evolved into the Jurchen of Liaodong, who lived in Suifen (now the upper reaches of Suifen River), and later the Han surname of Duoguan was Mei; Manchu Mailer's family lived in Yehe (now Lishu, Jilin) and Hada (now Xiaoqing River Valley, Xifeng, Liaoning), and the last Han surname was Mei; Mei Leng, a Manchu, lived in Yehe (now Pear Tree in Jilin), and his last surname was Mei. The Mehli family of Manchu, also known as Mehle family, lived in Namdulu (present-day coastal area of Russia) and was given the Chinese surname Mei. Mei Bo, the ancestor, was a minister in the last years of Shang Dynasty, and served as a nobleman in the dynasty when Zhou Wang was in office.

Being honest and daring to speak out, Zhou Wang refused to accept Zhou Wang's profanity and ruthlessness. After Zhou Wang couldn't bear it, he killed Mei Bo and cruelly chopped Mei Bo's body into a paste.

After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendant of Feng Meibo was named Zhonghou in Huangmei, and his descendants took the ancestral fief as their surname, named Mei, and respected Mei Bo as their ancestor. Mei's surname mainly originated in Huangmei County (now the junction of Hubei Province and Anhui Province) and runan county (now Baofeng County, Henan Province).

In the pre-Qin period, Mei's surname mainly lived in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Mei's surname crossed the Yangtze River, lived in two lakes in the south, entered Sichuan in the west, and entered Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the southeast.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Mei was mainly active in Anhui, and also distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangsu and other places. In the Ming Dynasty, Mei surnames were mainly distributed in Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

During the 6 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Mei's surname mainly migrated to the southeast and the south, forming a situation centered on Anhui and Jiangxi. From the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China, Mei was widely distributed in Zhejiang, Yunnan, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Guangdong and Chongqing.

Chinese mainland has formed three distribution areas of Mei surnames centered on Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and Hubei and Henan. . Mei family

Mei family originated in Shang Dynasty.

The ancestor of Mei's surname is Mei Bo. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Wang served as an official in the dynasty.

He is honest and outspoken. Seeing that Zhou Wang is dissolute and heartless, Zhou Wang refused to accept his advice several times. Sometimes, I advised him to give advice when most needed is least heeded, so as to avoid being killed. However, Mei Bo made a generous statement: "If everyone dares not speak out, what does the court need us ministers for?" He remained the same. Whenever Zhou Wang had no choice, he pointed out in court that Zhou Wang couldn't bear it, so he killed Mei Bo and cruelly chopped Mei Bo's body into a paste. Mabel died for speaking out, and remained loyal and unyielding.

After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendant of Feng Meibo was named Zhonghou in Huangmei, and his descendants took the feudal city of their ancestors as their surname, so they were called Mei. They revere Mei Bo as their ancestor.

Mei's county looks like Runan County, which is called Runan Shidi in the world. Runan County was established in the reign of Emperor Gaozu, and its land is equivalent to the area south of central Henan and north of Huaihe River in Anhui.

people with Mei surname live in all parts of the country. There are two origins of Mei surname (Méi): 1. They are descendants of Tang Wang. According to "A Brief History of the Clan" and "A List of Prime Ministers' Genealogy in Tang Dynasty", in the Shang Dynasty, the king Tai Ding named his brother Yu Mei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as an earl, who was known as Mei Bo.

when he arrived in Shang Zhou, Mei Bo, the monarch of the United States, was taken by Zhou Wang, and later generations took the feudal city as their surname. 2. It was changed by other people.

According to Wei Shu, Nan Man had a surname of Mei in Han Dynasty; According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, the chief of North Dixi has a surname of Mei; Manchu surname in Qing dynasty, living in Shenyang; In addition, the Manchu Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Mei Jia; In the Qing Dynasty, the chieftain in Kaizhou, Guiyang Prefecture, Guizhou Province, had a surname of Mei; Today, Manchu, Tujia, Yi, Mongolia, Li, Dongxiang, Xibo and other ethnic groups all have this surname. The migration and distribution of Mei surname originated in Huangmei, Hubei Province today, and later, for unknown reasons, a large number of Mei surnames migrated to Runan, Henan Province.

according to the records in the Textual Research on Surnames, the early Mei surnames were mainly active in the present runan county area. After the pre-Qin period, people with Mei surname were scattered in the history books.

in Qin dynasty, there was a Meigu from Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui province), a Meigu from Yiyang (now Hunan province) in the early Han dynasty, a Meimian from Nanyang (now Henan province) in the middle of the Western Han dynasty, and a Meifu from Shouchun, Jiujiang (now Shouxian, Anhui province) in Xinmang. These historical facts show that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, most Mei surnames moved to the relatively rich Central Plains, while other Mei surnames spread radially around with Huangmei as the center.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Mei's surname was particularly prosperous in Runan County, and it became the most important county in the history of Mei's surname-Runan County. At this time, there are still not many people named Mei who go down in history. In addition to the above-mentioned father and son Mei and Mei Tao from Runan County, there are also Mei Chonger from Xing Wu (now Zhejiang Province).

It can be seen that before Sui and Tang Dynasties, Mei's surname had been distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and other vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River. At the end of Sui Dynasty, peasant rebels rose everywhere, and Yang Guang was militaristic, so the Central Plains area was empty, and the surname of Mei in Runan was doomed, so it was imperative to live in the south, and one of them moved to Sichuan.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion was accompanied by the separatist regime of the vassal region, the eunuch was given exclusive power, and the reinforcements requested by the Tang Dynasty were burned, killed and plundered in Huihe. The Huang Chao Uprising followed closely, and the society was turbulent. The Mei surname was more widely distributed in the south, and now there are people with Mei surname living in Guangdong. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Mei's surname flourished in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. It can be said that people were prosperous and celebrities came forth in large numbers, and at this time Mei's surname had been settled in Gansu.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Mei was moved to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places, as one of the surnames of the aborigines of Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of Ming and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Sichuan Mei family members took refuge in Yunnan in Tuchuan, Zhang Xianzhong.

After the Qing Dynasty, Mei's surname was more widely distributed throughout the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan and lived overseas. Today, the Mei surname is widely distributed in the whole country, especially in Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Henan. The Mei surname in these six provinces accounts for about 74% of the population of the Han nationality in China.

Mei is the 136th surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about .1% of the Han population in China. The origin of "Mei" surname

Mei surname is the 136th surname in China today, with a large population, accounting for about .1% of the Han population in China.

There are two sources of Mei's surname: 1. It comes from Zi's surname and is a descendant of Tang Wang. According to "Tongzhi? A brief account of the clan and the book of the Tang Dynasty? The Prime Minister's Lineage Table, etc., shows that during the Shang Dynasty, the king Tai Ding named his brother Yu Mei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as an earl, who was known as Mei Bo.

when he arrived in Shang Zhou, Mei Bo, the monarch of the United States, was taken by Zhou Wang, and later generations took the feudal city as their surname. 2. It was changed by other people.

According to Wei Shu, Nan Man had a surname of Mei in Han Dynasty; According to the Book of Old Tang Dynasty, the chief of North Dixi has a surname of Mei; Manchu surname in Qing dynasty, living in Shenyang; In addition, the Manchu Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Mei Jia; In the Qing Dynasty, the chieftain in Kaizhou, Guiyang Prefecture, Guizhou Province, had a surname of Mei; Today, Manchu, Tujia, Yi, Mongolia, Li, Dongxiang, Xibo and other ethnic groups all have this surname. Mei Bo, the ancestor.

at the end of Shang dynasty, he was a minister. When Zhou Wang was in the dynasty, he was a noble scholar. He was honest and outspoken. Seeing that Zhou Wang was dissolute and heartless, he made several remonstrances, but Zhou Wang refused.

Sometimes, some ministers advised him to be honest and loyal, so as not to get killed, but Mei Bo made a generous statement: "If everyone dares not speak out, what does the court need us ministers for?" He remained the same. Whenever Zhou Wang had no choice, he pointed out in court that Zhou Wang couldn't bear it, so he killed Mei Bo and cruelly chopped Mei Bo's body into a paste. Mabel died for speaking out, and remained loyal and unyielding. After the King of Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendant of Mei Bo was named Zhong Hou in Huangmei, and his descendants took the feudal city of their ancestors as their surname, named Mei.

They respect Mei Bo as their ancestor. The surname of Mei was born in Huangmei, Hubei Province today, but for some reason, it moved to Runan, Henan Province in large numbers.

according to the records in the Textual Research on Surnames, the early Mei surnames were mainly active in the present runan county area. After the pre-Qin period, people with Mei surname were scattered in the history books.

there was a Meigu in Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui Province) in Qin Dynasty, a Meigu in Yiyang (now Hunan Province) in the early Han Dynasty, a Meimian in Nanyang (now Henan Province) in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and a Meifu in Shouchun, Jiujiang (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province) in Xinmang. These historical facts show that during the Qin and Han Dynasties, most Mei surnames moved to the relatively rich Central Plains, while other Mei surnames spread radially around with Huangmei as the center.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Mei's surname was particularly prosperous in Runan County, and it became the most important county in the history of Mei's surname-Runan County. At this time, there are still not many people named Mei who go down in history. In addition to the above-mentioned father and son Mei Pei and Mei Tao from Runan County, there are also Mei Chonger from Xing Wu (now Zhejiang).

It can be seen that before Sui and Tang Dynasties, Mei's surname had been distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and other vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River. At the end of Sui Dynasty, peasant rebels rose everywhere, and Yang Guang was militaristic, so the Central Plains area was empty, and the surname of Mei in Runan was doomed, so it was imperative to live in the south, and one of them moved to Sichuan.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion was accompanied by the separatist regime of the vassal region, the eunuch was given exclusive power, and the reinforcements requested by the Tang Dynasty were burned, killed and plundered in Huihe. The Huang Chao Uprising followed closely, and the society was turbulent. The Mei surname was more widely distributed in the south, and now there are people with Mei surname living in Guangdong. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Mei's surname flourished in various provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, especially in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. It can be said that people were prosperous and celebrities came forth in large numbers, and at this time Mei's surname had been settled in Gansu.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Mei was moved to Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu and other places, as one of the surnames of the aborigines of Sophora japonica in Hongdong, Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of Ming and early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Sichuan Mei family members took refuge in Yunnan in Tuchuan, Zhang Xianzhong.

After the Qing Dynasty, Mei's surname was more widely distributed throughout the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan and lived overseas. Today, the Mei surname is widely distributed in the whole country, especially in Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Henan. The Mei surname in these six provinces accounts for about 74% of the population of the Han nationality in China.

Mei surname, the name of County Wangtang, was formed in the process of long-term reproduction and migration.