There are 500 people in Xiaoshan village, Anhui province, and their surnames have been passed down to the 96th generation?

Yes, "from Hongquan, from Xibao, from Ji Cheng ..." In a small mountain village called Wuhu, Anhui Province, there are nearly 500 villagers named Cong, accounting for 80% of the village population. There is a legend behind this rare surname.

According to Cong Hongquan, an elder in the village, their surnames have a long history. From the Zhou Dynasty, the emperor gave Ji a subordinate surname, which originated in Qufu, Shandong Province and has been passed down to this day. It's the 96th generation. In history, there was a hereditary general named Yi Biao, who founded the country with the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and later changed his name to Yi, meaning faithful all his life.

At present, most surnames live in Wuhu, Anhui Province, and the national population does not exceed 65,438+10,000.

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Migration and distribution of surnames

Although the total population of Congshi is not included in the top 300 of the hundred surnames in Taiwan Province Province, it ranks 27th1door among the hundred surnames in Song Dynasty.

Today, Zhumadian City, Zhoukou City, dancheng, Xincai County, Xinyang City, Guangshan County, nanzhao county City, Pingyu County and Xuchang City, yutian county City, zunhua city City and Zaoqiang County of Hebei Province, Fanchang County, Wuhu County, Langxi County, Jingxian County, Lujiang County, Suzhou City, Lingbi County, Dangshan County, Dingyuan County and Huoqiu County of Anhui Province.

Mengyin County, yinan county County, Liaocheng Shenxian County, Dezhou Xiajin County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, Shanyang County, Xianyang County and Gaoling County of Shaanxi Province, Sihong County, Gaoyou City and Jintan County of Jiangsu Province, Yangxin County, Tongshan County, Qianjiang City, Suizhou City, Zaoyang County, Jianli County and Zhongxiang County of Hubei Province;

And Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places are all distributed by clan people. Among them, the surname of Hui people in Wudi County and Tianjin City in Shandong Province is the same clan as Cong surname in Wendeng, Shandong Province, and has nothing to do with the surname of Han people.