Where did Zhao's surname originate? Who was the first person surnamed Zhao?

Zhao is from Shanxi. The first person surnamed Zhao was Zhao Fu of Zhou Muwang.

Zhao Fu was granted the title of Zhao in Zhao Cheng. In the Shu Dynasty (the seventh generation descendant of Zhao Fu), he led his descendants to the State of Jin, and later established the State of Zhao, which is known in history as "going to Zhou Rujin and the surname of Zhao began to flourish".

When Zhao perished, Zhao's surname had been distributed in the following areas: Zhao Cheng, Geng, Yuan, Jinyang, Dai, Handan, Wucheng, Calm, and now there are Zhao's surnames in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan and Shandong. The territory of Zhao includes a part of present-day Shaanxi. During the reign of King Wuling of Zhao, the territory expanded to Hetao area. Before Zhao's death, Zhao's activities also included Shaanxi and Inner Mongolia today.

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Migration distribution

At the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, a member of the imperial clan of Qin State (now Zhengding, Hebei Province), established Nanyue State, which expanded Zhao's activities to Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam.

From AD 960 to AD 65438 +0 127, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, and the Zhao royal family always took the imperial clan as the county king. The so-called county only eats its fiefs, and the vassals who are blocked do not live on the land of the county, but live in the capital.

In 2008, the areas with the highest population density of Zhao surname per unit area were Shandong Peninsula and Huaihe River Basin, with a population of more than 7.5 people per square kilometer, and some areas reached 1 1 or above; Secondly, in Henan, Hebei, Northeast China, northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu, central Shaanxi and northern Sichuan, the population of Zhao has reached more than 6 people per square kilometer.

Zhao surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced. Zhao is one of the common surnames in northern China, and the provinces along the Yellow River valley are the main areas where Zhao is distributed.

The distribution frequency of Zhao's surname in the crowd shows that in Hebei, most of Hebei, most of Shanxi, most of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and central Inner Mongolia, Zhao's surname generally accounts for more than 3.2% of the local population, and the central region can reach more than 5%, accounting for 1 1.8% of the total land area.

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