The origin of plums

Mei is the most populous surname157th in China, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Henan, Yunnan, Anhui and other provinces. Today, Mei people account for about 0.066% of the national population, with a total population of about 830,000.

Mei's name and totem

Mei has two meanings, one is guidance, and the other is nanmu. Plum is a fruit tree, and the fruit is called plum, which can be eaten and made into jam or preserves; Immature fruit can be processed into ebony and used as medicine; Ornamental flowers; Solid wood can be used as utensils. The rainy season in Jianghuai area is long, and it is in the yellow ripening period of plums, so this period is called "Meiyu season". Because the air is humid at this time, utensils are prone to mildew, so it is also called "rainy season". Mei people were the first people to live in this area. They regard Mei as the primitive clan worship, clan totem tree, clan name and emblem, and the place where Mei people live, thus forming Mei as the place name, developing into Mei country, and finally appearing Mei surname.

The origin and evolution of Mei surname

Mei has two surnames: Zi surname and Si surname.

The first branch comes from the son's surname. In Shang Dynasty, King Tai named his younger brother as an earl, and his hometown was in the northwest of Xinzheng, Jinhe, Henan Province. The king took Guo as his surname. He is a descendant of Gu Mei, a loyal minister at the end of Shang Dynasty. He was killed by Zhou Wang, chopped into a paste and rejected by the emperor. Zhou Wuwang destroyed the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and in Huangmei, now Huangmei, Hubei Province, the great-grandson of Meibo was named in the name of loyalty and righteousness. Later generations took the country as their surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Mei Guodong moved to Meicheng, and his hometown is now in the south of Bozhou, Anhui Province. During the wuyue War, Mei people moved south to Mei Li and lived in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, becoming a city of the State of Wu.

The second expenditure comes from the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Gou Jian, the King of Yue, was sealed in Meili, surnamed Mei, and later dispersed in Yuanxiang. Mei has a history of 2400 years.

Inflow of foreign genes

The inflow of foreign genes of Mei surname mainly occurred in the Han and Jin Dynasties, and the Mei surname in Xiangyang was Nanman. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Mei Tusi in Kaizhou and Guiyang began in the Tang Dynasty, and the Tusi in the northwest also had the Mei surname. In the early Qing Dynasty, Manchu Eight Banners changed their surname to Han, and their surname was Meile. Later, they all collectively changed their surnames to Mei. Mongolians Megan Halahe also changed their China surname Mei. Therefore, the Mei surname in northern China may be closely related to the change of the above-mentioned foreign surname.

The Distribution and Migration of Shangmei Surnames in History

In the pre-Qin period, Mei mainly lived in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and other regions. When entering Qin, Han, Mei and other surnames, she crossed the Yangtze River, lived in two lakes, entered Sichuan in the west, and entered Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the southeast. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Mei's family has been distributed all over the south.

There were about 73,000 people surnamed Mei in Song Dynasty, accounting for 0. 1% of the national population, ranking 136. Mei surname in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, accounting for 47% of the total population of Mei surname, followed by Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan, Guangzhou, Jiangsu and other places. Thus, it has formed a distribution area with Anhui as the center and spreading along the Yangtze River.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 87,000 people surnamed Mei, accounting for 0.09% of the national population, ranking behind 150. At that time, Anhui was still the largest province with Mei surname, accounting for about 22% of the total population, followed by Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, accounting for about 59% of the total population of Mei surname. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Mei was mainly distributed in the southeast and south.

The distribution and atlas of Mei surname

Mei is the surname of 157 in China, with a population of about 830,000, accounting for 0.66% of the national population. Since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of Mei has been declining for nearly a thousand years. It is the largest province with Mei surname in Zhejiang, accounting for about 13% of the population of Mei surname in China. Plum is mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Yunnan, Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces, accounting for about 65% of plum population. The second is distribution.

Mei people are distributed in Zhejiang and Shanghai, most of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, southeastern Henan, eastern Hubei, northwestern Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, northeastern Hunan, Yunnan, most of Guizhou, western Guangxi, southwestern Sichuan, southern Chongqing and eastern Heilongjiang. The distribution frequency of Mei surname in the population is about 0. 12%, and it can reach more than 3.6% in the central area. The above-mentioned areas account for about 20% of the country's total area and have a population of about 66. In central Jiangxi and Fujian, northern Hunan, eastern Guizhou, central and western Guangxi, most of Chongqing, eastern Sichuan, southwestern Hubei, central Henan, the border area between Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu, western Heilongjiang, northeastern Jilin and southern Liaoning, the distribution frequency of Mei surname in the population is about 0.08%-0. 12%. The coverage area of the above areas accounts for about 10.5% of the national total area, accounting for about 13%.

Traditional culture of Mei surname

Wang's name is Mei's name, and Wang's county is Runan. Mei took Wanling as the Tang name, and in the Song Dynasty, "Wanling" was the Tang name, named Mei. Guan Wailang of Mei Guandu is a very good poet. He and Ouyang Xiu are friends of poets, and their works spread from 0755 to 79000. He is from Xuancheng and Mei. Xuancheng was called Wanling in ancient times, and later generations took it as the name of the hall.

Mei has four important couplets:

Wuxian city; An official who recites poetry.

Full sleeve; Learn to participate in micro achievement.

Xuancheng Yi Yun; The breeze in Wu city.

There are ancestors' bones and Yu Sheng's poems in Selected Works of Changyan.

Nothing grows at home, and the birth vocabulary is set in the ninth part.

family tree

At present, Shanghai Library has 32 copies of Mei's genealogy 1 1, and other libraries in China have 32 copies of Mei's genealogy.

Celebrity frequency and family sages

From 055 to 79000, 47 Mei surnames were earned, accounting for 0. 1% of the total surnames, ranking 163 among celebrities. Mei, a famous writer, accounts for 0.09% of the total number of writers in China, ranking 158. Mei's famous doctors account for 0. 1 1% of the total number of medical doctors in China, ranking 124. Mei's famous artists account for 0. 13% of the national artists, ranking 1 19.

The important figures of Mei surname in past dynasties are: Wang Meiyun in Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty and Mei Fuwei in Nanchang; Eastern Jin Mausoleum and; Mei, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Xuzhou. In the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan political envoy Mei Sizu, right assistant minister of the Ministry of War Mei Guozhen, Zheng De scholar and scholar Mei Qiu; Mei, a poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, was born in Xuzhou. In the Ming Dynasty, Mei Sizu, the political envoy of Yunnan, Mei Guozhen, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, Zheng Dexiu, the scholar Mei Honghu, the opera writer Mei Dingzuo and the governor of Gansu, Mei Zhihuan. Mei Qing, a painter in Qing Dynasty, Mei Wending, a great writer and mathematician, and Mei Zengliang, an essayist; Mei Yutian, a Peking Opera pianist in the Republic of China; Mei Lanfang, a contemporary Peking Opera actor.

Mei blood group

The blood types of Mei people are as follows: O type accounts for 34.2%, A type accounts for 29.8%, B type accounts for 27.4%, and AB type accounts for 8.6%.