Among hundreds of surnames, what is the surname of Si?

"Si" ranks 259th among hundreds of surnames. Ye Xing Si Shao.

Origin of surname:

1, during the Shennong period, there was a minister engaged in divination named "Four Monsters", and all his descendants took "Four" as their surname.

2. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor in the state of Zheng named as a member of the Si family. After careful study, the descendants of Si were determined to be the ancestors of Si.

3. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a count named Cheng Bo, Guo Cheng. When he divorced his father, he was a Sima of the Zhou royal family and was awarded an official position. His descendants take "Si" as their surname.

4. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Wei had a son Ying, whose descendant was Wei Sikou, and later generations took the official as their surname, and later changed it to a single surname.

5. In history, the descendants of Si De and Si De, who had a compound surname, were also changed to Si, a single surname.

As can be seen from the above, the surname of the Ministry comes from many branches, mainly the official position, which evolved from the official position.

In the annals? According to the genealogy, after the surname of minister Zheng, the noble family came from Dunqiu. "Kangxi Dictionary" points out: "Zuo Zhuan" is Zheng Youchen.

According to the research of surnames, the earliest breeding center of the Si family was Dunqiu in ancient times, which appeared in the Book of Songs. Dunqiu was a city of Wei in the Spring and Autumn Period, which belonged to Wei in the Warring States Period. It is located in the west of Xun County, Henan Province, and is the birthplace of descendants of Si surname. Now our surnames are mainly distributed in Tengzhou, Hanshan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hunan, Hebei, Liaoning and other places in Shandong.