Zou's origin

1, derived from Yao surname, Zou Weiyao surname:, Yao surname. Shun is good at divination and prophecy, also known as Yao Shun. Yao Di is probably in Pucheng Town in the east of Puyang, Henan Province. Yao, a descendant of Yao, founded Zou State, which was the earliest Zou State. Look at Shun culture and Yu Shun culture.

Ming Dynasty name code "surname": Zou Guo, Shunhou, Yao surname. It is a vassal state of Yin (Shang Dynasty), and the ancient city of Zouguo is in ancient Zoucheng, southeast of Zoucheng, Shandong. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Zou was seized by the Cao surname Zou, and was forced to move to Zoupingnan, Shandong Province, and was later destroyed by the State of Qi. Later generations took the country as their surname, and Zou's surname was Yao's. It has a history of at least 3,500 years and is the earliest Zou's.

2. Originated from the surname Ji, Zou Guo, which was renamed by Lu Mugong during the Warring States Period, belongs to the country name. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Cao Xie, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, one of the five emperors, was enfeoffed and established Zou Guo, also known as Zou Louguo. Originally established in Zou (now Qufu Village, Shandong Province), it moved to Iraq (now Jiwangcheng, Zou County, Shandong Province) in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period.

Zou Louguo was weak, and later became a vassal state of Lu, a big country, and was repeatedly oppressed and plundered by Lu. During the period from the seventh year of the reign of King Lie Zhou to the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King Wang (from 369 BC to 340 BC), Chu Xuanwang Xiong personally led the Chu army to destroy Zou, that is, Zou and Xiao Zou, and took away the subjects of Er Zou Guojun and escorted them to the southwest of Jingchu.

After a long journey of several months, he lived in a remote and barren area of Chu at that time and established Zoucheng (now Yuwangcheng, Huangzhou Township, Huanggang, Hubei Province) in the name of the adherents of Zou State. After the state of Zou was annexed by Chu, the people of the old country took the original country name as their surname, called Zou, which was passed down from generation to generation, and was as famous as Liao and Zhu.

3. Originated from the surname of Zi, and from several genealogies of Zou. The fief of Wei, the ordinary brother of "Zou was born in Xuanyuan, Shun gave his surname and was sealed in Shang", belongs to the name of Juyi.

According to Records of Historian Yin Benji and Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames, in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, after Zhou Gongdan put down the Wu Geng Rebellion, Shangqiu area was ceded to Wei, an ordinary brother, about 1046 years ago, and the Song State was established, all in Shangqiu (now Shangqiu, Henan). This origin is hundreds of years earlier than descendants, and it is the main source, accounting for more than 70% of Zou's family.

4. It originated from Manchu, from the jurchen Zou Jiabu in the late Ming Dynasty, and belongs to the Chinese name of the tribe. According to the history book Biography of the Eight Banners, Zou Jia, also known as Zujia, lives in Tieling (now Tieling, Liaoning) in Manchu, and belongs to one of the old Manchu surnames. After the middle of Qing Dynasty, the surnames of many officials were Zou, Zu and Tie.

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With a population of 4.5 million, Zou is the 60th surname in China, accounting for about 0.35% of the national population. During the 600 years of the Ming Dynasty, the population of Zou increased from 380,000 to nearly 4.5 million, an increase of nearly 12 times, and the population growth rate of Zou was lower than that of the whole country. During the period of 1000 years since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of Zou's family was ∧.

The distribution of Zou surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan provinces, accounting for about 38% of the total population of Zou surnames in China, followed by Sichuan, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Chongqing, Jilin and Guizhou, with Zou surnames in seven provinces accounting for 37%. Jiangxi is the largest province with Zou surname, accounting for about 14% of the total population of Zou surname in China.

Zou's gathering area centered on Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan has been formed throughout the country. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of population movement in Zou were quite different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, mainly from southeast to north and from south to west.

The distribution frequency of Zou's surname in the crowd shows that in Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou, Chongqing, most of Sichuan, most of Hubei, southwestern Shaanxi, eastern Shandong, eastern Yunnan, northwestern Guangxi, most of Guangdong, western Zhejiang, southern Anhui, eastern Heilongjiang and southern Liaoning, Zou's surname generally accounts for more than 0.42% of the local population, and the central region can reach more than 65,438 0.5%.

The above area accounts for about 265,438+0.8% of the total land area, and about 65% people named Zou live here. In southern Guangdong, Taiqiong, western Yun Chuan, northern Hubei, southern Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, western Qinghai, southern Henan, most of Anhui and Zhejiang, Jiangsu, central Shandong, most of Liaoji-Hei, eastern Inner Mongolia and northwest Xinjiang, Zou's family generally accounts for 0. 14%-0.42% of the local population.

The above-mentioned areas account for about 3 1.8% of the total land area, and about 3 1% are surnamed Zou.

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