Legendary stories of Zhou and Zhang surnames

1, Zhou's ancestor is Hou Ji. When he spread to Zhou Wuwang, he established the Zhou Dynasty, which was established for more than 800 years. At that time, he mainly settled in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province.

After the Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by Qin, the descendants took the country as their surname, that is, Zhou as their surname. According to the records in the Law of River Map Transportation and Recording, the surname Zhou also came from the courtiers of the Yellow Emperor, and his descendants took Zhou Wei as their surname, forming another branch of the surname Zhou. In addition, according to the Book of Yizhou, there was a Zhou prince in Shang Dynasty who lived in Zhoudi, and his descendants got their surname because they sealed the city and Zhou. In addition, there is also a branch of Zhou surname formed by changing the surname and giving it to ethnic minorities.

2. Zhang is one of the biggest surnames in China, with a long history and many families. Zhang used to have 43 aristocratic families, which is unparalleled among all surnames.

Among the celebrities in the Han Dynasty, Zhang was among the best. Sean was a minister in the early Han Dynasty. He had many ingenious strategies to help Liu Bang win the world. Zhang Qian's two missions to the Western Regions strengthened the ties between the Central Plains and ethnic minorities, developed friendly relations between the Han people and the people of Central Asia, and promoted economic and cultural exchanges and development. Scientist Zhang Heng created the world's earliest armillary sphere and seismograph for measuring earthquakes. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical scientist, wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, which made great contributions to the development of medicine in China. Calligrapher Zhang Zhi said, "The style of Chinese characters is a stroke, occasionally disconnected, but the blood vessels are continuous, the connected ones are also connected together, and the qi veins are also connected together, so it is called" this grass ".

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In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the second brother of the Northern Wei Dynasty was originally named Pu, and later changed his surname to Zhou. The Official History of Shu Wei records that he took his brother as his surname and later changed his surname to Hu. The second brother is Platts, later changed to Zhou.

Xian Di in the Northern Wei Dynasty divided the Barto family into seven parts, under the command of seven brothers. Therefore, Tuoba's surname Zhou is not only Wendi's second brother, but also the part of China people under the command of his second brother. Zhou is one of the seven noble families in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Wei Tuoba was changed to Zhou descendants, including famous soldiers in Sui Dynasty. Zhou Yao (about 507-590), whose real name was Shi An, was a descendant of Pu Naishi (Platts), the second brother of Xian Di in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Zhang surname

Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhou surname