The origin of surnames
Xue's surname comes from three sources:
1, self-appointed, after the twelfth Sun Xizhong of Yuyang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, took the country name as his surname. According to legend, the Yellow Emperor had 25 sons, and they had 12 surnames. One of them, Yuyang, was sealed in Rendi (about Jining, Shandong Province) and was given a surname. According to New Tang Book, Prime Minister's Genealogy Table, A Brief History of Clans, etc. The son of the Yellow Emperor was appointed, and his twelfth grandson, Xi Zhong, was appointed as Xia Chezheng, and later generations took the country as their surname. Zeng moved to Pi (now northwest of Weishan, Shandong). The 12th Xizong stayed in Shangtang and returned to Xue. His ancestral home is Sun Cheng, and he immigrated to Zhi Zhi, especially so. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Zhou married Tairen, the daughter of Guo, and gave birth to Ji Chang, namely. After Zhou Wuwang ruined his business, he was made a descendant of Hou Xue. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Guo Xue moved to Xiapi (now southwest of Pixian County, Jiangsu Province). Xue Guoli lived in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties and was sixty-four years old. In the Warring States period, he was destroyed by the State of Qi, and his son went to Chu to be an official because he took the country as his surname.
2. Yu Shun, a native of Tian Wen, was later named Gui and took the feudal surname as his surname. According to Lu Wu, he was one of the famous "Four Childes of Warring States", and his father Tian Ying Qi Xiang was named Xue by Qi Jin. After Tian Ying's death, he attacked him and still took Xue as his food city. By the time Qin destroyed the six countries, the national seal had been lost and the descendants were scattered. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Sun Tianguo and his wife lived in (now Suxian North, Anhui Province), where they were named Xue.
3. From his family name or his family name:
(1) According to the Records of Guan Shi, after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, he changed the compound surname of Xianbei to Xue.
(2) from the descendants of the surname, surnamed feng. There was a man in the Tang Dynasty whose real name was Feng.
(3) According to Tongzhi Genealogy, there is a Xue surname in western Liaoning.
④ Manchu, Mongolian, Tujia and Korean all have this surname.
Ancestor: Xizhong. Xue's surname comes from Huangdi, who has 25 sons, 12 surnames. One of them, Yu Yang, was given a surname because of his appointment (now Jining City, Shandong Province). Ren was passed down to the 12th Zhong, and Xizhong was the creator of Che Zheng and Che, who lived in Xue. Later, Sun Yuecheng, the seventh ancestor of his ancestors, moved to Zhi Zhi and changed his name to governing the country. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Zhou Li married Guo's daughter and gave birth to Ji Chang, which was later. To the prince of Wu, it can be renamed Hou Xue. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi Huangong was the overlord among the vassals, but Hou Xue did not listen and was elected as the count. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Xue Gongzi was an official in Chu State, and Xue people moved to Xiapi (now Pizhou, Jiangsu Province), and the fief was a food city. Guo Xue lived in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and died in the Warring States Period in sixty-four. Later generations took the country as their surname and called Xue. They respect Xi Zhong as the ancestor of Xue.
Migration distribution
Qin and Han Dynasties: Xue surname has developed greatly since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Shandong is the birthplace of the Xue family, located in the east of the Central Plains. The Xue family spread from Shandong to the surrounding areas, and its active areas were roughly in Zhao, Song, Chu, Qi and Qin countries, equivalent to parts of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and Shandong.
2. Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties: During the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Xue family showed a momentum of all-round development. Xue clan people have spread all over the northern Huanghuai River basin, and a large part of them are concentrated in Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, northern Anhui and other places, forming the main breeding center of Xue.
3. Sui and Tang Dynasties: During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Xue continued to develop in the middle and lower reaches of the Huanghuai River Basin, and was also called the prosperous times in the northwest. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Xue clan people mainly spread along the route from east to northwest. Xia Xue, a native of Tianshui (now Tianshui, Gansu) in the Three Kingdoms, shows that the Xue clan once lived in Gansu. By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Xue family in Gansu had formed a strong trend, and the Xue family in Jincheng (now Lanzhou, Gansu) was rich. At the end of Sui Dynasty, he rebelled against Sui Dynasty and once proclaimed himself emperor.
In the Tang Dynasty, the Xue family reached unprecedented prosperity. The face of Xue county has been fully formed. The political center of the Tang Dynasty was in Chang 'an (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi). Due to the large number of Xue officials in the DPRK, a large number of Xue people moved to Guanzhong. Now the Guanzhong area in Shaanxi Province has become an important breeding ground for Xue's family, thus becoming one of the leading families in Guanzhong. The fact that Princess Taiping, the daughter of Wu Zetian, married Xue Shao, who was born in the Xue family in Hedong, was not only a boon, but also the courtship of the Xue family in the Tang Dynasty. At the end of Tang Dynasty, the Xue family from Henan entered Fujian with Wang Chao and Wang.
4. Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties:
In the Five Dynasties, there was Xue Huairang, whose predecessor was proud, indicating that he was a member of the Xue family from a minority. He was brave since he was a child, and served as a military commander in the later Tang Dynasty, and Tang served as a school and state secretariat. In the late Jin Dynasty, he served as Ambassador Ying Yong of Suzhou. In the late Han Dynasty, a Guo Junren saved our time and moved to the same town. The following week, he was appointed General Zuo Tunwei and General Zuo Wuwei.
After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the country was reunified and the people were able to live a more stable and stable life. During this period, the Xue family scattered all over the country and developed relatively stably, among which the Xue family was more prominent in the early Northern Song Dynasty.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Xue family grew in scale, and its clansmen spread all over the country, especially the southward migration was faster and larger. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the Xue family in Fujian has been divided into Haiyang, Wuhua, Xingning and Meizhou in Guangdong. In the Yuan Dynasty, Xue Xin moved from Ninghua to Pingyuan, Guangdong, and from Pingyuan to Chengxiang (now Chengxiang, Fujian). As a family with a long history and brilliant deeds, Xue people in this period were not as good as their ancestors and were active in the historical stage with colorful images.
Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the Xue family in Fujian has been divided into Haiyang, Wuhua, Xingning and Meizhou in Guangdong.
Since the reign of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, the Xue family in Fujian and Guangdong moved in one after another, and some of them spread overseas.
5. Move to Taiwan Province Province:
Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Xue family in the southeast coast has moved to Taiwan Province Province sporadically. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, he sent troops to attack and destroy the Zheng regime in Taiwan Province Province, and then stationed troops in Taiwan Province and set up counties. At that time, Taiwan Province Province was vast and sparsely populated with fertile land, which was very attractive to residents of Fujian and Guangdong, so people came to Taiwan Province from Fujian and Guangdong, including Xue people. Around A.D. 17 10, a man named Xue Da went to hunt Dongbao. Another Cantonese, Xue Changgui, settled in Danshui. During the Qianlong period, Xue moved from Guangdong to Taotao Village in Taoyuan, and Xue Huamei from Guangdong settled in dongshi town, Taichung County. In modern times, especially after 1895 "treaty of shimonoseki" between China and Japan, the contact between the mainland and Taiwan Province Province was interrupted for 50 years. It was not until August 1945 that Taiwan Province Province returned to the embrace of the motherland. During this period, the Xue family rarely immigrated to Taiwan Province Province. 1949 After the Kuomintang regime retreated to Taiwan Province Province, a large number of party, government, military, scientific, religious and literary figures moved to Taiwan Province from the mainland, including Xue Shi, such as Xue Yue, a senior Kuomintang general, and Xue Xinrong, a senior journalist.
6. Move overseas:
After the Xue people moved to Taiwan Province Province in the Qing Dynasty, some people began to cross the ocean and migrated to Southeast Asia and other places to become local overseas Chinese. In modern times, due to the abolition of slavery in the world, European and American countries and their colonies urgently needed a large number of cheap labor. At this time, because of the unstable political situation, the Qing government urgently needed foreign exchange to make up for the huge trade deficit. For example, Zhang Zhidong, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in the 10th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1886), said that the total amount of remittance needed each year was 20 million silver dollars (14 million silver dollars), which was equivalent to 65% of the annual tariff revenue in the later period of Guangxu. So it not only lifted the maritime ban in the early Qing Dynasty, but also encouraged China people to work abroad. This has greatly stimulated China's enthusiasm for emigrating overseas and further strengthened the overseas Chinese team. According to incomplete statistics, by the end of Guangxu, there were more than 4 million overseas Chinese, including a large number of Xue clan relatives.
Today, the Xue family has been widely distributed all over the country, mainly in Jiangsu, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Fujian and other provinces. The Xue family in these areas accounts for 63% of the total population of Han nationality in China. Xue is the 48th surname in China, with a population of about 6.72 million, accounting for 0.42% of the national population.