In the Song Dynasty, there were about 90,000 people surnamed Li, accounting for 0. 12% of the national population, ranking126th. Hunan is the largest province with Li surname, accounting for about 40% of the total population of Li surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi, among which Li accounts for 89% of the total population, followed by Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Li's surname is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Sichuan and Jiangxi.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 200,000 Li surnames, accounting for 0.22% of the national population. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 100 Li surnames, ranking 88th. During the six hundred years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the population growth of Li was much higher than that of the whole country. Jiangxi is the largest province with Li surname, accounting for about 42% of the total population of Li surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi and Guangdong, with Li accounting for about 67% of the total population, followed by Hunan, Sichuan and Hubei, with Li accounting for 2 1%. During the 600 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Li surname changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated to the southeast.

Second, the distribution and atlas of contemporary Li surname

The population of contemporary Li family is nearly 2 million, ranking 103, accounting for about 0. 16% of the national population. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, accounting for about 46% of the total population of Li nationality, followed by Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Anhui, Hainan, Guizhou, Chongqing and Hubei, which account for 44%. Guangdong, with 29% of the total population of Li, is the largest province of Li. The whole country has formed a distribution that spreads around Guangdong and Guangxi as the center. Li surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Li surname in the crowd shows that Li surname is one of the common surnames in Guangdong and Guangxi. In most of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guiqiong, northwestern Sichuan, central Chongqing, most of Guizhou, eastern Yunnan, southern Hubei, southern Gansu, southeastern Qinghai, and western Fujian, Li generally accounts for more than 0.32% of the local population, and the central region can reach more than 1.5%, accounting for about 14.7% of the country's total area. In eastern Guangdong, northeastern Jiangxi, central Fujian, western Zhejiang, southern Anhui, most of Hubei, most of Yun Chuan and Chongqing, southern Shaanxi and Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northwestern Xinjiang, the surname Li generally accounts for 0. 16%-0.32% of the local population, and its coverage area accounts for about 15% of the national total area, with about 265,438 people living.