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What is the origin of Shen surname? Detail point
Shen Shi originated in today's Henan and Anhui provinces. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shen Shi, who fled to Chu, took Chu as Sakima and inherited this position, and lived in Ye Yi (now Yexian County, Henan Province) for a long time.

During the pre-Qin period, Shen mainly lived in Henan and Hubei, and also had Shen Shi's footprints in Shanxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan.

The Eastern Han Dynasty sank into Zhejiang, and its descendants flourished. Until the Sui Dynasty, Shen developed into a noble family in Wu Kang, Zhejiang. In the Tang Dynasty, Shen Shi entered Fujian as one of the surnames, then immigrated to Guangdong, and Shen Shi entered Taiwan Province Province in the late Ming Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 330,000 people surnamed Shen, accounting for 0.43% of the national population, and it was the 54th surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province of Shen surname is Zhejiang, accounting for about 33% of the total population of Shen surname in China.

The distribution of Shen surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Henan, accounting for 72% of the total population of Shen surnames in China, followed by Hunan, Anhui and Hebei. The Shen surnames in these three provinces are concentrated in 19%. The whole country has formed two gathering places of Shen surname: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Henan.

Extended data

From the Song Dynasty to the present, the population growth rate of Shenyang has been the same during 1000 years. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for about 36% of the total population, followed by Shanghai, Anhui, Henan, Guangdong, Hubei, Guizhou and Shandong, which account for 37%. Jiangsu is the largest province of contemporary Shen, accounting for 20% of the total population of Shen. The whole country has formed a distribution centered on Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of family population movement in Shen Shi are different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the migration to the north, middle and south is very strong, which is greater than that from the north to the southeast and south.

In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and Taiwan, southeastern Shandong, southeastern corner of Henan, eastern Hubei, most of Jiangxi, eastern Guangdong, most of Yunnan and Guizhou, northern Guangxi, eastern Heiji, northeastern Inner Mongolia, the proportion of locals exceeds 0.39%, and the central region exceeds 2.3%. These areas account for about 65,438+09% of the total land area, and about 66.3% of them live in them.

Most of Guangdong and Guangxi, Hunan, southwestern Jiangxi, northern Guizhou, most of Sichuan, central Hubei, southern Chongqing, eastern Henan, central Shandong, eastern Qinghai, central Gansu, eastern Liaoning, central and western Heiji, eastern Inner Mongolia and other places.

The proportion of Shen's surname in the local population is generally between 0.26% and 0.39%, and its coverage area accounts for about 18.4% of the total land area, and more than 20.3% of Shen's population lives.

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