The surname mainly lived in the Central Plains in the early days, and then gradually migrated to the surrounding areas. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places formed county name families, with Jingzhao County and Nan 'an County as counties. After the Song Dynasty, Meishan and other places in Sichuan formed major settlements. Now distributed in Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places. At present, the surname population has not yet entered the top 300 in China.

Ji's father's poem "Jienan Mountain" was included in the Book of Songs and spread through the ages. His loyalty and integrity are admired all over the world. Among the descendants of Ji's father, some took the ancestral surname as the surname, which was passed down from generation to generation, and the history called the beginning of the surname.

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Origin of surname:

1, derived from the ancestral word. According to the records of Surname Garden and Textual Research on Surnames, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the grandson of Duke Zhuang of Lu lived with the surname Jia, and his descendants took his ancestral son as their surname, and Jia as their surname from generation to generation.

2, from the compound surname domestic servant. According to "The Complete Collection of Surnames in China", there were doctors and servants in the State of Jin in the Zhou Dynasty, which was the beginning of servants' compound surnames. Later, it was changed to a single surname, Jia.

The surname county hopes:

1, Jingzhao County: Chang 'an, the capital, is directly under its jurisdiction, which is equivalent to the area from Xi 'an to hua county in Shaanxi Province today.

2. Nan 'an County: In the fifth year of Zhong Ping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (188), it was classified as Hanyang County, which governed Didao (now the east bank of Weishui River in Longxi, Gansu). It is equivalent to the eastern part of Gansu Longxi and Dingxi and Wushan.

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