After the victory of Duke Zhou's eastward expedition, the princes were enfeoffed on a large scale, including 53 countries with the surname of Ji. Most of the descendants of these countries named Ji changed their surnames to country names, place names and grandfather names.
After Zhou was destroyed by Qin in 256 BC, a considerable number of descendants of Zhou imperial clan and adherents of Zhou Dynasty took Zhou as their surname. Zhou's surname ranks fifth among hundreds of surnames. Zhou surname is a multi-ethnic and multi-source ancient surname with the Han population as the main population.
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Migration and distribution of Zhou surname
Zhou's surname originated from Weihe Plain in Shaanxi Province, including An, Xianyang, Baoji and Weinan in Shaanxi Province. After the enfeoffment of the vassal states in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the surname of Zhou moved from west to east, which was closely related to the migration of the capital of Zhou Dynasty from Shaanxi to Henan.
Since moving eastward to Luoyang, the Zhou family has greatly multiplied and become the most popular surname in the country. After Qin Shihuang established the Qin Dynasty, Zhou moved to southern Henan, northern Jiangsu and other places, and formed a noble family in the local area, namely the Zhou family in Runan and the Zhou family. For example, Zhou Yu, the famous star of the Three Kingdoms, came from the Zhou family in Runan.
Today, after thousands of years of historical development, the distribution of Zhou surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 46% of the total population of Zhou surnames; Secondly, it is distributed in Shandong, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangdong and Guizhou. In these seven provinces, the Zhou surname is concentrated by 33%, that is, the population of Zhou surname is mainly distributed in the Yangtze River basin.
In addition, there are as many as 19 counties named after the week, such as Runan, Lujiang, Xunyang, Linchuan, Chenliu, Taishan, South Henan, Huainan, Yong 'an, Hejian, Linru, Huayin, Hedong, Qinghe, Jiangling, Chang 'an, Zhaozhou and Wugong.
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