There are different opinions about the origin of Jiang surname: 1. Jiang surname originated from Shennong family and was one of the eight ancient surnames. Emperor Yan was born in Jiang Shui. Jiang was sealed because of the sound of water, and his grandson Jiang Ziya was sealed in Qi at the beginning of the week. 2. Change your surname from Genji. According to Tongzhi Genealogy, "Genting Longzhun system was changed to Jiang family"

Brief introduction of Jiang surname

Jiang's surname ranks 32nd among hundreds of surnames, and Jiang's surname * * * owns 102, including 64 single surnames such as Lu, Xu, Xie, Ji, Qiu and Lu, and 38 compound surnames such as Chunyu, Dongguo, Gaotang, Ziya and Bull. Jiang's celebrity was Jiang Ziya of the Zhou Dynasty. Since then, many outstanding figures have appeared in the past dynasties. Jian Jiang, a hermit in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is called a "noble family" in history books. There was the Jiang family in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was famous for its filial piety to his wife, and later developed into a more prosperous branch of the Jiang family.

The population of contemporary Jiang surname has reached more than 4.6 million, which is the 50th surname in China. At present, its distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Jilin, and the six provinces account for about 57% of the total population of Jiang. Secondly, it is distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hebei and Zhejiang, and the Jiang surname in these five provinces is concentrated by 22%. Shandong is the largest province with Jiang surname, accounting for about 1 1% of the total population of Jiang surname. The whole country has formed two areas inhabited by the surname Jiang, namely, Lu Yu in the east and three provinces in the northeast.