In the pre-Qin period, Tao's surname mainly lived in Shandong and Henan. During the Han and Jin Dynasties, Tao's surname had developed to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Tao surname was very active in the northwest and west. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Tao's surname also appeared in the western region of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 6.5438+0.66 million Tao surnames, accounting for 0.22% of the national population, ranking 8th1. The province with the largest number of Tao surnames is Shaanxi, accounting for about 27% of the total population of Tao surnames in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shaanxi and Hunan provinces, accounting for about 49% of the population named Tao, followed by Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shanxi. The country has formed a gathering area of Tao surname with Shanxi and Shanxi as the center in the west, Hunan and Guangxi as the center in the south and Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangsu as the center in the east.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 290,000 Taos, accounting for 0.3 1% of the national population, ranking 72nd. During the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang was the largest province with Tao surname, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Tao surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Jiangsu, with Tao surname accounting for 59% of the total population, followed by Guangxi, Anhui, Hubei and Sichuan, with Tao surname accounting for 26%.

Distribution and atlas of contemporary Tao surname

The population of contemporary Han nationality Tao is 2 million, which is the 102 surname in China, accounting for about 0. 16% of the national population. During the period from 1000 since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of the Dow family showed a ∧-shaped trend. At present, the distribution of Tao surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and Hunan provinces, accounting for about 40% of the total population of Tao surnames in China, followed by Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Yunnan, Sichuan and Henan, and the Tao surnames in these six provinces and cities are concentrated by 30%. Anhui is the largest province with Tao surname, accounting for 13% of the total population of Tao surname. The whole country has formed a high proportion distribution zone of Tao surname in the Yangtze River basin. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of the population movement of Tao surname is quite different from that of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, from southeast to central China! Moving became the mainstream of Dow's migration. Tao surname is widely distributed, but it is unevenly distributed in the crowd. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Tao surname in the population shows that in Zhejiang and Shanghai, most of Anhui and Jiangsu, southeastern Henan, western Hubei, northwestern Jiangxi, northern Fujian, Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi, southern Sichuan-Chongqing, western Hunan: south and northeast, northwestern Guangdong, eastern Qinghai, central Gansu, southwestern Heilongjiang, Jilin and eastern Inner Mongolia, the proportion of Tao surname in the local population is generally above 0.24%, and the central region can reach 0.5. In northern Anhui, most of Lu Yu, Sichuan, Chongqing, most of Hubei, southern Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, southeastern Qinghai, northwestern Xinjiang, most of Guangdong, western Hainan, southwestern Jiangxi, central Fujian, eastern Inner Mongolia, northeastern Heilongjiang, Liaoning and other places, the proportion of Tao's surname in the local population is between 0. 12%-0.24%, covering an area of the whole country.