According to "A Brief History of Genealogy" and "The Prime Minister's Genealogy Table of Tang Dynasty", King Taiding of Shang Dynasty named his brother Yumei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as an earl, who was called Meibo. In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Meidi Meibo was taken by Zhou Wang, and later generations took feudal cities as their surnames.

2. From family to change

According to Shu Wei, Na Man in Han Dynasty had a surname of May. According to Old Tang Book, the northern leader's surname is Mei; Manchu surname in Qing dynasty, living in Shenyang; In addition, the Manchu Eight Banners in Qing Dynasty changed their surname to Jame; In the Qing Dynasty, Guizhou Guiyang Prefecture Kaizhou Tusi, surnamed Mei; Today, Manchu, Tujia, Yi, Mongolian, Li, Dongxiang, Xibo and other ethnic groups all have this surname.

Migration distribution:

Mei originated in today's Huangmei, Hubei Province, and later moved to Runan, Henan Province in large numbers for unknown reasons. According to the records in the textual research of surnames, the main activities of Mei's family in the early days were in the present runan county area. After the pre-Qin period, people named Mei were scattered in history books.

In the Qin Dynasty, there was a Meigu in Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui), a Meigu in Yiyang (now Hunan) in the early Han Dynasty, a Meimian in Nanyang (now Henan) in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and a Meifu in Shouchun, Anhui (now Shouxian, Anhui) in Xin Mang. These historical facts show that during the Qin and Han dynasties, most Mei surnames moved to the relatively rich Central Plains, while other Mei surnames spread radially around with Huangmei as the center.