Tan's surname source

Tan's surname comes from Si. According to legend, when Yao controlled the water in the Central Plains, Yao sent Gun to control the water, and Gun used blocking method, which failed. It is said that Gun's wife, dream of eating, married Coix lachryma, woke up pregnant and gave birth to Yu. After Shun ascended the throne, Yu, the son of Gun, was appointed to control the water, and Yu adopted the method of dredging, and the result was successful. After Yu succeeded in harnessing water, Shun took Yu as his surname.

At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, when he became a vassal, a branch named Si was founded in Tan State (now west of Zhangqiu County, Shandong Province), with the title of Zi. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, he became the overlord, and Zhouzhuang annexed Tan in the fourth year (683 BC). Tan's son fled to Juguo (now Juxian County, Shandong Province). Children and grandchildren take the country as their surname, and they are called Tan's, which is called authentic in history and Tan's in Shandong.

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Migration distribution

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 230,000 people surnamed Tan, accounting for 0.3% of the national population, ranking 67th. The province with the largest population of Tan surname is Hunan (excluding the surrounding areas), accounting for about 59% of the population of Tan surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan and Guangdong, accounting for about 75% of the total population of Tan.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 260,000 people surnamed Tan, accounting for 0.28% of the national population, ranking 78th. Over the past 600 years, the net population growth rate of our country has been 20%, and the population growth rate of Tan is lower than that of the whole country.

The population of Tan in contemporary Han nationality has reached 4.99 million, which is the 57th surname in China, accounting for about 0.37% of the national population. During the 600 years from the Ming Dynasty to 20 19, the population of Tan increased from 260,000 to nearly 4.99 million, an increase of more than 19 times, and the population growth rate of Tan was higher than that of the whole country. From Song Dynasty to 20 19 and 1000, the population growth rate of Tan showed an upward trend.

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