Why is Mei's family so powerful?

The Mei family has been passed down for 3,000 years and enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

From 201165438+1October 10 to 12, the 13th World Mei Clan Association and its members' congress was held in longjiang town Austin Park Hotel and Qin Yu Hotel, Shunde City, Guangdong Province. More than 500 representatives of Mei from the United States, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahamas and Hongkong, Macau, Taiwan Province and the Mainland attended the meeting.

Population distribution of Mei surname

Mei is one of the surnames in China, ranking 145 among the hundred surnames in Song Dynasty. In 20 10, Chinese mainland's surname ranked 136, and its population was about1050,000, mainly distributed in Anhui, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan and other places. The Mei surname in six provinces accounts for about 74% of the Han population in Chinese mainland.

During the pre-Qin period, Mei mainly lived in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Mei crossed the Yangtze River, lived in two lakes in the south, entered Sichuan in the west, and entered Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the southeast.

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Mei mainly lived in Anhui, but also distributed in Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangsu and other places. In the Ming Dynasty, Mei surnames were mainly distributed in Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

During the 600 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Mei mainly migrated to the southeast and south, forming a situation centered on Anhui and Jiangxi.

From the Republic of China to the Republic of China, Mei was widely distributed in Zhejiang, Yunnan, Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Guangdong, Chongqing and other places. Chinese mainland has formed three distribution areas of Mei surnames centered on Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Yunnan, Hubei and Henan.