The origin of Jiang surname

Origin of Jiang surname: According to Yuan He's Compilation, Jiang surname originated from Ji surname and came from Zhou royal family. Zhou Gongdan's third son, Jiang Boling, took Jiang Guo (now Huaibin County, Henan Province) as his surname.

Jiang is an ancient, multi-ethnic and multi-source surname. In the Song Dynasty, there were more than 260,000 people surnamed Jiang, accounting for 0.34% of the national population, ranking 6 1. Jiangsu is the largest province with Jiang surname, accounting for about 22.6% of the total population of Jiang surname in China. In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 490,000 people surnamed Jiang, accounting for 0.53% of the national population, ranking 43rd.

Jiangsu is still the largest province with Jiang surname, accounting for 23.2% of the total population of Jiang surname. The hope of Jiang's county is mainly lean. Surnamed tang surnamed Jiang is Le 'an, Zhongshan and Jiuhou. China Personal Names Dictionary has included 2 14 celebrities, accounting for 0.47% of the total number of celebrities, ranking 49th among celebrity surnames.

Jiang introduced.

The important figures of Jiang surname in the past dynasties are: Jiang Xu, the secretariat of Yanzhou in the Western Han Dynasty, and Jiang Jin, the secretariat of Jiaozhou; The famous Wu Dong Jiang Qin and Shu Han Prime Minister Jiang Wan in Romance of the Three Kingdoms; Jiang Shaoyou, painter and sculptor of the Northern Wei Dynasty; Tang Dynasty Prime Minister, Weizhou historian Jiang, writer; Northern Song Dynasty calligrapher Jiang Can; Jie Jiang, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty; Hou Guijiang in Dingxi, Ming Dynasty; Jiang Shiquan, a playwright and litterateur in Qing Dynasty.

The original birthplace of Jiang surname is Henan, and Zunboling is the ancestor of Chu surname. Boling was sealed around 1046 BC, when the country was sealed in the west of Weishi County, Henan Province. Around (827 ~ 782 BC), in order to strengthen the control of the middle and upper reaches of the Huaihe River, the Western Zhou Dynasty moved the surname Jiang to the southeast of Huaibin County, Henan Province.