Where does the surname Wei come from?

There are two sources;

1. It comes from the surname Ji, with the name of the city or the name of the country. Bi Gonggao, the 15th son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, was granted the title of Bi. His grandson Bi Wan defected to the Jin State and became a doctor after Bi was destroyed by the Western Rong Dynasty. Because of his meritorious service, he was given the land of Wei as a city. Later, his descendants took the city as their surname and were called the Wei family. In 445 BC, Wei Si, a descendant of Bi Wan, established the Wei State. After it was destroyed by Qin in 225 BC, the defeated Wei king's family took the name of the country as their surname, forming the most important branch of the Wei surname. The surname Wei is known as Zhengzong in history.

2. Change the foreign surname to Wei. During the Warring States Period, King Zhaoxiang of the Qin Dynasty had the prime minister, Ranghou, and Queen Mother Zhaoxiang, the Queen Mother Xuan, half-brother Wei Ran. He was originally from Chu, with the surname Mi, and later changed his surname to Wei; from Pujiang in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were Wei Liaoweng, Jinshi of Qingyuan, and the surname Gao. Later, his surname was changed to Wei; in the Ming Dynasty, there was Wei Xiao, a Kunshan native whose surname was Li. He was a Jinshi in Hongzhi and later changed his surname to Wei.

Distribution of the Wei surname

In the early days, the Wei family mainly developed and multiplied in present-day Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong provinces, and some also lived in present-day Hubei and Hunan provinces. Wei Xin, the fifth-generation grandson of Wei Wuji, the grandson of Wei Gongzi Wuji, settled in Julu (now part of Hebei). Wei Wuwu had two great-great-grandsons, one named Wei Chen, who settled in Qinghe; the other named Wei Han, who settled in Rencheng. In addition, after Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, he once moved the world's richest people to 120,000 households in Xianyang. Some people of the Wei family moved to Shaanxi Province today. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were already residents surnamed Wei in some places in the south of the Yangtze River. In the early Tang Dynasty, Chen Zheng, Chen Yuanguang and his son entered Fujian to open up Zhangzhou. They were accompanied by generals Wei Youren and Wei Renpu, who later settled in Fujian. In the Tang Dynasty, Wei Muzhong immigrated from Julu to Nanchang, Jiangxi for 15 generations, and one of his branches moved to Shishibi Village, Ning, Fujian. In the 11th generation, there was Wei Cailu, who gave birth to four sons: the eldest son, Wei Yuan, moved to Changle, Guangdong; the second son, Wei Heng, moved to Changle, Guangdong. In Shanghang, Fujian, the 5th generation Sun Bangzheng moved to Longchuan, Guangdong; the third son Wei Li stayed at the ancestral grave; the fourth son Wei Zhen, one son moved to Jieyang, Guangdong, and the other lived in Haifeng. Wei Yuan's descendants Wei Yinghao and Wei Tejing moved to Hsinchu County, Taiwan during the Qianlong period; his descendants Wei Ding went to the United States in the third year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty and later settled in Canada; his descendants Wei Song went to Indonesia in 1910 and became rich by opening tin mines. He served as Malaysian legislator.

Genealogy of the Wei family

Jiangsu: four volumes of Wei family genealogy, the first volume of eight volumes of Wei family genealogy, six volumes of Wei family genealogy, and four volumes of Shao Jitang Wei family genealogy

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Zhejiang: The Wei family's Tailian Hall is not divided into volumes, the Lanfeng Wei family genealogy is in eight volumes, the Cishui Wei family genealogy is in 28 volumes, the Shanyin Wutang Wei family genealogy is in ten volumes, Huangyan Wei family genealogy in six volumes

Henan: Wei family genealogy in Sishui in six volumes, Wei family genealogy in Xiangcheng, Wei family genealogy in Zhenping in five volumes, and Wei family genealogy in one volume

Hunan: The first volume of the 20th volume of the Wei family's fifth revised genealogy, the first four volumes of the eighth volume of the Wei family's fifth revised genealogy, the first volume of the 40th volume of the Hengyang Wei family genealogy

Sichuan: The first volume of the Wei family's ancestral genealogy in Huayang , One volume of the genealogy of the branch temple of the Wei family, one volume of the genealogy of the Wei family, and one volume of the genealogy of the Wei family

The genealogy of the Wei family is not divided into volumes, the genealogy of the continuation of the Wei family is not divided into volumes, and the genealogy of Liannan went to Wei to rewrite the genealogy is not divided into volumes.

Historical Celebrities

Wei Zheng: A famous official in the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Taizong, he was appointed as an admonishing official and dared to offend Yan Zhijian. If you listen and listen, you will be enlightened; if you believe only, you will be dark. King, boat, people, and water. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. Waiting for the famous words of governing the world. He has advised on more than 200 matters.

Wei Yuan: a thinker, historian, and writer in the late Qing Dynasty. Together with Gong Zizhen, he belongs to the Jinwen Jing school and advocates resisting foreign aggression. He once compiled "Hai Guo Tu Zhi", put forward the famous idea of ??learning from foreigners and developing skills to control foreigners, and advocated reforms. He was one of the earliest outstanding figures in China who looked at the world from a broad perspective.

Wei Wuji: Lord Xinling of Wei State. The younger brother of King Anli of Wei, he had 3,000 diners and was an outstanding son of the Wei family at that time. He is known as the Four Young Masters together with Lord Mengchang of Qi, Lord Pingyuan of Zhao, and Lord Chunshen of Chu.

Wei Wuzi: The earliest person with the Wei surname to become prominent in history was a senior official of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. His two sons, Wei Ke and Wei Jiang, were also famous figures.

Wei Yan: A famous general of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period. He once accompanied Liu Bei in Shu and was famous for his bravery. He later moved to become the general of the Western Conquest and the Marquis of Nanzheng.

Wei Zhongxian (Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch party in the late Ming Dynasty)