According to the records in Dialectics of Surnames in Ancient and Modern Times and Compilation of Surnames in Yuanhe, Liu Lei, the grandson of Yao Emperor in Zhou Dynasty, moved to the Tang Du family, and Du Bo died unjustly. His son Du Ji fled to the State of Jin, became a judge, changed his official name to a scholar, and gave birth to his son Shi (wěi).
Fan's ancestors stood out at the beginning of his surname. Since Fan Wuzi became a scholar-bureaucrat, Fan Wenzi, Fan Zixuan, Fan Xianzi and other generations have been ministers of the State of Jin, which can be said to be one of the aristocratic families who once dominated for a while in the early days.
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The Migration and Distribution of Fan's Surname
Fan is a very big surname, ranking fifty-first in today's surname list, belonging to the big surname series, with a population of about 566. 1 10,000, accounting for about 0.35% of the total population in China. Fan, Yao, Shun, Yulong in summer, avant-garde in Shang, and Tang Dou in Zhou.
During the pre-Qin period, Fan mainly lived in Shanxi, Henan and Hubei. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Fan's family had been distributed in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and other areas north of the Yangtze River, and then entered the south of the Yangtze River. During the Tang Anshi Rebellion, the family of Hanoi 18 moved to Huangzhujing, Ninghua, Hangzhou and Fujian, which was the ancestor of Fan Jinmin.
Fan (a descendant of Runan people), the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, was the highest official of Fan's surname in the Tang Dynasty. His sixth grandson, Fan Sui, was moved to Chengcheng, Lishui, Zhejiang when he was in Tang Yizong. Later, because of the war, he could not return to the north, so he settled in Wuxian County, Suzhou.
During the Song Dynasty, Fan, who entered Fujian, moved to Haiyang County, Jiaying, Meizhou, Tai Po, Changle, Lufeng and Raoping in Guangdong. During this period, Fan Zhongyan was born as a descendant of Fan Sui. After his death, Fan Zhongyan was buried under Wanan Mountain in Yinfanli, Luoyang County, Henan Province (now north of Xu Ying Village, Pengpo Township, Yichuan County, Henan Province), and his descendants were in Luoyang, the former residence of the grave keeper.
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 690,000 people surnamed Fan, accounting for 0.9% of the national population, and it was the second1surname in the Song Dynasty. The distribution is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Hebei, Henan and Jiangsu, among which Fan accounts for about 57% of the total population, followed by Shandong, Shanxi, Hubei, Jiangxi and Shaanxi, with a concentration of 365,438+0% in these five provinces.
Sichuan is the largest province with Fan surname, accounting for 20% of the total population. Sichuan, Hebei, Henan and Sulu have formed three population centers named Fan.
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