Zhu, point to the word. Graphically, the word "Zhu" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is an ideographic character of a tree: the middle vertical represents the trunk; Two branches extending upward represent branches; The two branches extending downward below represent the roots of the tree. In the middle of the trunk, there is a short cross, which represents the red tree core.
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There are 653 celebrities with Zhu surname in the past dynasties, accounting for 1.44% of the total number of celebrities, ranking eleventh among celebrity surnames; Zhu's famous litterateurs account for 0.92% of all litterateurs in China, ranking second1. Zhu's famous doctors account for 1.9% of the total number of doctors in China, ranking 12. Famous Zhu artists account for 2.57% of the total number of artists in China, ranking sixth.
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 165438+ 10,000 people surnamed Zhu, accounting for about 1.4% of the national population, ranking tenth. The largest province of Zhu surname is Jiangxi, accounting for 15.8% of the total population of Zhu surname in China.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which account for about 50% of Zhu's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Sichuan, Anhui and Hubei. At that time, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Sichuan and Hubei were the two major gathering places of Zhu.
At present, the population of Zhu has reached more than 6.5438+0.5 million, which is the 13th largest surname in China, accounting for 654.38+0.2% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Zhu increased from 65,438 0.86 million to 65,438 0.5 million, an increase of about 8 times.
The population growth rate of Zhu is much lower than that of the whole country. This may be related to the fact that after the demise of the Ming Dynasty, the royal family Zhu changed his surname because he was hunted down and fled the national disaster, and other surnames changed back to the original surnames.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, accounting for about 44% of Zhu's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Hunan, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Hebei and Shanghai, accounting for about 34%.