Liu, a first-class Chinese character, pronounced Li, was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Originally meant to kill people, it later extended to weapons such as axes and cymbals. Shuowen Jiezi was probably lost because of avoiding the surname of Liu, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty, but some words were based on Wei Liu, and the word "Yan" was not found in Shi Chuanzhong. Based on this, Xu Kai concluded that the traditional Chinese character Liu was mistaken for Yan because the machete (Yan) was mistaken for a field, and Xu Kai's statement was widely used in Chinese character reference books.
Liu surname, the earliest Liu surname originated from Yao's descendant Liu Lei, so Liu Lei is the ancestor of Liu surname. Liu overlooks Pengcheng, Jiangsu. By 20 13, Liu's population is nearly 70 million, accounting for 5.34% of the national population, ranking fourth after Wang, Li and Zhang. Liu Jian established the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty and other regimes.
Liu, whose surname is Qi, has two homologous branches: one comes directly from Liu Lei and was formed in Xia Dynasty; In the early Spring and Autumn Period, a scholar society composed of descendants of Liu Lei was formed. Liu Lei was born in the late Xia Dynasty. He studied dragon training with the master of dragon breeding technology, and domesticated four dragons for Kong Jia, the thirteenth emperor of Xia Dynasty, so he was named dragon lion by Kong Jia.
Liu Lei lived in the south of Yanshi County, Henan Province, when he was a Kongjia dragon. Later, due to poor reproduction, a female dragon died. Liu Lei was afraid that Kong Jia would be punished, so she secretly fled to Lu Xian County (now Lushan County, Henan Province) with her family. Liu Lei's descendants took Liu Lei's name as their surname, which was the earliest surname of Liu in China.
population distribution
In the Song Dynasty (960- 1279), there were about 3.6 million people surnamed Liu, accounting for 4.7% of the national population, and it was the fourth largest surname in the Song Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Hebei and Shandong, and the population of Liu in these three provinces accounts for about 39% of the total population of Liu. Followed by distribution in Hunan, Henan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Sichuan, these five provinces have a concentration of 365,438+0%.
Jiangxi is the largest province of Liu, accounting for 17% of the total population of Liu, and Liu accounts for 7.6% of the total population of Jiangxi Province. Six population centers have been formed in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan and Hunan. During the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368- 1644), Liu's surname was about 4 million, accounting for 4.4% of the national population, and it was the fifth largest surname in the Ming Dynasty.