The original meaning of God is electricity. In ancient Chinese, God was defined as God. The word "God" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is like lightning. Thunderstorms often occur, so the word "electricity" in Chinese characters consists of "rain" and "electricity", and now it is simplified as electricity. Changing the word "Shen" to "Dijiu" can reflect God's will. The extension of "Shen" has the significance of extension, explanation, restriction and application.

In ancient times, people felt mysterious and incredible about the weather such as thunder, wind, rain and clouds. They believe that this is the power of God and the gods at work. July is the thunderstorm season, when the clouds thunder and lightning, causing people's fear, so it is regarded as a god. So lightning became a totem of a clan's primitive natural weather, with the shape of lightning as its symbol and name. In the early days, the place where Shen people lived became Shen land, and all the castles built had Shen characters, which later developed into country and surname. The origin and evolution of Shen Shi's application

There are two main sources of Shen surname: Jiang surname and Yan surname.

The first one originated from ginger, the descendant of Emperor Yan. In early summer, one of the descendants of April was named "Shen" for helping Dayu control water. It is now located in the area from Mizhi in northern Shaanxi to Zhongwei in Ningxia, also known as Shen Xi. In the late Shang Dynasty, Shen people surrendered to Zhou. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Shen people moved eastward with Zhou people, crossed the Yellow River, entered Huotaishan District in the south of Shanxi Province, and established Shen State in the south of Huoxian County, Shanxi Province, also known as North Shen. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, he was made an earl and was soon annexed by Huo Guo. Some Renshen people moved to Henan with Shenbo, while those who stayed in Huotai Mountain merged into the nomadic tribes in Jiang Rong, also known as Shenrong. Now, Shen is my uncle and rebuilt Shen Zhou, also known as Shen Zhou, in Nanyang, Henan. Shen Bo's other brother was sealed in Shenyang, that is, Shen Dong.

During the Western Weekend and the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Shen was once a powerful country, but later it was squeezed out by the neighboring country Ji and oppressed by the southern Chu State, and soon declined. In the early spring and autumn period of 688 BC, King Chu Wen expanded his power northward, pretending that Deng Guo destroyed Shen Nan. Two years later, the King of Chu conquered Shen Dong and established the Shenyi. The descendants of Shen Shi take the country as their surname. Shen surname has a history of at least 4000 years, and Shen surname has been widely used for nearly 2700 years.

The second source comes from the surname. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, from about 688 BC to 686 BC, King Chu expanded his influence in the north, successively destroying Shennan and Shen Dong, and establishing the Holy City in Shen Dong, making him Minister Shen Gong. Shen Shi's descendants named the city Shen Shi.

Inflow of foreign genes

The gene fusion of other ethnic groups in Shen Shi happened very late. It was not until the early Qing Dynasty that Shen Jia, the Manchu Eight Banners living in Liaoning, collectively changed his surname to Hanshen. Shen Shi, the ancestor of Manchu Eight Banners, was a Han Chinese from Shandong, who was mixed with the local Manchu and assimilated into Manchu. So some surnames in Northeast China come from Manchu.

The Distribution and Migration of Shang Yang's Surnames in History

In the pre-Qin period, Shen was born in the northwest and lived in northern Shaanxi. He entered Shanxi in the late Shang Dynasty and Henan in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Shen people were very active in Henan. After the country perished in the early Spring and Autumn Period, Ren Shen went north to Shandong, forming the main part of Ren Shen in Shandong. Henan Shen surname is the most important part of Shen surname and eventually becomes the center of Shen surname gathering area. The other was forced to move south in the late Spring and Autumn Period when King Chu Ling was king, and entered Hubei and Hunan. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Shen Shi was distributed in the East.

There were less than 60,000 people surnamed Shen in the Song Dynasty.

The population of contemporary Shen Shi is nearly 1.4 million, ranking125th in the country, accounting for about 0. 1 1% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population with surnames has increased rapidly. At present, Henan is the province with the largest surname, accounting for about 28% of the national surname population. Henan, Hebei, Shanxi and Shandong are the main distribution areas of surnames, and the four provinces account for about 59% of the national surnames population. Secondly, it is distributed in Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces. The whole country has basically formed two regions with Henan as the center, connecting southwest Guizhou and Sichuan, northwest Sichuan and Gansu.

Shen's surname is distributed in Henan, southern Hebei, most of Shanxi, eastern Shandong, northwestern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, most of Hubei and Shaanxi, Chongqing, western Hunan, most of Guizhou, southeastern and northern Sichuan, southern Gansu and eastern Qinghai. The distribution frequency of Shen surname in local people is above 0.24%%, and the central area can reach above o.7%%. The above coverage area accounts for about 15% of the total land area. In Beijing and Tianjin, central Hebei-central Shandong-Jiangsu, central Anhui-central Hubei-Hunan, southern Guizhou, northern Guizhou, most of Sichuan, southwestern Shaanxi, Ningxia, central and eastern Gansu, central Inner Mongolia and eastern Heilongjiang, the distribution frequency of surnames of local people is between 0. 16%-0.24%, and the above coverage area accounts for about 654,330% of the total land area. About 18.5% of surnames live in this area.

Traditional culture of Shen surname

Wangshen County mainly includes Danyang and Langya counties. Shen surnamed Lu Shihe. The name "loyalty and filial piety" originated in Shen Ming in the Spring and Autumn Period. When the troops led by Chusajima confronted the white rebels, they found that their father was detained by the rebels. Shen Ming said, "I am the son of my father, but now I am the minister of the king. Can I not be a loyal minister? " So he fought bravely and defeated the rebels, but his father was also in trouble. When the King of Chu rewarded him, Shen Ming said, "I am the salary of the country. If the country is in trouble, I will not be a loyal minister if I avoid it. Now the country is in trouble, but my father was killed by the enemy because of me. I will not be a dutiful son when I am alive! " And then committed suicide. Historically, Shen Ming has always been regarded as a model of loyalty and filial piety.

Shen has four important couplets:

Wu Wen is a constitutional system; Old age is the ancestor.

Ye Wei; Eliminate chaos and talent.

Immortal God; Prime minister.

Mao elegy pursues Shen; Pulen met Pei Gong.

family tree

At present, there are 3 kinds of genealogy of Shen Shi in Shanghai Library and 9 kinds of genealogy of Shen Shi in libraries of other units in China.

Celebrity frequency and family sages

From 755 to 79000, 49 celebrities named Shen were collected, accounting for 1 1% of the total number of celebrities, ranking155 in the celebrity surname list; Shen's famous writers account for 0.06% of the total number of writers in China, ranking 188. Shenshi famous doctors account for 0.07% of the total number of medical doctors in China, ranking176; Artists surnamed Shen account for 0.05%% of the total number of artists in China 198.

Throughout the ages, Shen Shi has also produced many famous figures: in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhou Xianqing was a doctor Shen Bo, Confucius disciples Shen Jian and Shen Dang, and a Chu nobleman Shen; During the Warring States Period, Shen Buhai, a famous Korean figure, was Shenzi.

Go to your ancestors; Shen Peigong, a scholar of the Western Han Dynasty and a pioneer of epigraphy, China Personal Names Dictionary; Shen Shixing, Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty; Ji Chao, Governor of Qing Dynasty; Contemporary painter "Bamboo King" Shen.

The blood group distribution of Shen people is roughly as follows

Type O accounted for 32.9%, type A for 28.7%, type B for 29.3% and type AB for 9. 1%.