There are mainly three kinds of views: one is from the surname Ji, that is, the surname of the royal family, whose ancestor is. After the victory of the Duke of Zhou's crusade, he wantonly enfeoffed the princes. In 256 BC, the Zhou Dynasty was destroyed by the Qin Dynasty, and a considerable number of descendants and adherents of the Zhou royal family took Zhou Wei as their surname. For example, after Zhou Pingwang, this branch is generally regarded as the main part of the origin of Zhou surname in China. Second, it can be traced back to ancient times, the Xuanyuan family of the Yellow Emperor. According to the Records of Surnames, there was a general named Zhou Chang in the Yellow Emperor and a surname named Zhou Ren in the Shang Dynasty. The descendants of these two people all take Zhou as their surname. Third, Zhou's surname was changed by his family or his family. For example, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Ji changed his surname to Zhou because he avoided the emperor. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Su changed his surname to Zhou, and in the Yuan Dynasty, Su changed his surname to Zhou. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Horus changed Chinese characters to Zhou after moving the capital to Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty. ...