Ming's name and totem
Bright is bright, also called bright, bright. There are two ways to write Ming characters in Oracle Bone Inscriptions: one is composed of the sun and the moon, which is used to indicate the time when the moon sets, the sun rises and the moon rotates, that is, at dawn; Another way to write it is that the moon is on the left, like a waning moon, and the pictographic pattern of the window is on the right. These two shapes are known, indicating the brightness of the moonlight shining through the window. Ming people are a clan that worships moonlight, and Ming is the primitive totem of the clan. One of them took Ming as the national emblem and name, lived in Ming, built a castle called Ming City, and finally appeared Ming surname.
The Origin and Evolution of Ming Surnames
Ming is the surname of Ji. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang named Yu, the son of King Tai, as his grandson. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Xiangong was destroyed in China, and Yu Jingbo and Jan Benzien took scenery as their medicine, eating a hundred miles was a hundred miles. Boris's son, named Meng Ming, was a doctor in the State of Qin, and was later named. The history of Ji Ming's surname is about 2600 years.
Inflow of foreign genes
From the Northern Dynasties to the Northern Wei Dynasty, with the integration of foreign forces, the development of the Ming nationality was relatively simple. When Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the surname of Xianbei Yidu was changed to Ming. When the Tubo family in the southwest of the Tang Dynasty was a female soldier, the Tang people translated it into the Ming family. Guizhou Tusi and Ming nationality, which began in the Ming Dynasty. In the early Qing Dynasty, when Wang Gui retreated to Myanmar in the Ming Dynasty, the Hui people were stationed with the army and were blocked in Tengchong and Baoshan, Yunnan, so Ming was taken as his surname. The Eight Banners of Manchuria in Northeast China were named Ming 'an, collectively known as Ming's. Now Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Jingpo, Yi, Dai, Tujia and other ethnic minorities all have Ming surnames.
The distribution and migration of Ming surname in history
The population of Ming surname in Song Dynasty was about 20,000, and the province with the largest population of Ming surname was Hunan, accounting for about 40% of the total population of Ming surname in China. Secondly, it is distributed in Shandong, Henan and other places.
During the Ming Dynasty, the population of Ming surname was about 1 10,000, which was less than half of the population of Song Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hubei, Sichuan, Shanxi, Henan, Ningxia and Hunan provinces. Hubei was once the province with the largest number of Ming surnames, accounting for about half of the total population of Ming surnames.
Distribution and atlas of contemporary Ming surname
The population of Ming surname is about10.9 million, which is the 282nd largest surname, accounting for 0.05438+0.5% of the national population. During the period of 1000 since the Song Dynasty, the population of the Ming family showed a V-shaped growth trend. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, Hunan, Jilin, Liaoning, Guizhou and Henan. Hubei is the largest province with Ming surname, accounting for 17% of the total population.
Ming surname is distributed in most areas of Guizhou and Chongqing, western and eastern Hubei, southwestern Anhui, western Hunan, northwestern Guangxi, western and northeastern Yunnan, northwestern Xinjiang, eastern Heilongjiang and central Liaoning, accounting for more than 0.06% of the local population and 0.3% of the central region. The coverage area of the above areas accounts for about 14.3% of the total land area, and about 42% of the Ming people live here.
Ming surname traditional culture
Wang's first counties are, Pingyuan and Henan. Ming surname takes "Shen Lian" as the hall number. The name "Shen Lian" was the code name of Jin and Ming Dynasties. BenQ, who started out as a princess book, is honest and cautious. When there was a famine in the county, he opened a warehouse for disaster relief and did many useful things for the local area. He was loved by the people and was promoted to county magistrate.
There are three important couplets about Ming surname:
Clean up thieves on the border and set up a school to collect discipline.
The important Ming surnames in history are: Ming Monk Cave in Jizhou in Song Dynasty, Zhao Minghui in Qiba Prefecture, Ming Gongya in Liang Shangshu, Wiki County Order in Northern Wei Dynasty, etc. The rate of Sui Dynasty made the Ming Concession worse. Tang Zheng admonished doctor Ming Chongyan; In the Northern Song Dynasty, Xiang Fu of Dazhong was a scholar. Dragon in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty; Ming Guang, a scholar of the Ministry of War in Qing Dynasty, was a mathematician and astronomer.
Ming surname blood group
The distribution of total blood types in Ming dynasty is: O type accounts for 34%, A type accounts for 28.9%, B type accounts for 28.3%, and AB type accounts for 8.8%.