Shi surname, Chinese surname, and 23rd place in the hundreds of surnames. It is an ancient surname with a long history, ranked 95th in the current surname ranking list, and belongs to the big surname series.
population is about 2.05 million, accounting for about 0.13% of the total population in the country.
got the ancestor of the surname
Shi's father. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of the monarch Hui of Lu, the name Weisheng, and his courtesy name Shifu, was known as Shifuwei. He served as a doctor at the time of Duke Huan of Lu. It is said that he was proficient in music and once regarded the changes in the attitude of the visiting Prince Cao's state of enjoying joy. He asserted that Cao Bo (the king of Cao) would be in the world soon, which was indeed true. Duke Huan respected Mr. Shi's talent deeply and entrusted it with great use. Later, Shi's father became a famous minister in the Spring and Autumn Period. When it was passed down to Mr. Shi's great-grandson Xiaoshu, he used the ancestor's name as his surname to show that he was different from other families. Therefore, the surname of Shi's father was formed, and later the name of father was removed and he became the surname of Shi. They respected Shi's father as the ancestor of Shi's surname.
Short name source
Origin stream 1
originated from the Ji surname, and was born after Ji Wei, son of Duke Hui of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, belonging to the surname of his ancestors. According to historical records such as "General History: Clan Brief" and "Yuanhe Surname", during the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Weisheng, a son of Ji Funi, Duke Hui of Lu, was named Shifuwei, who was known in history as Shifuwei.
During the reign of Duke Huan of Lu Ji Rui (Ji Yun) (711 BC to 694 BC), Ji Weisheng became a doctor in Lu. It is said that Ji Weisheng was proficient in music and once looked at the changes in the attitude of Prince Cao's enjoying joy in his visiting Prince Cao, and asserted that his father Cao Bo would soon be in the world, which was finally fulfilled.
Duke Huan of Lu respected Ji Weisheng's talent and entrusted it with great use. Later, Shi's father became a famous minister in the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, when his fifth-generation grandson Ji Xiaoshu was passed down, he simply used the ancestor's name as his surname, called Shaoshi and Shifu's family, to show that he was different from other families. Later, the literature of the province was simplified to a single surname Shi, which was passed down from generation to generation, and was known in history as the authentic Shi family.
Origin 2
originated from the surname Gui, originated from the vassal states of Shiguo during the Xia Dynasty, and belonged to the name of the country. According to the historical book "A Brief Study of Surnames", during the Xia Dynasty, there was a Shi family among the princes, and the Shi family was established. The former site was in Enshi County, Hubei Province.
After Shang Tang destroyed Jie of Xia, the Shi family country was also destroyed. Later, the descendants of the Dukes of the Shi family country used the name of the old country as their surname, called Shi family, which was passed down from generation to generation and is one of the very ancient surnames.
Origin and flow three
comes from Shi's clan, one of the seven clans during the Shang Dynasty, and belongs to the clan name. According to the historical book "Zuo Zhuan", in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Ji Kangshu, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, was named Marquis of Wei and was divided into the "Seven tribes of the Yin people" namely the Tao family, Shi family, Fan family (Qi family), Qi family, Xing family, Fan family and Zhongkui family.
The Shi family of the Shang Dynasty was a full-time craftsman who set flags during the Shang Dynasty. In ancient times, he was called "陈, flag, and flag" as "陈". The descendants of the descendants of the tribe regarded their profession as the clan, and were called Shi family for generations.
Origin of the four
originated from the Fang surname, and came from the same clan as the great Confucian scholar Fang Xiaoru in the early Ming Dynasty. He belonged to the refuge and changed his surname to the clan.
Source stream five
comes from another family and change surnames. For example, the Bai tribe in Yunnan who used conch as the totem, the Han surname was Shi; the chieftains in Yunnan during the Ming and Qing dynasties had the Shi surname; the Manchus who lived in Shenyang for the past had this surname; the current Jing, Yi, Miao, Mongolian, Qiang, Dai, Nu, Naxi, and Su tribes had this surname.
surname distribution
In the pre-Qin period, the surname Shi began to move in Shandong and Anhui areas, and was then forced to move westward to northern Henan, then head south to Enshi area in Hubei, and then southward to Hunan and Guizhou. One of the branches moved westward to Luzhou area in Sichuan and Eryuan area in Yunnan, forming the main living place of the southwest Shi surname Shi. The descending branch of Anhui ancient Shi State was the most important among immigration. During the Tang Dynasty, the prestigious family of Shi had already formed in Wuxing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang. By the Tang and Song dynasties, the surname Shi had spread to all parts of Jiangnan.
During the Song Dynasty, the surname Shi was about 130,000, accounting for about 0.13% of the national population, ranking 93rd. Zhejiang and Sichuan are major provinces with surname Shi, accounting for about 17% of the total population of Shi surnames in the country respectively. The distribution across the country is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei. These five provinces account for about 70% of the total population of Shi surname, followed by Shandong, Fujian and Hebei. At that time, the distribution of the surname Shi formed two major cluster areas centered on Sichuan, Hubei and Zhejiang in the west and Jiangsu and Anhui in the east.
During the Ming Dynasty, the surname Shi was about 250,000, accounting for about 0.25% of the national population, ranking 83rd.Zhejiang is the largest province in Shi’s surname, accounting for about 41% of the total population in Shi’s surname. The distribution is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Jiangsu, and these four provinces account for about 81% of the total population of Shi.
For more than 600 years of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the population of the surname Shi mainly migrated to the southeastern region, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian were the gathering centers of the surname Shi at that time.
Allusions of Celebrity
Xishi
real name is Shi Yiguang, a beautiful woman from Yueguo, and later generations respectfully call her "Xizi". Born in Yue in the late Spring and Autumn Period, he followed his mother to the riverside of Huashi, so he was also called "Huanshiwo". Xi Shi, together with Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan and Yang Yuhuan, were called "the four most beauties in ancient China", among which Xi Shi ranked first. The four beauties enjoy the reputation of "the appearance of a flower that is closed and the appearance of a fish that falls and the appearance of a geese that falls and the "sinking fish" among them is the classic legend of "Xi Shi washing yarn".
