source: Chinese report, Wu Shufeng
[Editor's Note] "The twelve surnames of the Chinese Dezong family originated from Ji more than 4,000 years ago and later." "In the process of inheritance, especially due to the feudalization of the Zhou royal family of the Ji surname, the twelve surnames of Wu, Zhou, Cai, Weng, Cao, Xin, Ke, Wang, Jiang, Hong, Gong, Fang, etc., were called the twelve surnames of the Zhide clan."
0 During the Song Dynasty, there were about 440,000 surnames of the Cai surname. It accounts for about 0.57% of the national population, ranking 36th. Fujian is the largest province with the surname Cai, accounting for about 21.2% of the total population of the surname Cai in the country. The distribution across the country is mainly concentrated in Fujian, Shandong and Henan. The Cai surname in these three provinces accounts for 51% of the total population of the Cai surname, followed by Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hebei, Hubei and Jiangsu provinces. The country has formed two population gathering centers in the southeastern coastal areas of Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shandong, Henan, Hebei and Hubei.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 460,000 surnames in the surname Cai, accounting for about 0.49% of the national population, and it was the 46th surname of the Ming Dynasty. Zhejiang is the largest province in the surname Cai, accounting for about 20.2% of the total population of the surname Cai. The distribution across the country is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Jiangsu. The Cai surname in these four provinces accounts for about 63% of the total population of the Cai surname, followed by Guangdong and Hunan provinces. During the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the population of the Cai family mainly migrated from the north to the southeast and south, especially to the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian. The country has re-formed the population of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Suzhou.
Contemporary population of the surname Cai has reached 5.52 million, the 44th surname in the country, accounting for about 0.46% of the national population. The distribution of the surname Cai in the country is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 35% of the total population of the surname Cai; followed by Sichuan, Hubei, Taiwan, Anhui and Fujian, with 32% of the five provinces concentrated. Guangdong lives in 13.7% of the total population of the surname Cai, the largest province in the surname Cai, accounting for 1% of the total population. The country has formed a high-profile Cai area in the southeast coastal areas. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of the population movement of the surname Cai have been somewhat different from that of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. Although there was a return to central and North China, immigration to the southeast was still the mainstream, and immigration to the west and northeast also occurred.
