Were the ancient Shen Shi families aristocrats?

In ancient times, the Shen Shi family was regarded as a noble, but its descendants were more complicated and less noble.

Shen surnames mainly come from Ji surnames, Mi surnames, Yi surnames and Won surnames. Shen Shi is a typical multi-ethnic, multi-origin surname, which is a derivative surname of Yao. After Ji Jizhai, the tenth son of Zhou Wenwang, it belongs to the national title.

Shen is usually regarded as a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, because the Shen Shi family originated from the stone god, the son of the great-grandson of the ancient Yellow Emperor. He fought with his brother Kunbu at that time, and moved the Shen family to today's Shanxi, where he finally established the Shen state, which was later destroyed by the Xia people.

Shen moved:

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu sealed Sun Shuai to Shen and his son to (now Zhongxiangdong, Hubei). The descendants of these two places changed their surnames to Shen, which is the name of Shen Shi.

Shen Shi originated in today's Henan and Anhui provinces. In the pre-Qin period, Shen Shi's population mainly lived in Henan and Hubei, and Shen Shi's footprints were also found in Shanxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. Shen entered Fujian in the Tang Dynasty and later immigrated to Guangdong. In the late Ming Dynasty, Shen moved to Taiwan Province Province. At present, Shen's surname is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Henan provinces.

For example, Shen was born in Wu Kang County, Huzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and served as prime minister from 684 to 685 (the same as Feng Ge Luan Taiping Zhang). Shen Kuo in Northern Song Dynasty, 103 1- 1095, born in Qiantang, Hangzhou, was a scientist and reformer. Notebook masterpiece Meng Qian's pen talk.