The ancestor of the Zhou family is Ji Fa?

The Zhou family has more sources, there are the following kinds:

One is from the surname Ji, using the name of the country as the surname. Houji's grandson, Gu Gong □ father (i.e. King Tai of Zhou) was forced by Di, and led his people to migrate from Tai to Zhou Yuan under Qishan in Shaanxi Province, and from then on it was known as the Zhou Clan. Ji Fa, the great-grandson of Duke Gu, succeeded his father, Ji Chang, and united all the vassals to conquer the Shang Dynasty and establish the Zhou Dynasty. After King Ping, the 24th king of the Zhou Dynasty, King Blushing, was destroyed by Qin in 256 B.C. The royal family, headed by King Blushing, was abolished and moved to the northwest of Linru County, Henan Province. The local people called them the Zhou family, and they took "Zhou" as their family name.

The second was that King Ping of Zhou had a son named Ji Lie, who was sealed in Runan (now Henan Province), and was called the Zhou family by the locals, which later evolved into the Zhou family name.

Three is the Eastern Zhou Zhuang Wang, Zhou Gong Ji Dan's descendant Zhou Gong Hei shoulder attempted to kill King Zhuang and set up Prince K instead, the matter is leaked was killed, and its descendants are also known as the Zhou family, which also comes from the Ji family name of the week.

Four is changed from Ji Zhou. Tang Xiantian years, Tang Xuanzong named Li Longji, in order to avoid taboo, the Ji changed to Zhou.

Fifth, the Xianbei clan had the Heru clan in their compound name, which was later changed to Zhou.

There is another ethnic minority group that changed its name from the Zhou family name to the Zhou family name, which was changed from the Jin Nai family name to the Zhou family name by the second brother of Emperor Xian of Wei in the Northern Wei Dynasty. After Emperor Xiaowen moved to Lodu, he changed the Xianbei surname to the Chinese surname Zhou.

In addition to the above sources, the Zhou family, the Northern Zhou, Tang, Houliang, and there are due to the change of surname, given the surname into the family name, as well as the adventurous for the king's surname into the Zhou family.

The Zhou family name has its ancestral roots in Henan Province, where it flourished in the early days.

From the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Jin Dynasty, there are records of the Zhou clan from the Central Plains moving south. Tang Gaozong total chapter years, Chen Zheng, Chen Yuanguang father and son into the Fujian Zhangzhou, accompanied by Zhou generals. From the Qing Dynasty Kangxi and Qianlong years, Min, Guangdong Zhou one after another people migrated to Taiwan, and then there are many people to settle overseas.

"The Zhou surname is a long-established lineage. It first originated from the ancient surname Ji, which was the surname of Yandi and Houji, the ancestor of the Zhou people, and is considered to be the oldest surname in China, and it moved to Runan, Henan Province, during the Zhou Dynasty." (From page 4 of the book Lu Xun and Xu Guangping, published by Henan People's Publishing House and authored by Fan Zhiting). "From the Yellow Emperor until King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, the Zhou surname had a legendary lineage. After the development of the Western Zhou dynasty, until King Ping of Zhou moved east, his second son, Lie, was sealed in Rufen (in the northeast of present-day Ye County, Henan Province), and became the founder of the Zhou surname, which was honored by the people of the Zhou surname. After King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi (in Luoyang), one of his sons, Ji Lie, was sealed in Rumeng, and after nineteen passages, the Eastern Zhou was destroyed by Qin at the time of Ji Yong. Although the fiefdom no longer exists, but from the Zhou dynasty bloodline for generations to eat Zhou salary Ji Yong family is still customarily known as the 'Zhou family', Ji Yong Suo family name is also 'Zhou' as a family name to show that the memorial, to show that do not forget their roots, and passed on from generation to generation. Yong Sheng Xiu, Xiu Sheng Ren. At this time has come to the Western Han Dynasty, the early Han rulers in order to enlist the hearts of the people, specially sealed Zhou Ren for the Ru tomb marquis, gave the number of the correct public, the continuation of the Zhou room incense, Zhou Ru tomb terrain humid, then migrated to the Ru Nan County, this branch of the Zhou family name in the local population and reproduction, the formation of Han and Tang dynasties, the famous Ru Nan Zhou.

"From the Yellow Emperor until the Zhou Dynasty was established by King Wu of Zhou, the Zhou surname had a legendary lineage. After the development of the Western Zhou Dynasty, until King Ping of Zhou moved east, his second son Lie was sealed in Rufen (in the northeast of present-day Ye County, Henan Province), and became the founder of the Zhou surname, which was honored by the people of the Zhou surname. After King Ping of Zhou moved east to Luoyi (in Luoyang), one of his sons, Ji Lie, was sealed in Rumeng, and after nineteen passages, the Eastern Zhou was destroyed by Qin at the time of Ji Yong. Although the fiefdom no longer exists, but from the Zhou dynasty bloodline for generations to eat Zhou salary Ji Yong family is still customarily known as the 'Zhou family', Ji Yong Suo family name is also 'Zhou' for the family name, to show the memory, to show that do not forget their roots, and passed on from generation to generation. Yong Sheng Xiu, Xiu Sheng Ren. This time has come to the Western Han Dynasty, the early Han rulers in order to enlist the hearts of the people, specially sealed Zhou Ren for the Ru Tomb Marquis, gave the number of the correct public, the continuation of the Zhou room incense, Zhou Ru tomb terrain humid, then migrated to RuNan County, this branch of the Zhou family name in the local living and reproducing, the formation of Han and Tang dynasties, the famous RuNan Zhou. China's family name has a history of 5000 years, the earliest family name, some of the name of the place, some of the official position for the family name, some of the name of the country for the family name, the origin of the family name of up to dozens of kinds.

So, is the surname of Zhou Gong, the famous Western Zhou minister in history, Zhou? Zhou was the name of a dynasty at that time, and the Duke of Zhou was the people's honorific title for him. The Duke of Zhou, whose surname was Ji and name was Dan, was not an imaginary ancestor of the Zhou surname.

According to legend, when the descendants of the Houji clan, the "god of agriculture," reached the 13th generation of the ancient Duke of Zhou, they migrated from Wugong in Shaanxi to the Zhou Plain on Mount Qishan, where Zhou was the name of the tribe and the name of the place. In Zhou, Danfu developed production, built a large number of buildings, and collected officials. The power of the Zhou tribe soon aroused the uneasiness of the Shang dynasty, which killed Ji Li, the son of Gugong, who was the father of King Wen of the Zhou Dynasty, Ji Chang. King Wen of Zhou had been put under house arrest by King Zhou, he endured humiliation and thirst for wisdom, and finally escaped from the tiger's den, reusing a number of talents such as Jiang Taigong, and eventually making two of the three worlds of Zhou. By the time of King Wu of Zhou, the capital was Haojing, with Zhou as the state name, creating the Zhou Dynasty for more than 700 years. King Wu of Zhou passed down ten generations, by King Ping of Zhou moved the capital to Luoyang, the history of the Eastern Zhou, King Ping of Zhou was sealed Ru Nan, and then was destroyed by the state of Qin, in order not to forget that they are the descendants of the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty, the descendants will be changed to Ji for Zhou.

Once ruled China for 874 years, King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, the family, is now the name of the earliest ancestor of the Zhou? What is the connection between the Zhou Dynasty and the Zhou surname?

According to the Surname Codification, "Emperor ?ü gave birth to Houji, and then to King Tai, who was given the name of Zhou, and King Wen was given the name of his country." This shows that King Wen of Zhou, who was originally surnamed Ji, took the name of his fiefdom as his family name, just like other people with a fiefdom, and used it for generations.

From this, it can be concluded that King Wen of Zhou was the originator of the Zhou surname, and the lineage of the Zhou Han people can be traced back to the ancient Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.

Wen Wang took his country as his clan. At that time, the Zhou state was located in the area of Qishan County, now in Shaanxi Province. Later, the Zhou family, father and son, gained the world, and the capital of the state was located in Hao. The location of Hao was to the west of what is now Chang'an County in Shaanxi Province. By the time of King Yi, the state capital was moved to Huili. Samueli is southeast of present-day Xingping County, Shaanxi Province. It is thus clear that the Zhou surname first originated in this part of Shaanxi, and then gradually multiplied to other places. The Zhou family name should have spread from west to east, that is, from Shaanxi to Henan gradually.

The idea that King Wen of Zhou and his sons were the founders of the Zhou family has been widely accepted. However, the Zhou family name is found in the history books, not from the Zhou Wen Wang, as early as the time of the Yellow Emperor, there has been the Zhou family name.

According to the "Surname KaoLiu", the Yellow Emperor had a general called Zhou Chang, and the Shang Dynasty also had a historian called Zhou Ren. The descendants of these two men took the surname Zhou and were scattered in Ru Nan, Lu Jiang, Xun Yang, Lin Chuan, Chen Liu, Pei Guo, Taishan and Henan.

This account, while pointing out that the origin of the surname of Cai Zhou is not only the lineage of King Wen of Zhou, nevertheless provides a valuable fact - the Zhou surname is a Han Chinese surname with a long history.

"The rule of the King of Wen", is traditionally a political lofty realm, so Zhou Wenwang is not only **** considered the ancestor of the Han Chinese surname Zhou. More than that, he is the representative figure of 5000 years of Chinese culture. His great influence on history can truly be said to be unparalleled.