It is a surname with a history of 1,800 years. The "Encyclopedia of Chinese Surnames" lists it as a "rare surname". According to statistics, there are currently about 8,000 people with the surname nationwide. Many counties and cities do not have this surname. In Changzhou and its neighboring places such as Wuxi, Jiangyin, Yixing, etc., the population with the surname is about 4,000. It can be seen that the people in Changzhou have the surname This is 50% of the population in the country.
According to the "Surname Chronicles" in Volume 35 of "Jiangsu Shishi Genealogy" (Siweitang Collection Edition): "During the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Shangshu servant Shedu Tinghou Shiyi was a native of Yingling, Beihai. After Dr. Qi Gao, this surname was changed to Shi because Kong Rong was ridiculed by the people. This is actually the beginning of the surname. "According to the "Chinese Surname Code": "Beihai is Yi, this is Yi. Kong Rong mocked him and said: "The surname is Minshang, so it was changed to Shi". He was an official in Wu, and he was granted the title of "Tinghou". Shu Cong, Shi Yanshou. "According to the ancient book "Xingkao", the surname is "after Qi Dafu", and "Qianjia Xing" is called "Beihai tribe". According to "Tongzhi·Daibei Fushu Surname": "It is the Yun family, which was changed to Shi. The founding name of the Western Wei Dynasty was Yunbao."
From the above historical records, it can be seen that the Shi family has two origins: one is In the Spring and Autumn Period, after the official surname of Qi State, Shiyi changed his surname to Shi during the Three Kingdoms period, and his descendants had the same surname for generations. The reason is that Shiyi in Beihai County "became a county official at first and later served in the county. The county prime minister (prefect) Kong Rong Chaoyi: Yan's name is Minshang, but it is even more true, so he changed it to Yan" ("Jiangsu Shi's Genealogy·Surname Chronicles"). The second is that the surname "Shiyun" was changed to Shi.
The origin of the surname Shi in the Changzhou area. According to the "Jiangsu Shishi Genealogy", its distant ancestor is Shiyi during the Three Kingdoms period. During the Dali period of the Tang Dynasty, there was a descendant of Shiyi, Sun Shiguang, who was an official, secretary and supervisor, and married to the Zhao family. He gave birth to two sons, Huaide and Huaiheng, and his descendants lived in Shandong. Changzhou's surname was Feng Shiguang, the first generation. During Tang Duzong's reign, there were brothers Shibi and Zhong. In the Song Dynasty, brothers Shibin and Shibiao lived in Wuchang. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the heroes were separatist. Zhang Shicheng's general Mo Tianyou occupied Wuxi. Zhu Yuanzhang's general Xu Da's army besieged Wuxi and massacred the city. Sometimes Duke Ne'an persuaded Mo Tianyou to follow the trend and dedicate the city to the Ming Dynasty, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. . For this reason, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty personally wrote "Kechang Later" and "Kedi Guangqian" to reward Shi Na'an.
Shi Na'an and his younger brother Shi Jing'an lived in Wujiang, Suzhou. During the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, one of his sons, Sun An, moved to Kunshan, and the other son moved to Huidun, Jiangyin (today's Qiaoqi Town, Jiangyin); The second moved to Xiadu, Anyangshan, Wuxi (today's Luqu Town, Wuxi); Ansan moved to Sheng'an, Daning Township, Wujin, now An Village, Jiaoxi Province, Ansanzi Shiya, moved from Sheng'an to Jiaoxi Town, Wujin; Ansi moved to Wujin Hengshan, now Fangmao Shijiaxiang Village, Hengshanqiao Town; Anwu moved to Shaoxing; Anliu's descendants are unknown; Anqi moved to Nantong Prefecture; Anba's descendants are unknown; Anjiu moved to Huai'an Prefecture; Anshi moved to Liyang; Anshiyi and Anba moved to Liyang Twelve moved to Songjiang Prefecture.
For more than 600 years, the descendants of the Shi family who have lived in Xiadu, Wuxi and An, Hengshan and Jiaoxi of Wujin Province have insisted on compiling genealogies together. It has been passed down for 26 generations so far, and the people of the Shi family have been divided into 29 branch, scattered in more than 30 villages in Wujin, Jiangyin, Wuxi and Yixing. The main branches are: Wuxi Luqu Town Xiadu Branch is divided into Xingan Branch, Maocun Branch, Hedong Village Branch, Bashiqiao Branch, Baishuitang Branch, Xushe Branch, Fuxiangtou Branch, Nancaocun Branch, and Pugou Village branch; An branch in Wujin Province was divided into Xiaoerfang branch, Dongerfang branch, Diansifang branch, Qiansifang branch and Beishahe branch; Jiaoxi branch in Wujin was divided into Henggou upper branch, Tangjiaba branch and Noda branch. Li branch, Shatiancun branch, Sanhekou branch, Quejiacun (Jiangyin) branch, Shiyan branch, Zoujiaqiao branch, Xinqiao branch, Muyizhuang (Jiangyin) branch; Wujin Hengshan branch was divided into Huanglianshu branch and Xiashu branch Qiao branch, Lixiang branch, Wanzhuang branch, Hufu (Yixing) branch, etc. Later generations of descendants live in Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Xinjiang, Taiwan and overseas, with about 800 people.