Luo, one of China's surnames, originated from the descendants of "Eight Surnames of Zhu Rong" in history books. Zhu Rong's descendants are divided into eight surnames, namely, Ji, Dong, Peng, Bald, Yi, Cao, Zhen and Mi. In 690 BC, Luoguo (Luoshan, Henan Province) was destroyed by the State of Chu, and Guo Yan (Yanling, Henan Province) was established at the original site. The descendants of Roche gradually moved south, first to Zhijiang (now in the south of Hubei Province, Zhijiang County along the Yangtze River), and then to Guluo, Hunan Province at the weekend, so they took the country name "Luo" as their surname.
According to the statistics of the third census of the Ministry of Public Security in April 2007, Luo is still the 20th surname in China. 1.400 million Han people in China, of whom Luo people account for 0.85%, and the total population is about 1.32 million. Sichuan is the largest province with Luo surname population, accounting for 20% of the total population of Luo surname, about 265,438+million, accounting for 2% of the total population of the province. According to the China Hundred Surnames Database, Luo's surname ranks 20th among 100 surnames in China, with a population of 0.86%.
Luo surname distribution
The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Luo surname in the crowd shows that Luo surname is one of the more common surnames in Jiangnan area. Luo's surname is in Yunnan and Guizhou, most of Sichuan and Chongqing, most of Guangdong and Guangxi, most of Hunan and Jiangxi, and the western end of Fujian, which generally accounts for more than 1.44% of the local population, and the central region can reach more than 3%. Its coverage area accounts for about 20% of the country's total area, and about 63% of the Romanian population lives.
In Hainan, Taiwan Province, Fujian and most of Zhejiang, Hunan and northwestern Jiangxi, northern Sichuan, southern Anhui, southeastern Henan, southwestern Shaanxi and Ningxia, Gansu, eastern Qinghai, western and northern Inner Mongolia, and northwestern Heilongjiang, the distribution ratio of Luo's surname among local people is between 0.48%- 1.44%, covering an area of about 20.6% of the country's total area and residents.