Xie is the 24th most popular surname in China and has the greatest influence in Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan. Today, people with the surname Xie account for approximately 0.72% of the country's population, with a total population of nearly 9 million.
Xie's name and totem:
055-79000: "Thank you, quit. Speak, shoot." Xie originally meant to retreat, which was extended to include leaving, refusing, declining, etc. In oracle bone inscriptions, the word Xie is like a bow and arrow pulled by a person. In ancient times, the words Xie and she were very common. So Xie people are a good She clan, Xie their clan names and place names, and finally formed a country.
Xie, also a turtle, walks with his head held high. A turtle that walks with its head down is called a divine turtle. The ancient city is located in the south of Tanghe County, Henan Province. It is speculated that there once was a turtle that walked with its head held high in Guxie Land. Named after Xie's life, a castle was formed and eventually developed into a country. The first residents were called Xie people, and the first totem of Xie people was a turtle.
The origin and evolution of the Xie surname:
The composition of the Han surname Xie mainly comes from two sources: Ren and Jiang.
The first one comes from the surname Ren: There are 12 important surnames recorded in the history books of the Huangdi era, and the surname Ren is one of them. The surname Xie is a branch of the surname Ren. During the Xia Dynasty, Xie State was located in the northwest of Tanghe County, Henan Province. Although he was an earl and vassal, his country was weak. After the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was destroyed by King Xuan of Zhou in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and its descendants took the country as their surname. This surname is Xie, and this Xie has a history of at least 3,500 years.
The second payment came from Jiang. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, after it was destroyed, please rebuild Xie City and give a grand reward to your uncle Yuan Shenbo. Became the capital of Xie Shen Kingdom. In 688 BC, King Wen of Chu destroyed the State of Shen and annexed it. The descendants of Shen Bo who lived there took Yi as their surname, namely Jiang's Xie. Jiang Xie has a history of at least 3,000 years. Jiang's surname Xie is the most important part of the Metabolic clan.
Integration of foreign genes:
The third one is from a foreign family. The Xie surname also blends into the blood of other ethnic groups, mainly the Zhili clan of the Xiongnu in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Xie surname of the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the Qing Dynasty. After living together with the Han people for a long time, these foreigners gradually integrated into the Han people.
The distribution and migration of the Xie surname in history:
Xie was first active in southern Henan. The Chu people destroyed Shen and brought the Xie people to the upper reaches of the Huaihe River. After that, people surnamed Xie began to move south. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Xie family moved to Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other places. During the Warring States Period, a family named Xie immigrated to Sichuan. By the Han Dynasty, the Xie family spread to Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places. By the Three Kingdoms and Southern and Northern Dynasties periods, the Xie family had become one of the most famous families in the world. During the Tang Dynasty, Xie was born in Fujian and Guangdong and became a famous surname in the southeast. The Ming Dynasty first entered Taiwan Province. Since the majority of people with the Xie surname had moved north as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, although they experienced wars in the northern region during the Eastern Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties, the damage to the Xie surname was relatively minor. Among the several great migrations in Chinese history, Xie moved south, southwest, and southeast, and developed steadily in the south.
There are about 400,000 people with the surname of Song Dynasty, accounting for about 0.52% of the country’s population, ranking 39th. The province with the largest number of people with the surname Xie is Zhejiang, accounting for about 13.7% of the total population with the surname Xie in the country. The distribution of the surname Xie across the country is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Henan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Sichuan. The Xie surname in these six provinces accounts for about 73% of the total population of Xie in the country.
There were about 790,000 people with the surname Xie in the Ming Dynasty, accounting for about 0.85% of the country's population. It was the 21st surname in the Ming Dynasty. The distribution of the surname Xie in China is mainly concentrated in the three provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang, accounting for approximately 55.7% of the total population
The contemporary population of the surname Xie has reached nearly 9 million, making it the 24th largest surname in China, accounting for approximately 55.7% of the total population. of 0.72. Currently, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in the three provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Hunan, accounting for about 36% of the total population with the surname Xie, followed by Henan, Sichuan, Fujian, Anhui, Hubei, Guangxi, and Taiwan Province, accounting for 37% of the population with the surname Xie. . Guangdong is the province with the largest number of people with the surname Xie, accounting for 13.2% of the total population with the surname Xie in the country. The whole country is centered on eastern Guangdong and radiates to the north, west and east. The population of Xie surname is gradually decreasing. It is rare in North China and Northeast China and rare in Northwest China.
In the nearly 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the Xie family's population has migrated from the southeast to the Central Plains and North China. The migration to the west and south has been very vigorous, which is greater than the migration from the north to the southeast and south.
The Xie family is distributed in Guangdong, Qionggui, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian and Taiwan, most of Hubei, southern Zhejiang, central Anhui, and eastern Sichuan and Chongqing. The proportion of Xie surnames in the local population is generally above 0.9, and in some cases it is above 2.4.
It occupies about 16% of the total land area and is home to about 60% of Xie people. In the connecting zone between Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, southern Chongqing, southern Shaanxi, Gansu and Henan, northern Hubei, central Anhui, northern Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, Heilongjiang, and northern Inner Mongolia, the surname Xie accounts for 0.6-0.9 of the local population. The above-mentioned areas cover 15% of the total land area, and about 21% of the Xie people live here.
Traditional culture of the surname Xie;
The counties with the surname Xie in Wang Hetang mainly include Kuaiji, Chenjun, Xiapi and Fengyi. The Xie family was named after the prince, including Weihuai, Dongshan and Baoshutang. The names of "Wei Huai" and "An Jin" come from Xie An, a famous official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Xie An is famous and talented. Huan Wen dreamed of usurping the throne and detained Xie An, demanding his cooperation, but Xie An refused to give in. After Huan Wen's defeat, the emperor Xie An served as his ministers' servant and fought a water battle. Xie An and his nephew Xie Xuan defeated Fu Jian's army with fewer victories and more losses, thus turning the Jin Dynasty from danger to safety. Xie An's loyalty and prestige made the entire imperial court and foreign confederations admire him, miss him, and fear him. This is the origin of the "Weihuai" and "Anjin" halls.
There are five important couplets named Xie as follows:
Birth of jade tree; stone.
Yiwu family; feather celebrities.
East Mountain looks forward to livelihood; Don boasts about fantastic dreams.
Cao Youcai is called Badou; there is no shortage of words in the warehouse.
Jueyuan is loyal and sincere; he lives in Jingtang County and is a filial piety.
Family motto: Xie, a native of Shangcai, Shouchun, studied under two great scholars, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi. He was a far-sighted scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. He asked his son to take the world as his own responsibility and said to him: "Take off everything that is close to you, so that you can swim brilliantly. Don't be a child, be an adult. Don't aim for a lifetime, have the ambition of the world." "Don't plan for life, just worry about future generations. Don't ask for the principles of heaven, seek common principles instead of the world." ".
Celebrity frequency and family sages:
From 755 to 79000, *** collected 342 famous celebrities, accounting for 0.63 of the total number of celebrities, ranking 32nd among celebrities Bit. Xie, a famous writer, accounts for 1.11 of the total number of writers in the country, ranking 16th; Xie, a famous medical scientist, accounts for 0.61 of the total number of Chinese medical scientists, ranking 35th; Xie, a famous medical scientist, accounts for 0.73 of the total number of artists in the country, ranking 33rd.
The Chinese surname Xie has a long history. By the time of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it had become one of the most famous families in the world, with many celebrities, especially in the literary world. Xie Yiwu, the governor of Julu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was the first celebrity named Jiang Xie. Xie An, a famous general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is as famous as Xie Xuan and Xie Shi. From then on, they laid the foundation for the Xie family as a writer in Jiangnan. Southern Song poets Xie Lingyun and Xie Huilian, writer Xie Zhuang, Southern Qi poet Xie_; Northern Song Dynasty celebrity Xie; Southern Song poet Xie Ao; Ming Dynasty scholar Xie; Ming Dynasty minister Xie Yu, writer Xie Zhen; leader of the Communist Party of Northern Shaanxi during the Republic of China Xie Zichang, a man, Xie Guan, a doctor; Xie Juezai, President of the Supreme People's Court in the early Republic of China, Xie, Minister of the Interior, Xie, chairman of the Taiwan League Headquarters, clinical radiologist, geologist, hydrologist Xie Shaowen, painter, calligraphy connoisseur Xie, chess player wait.
Xie's blood type:
The blood type distribution of Xie's population is as follows: type O accounts for 36.4, type A accounts for 29.2, type B accounts for 26.4, and type AB accounts for 8.