Handicraft and agriculture. According to legend, he learned Tai Hao's method, so he was called Shao Hao. According to the five elements theory of the ancients, Jin was born in the earth, and he was named Jin Shitian after King Jinde. "The Emperor's Century" said: Shao Hao went from poverty to the Emperor of Three Lights, and then to Qufu. Poor mulberry is in the north of Qufu, Shandong Province today. Among his descendants, there is a surname who simplified his name to "Jin" and took it as his surname, that is, Jin.
The other is Jin Ridi in the Western Han Dynasty. In the spring of the second year of Emperor founding ceremony (BC 12 1), Emperor Wudi sent a general Huo Qubing to lead his cavalry out of Longxi to attack the Huns, and he was awarded the title of "Sacrificing to Heaven" by the Huns. The "Golden Man", that is, the golden Buddha statue, was built by the Xiongnu royal family to worship heaven. This autumn, Prince Tu of King Hugh returned to Han with the evil king Xiongnu. Because of his loyalty, he was trusted and loved by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu worshipped his father as a gold man and gave him the surname Jin, saying. Since then, his son and grandson have been surnamed Jin. Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, seven generations of in-house attendants of the family, together with minister Zhang Tang, were called "Zhang Jin" and became synonymous with the heroic clan.
In addition to the above two Jin States, in the Qin Dynasty before the Sixteen States, the Qiang leaders had the Jin State. King Silla of the Tang Dynasty was surnamed Jin. The founding king of wuyue, one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Countries, was named Qian Liu. For the sake of anonymity, all the people surnamed Liu in this country went to Liuzi Maotou Road and changed to the Jin family.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, some Jin people moved to Gansu. For example, Jin Zuo, governor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, was from Anding (now north of Jingchuan County, Gansu Province). During the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, one of the three surnames of Shu County in Yizhou (Chengdu, Sichuan) was Jin, and one of the four surnames of Hexi County in Fenzhou (now Linfen, Shanxi) was Jin. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, the Southern Jin family developed not only in Zhejiang and Jiangsu, but also in Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian and Guangdong provinces. Northern provinces such as Henan, Hebei and Liaoning. There is also a settlement of the Kim family. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, people from Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province province one after another, and later some moved overseas and lived in Singapore and other countries.
Kim's early celebrities have been mentioned above. In the Tang Dynasty, there were Jin, Silla and German officials and generals. In Song Dynasty, Jin Wengong and Xiuning (now Anhui) were born with bachelor's degrees in Guan Longtu Pavilion. Jin Yan, a native of Shaoyang (now Hunan), was named filial piety, ranking first in the world, and the county name was "Yimen Jinshi". There were scholars Jin Luxiang and calligrapher Jin in the Yuan Dynasty. Scholar Jin Wen and Ming Dynasty essayist Jin Luan. Jin Shengtan, a famous literary critic in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, collated Outlaws of the Marsh and The West Chamber. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a painter Jin Nong, whose official script was simple and his regular script was unique. His paintings are novel and one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou". There is also a university student in Zhonghe Temple and an official, Jia Taifu Jin Zhijun, a painter Jin Kan, a scholar Jin Bang, a poet Jin He and a historian Jin Menzhao. There are many people named Jin, and there are many generations.
The counties named Jin are Pengcheng and Jingzhao. Among China surnames in population order, Jin ranks 69th.