The surname Cui ranked 189th in the Song Dynasty version of "Hundred Family Surnames".
The Cui surname is one of the Chinese surnames, and also one of the surnames of the Han, Korean and other ethnic groups. The Han surname Cui is mainly derived from the Jiang surname. The ancestor is Jiang Taigong, the originator is the Yan Emperor Shennong, Linzi, Shandong (Zibo) is the birthplace of the Cui surname. The Cui surname of the ethnic minority was changed to Chinese surname.
The Cui surname reached its peak in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties. The Cui surname ranked 189th in the Song Dynasty version of "One Hundred Family Surnames". It ranks 54th among the surnames in China today and has a large population, accounting for about 0.28 of the country's Han population.
Today, the surname Cui is especially common in Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jiangsu and other provinces. The above six provinces account for about 60% of the total population of the Han nationality Cui in the country. Overseas distribution is mostly in the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam. Celebrities in the past dynasties include the upright official Cui Zhuan, the writer Cui_, the calligrapher Cui Yuan, the political commentator Cui_, the poets Cui Hao, Cui Hu, etc.
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Person named Cui:
1. Cui Bin, a famous official in the Yuan Dynasty, served as Zuocheng (deputy prime minister) in Zhongshu. He was a man of quick thinking, upright temperament, honest official, and deeply trusted by Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty.
2. Cui Zizhong, a native of Beihai (now Laiyang, Shandong), was a famous painter in the Ming Dynasty. He is good at painting figures and ladies, and also does portrait painting. Together with Chen Hongshou, they are called "South Chen Beicui".
3. Cui Ji, a Jinshi in the late Kangxi years. Liguan Guozijian offered wine, governor of Shaanxi and governor of Hubei. He successively supervised Shuntian Academic Affairs, Jiangsu Academic Affairs, and Governance Studies. In the second year of Qianlong's reign (1737), he advocated digging wells to irrigate fields and construct water conservancy projects in Shaanxi. He died in the fifteenth year of Qianlong's reign.
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