The ethnic minorities named Ai are Xianbei, Uygur, Hui, Manchu, Kirgiz, Xibo, Bai, Yao, Tujia, Miao, Dong, Buyi, Gelao, Hani, Lahu, Wa, Dai, Bulang, Zhuang and Korean.
The Manchu love Xinjue Roche, later changed to Ai surname.
Important figures in the history of Ai surname are: Ai Hou in Shang Dynasty, Ai Chao in Tang Dynasty, calligrapher Ai Juhui in Song Dynasty, painter Ai Xuan, poet Ai, famous doctor Ai in Yuan Dynasty, former general Ai Wannian in Ming Dynasty, assistant minister Ai Changfu in Ritual Department, minister Ai in Qing Dynasty, general Ai in Wuxian County, academician Ai Xing in Modern Engineering Institute and economist Ai Chunrong.
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The migration and distribution of Ai surname can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and the crowd was originally distributed in the southeast of Taian, Shandong Province and Xiushui, Jiangxi Province. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Ai people migrated to Lintao, Tianshui, Pingyu, Gansu and Luoyang in Henan. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Ai family, whose surname was changed from Jin to Luoyang, the new capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty, merged with the local Ai family, which made the Ai family in Henan County more prosperous.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Ai family had spread to northern provinces. During the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, people named Ai moved south to escape the war, settled in southern provinces such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan, and some of them moved to Fujian. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Ngái people flourished in southern provinces, and now Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and other provinces have moved their names.
In the early Ming Dynasty, the ethnic group named Ai, as one of the largest locust tree immigrants in Hongdong, moved to Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Hubei and other provinces. Later, Ai people from Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province Province. During the Qing Dynasty, some Ai surnames in Shandong and other places went to the three northeastern provinces to make a living, mainly in the Heilongjiang River Basin. By the time of the Republic of China, people named Ai were more widely distributed throughout the country.
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