Bai family is one of the surnames in China, which comes from five sources: Won family name, Mi family name, place name as surname, tribe name and surname change. Bai surname originated from Han surname. After the death of Qin Wugong, the son Bai failed to succeed to the throne, and Wu Gong and his mother De Gong took the throne from the son.
Wu Gong lived in Pingyang (now Qishan and Xiexian in Shaanxi) near Yong (now Fengxiang in Shaanxi), the capital of Qin State, and Duke De gave Pingyang to Gongzi Bai. After the death of childe Bai, his grandson took Bai as his surname.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces, accounting for about 50% of the total population of Bai, followed by Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan, and these six provinces and regions account for 26% of the population of Bai. Henan is the largest province with 16% of the total population of Bai surname. The whole country has formed two areas where Bai people live: Henan, Hebei and Qin Jin.
During the pre-Qin period, Bai mainly lived in Shaanxi, Hubei and Henan. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, due to the participation of the Bai nationality in the western regions and northwest China, the Bai nationality in eastern Gansu and west of the Yellow River in Qinghai later entered Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia and northwest Sichuan, and soon moved to the Central Plains eastward and southward. Shandong in the east and Guangxi in the south have already distributed Bai.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 6.5438+0.9 million people surnamed Bai, accounting for 0.2% of the national population, ranking 92nd. Shanxi is the largest province with Bai surname, accounting for about 24.4% of the total population of Bai surname.
Bai Juyi is the most outstanding figure in the achievements of Bai culture. He was a poet in the middle Tang Dynasty, a senior minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and actively advocated the new Yuefu movement in literature, advocating that "articles should be written in time and poems should be written for things"; It's called "History of Poetry".