There are three sources:
1, from Gui surname. According to legend, when Emperor Yao was in power, Gun's wife and daughter gave birth to Yu because she ate coix seed in her dream, so Emperor Yao changed Yu's surname to Gui. Later, he managed water conservancy, guided the people to build canals to promote agriculture, and led troops to quell the Sanmiao rebellion, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. In recognition of his great achievements, Shun sealed him in the summer (now east of Dengfeng County, Henan Province) and later passed on the throne to him. After Yu Xia's death, his son succeeded to the throne and established the Xia Dynasty, the first slave country in China's history. For more than 400 years, Xia has spread to the kings of 13 and 16 generations. Later, it was overthrown by Shang Tang, because the Xia Emperor was cruel and ruthless, and the Xia royal family took the country as their surname, calling it Xia.
2. From the surname. In 65438 BC+065438 BC+the early years of the Zhou Dynasty, the princes were enfeoffed, and the descendants of Donglou Gong were enfeoffed to Qi (now Qixian County, Henan Province) as the marquis of Qi. By the time of Jian Gong, it was destroyed by the State of Chu. Tuo, his younger brother, went out of Lu, and was named Xiahou (compound surname) because of his descendants. Later generations took Xia as their surname and called him Xiahou.
3. From the surname, Wang Fu is a surname. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the King of Wu was named Shun Di, he sealed Chen and established the State of Chen, with Wanqiu as the capital, in order to gain the worship of Shun Di. Historically called Hu Gongman and Chen Hugong. In the Spring and Autumn Period, when he became the monarch on 16, there was an illegitimate child named Zihe. His grandson, Zheng Shu, took Wang Fu (grandfather) as his surname, called Xia Zhengshu, and later Xia.
Xia surname distribution
Xia's surname is very early, so with the constant changes of the times, it has spread widely. Generally speaking, before the Qin Dynasty, Xia's surname mainly lived and multiplied in the Central Plains, and moved to Shaanxi, Shandong, Anhui, Shanxi, Hebei and other places. For example, Shu spread to fourth area Prefecture (now Henan Province) to practice medicine, and went to Yukou's apparatus (now eastern Shandong Province) to practice medicine. Xia Wuxie (roughly from the Xia family in Shaanxi) was the physician of Qin Shihuang. There were generations in Qin and Han dynasties (now northwest Hebei, north-central Shanxi, etc.). ) Who talks about summer? Anhui Xia family is a descendant of Xia royal family who fled to Nanchao. Before Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xia's surname mainly lived in the vast areas of northern China, especially in the Central Plains. Xia's southward migration began in the Han Dynasty. For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, Huanggong Xia was a native of Yin (now Ningbo, Zhejiang). Xia Fang was born in Jiujiang (now Jiangxi) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the distribution center of Xia moved to the south of the Yangtze River after a long period of reproduction. After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Xia's surname was mainly bred in the vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River, and widely distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces, especially in Zhejiang, making Xia's surname a typical northern surname in China.
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Harno. : Pingshuitang: 13 Yu Xia was not at home, but he didn't come into the house three times. The flood was finally cured, and Shun gave him the throne.
Xia surname also takes Huiji as the hall number.
Hope county:
Huiji County: In the 25th year of Qin Shihuang (222 BC), he set up a county in wuyue and ruled Wuxian (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). In the Western Han Dynasty, it was equivalent to the south of Jiangsu and the east of Maoshan, most of Zhejiang Province (except the west of Tianmu Mountain and a few areas in Chun 'an County) and Fujian Province. This Xia family belongs to the Gao Xia family in the Western Jin Dynasty.
Qiao County: At the end of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Pei County was established as Qiao County, where Qiao County was administered (now Hao County, Anhui Province).
Levin County: the county established by Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ruled by Levin (now east of Gaoyang County, Hebei Province). At the beginning of Jin Dynasty, he established Levin and ruled Bolu (now south of Lixian County, Hebei Province). The Northern Wei Dynasty changed the county and moved to Levin.
Luxian County: At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, Xue County was changed to Lu State, and Lu County (now Qufu, Shandong Province) was the governing place.
Great names in history
Xia Chang: a famous painter in Ming Dynasty. He is not only good at painting, but also good at writing and poetry. His poems are beautiful, calligraphers are writing in print, and his paintings are good at writing bamboo and stone. At that time, it was the first one. It was said that Zhao Zhong had a bamboo and Jiangnan had ten ingots of gold. After the Song Dynasty, it was the most glorious period of Xia surname in the field of literature.
Xia Gui, an outstanding painter in Southern Song Dynasty. He painted figures in his early years and later became famous for his landscape paintings. At the same time as Ma Yuan, it is called Ma Xia. The painting style is free and easy, and it combines the painting methods of Li Tang, Fan Kuan and Mi Fei. With a bald pen and water as the axe, the composition is mostly half or a corner, which is called Xia Banbian.
Xia Houxuan: Minister of Wei in the Three Kingdoms Period. Jing is one of the founders of metaphysics and is known as one of the four wise men.
Xia Yuanji: Minister of Ming Dynasty, Senior Minister of Household Affairs in Yongle, Hongxi and Xuande Dynasties, presided over finance for 27 years, and was well supported. He has made achievements in determining taxes and tariffs in detail, cleaning warehouses, sowing widely, repairing water sources and making profits.
Xiagong: A respected scholar during the reign of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to historical records, Xia Gong was the most prestigious professor of Yi Studies at that time. He has taught more than 100 students, which can be said to be full of peaches and plums.
Xia Innocent: The doctor who participated in the assassination of the King of Qin in Jing Ke was named "Biography of the Assassins in Historical Records" because he caught Jing Ke with a medicine bag.
Yu Xia: A famous patriotic warrior. It is said that he can pull out the oxtail with great strength.