Jin surname is the sixty-ninth surname with the largest population in China, which has certain influence in the Central Plains and Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Today, the population of Jin accounts for about 0.3% of the national population, with a total population of nearly 3.8 million.
There are many surnames of Jin, one from ancient times and the other from the Western Han Dynasty ("Rihao" is pronounced "Miti"). 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 in Korean history 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. In the Qing Dynasty, Aisingiorro's surname was mostly changed to Jin.
There is also a Jin surname, which was changed from Temujin's compound surname. It is a descendant of Genghis Khan (Temujin), the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, and comes from the family of Prime Minister Temujin. The Jin surname also has the tradition of "giving birth to gold and killing Liu". The counties named Jin are Pengcheng and Jingzhao.
Among China surnames in population order, Jin is the 60th most popular surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about 0.3 1% of the Han population in China.
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1. Jin Yan: Lian Xiao was a native of Shaoyang (now Hunan) in the Song Dynasty. Kindness and filial piety are known as "Yimen Gold". He is good at writing and has been ordered to list virtuous things, ranking first in the world.
2. Jin Luan: a native of Longxi (now Gansu), a writer of Sanqu in Ming Dynasty. Tonality, Gong Yuefu, good at allegory. He is the author of Xiao Shuang Zhai Yue Fu and so on.
3. Jin Nong: painter and poet in Qing Dynasty. Good at poetry, good at identifying epigraphy and calligraphy and painting. Official script, especially regular script, has created its own style and is called "lacquer script". It is one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou".
4. Jinhe: A native of Shangyuan (now Nanjing) in Jiangsu Province, a famous poet in Qing Dynasty, whose works are long and have the characteristics of prose culture.
5. Gold list: Shexian, Anhui, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, a scholar in the Qianlong period, and an official in the Hanlin Academy. He studied under Jiang Yong, lived in Zhengkangcheng, learned from others, and wrote Li Jian and Zhouyi Kao Zhan.
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Baidu encyclopedia-Jin surname