M (Mǐ) surname has three sources:
1, from the country name, take the country as the surname. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was a rice-growing country in the western regions (in the southwest of Uzbekistan and Samarkand in the present Soviet Union), which was a country of agriculture and animal husbandry. The Han Dynasty was attacked by Xiongnu and moved to China, and the Tang Dynasty became a vassal state of China. Later, it gradually moved to the Central Plains and propagated for generations. They took the country name as their surname and later formed Michaelis.
2. From the surname. According to the research of surname, Mi Fei claimed to be a descendant of Chu people in the pre-Qin period in Song Dynasty, and his surname was Mi, which was later changed to homophonic Mi.
3. Surnames originated from the ancient Hui people in China:
(1) The Mi surname mainly comes from the Mi family in a comfortable country in the western regions since ancient times. Mi was originally from Zhaowucheng (now Gaotai County, Gansu Province) and is one of the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu". Later, he belonged to Xiongnu, moved to Amu Darya and Syr Darya in Central Asia, and established the country of America. So the address is southwest of Samarkand in Uzbekistan today. After the Mi people entered China, their descendants took Mi as their surname. During the reign of Changqing in the Tang Dynasty (82 1-824), Mi, a famous musician who was praised by Liu Yuxi as "singing the unexpected voice of Liangzhou" and "changing the new voice into the old one", was a native of the Western Region.
② The Arabic name "Mi Nale" is also the source of Mi surname.
(3) Yuan Dynasty frontier commander Mi (in Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province) entered Hongwu for six years (1373). The following year, he was transferred to Shaowuwei, Fujian, and settled in Shaowu after resigning in his later years. He is the ancestor of the Mi Hui people in Fujian. The Hui nationality with the secret surname is mainly distributed in the Central Plains.
In Taiwan Province Province, Mi's surname did not enter the top 100. According to the Northern Song Dynasty painter Mi Fei's own textual research, Mi's surname originated from Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. However, there is no similar record in the history books, and according to the records of the Tang Dynasty, "Mi" is one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Shaowucheng (now Linze County, Gansu Province) at the northern foot of Qilian Mountain had a Kang state, which was later defeated by Xiongnu and moved to Central Asia (now Bukhara region, Uzbekistan), and nine small countries including An, Cao, He, Kang, Shi, Huo and E were established. Among them, the United States is in the southwest of Samarkand in Uzbekistan. During the Yonghui period in Tang Gaozong, the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu" successively belonged to the mainland, including the "Mi" family. China people then settled and multiplied in the Central Plains, taking "Mi" as their surname. The Mi family later developed into a noble family in Longxi County, known as the King of Longxi in the world.
Mi Fei: a painter and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty. His first name is Kun, and his character seal is named Xiangyang Manchu and Haiyue Waishi. Wu (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) was born and settled in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu). He worked as a doctor in Zhiyong County, Lianshui Army, Taichangjun and Zhiwuweijun successively. Hui Zong is called the doctor of calligraphy and painting, and the official is Yuan Wailang. He is called Min Nangong. He is called Mi Dian, and writes with Wang Xianzhi's brushwork, using a beautiful brush. He, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, is known as the "Four Masters of the Song Dynasty", painting landscape figures and splashing ink with ink, forming his own family. His existing calligraphy includes Tiaoxi Poetry, Shu Su Poetry, Hong Xian Poetry and Poem for the Empress Dowager.
Mi Youren: Mi Feizi, nicknamed Xiaomi, was a painter and calligrapher in the Southern Song Dynasty, nicknamed Silly, with the word Hui. Xuanhe should choose to learn calligraphy in the palm of his hand. When Emperor Gaozong was an official, he went to the Ministry of War as an assistant minister and applied for a bachelor's degree in Govern. His paintings inherited the tradition of Mi Fei, and he painted clouds and trees with splash ink, with a unique style, calling himself "Moxi". The surviving paintings and calligraphy include Xiaoxiang Wonder and Yunshan Ao.
Milla Yin: the leader of the Muslim uprising in northwest China in the early Qing Dynasty. Gansu Ganzhou (now Zhangye, Gansu) people. An official in Ganzhou in the late Ming Dynasty. Shunzhi awarded the lieutenant. In five years (1648), Guodong Ding led a peasant uprising, killed Governor Zhang Wenheng and others, abolished the Great Qing Dynasty, established political power, and even Liangzhou, Lanzhou and other counties had more than 100,000 soldiers. Then he was defeated and killed.
Mi: Ming dynasty painter, the word friend stone. My ancestral home is Shuntian. He loved strange stones all his life and kept many of them. He is called Mr. You Shi. As a provincial judge in Jiangxi Province, Wei Zhongxian hated it, so he cut his membership, and later he became an official.
Mi: People in Qing Dynasty, the grandson of Mi, are eager to learn and do well. His calligraphy and painting inherited the family law and was called Xiaomi. He wrote the first collection.