South surnames have many origins, and they have been distributed in the Central Plains and remote areas for a long time, with Shaanxi and Shanxi as the main settlements, and then gradually expanded eastward and southward. There are a large number of Nan surnames in Henan, accounting for about 75% of the Han population in China. At present, the population of Nan surname has not yet entered the top 300 in China.
The southern names are Nanjiyun, Nanjuchuan and Nanzhuo.
Hundreds of surnames are all surnames:
Extended data:
Nan surname comes from the source.
1, a middle-aged man in the south of Zhou Dynasty, took his ancestral name as his surname.
2, from Ji surname, with Zuzi as the surname. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Ying, the son of Wei, was named Nan, and his grandson took his ancestor as his surname and called Nan.
3. During the Spring and Autumn Period, a Jin lived in Nanxiang (now Shaanxi), and his descendants took this place as their surname.
4. From Yu Xia, I took the country name as my surname and changed my surname to male.
5. From Zhang's surname, avoid disaster and change to Nan's surname.
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