The history of the Shen family, is the Shen family an aristocrat?

The Shen family is an aristocracy. The surname Shen is one of the oldest surnames in China. According to the surname compilation, there are three ** surnames in the surname Shen, one of which is from Ji Xing, with the country as his surname, and is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor.

The tenth son of King Wen of Zhou served as the Sikong of Zhou Tianzi, and because of his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion, King Cheng of Zhou later sealed his uncle Ji Zai in the Shen State, also known as the Dan State. Ji Zai is also known as Ran Ji Zai, Dan is also written as Ran, in ancient times, Ran, Shen has the same pronunciation.

The second is from the surname Mi and is a descendant of Emperor Zhuan. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Gongzi Zhen, the son of King Chuzhuang, was sealed in Shenyi, so he was called the surname Shen. The third is from Shaohao Jin Tian's clan, with the country as his clan. Shaohao Jin Tian's grandson, Tai Xiao, later established the Shen State, and his descendants took Shen as their clan.

The distribution area of the Shen familyWuxing County was located in the Three Kingdoms County, and its seat of governance was in Wucheng, now Wuxingnan, Zhejiang, and Jin Yixi moved to Wuxing at the beginning. It is equivalent to Lin'an, Yuhang, Zhejiang Province, the northwest area of Deqing line, and Yixing County, Jiangsu. Runan County was the county of Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, and its seat of governance was in the southwest of Shangcai, present-day Henan Province.

It is equivalent to the Yinghe River in Henan Province, between the Huai River, the east of the first line on the west side of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, and the Cihe River in Anhui Province. The area west of the Xiqi River and north of the Huai River.

Yes.

The Western Zhou Dynasty divided the son of King Wen Ji Zai in Shen, the ancient city in the north of Pingyu, Henan, also known as Dan, the marquis, in 506 BC for the destruction of the Cai State, the descendants to the country as the clan. During the reign of King Zhao of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Jiang Guo moved to Jiang Ji, Gushi, Henan, and annexed the Shen State with the surname Shen and named his son as the surname Shen Guo. Duke Lu Yang sealed his concubine Shen Ji in Shen You, a vassal state of Lu, with Shen as his clan.

King Zhao of the Western Zhou Dynasty went south to conquer Huaiyi, Shen Ji, the concubine of Duke Lu Yang, followed King Zhao of Zhou to conquer the country surnamed Shen of Shenqiu, Henan, and sealed Shen Ji's son Shen Zi It was in the Shenqiu set of Linquan in the northwest of Fuyang, Anhui Province 30 miles south, and established the country surnamed Shen Zi of Ji. In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu successively destroyed two Ji surnamed Shen. Ji's surname Shen also has a history of 3,000 years.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 330,000 people with the surname Shen, accounting for about the 54th surname of the Song Dynasty. The largest province with the surname Shen is Zhejiang, accounting for about 33% of the total population with the surname Shen in the country.

The distribution of the surname Shen in the country is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Henan, and the surname Shen in these four provinces accounts for about 72% of the total population of the country, followed by Hunan, Anhui and Hebei, and the surname Shen in these three provinces is concentrated in 19%. The whole country has formed two large clusters of Shen surnames in the north and south of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Henan.

Not an aristocracy.

The Shen clan first originated between present-day Henan and Anhui provinces. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Shen clan who fled to the Chu State, Shi Chu was Zuo Sima, and the hereditary official lived in Yeyi (now Ye County, Henan) for a long time.

In the pre-Qin period, the surname Shen was mainly active in Henan and Hubei, and there were also footprints of the Shen family in Shanxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan and other places. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the surname Shen entered Zhejiang, and the descendants prospered, until the Sui Dynasty, the surname Shen of Wukang, Zhejiang developed into a famous family. In the two waves of southward immigration from the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, Shen entered Fujian as one of the surnames, and then immigrated to Guangdong, and the surname Shen began to enter Taiwan at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

The origin of the surname Ying.

After the son of Emperor Jun, Shi Shen, the Shi Shen clan took the monkey as the totem, and first lived in Shen Yu of Qufu, Shandong, a branch of the Dongyi tribe, and was surnamed Ying. Later, after fighting with his relatives and uncles, he moved west to the land of the Great Xia tribe between Fen and Hun in Shanxi, that is, the west of Linyi County in the south of Shanxi Province, and established the Shen State. When summer arises.

The Xia people seized the land of the Shen country, and the Shen people established the country in the south of Gushi, Henan. After the Shang Dynasty destroyed Xia, the Ying surnamed Shen returned to the country. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, the Jin State annexed Shen Tu, and the Ying surnamed Shen fled south to Shenqiu, Henan to establish the state.

When King Zhao of Zhou conquered Huaiyi in the south, he destroyed the state surnamed Shen. Therefore, the history of the surname Shen is at least 4,500 years.