The ancestor surnamed Mei is a high ancestor, a distant ancestor, and a close ancestor

1. From the surname of the child, a descendant of Shangtang. According to the "Tongzhi Clan Strategy" and the "Tang Shu Prime Minister's Lineage Table", during the Yin Shang Dynasty, the king Taiding named his younger brother Yu Mei (now southeast of Bozhou, Anhui Province) as the earl, and was known as Mei Bo. At the time of the Shang Dynasty, Mei Bo, the monarch of the Mei Kingdom, was enshrined by the King of Zhou, and the descendants of later generations took the feudal as the clan.

2. Changed by other people. According to the Book of Wei, the Nanban in the Han Dynasty had the surname Mei; According to the "Old Tang Book", the chief of Beidi Xi has the surname Mei; The surname of the Manchurian in the Qing Dynasty lived in Shenyang; In addition, the surname of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the Qing Dynasty was changed to the surname Mei; Qing Guizhou Guizhou Prefecture Kaizhou Tusi has the surname Mei; Jinman, Tujia, Yi, Mongolian, Li, Dongxiang, Xibe and other ethnic groups all have this surname.

Population distribution. The surname Mei is in Zhejiang and Shanghai, most of Anhui and Suzhou, southeast of Henan, eastern Hubei, northern Jiangxi and Fujian, northeast Hunan, Yunnan, most of Guizhou, western Guangxi, southwest Sichuan, southern Chongqing, and eastern Heilongjiang, the distribution rate is about above, and the central area can reach the above, and the above areas cover about 20% of the total area of the country, and about 66% of the people with the surname Mei live.

In the central part of Jiangxi and Fujian, the northern part of Hunan, the eastern part of Guizhou, the central and western part of Guangxi, most of Chongqing, the eastern part of Sichuan, the southern part of Shaanxi, the western part of Hubei, the central part of Henan, the border area of Shandong, Anhui and Suzhou, the western part of Heilongjiang, the northeast of Jilin, and the southern end of Liaoning, the distribution rate of the Mei surname in the population is about between, and the coverage area of the above areas accounts for about 13% of the total area of the country, and about 13% of the people with the surname Mei live.

The ancestral home of the surname Mei is known in Huangmei, Hubei, and the surname Mei is derived from the surname of the child, which comes from the fiefdom of the descendants of Mei Bo, the younger brother of Taiding, a descendant of Shang Tang, and belongs to the name of the fief. After King Wu destroyed Shang, he named Meibo's descendant Yu Meiyi and was called Zhonghou. His descendants then took the ancestral fief as their surname, called Mei's, and the history called Mei's Zhengzong.

The surname Mei is mainly derived from the surname of the child, the surname of the child and the surname of the ethnic minorities, etc., and the surname of Mei Bo in the last year of the Shang Dynasty was the ancestor of the surname. The surname Mei ranks 136th among surnames in Chinese mainland, with a population of about 1.05 million, with more surnames in Anhui, lead section Yunnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan and other places, and the surname Mei in the six provinces accounts for about 74% of the population of the Han nationality surnamed Mei in Chinese mainland.

History**.

Mei Yuan: From the surname of the child. Named after the place. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book Prime Minister's Lineage Table" and Song Lian's "Epitaph of Meifujun", Shang King Taiding named his younger brother Yu Mei and called Mei Bo.

It was abolished by King Yin. After King Wu of Zhou conquered Shang, he was named the descendant of Mei Bo Yu Huangmei, and then there was Mei's family.

Family celebrities. Mei Xun is a native of Xuancheng in the Song Dynasty. Jinshi was born, and the official went to Xuzhou Zhizhou. Like to burn incense two stoves, cover with official clothes, fill the sleeves, open after sitting, the house is full of incense, people call plum fragrance.

Mei Lanfang (1893-1961).

Minglan, the word Wanhua, a native of Taixing, Jiangsu, is a famous contemporary flat opera. Born in a family of pear orchards in Beiping, he learned Tsing Yi Danjiao from Wu Lingxian and Qin Zhifen in the early days, and was well-known throughout the country with excellent talent and excellent skills. Later, he innovated and created Danjiao singing, recitation, **, costumes, dance, etc., opening up a new way for Danjiao performing arts, and playing a role in the history of Ping Opera.

He has traveled abroad three times to perform in Japan, the United States, the former Soviet Union and Europe, and has been awarded a doctorate in literature by Pomona College in Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.

Geometric distribution. South-central Henan to the north of the Huai River in Anhui.

The Mei clan originated in the Shang Dynasty, and its ancestor was Mei Bo.

The surname Mei originated from the Shang Dynasty princes Mei Bo more than 3,000 years ago, and there are a lot of research materials to rely on, for example, Peipei's "Tang Shu Prime Minister's Lineage Table" pointed out: "The surname of the son is born, and the younger brother of Yin Wang Taiding is Mei Bo, and then the country is the clan"; Another Song Lian's "Epitaph of Meifujun" also pointed out in more detail: "Mei Benzi's surname, his first Mei Bo, was abolished by Yin Xuan, King Wu of Zhou both cut down Zhou, and named Huangmei, the grandson of the uncle, called Zhonghou, so Mei was the only one who was Pei next to him."

The early Mei family, according to the records of the "Surname Strategy", was mainly active in the area of Runan County, Henan Province, in other words, the Mei surname people in various places should have gradually branched out from here.

The surname was given to the Mei family in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty, and at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, it has gradually moved from Henan, the birthplace, to the Jiujiang area of Jiangxi Province.