The Zhou Dynasty is divided into two periods: the Western Zhou Dynasty (771-771 BC) and the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-256 BC). The Western Zhou Dynasty was founded by Jifa, King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, with the capital of Haojing (Zongzhou), and the eastern capital of Luoyi, Chengzhou, was built in the fifth year of Chengwang. In 770 BC (the first year of Zhouping), the eastern capital of Luoyi was moved to the East, and the later period of the Zhou Dynasty was called the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Dynasty is the longest Dynasty in Chinese history. According to folklore, when King Wen of Zhou invited Jiang Ziya, he pushed Jiang Ziya's car 808 steps, so Zhou Dynasty existed for 808 years.
The word "China" first appeared in the bronze inscription "he Zun" at the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The term "China" here refers to the Central Plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
Huaxia is also called "Xia" and "Zhuxia". It is the self claim of the ancient Zhou Dynasty to distinguish the four tribes (Siyi) hostile to the Zhou Dynasty. For example, in Zuozhuan, in the 14th year of Xianggong, Jiang RongZi Juzhi, who was born after the four mountains, said: "our Rongs do not have the same food and clothing as China's, Zhiyuan is not suitable, and the language is not up to standard." Huaxia originated from Huaxu, whose mother was Huaxu.
Outside China, it is called Siyi, the so-called "the son of heaven has the right to defend Siyi.".
In the Zhou Dynasty, the patriarchal system was implemented, and the enfeoffment system divided the country into large and small vassal states. The fiefdoms were divided into innumerable fields. As the place names of vassal states, fiefs and Lutian were directly changed into "surnames", Chinese surnames flourished everywhere.
Before the early Zhou Dynasty, there were 22 surnames, including Ji, Si, Zi, Jiang, Feng, Ying, Yan, Qian, MI, Xiong and Yun.
The Zhou Dynasty was divided into fifty-three vassal states with the surname Ji alone. After the demise of these vassal states, the people took the country's name as their surname, so the vast majority of surnames now came into being.
Many surnames in China originate from the Ji surname. Among the top 400 surnames by population, more than 120 directly originate from the Ji surname. Some of them have multiple origins, but most of them originate from the Ji surname
The surnames are Wang, Zhang, Yang, Zhou, Wu, Li, sun, Hu, Zhu, Lin, Zheng, Guo, Guan, Lu, Cai, Huo, Kang, Mao, Cao, Wei, Wei, Teng, Yang, Jiang, Han, Tang, Zhan, he, Liang, Yu, Meng, Xu, Wan, Chang, Wu, Qiao, he and Lai , Gong, Wen, Zhi, Fu, Shen, Peng, Lu, Su, Lu, Jia, Diao, Yan, Yu, pan, Du, Dai, Wang, Tian, Ren, Fang, Shi, Liao, Zou, Lu, Kong, Cui, Qin, Jiang, Shi, Gu, Hou, Shao, Zhao, long, Duan, Lei, Qian, Yi, Li The surnames are Liu, Huang, Xie, Feng, Dong, Cheng, yuan, Yu, Xing, Mao, Shan, Gan, Geng and Jiao.
