The origin of the surname Ren: 1. It comes from the surname Ji, who is a descendant of Yu Yang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, and named after the country.

According to the "Tangshu Genealogy List of Prime Ministers" and "Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi", Ren is one of the 12 basic surnames bestowed by the Yellow Emperor 5,000 years ago. It is a very ancient surname with a glorious tradition.

According to the records of "Surname Compilation": "Twelve of the twenty-five sons of the Yellow Emperor took De as their surname, one was the Ren family, and in the Sixth Dynasty, Xi Zhong was granted the title of Xue. In Wei, there was Ren seat, and in Qin, there was Renbi."

According to research, the ancestor of the Ren surname was Yu Yang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, who was granted the title of Ren State, and his descendants took the country as their surname.

The 10 surnames of the Zhou Dynasty, including Xie, Zhang, Xue, Shu, Lu, Zhu, Zhong, Quan, Bi, and Guo, were all feudal states descended from the descendants of the surname Ren. They were originally branched off from the surname Ren.

According to a sentence in "Zuo Zhuan": "I dare not argue with Zhu Ren", the so-called "Zhu Ren" refers to these 10 surnames, which shows the close relationship between these 10 surnames and the Ren surname at that time.

2. It is derived from ancient pregnancy surnames and is related to female pregnancy. It can be considered as one of the ancient surnames produced in matrilineal clan society.

The reason why people are born is because of the mother's pregnancy, and because of the birth, they get their surname.

From mother to daughter, the surname was pregnancy, and later passed down as the surname Ren.

According to the "Kangxi Dictionary", "Tai Ren, the mother of King Wen"; and according to the "Biography of Ban Jieyu" in the "Book of Han", there are also words of praise for Tai Ren: "Yu Xi, the daughter of the beautiful emperor Ying, was awarded the honor of Si."

Mother Zhou." It is obvious that Tairen, the mother of King Wen of Zhou, was the daughter of the ancient Ren family.

3. Derived from the surname Feng, after the Taihao surname, the surname was named after the country.

According to the "Tongzhi Clan Brief", Ren, a country with the surname Feng, was actually the successor of the Taihao family, and the old capital was Rencheng (in the Jining area of ????Shandong Province today). Taihao was the ancient Fuxi family.

The State of Ren perished during the Warring States Period, and its descendants took the name of the country and were called the Ren family.

4. Comes from other surname changes.

For example, Wang Beizi of the Yuan Dynasty changed his surname to Ren for refuge, and his descendants also took the surname Ren.

5. According to the "Book of Wei", the Yi commander of Ba (i.e. Banmudun tribe) had the surname Ren.

6. In addition, ancient ethnic minorities such as the Xixia and Hani people in the Ming Dynasty had the surname Ren.

7. Today, the Yao, Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Tujia, Qiang, Shui and other ethnic groups all have this surname.

The ancestor who got the surname: Ren Buqi.

A native of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period, he was one of the seventy-two sage disciples of Confucius. He was posthumously named Renchengbo by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and was named Dangyang Marquis by the emperor of the Song Dynasty.

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor had twenty-five sons, fourteen of whom were given surnames, and the twelve surnames were: Ji, You, Qi, Ji, Teng, Zhen, Ren, Gou, Xi, Ji, Xuan, and Yi.

Among them, those who were given the surname Ren would have their descendants take Ren as their surname.

However, perhaps because the history of this surname is so long, there have been several different researches on the origin of the surname Ren.

For example, "The Genealogy List of Prime Ministers in the Book of Tang Dynasty" says: "Yu Yang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, was granted the title of Ren and took the country as his surname"; "Tongzhi Clan Strategy" says: "Ren, a country with the surname Feng, is actually Taihao

After that, the current Jeju Rencheng City was its place."

There are really different opinions about the origin of the surname Ren.

Because the Ren surname originated very early and is all legendary, the situation of inconsistency can actually be summarized into two categories.

One originates from the Yellow Emperor, and the other originates from the more ancient Fuxi clan.

So, which statement is correct?

Regarding this question, the answer provided in "Cihai" is this: "The surname Ren is Ren, and the country is Ren, and the descendants will all take Ren as their surname." The above research on the origin of the surname Ren is all correct.

In other words, for thousands of years, some people with the surname Ren were descendants of the Yellow Emperor and descendants of Fu Xi. Some of them got their surnames because they were given surnames, and some of them took the country as their surname.

After all, the conclusion is: "The surname Ren is an ancient surname with a long history." However, according to custom, people regard Ren Buqi, the first celebrity of the Ren family in history, as the ancestor of his surname.

Migration Distribution Although the surname Ren was acquired very early, its early history has been difficult to know because it has been buried deep in the development process.

Among the surnames of the above-mentioned branches, the one with the greatest influence is from the branch after Huangdi.

According to some genealogical records of the Ren surname, after Yu Yang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, received the surname, it was passed down to Xi Zhong and then granted the title of Xue (south of today's Teng County, Shandong Province).

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Wei State had Ren Zui, the Qin State had Ren Bi, and they were both descendants of Yu Yang, while the Chu State had Ren Buqi.

It can be seen that in the pre-Qin period, the surname Ren had spread to Hubei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places today.

At the same time, it can also be determined that the Ren surname was based in Shandong as its reproduction center in the early days, so the Ren surname had "Le'an" as its title, and later became a major local county commander.

According to "Historical Records: Biographies of Nanyue", Ren Xiao, the captain of Nanhai, once ordered Zhao Tuo to establish the country. This shows that Ren surname had moved to Guangdong in the Qin Dynasty.

By the time of the Han Dynasty, people with the Ren surname were scattered in Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi in the north of our country, and in the south of China, they lived in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places.

It can be seen that the Ren surname had moved south before the Han Dynasty.

During the Han Dynasty, Ren Ao lived in Peidi (today's Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province), and later his descendants moved to Weinan, Shaanxi.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, warlords fought and the Yi people invaded. The Central Plains became a battleground for military strategists. To avoid the war, the Ren surnamed people began to move south on a large scale to Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei and other places.

And some people with the surname Ren moved into Fujian.

In the Tang Dynasty, the society was stable and the politics was clear, which made the Ren surname living in Henan and Shandong prosperous again.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the last emperor named Zhao fled everywhere, and the Yuan Mongolian cavalry went south, making the surname Ren flee in various places in southern my country.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, droughts and floods were raging, and peasant uprisings broke out everywhere, causing a sharp decline in the population of the Central Plains and Jiangnan. As one of the surnames of the immigrants from Hongdong Dahuai tree, the Ren surname was moved to Shandong, Henan, Hebei, and Jiangsu respectively.

, Shaanxi and other places.