There are no "six major families" now.

The "Six Great Families" of the upper class in ancient China are: Gu family in Kuaiji, Zhou family in Runan, Zhang family in Zhongshan, Shen family in Wuxing, Li family in Longxi, and Chen family in Donghai.

But the glory of the six great families is just history, not reality. The reality is that there are more cultural celebrities, so it is just a title in ancient times.

Introduction to the "Six Great Families":

Descendants of Gou Jian, King of Yue. According to legend, Dayu was buried in Kuaiji after his death, and his son Qi built an ancestral temple on the mountain to worship him. Emperor Shaokang of the Xia Dynasty later granted his concubine Wuyu a place in Kuaiji to preside over Yu's sacrifices, established the Yue State, and established Duji (today's Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Later generations named their surname after the name of the country and called it Yue surname. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Yue often fought with the State of Wu, and was defeated by the State of Wu in 494 BC. Gou Jian, the king of Yue, worked hard and tried his best to become stronger. Finally, in 473 BC, he conquered the state of Wu and expanded northward, becoming the overlord. During the Warring States Period, it was destroyed by Chu in 306 BC. The 7th generation Sun Yao passed from Qin to Han and passed to Goujian. He once served as the leader of the Minyue people in what is now northern Fujian and southern Zhejiang. Because he helped Liu Bang destroy Xiang Yu, he was named the King of the East China Sea and made his capital Dongou. His common name is King Dongou. Later, he named his son Gu Yuhou, and his descendants lived in Kuaiji. His descendants and descendants took the first character of the title as their surname and called them Gu. The surname Gu is known as Zhengzong in history.

The surname Zhou in Ancheng, Runan, has been inherited from the Han Dynasty and has lasted for thousands of years. Talents have emerged from generation to generation. This phenomenon can almost be called a miracle. It is a pity that since the Song Dynasty, the Zhou family in Ancheng, Runan, has fled to other places after wars, and eventually spread all over the country. The Zhou family in Ancheng, Runan, are all descendants of Zhou Ren, Marquis of Rufen in the Western Han Dynasty. Zhou Ren had ten sons and moved to Ancheng. Zhou Yan, the 5th generation grandson of Zhou Ren, gave birth to 5 sons, all of whom later became governors and governors. The five sons are known as the "Five Dragons", each living in the same area, and they all inherit Confucianism.

The Wuxing Shen family has been an official for many generations and has developed into a famous family. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, people named Shen were basically from Wukang, Wuxing (now Wukang Town, Deqing County, Zhejiang Province). The Southern Dynasty writer Shen Yue, the Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo, the Qing Dynasty writer Shen Deqian, and the modern writer Shen Yanbing (also known as Mao Dun) all came from the Wuxing Shen family. The Shen family of Wuxing took "Wuxing" as their hall name.

The Li culture in Longxi arose in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, appeared in the Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It is one of the four major cultures in Gansu along with Dunhuang culture, Tianshui Fuxi culture and Labrang Monastery Tibetan Buddhist culture; it is an important part of China's excellent traditional culture and a valuable cultural heritage. With the registration of the trademarks "Li's Hometown" and "Li's Culture" and the gradual emergence of this cultural brand effect, Longxi's Li's culture has received more and more attention and has gradually transformed into a cultural industry. "Longxi Hall" is the ancestral hall of the clan with the surname Li in the world, and is also a symbol of the culture of the Li family in Longxi. Li culture itself is a surname culture, and the deepest meaning of surname culture is clan inheritance and ethnic cohesion. The culture of the Li family in Longxi not only represents the culture of a certain region, but also supports the fundamental and spiritual needs of people with the surname Li all over the world to seek their roots and worship their ancestors.

The migration of the Chen surname southward from its birthplace began with Chen Bo, the Taiwei of the Western Jin Dynasty, who moved his family southward to present-day Danyang County, Jiangsu Province. Later, his grandson Chen Shida became the county magistrate of Changcheng (now Changxing, Zhejiang), so people surnamed Chen moved to Zhejiang. Chen Baxian established the Chen Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, which made the Chen family famous for a while and spread over the vast area between the Yangtze River and the Yuejiang River. Throughout the past and present, people surnamed Chen have left a glorious mark in their family history.