China's ancient and modern surnames more than 22,000 _ classic net Pick

(Xinhua) The latest study by experts found that the Chinese have more than 22,000 surnames in ancient and modern times. It is so far there
The statistics record of the most Chinese surnames.

These 22,000 surnames also include the Chinese surnames of the ethnic minorities who belonged to China on the territory of the past. With the change of the Times
Moved, and many surnames had disappeared. The contemporary Chinese are using about 3,500 Han.

Shunda, associate researcher of Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, after years of collection and research, made
The national surname data.

Data show that the country's largest three surnames are Li, Wang, Zhang, respectively, the total population of 7.9%, 7.4% and 7.1%,
The total population of the three surnames is 270 million, the world's largest three people with the same surname.

Contemporary China's 100 common surnames, concentrated in the national population of 87%. of which, accounts for more than 1% of the country's population names
There are 19, respectively, Li, Wang, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Zhao, Huang, Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Hu, Zhu, Gao, Lin,
Ho, Guo Heima. Historically, about half of China's population has been concentrated among the 19 people with the same surname.

In addition, China's namesake population in the region is also uneven distribution. For example, in the northern part, the surname of Wang is the first
In the south, the surname of Chen is the first most common surnames; in the north-South transitional Yangtze River basin, the surname Li is the first
Most common surnames

Shunda also found that in every province in China, there are some names that are much higher in frequency than in other provinces. Such as
Liang and Luo surname of Guangdong, Liang and Lu surname of Guangxi, surname of Fujian.

Using a nationally sampled sample of contemporary surnames, Shunda also paints the national genetic land of the 100 most common surnames today
Shape diagram. The genetic topographic map of each surname consists of two graphs: the density of the absolute distribution of the population of the same surname in the country
Distribution map, and reveal the relative distribution of the population of a certain surname in the country.

Shunda said: "With the development of science, surnames are not only a kind of culture, at present, human population genetics
Has formed a branch-surname group Genetics "

Therefore, Shunda also studied the composition and distribution of ABO blood group in each person with the same surname. Pick up
Down, he has embarked on the distribution of people with the same surname in China, with the common diseases of the Chinese people and various tumor diseases, geographically
Research on the relevance of the cloth.

Describing the significance of the study, he said: "The Chinese surname and distribution, is a unique situation in China, it will
It involves the origin of the Chinese nation, the distribution of the genetic resources left over from the ancestors, and the roots of the nation at home and abroad today
Unification, the future population development trend and the land use and so on many problems. ”