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Han surnames are rare. There are several sources: one is from the Feng family, from the descendants of Nuwa, and belongs to the surname of the ancestor. Second, it originated from foreign countries, from the western regions in the Qin and Han dynasties, and belongs to the country name. Third, it originated from the secret surname, which came from Bianjian, a jade man in Chu State during the Warring States Period, and was named after his ancestors.

Jia is a very old surname group with many origins, but it is not included in the top 1000 surnames in Chinese mainland today, ranking 669th in Taiwan Province Province, with Taiyuan, Langya, Pingyuan, Zhang Yu and Changsha as the county targets.

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During the Yuan Dynasty turmoil, a clan member named Gui Caifa moved from other places to settle in Dongting Lake area. After hundreds of years' development, the descendants of the food prize stood out in the field of public security in the Ming Dynasty, and gradually spread to the surrounding areas. At that time, the representative of China's school of spiritual literature, Gong 'an Sanyuan, wrote a poem "Family String" for the Sui family, which is still found in Sanyuan's anthology.

Wa, Jiang, Ji and Won all have female radicals, leaving obvious traces of matrilineal clan society, while Xuanyuan is a paternal clan, taking the name of Xuanyuan Huangdi as the tribal name until it developed into a surname. Most people of Yi people respect Nuwa as the ancestor of their surnames.

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