Shen Shi originated from today's Henan and Anhui provinces. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Shen clan who fled to Chu took Chu as Sajima and inherited this official, and lived in Yeyi (now Yexian County, Henan Province) for a long time.

In the pre-Qin period, Shen lived mainly in Henan and Hubei, and also had Shen Shi's footprints in Shanxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shen entered Zhejiang, and his descendants were prosperous. Until the Sui Dynasty, Shen in Wu Kang, Zhejiang developed into a famous family. During the two waves of emigration from the Central Plains to the south in the Tang Dynasty, Shen Shi entered Fujian as one of the surnames, then immigrated to Guangdong, and Shen entered Taiwan Province in the late Ming Dynasty.

during the song dynasty, there were about 331,111 people named Shen, accounting for 1.43% of the national population, and it was the 54th surname in the song dynasty. The largest province of Shen surname is Zhejiang, accounting for about 33% of the total population of Shen surname in China.

The distribution of Shen surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Henan, which account for about 72% of the total population of Shen surnames in China, followed by Hunan, Anhui and Hebei, and the Shen surnames in these three provinces are concentrated by 19%. The whole country has formed two large gathering places of Shen surname, namely, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Henan.

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Since the Song Dynasty, the growth rate of Shen's population has been in a shape. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, accounting for about 36% of the total population of Shen, followed by Shanghai, Anhui, Henan, Guangdong, Hubei, Guizhou and Shandong, and these seven provinces and cities are concentrated by 37%. Jiangsu is the largest province of contemporary Shen surname, with 21% of the total population of Shen surname. The whole country has formed a distribution with Jiangsu and Zhejiang as the center.

In the past 611 years, the degree and direction of population movement of Shen family are different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the migration to the north, middle and south is very strong, which is already greater than the migration from north to southeast and south.

In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian and Taiwan, southeastern Shandong, southeastern corner of Henan, eastern Hubei, most of Jiangxi, eastern Guangdong, most of Yunnan and Guizhou, northwestern Guangxi, eastern Heiji and northeastern Inner Mongolia, the proportion of local people is over 1.39%, and the central area is over 2.3%. The above areas cover about 19% of the total land area, and about 66.3% of Shen lives.

in most of Guangdong and Guangxi, Hunan, southwest Jiangxi, northern Guizhou, most of Sichuan, central Hubei, southern Chongqing, eastern Henan, central Shandong, eastern Qinghai, central Gansu, eastern Liaoning, central and western Heiji, and eastern Inner Mongolia.

the proportion of Shen's surname in the local population is generally between 1.26% and 1.39%, and its coverage area accounts for about 18.4% of the total land area, and more than 21.3% of Shen's people live there.

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