Zhu is the most common surname of the Han nationality, ranking 14 according to the population, accounting for 1 of the national population. 2%, about15 million people, distributed in the southeastern provinces of China. Due to the prosperity of the Zhu family in the southeast, its counties and counties are prosperous, such as,, Taikang, Yiyang, Danyang and Qiantang. Among them, Henan, Jiangsu, Xijiang and Guangdong account for 44% of the national Zhu population, while Shanxi's Zhu population accounts for a small proportion, accounting for only 0% of the province's total population. 47%, ranking 50th, 199 1 year census has 134932 people.
Zhu surname is a prominent surname. Since ancient times, celebrities have come forth in large numbers with endless history. In the twenty-four histories, there were 4 independent biographies18, [Clan Dictionary] 1240, and [China Celebrity Dictionary] earned 640 in the Ming Dynasty. Not only did Zhu, a great scholar, be born, but Zhu Yuanzhang, a magical emperor who "compiled martial arts classics, and the kings of the Han, Tang and Song Dynasties were far behind" and "ruled the Tang and Song Dynasties", made Zhu's surname a country's surname. Zhu Yuanzhang has a unique life experience, extraordinary statesmanship and imperial career. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang gave birth to 26 sons and 16 daughters. During the Hongwu period, all the philosophers were crowned as kings. His descendants in the Ming Dynasty were numerous, and his population increased geometrically, with an unprecedented scale, which became a topic of great interest to later historians.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's sons and grandsons became sixteen emperors, eighty-three princes and eighty princesses. There are countless titles of county kings, generals and lieutenants, and some children have been demoted to outstanding figures. According to historical records, the population of Ming imperial clan was only 58 in Hongwu period [1368- 1398], and reached 127 in Yongle period [1403- 1424]. In the eighth year of Jiajing [A.D. 1529], the imperial clan population recorded in the Jade Dies reached 8,203, and in the period of 100, the seven treasures were overturned. In the thirty-second year of Jiaqing, it increased to 176 1. In the third year of Qin Long [A.D. 1569], the imperial clan population reached 18492, just after 20 years in the early year of Wanli, and in the twenty-third year of Wanli [A.D. 1569], it was 23995. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, another 50 years passed. By 1644, the population of Ming imperial clan was at least 300,000.
Among Zhu Yuanzhang's governors, three built governors in Shanxi, the third son Zhu Gang built governors in Taiyuan to seal the king of Jin, the thirteenth son Zhu Gui sealed Datong, and the twenty-first son Wang Shen sealed Luzhou. The Jin family was the most prosperous in the Ming dynasty. According to Wang Shizhen's book The Great Events in Ming Taizu in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial clan flourished at the time of Qin Long and Wanli. Jin, Taiyuan prefecture, Shanxi province, Ninghua, Gaoping, Qingcheng, Pingyang, Xihe and other places in the province, there are 12 kings and generals including Zhen, Fu and so on. Dai, Datong, Guangling, Zhou Pu, Yin Shan, Zezhou, Xuanning, Jiangzhou and other kings have Prince's Mansion 18. There are 1, 279 generals, 1, 340 lieutenants, 1, 330 monarchs and 1, 50 Shu Ren. Shen, Anfu, Prince, Lingchuan, Pingyao, Licheng, Qinshui and other places. There are 16 kings, 242 generals, 220 lieutenants, 276 monarchs and 13 Shu Ren. According to the above figures, the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang's san huang family in Shanxi are: three princes, 46 county kings, 2,606 generals, 3,760 lieutenant generals, 3 1 17 county lords and 333 Shu Ren, with a total of 9,865 people. At that time, the total population of the Ming imperial clan was 23,995, and the San Francisco imperial clan of the Jin Dynasty competed for 4 1% of the total population. Qing's fourth son became king, which is the best in the world. The third generation of Wang * * has 44 sons, plus more than 65,438+000 daughters. Zhu Zhongying's grandson reaches 65,438+063, and his great-grandson reaches 56,500. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, there should be more than120,000 descendants of San Francisco, who accounted for 4 1% of the imperial clan population of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the population of descendants of San Francisco in Jin decreased sharply. The reasons are as follows: (1) In those years, some county kings were sealed to other provinces, and their children and grandchildren naturally left Shanxi. [2] At the end of the Ming Dynasty, bandits and Manchu soldiers in Li Zicheng massacred the Ming imperial clan. After Li Zicheng captured Pingyang, three hundred people, including King Xihe, were killed and Datong was conquered. "The royal family was exhausted and the whole door was killed." After the capture of Fenzhou, Qingcheng became king, and Wang Yonghe's family was slaughtered by 1500 people. Zhu Zhijun, a scholar in Fenyang, said in a poem: On February 2nd, thieves came to the Western Heaven, and the autumn wind blew yellow dust on the ground, and the winding path filled the waistcoat, and the emperor's grandson was smashed into ashes, and every family did not care about each other. . . . . I didn't see two tigers and wolves in Taiyuan, saying that the general manager 1500. Then, the foreign invasion of the Manchu dynasty made the Ming imperial clan even more frightened. The killing of Zhuxiang in Fenyang and Xinghualing in Taiyuan became the killing field of Li Heman. In the national disaster in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, more than half of the descendants of the Ming imperial clan were slaughtered. [3] Then came the descendants of the Ming imperial clan, the nobles of Tian Huang, who moved to exile. In order to preserve the imperial clan incense, some fled to the countryside for land reclamation, some changed their names and surnames, and some fled to other places. Due to the overpopulation of the imperial clan in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the amount of imperial grain decreased year by year, and some royal families and their descendants who had been exiled to Shu Ren had already dispersed among the people, acting in their own ways, which objectively protected the descendants of the imperial clan in the Ming Dynasty, so the population of the descendants of the San Francisco king in the early Qing Dynasty also dropped sharply from the original 6,543,800+0.2 million to about 30,000.
It has been more than 350 years now, and the population of China has increased from nearly 80 million in the Ming Dynasty to1300 million now, an increase of 15 times. The population of Shanxi has slowly increased from 6 million to 30 million, only a sixfold increase. By analogy, the population of descendants of King San Francisco in the Jin Dynasty should also increase from more than 30,000 in the Ming Dynasty to about150,000 now. Therefore, it can be said that among the only population of130,000 surnamed Zhu in Shanxi, nine times out of ten are descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Taizu, if they have not moved to other provinces in Shanxi in the past hundred years.