Zhong surname is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group in China, and Zhong Lie is honored as the ancestor of surname. There are four sources of Zhong surname: from Ji surname, belonging to Yi surname; Originated from the won surname, belonging to the country name; Starting from ethnic minorities, Chinese changed their surnames.
Both the compound surname and the single surname Zhong originated in today's Anhui. During the pre-Qin period, bells were mainly active in Hubei, Hunan and Shandong of Chu State. During the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhong's family had spread eastward and spread to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and the Central Plains, among which Zhong's family in Yingchuan later became the main source of clocks all over the country.
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Zhong's surname originated from the won surname and was later changed by the compound surname. Judging from the fiefs of the descendants of Boyi in Zhou Dynasty, it belongs to the national title. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Wuwang sealed the descendants of Boyi, the leader of the ancient Dongyi ethnic group, in the middle and later Jianzhong, also known as Tonglu State, which was a small vassal state. The viscount and the monarch call Li Zhong.
Zhong originally belonged to Shandong, and moved to the middle reaches of Huaihe River (now Bengbu, Anhui) in the early Eastern Zhou Dynasty. By the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Li Zhong was captured by the powerful Chu State in the seventh year of Zhou Jingji's reign as King Gui (the third year of Chu Ling Xiong Qian, 538 BC), and Li Zhong was forced to become a subordinate of Chu State.
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