In Chaoshan area, Ni mainly exists in the form of surname.
At the end of the Song Dynasty, due to the wanton encirclement and suppression of the remnants of the Southern Song Dynasty, the areas along the Yangtze River, Zhejiang and Fujian in the south of the Yangtze River were ablaze. Wherever Yuan soldiers went, they burned, killed and plundered, and the people fled. The surname Ni gradually spread to Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi.
Nibei, Jieyang, Guangdong: "Cross, Wanduan, Honglong Ancestral House, Yongchang Jianye."
Ni Guangdong Shantou Ci generation: "Cheng Tonghuan, Yu, Yi Wei, Xu Ze, Yan Mian".
Representatives of Ni clan in Chaoyang, Jieyang and Puning counties held a clan meeting at the fifteenth ancestral hall in Chaozhou, Heyang Village, Chaoyang. Determine the unified renewal of the new generation order, and unanimously agree that the new generation order is: "inherit the system and promote the chapter, cultivate talents, be benevolent and courteous, and be gentle and gentle"; Ni Village in Heyang uses the word "world", Shengju Village in Chaoan uses the word "loyalty", Shuohe Village in Jieyang uses the word "courage", Fengcun in Puning uses the word "diligence", Dahao and Weicun in Shantou use the word "participation", and Chikan Village in Lufeng Jiazi uses the word "spring".
Ni surname _ Baidu Encyclopedia