The origin and distribution of forest surnames. ? ..

Another source of Lin's surname is Ji's surname in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-720 BC), and Ji's surname is Ji Yijiu's youngest son. His descendants take his "Lin" as their surname. Because it originated in Luoyang, Henan Province today, Lin's genealogy is called Henan Forest.

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In addition, when Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, Xianbei and others all changed their original Lin Qiu surnames to Lin surnames and registered as Luoyang people in Henan. Among other ethnic minorities, Manchu and Busa also changed their surnames to Lin.

According to the statistical data of 1996, the population of Lin surname in Chinese mainland is about14 160,000, and Lin surname ranks16, ranking fourth in South China. The population of Lin surname in Fujian Province is about 4.72 million, accounting for 14.8% of the total population of the province, ranking first. There are about 365,438+065,438+000,000 forests in Guangdong Province, 654,38+084,000 forests in Zhejiang Province, 2 million forests in Taiwan Province Province, 654,380,000 in South Korea, 5 million in other regions and more than 20 million in the world. Fuzhou, Putian, southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces have the highest population density.