Is the surname Zhou Zhou or Zhou?

For example, Vivian Chow.

Hong Kong people can pronounce their surnames in Cantonese. For example, Zhou will be called Zhou in Hong Kong, but it will be pronounced in Pinyin in the Mainland. Another example is that Huang and Wang are pronounced as "wong" and Xie as "txe" in Cantonese.

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The Zhou family ranks fifth among hundreds of surnames, and its history can be traced back to the ancient times of the Yellow Emperor. Hou Ji, the great grandson of the Yellow Emperor, was regarded as the ancestor of Zhou by most people of Zhou family in ancient and modern times, and some people of Zhou family were honorific, and Ji Chang of Zhou Wenwang was regarded as the ancestor.

Zhou's surname originated from Weihe Plain in Shaanxi Province. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, as the capital moved from Shaanxi to Henan, the surname of Zhou also moved from west to east. After Pingdong moved to Luoyang, Zhou greatly multiplied and became a giant family. Initially, Zhou's surname was mainly centered on Henan and Shaanxi. Qin destroyed the six countries, and after the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhou moved to southern Henan and northern Jiangsu and became a famous family.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Zhou moved south with the gentry of the Central Plains. In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, warlords scuffled, especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the late Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolian soldiers went south, and a large number of Zhou surnames from Henan, Shandong and other central plains moved south, mainly to Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong. At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Ji 'an Prefecture in Jiangxi Province immigrated to Shaoyang, Hunan Province.

Since Ming and Qing Dynasties, the provinces with relatively concentrated Zhou surnames are Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces. In the late Qing Dynasty after the Opium War, Zhou began to emigrate overseas.