Sui (su ī) surname

It belongs to the Chengji family, with its ancestor being Suihui, and is the 178th contemporary surname in China. Ming Dynasty Hongdong locust tree immigrants

The ancestors of the Sui Dynasty were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other places. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to move to Hongdong and gather in the large locust trees

In different places, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui

Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanxi and other places.

The earliest record of the Sui surname can be found in the Southern Song Dynasty's "Annals of Clans".

There are two main sources of surnames:

① Originating from the surname. According to the Annals of Clans, there was a state called Suiguo during the Spring and Autumn Period, with its homeland located in Suizhou during the Song Dynasty,

After the destruction of Suixian County in present-day Hubei by the State of Chu, the descendants of the ruler of Suixian adopted the original name Suixian as their surname.

② Originating from the Suihui period, according to the Guangyun and Ancient and Modern Surnames Book Dialectics, during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, there was a ruler of the state of Du, Du Bo, who was innocent and killed. His son, Xi Shu, fled to the state of Jin, and Xi Shu's grandson Hui became the Shangqing of the state of Jin, and his fiefdom was scattered everywhere. Its former location is in the eastern part of Jiexiu, Shanxi Province, and it is known as Suihui. The descendants of Suihui will use the city name Suiyi as their surname. In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui removed the character 'Sui' and the surname 'Sui' became the Sui surname.

Famous Figures: The Dictionary of Chinese Historical Names includes 9 cases of the Sui dynasty. During the Han Dynasty, there was a historical figure surnamed Sui named Sui Yu,

Wuyuan people, serving as prefects; In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a Sui Bao, a native of Laiyang, and a high-ranking official; In the Ming Dynasty, there was Sui Chong, a native of Qixia, who was in the orthodox era

Master Book.

According to the seventh national census, there are 1463 people surnamed Sui in Shanxi Province, 224 in Linfen City, and 31 in Hongdong County.

The ancestral shrine of the Sui surname is enshrined in the No.1 ancestral hall of the Hongdong Dahuai Tree Scenic Area.

Genealogy: The main genealogies of Sui surnames include: "Sui Family Genealogy Without Volume" (compiled by the Rongcheng County Annals Office in Shandong Province, with four volumes).

Migration: A branch of the Sui family migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Suizhuang, Linqing, Shandong Province during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Sui family in Dezhou moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Suizhuang, Pingyuan County, Dezhou, Shandong Province during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.