History of Chinese Surnames · Zhou Surname: Zhou Surname

Author: Wang Daliang
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Publish Date: 2002-03-01
Features: The origin of the Zhou surname has two sources: First, Ji Lie, the son of King Ping of the Zhou Dynasty, was enfeoffed in Runan, where the locals called him Zhou Jia. Thus, his descendants took Zhou as their surname. Second, Zhou Chang, a general under the legendary Yellow Emperor, also had descendants who took Zhou as their surname. The ancestors of the Zhou surname are Ji and Zhou Chang. The ancestral homes of the Zhou surname include Runan, Luijiang, Xunyang, Linchuan, Chenliu, Peiguo, Tai Shan, and Henan.