The surname is nie
It inherits the Jiang family, with Duke Ding of Qi as its founding ancestor, and is the 126th surname in contemporary China. The founding ancestors of the Nie family, who immigrated from the Great Locust Tree in Hongtong during the Ming Dynasty, were from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongtong County, Zhaocheng County and other places. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were relocated to other places in a concentrated manner from the Great Locust Tree in Hongtong. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui and other places.
Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanxi and other places.
The earliest record of the surname Nie can be found in the "Urgent Discussion on Surnames" of the Song Dynasty.
There are mainly two sources of the surname:
① It originates from the Jiang surname. According to the "Ji Jiu Chapter on Surnames", the ancient town of Nie Bei originally belonged to the State of Xing, and its former location is within the present-day territory of Chiping County, Shandong Province. After the fall of the State of Xing during the Spring and Autumn Period, it came under the jurisdiction of the State of Qi. Duke Ding of Qi enfeoffed his collateral descendants in Nie, making them vassals of the State of Qi. His descendants have the surname Nie.
② It originated after Doctor Wei. According to the "Yuanhe Xingzuan", the food was collected by Doctor Wei from Nie, and later there were people who took Nie as their surname.
The main ancestral homes of the Nie surname are Hedong Prefecture and Xin 'an Prefecture. Hedong Commandery: Early years of the Qin Dynasty (221 BC)
"Set. It is equivalent to the area east of the Yellow River in present-day Shanxi Province. Its administrative center was located in Anyi County (now northwest of Xia County, Shanxi Province, with the city of Yuwang).
The main ancestral hall name for the Nie surname is Min Nong Hall. The Minnong Hall: Nie Yizhong, a jinshi of the Tang Dynasty, sympathized with farmers and wrote "Minnong"
"Agricultural Poem" (In February, sell new silk; in May, sell new grain. The phrase "Healing the sores in the eyes but removing the flesh from the heart" is well-known and widely praised.
The main couplets for the Nie surname are: "Heroes Repay Virtue" (Nie Zheng). Huang Shimin Nong (Nie Yizhong) Gongshi
"Man (Nie Chang) "Ode to the Compassionate Peasant" (Nie Yizhong).
The "Great Dictionary of Chinese Personal Names" includes 33 examples of the Nie family. The "Great Dictionary of Chinese Names Through the Ages" includes 38 examples. During the Warring States Period, there was a famous historical figure of the Nie surname, Nie Zheng, a man of the Zhi family and an assassin. During The Three Kingdoms period, there was Nie You, the governor of Danyang in the State of Wu. In the Tang Dynasty, there was Nie Yizhong, a poet from Yuzhang. In the Song Dynasty, there was Nie Guanqing, a poet from xin 'an, 歙 prefecture, a lyricist; In the Ming Dynasty, there was a philosopher named Nie Bao.
According to the statistics of the seventh national census, there are 42,822 people surnamed Nie in Shanxi Province, among whom 3,606 are in Linfen City.
There are 127 people in Hongtong County.
The ancestral altar of the Nie family is enshrined in the No. 2 Altar of the Ancestral Worship Hall in the Hongtong Great Locust Tree Scenic Area.
The main genealogies of the Nie surname include: "The Fourth Revision of the Nie Family Genealogy of Jiangzhuang, Qingjiang District, Jiangxi Province, in Two Volumes" (Historical Institute of Ji)
Lin University; Three Volumes of the Revised Genealogy of the Nie Family in Xiangtian, West of Qingjiang City, Jiangxi Province (Jiangxi Normal University) "Sixteen Volumes of the Nie Family Genealogy of Yihuang, Jiangxi Province" (Dingjiawu, Shizikou Township, Changshan County, Zhejiang Province) "Six Volumes of the Nie Family Genealogy of Lixian County, Hunan Province" [Lixian County, Hunan Province File (Missing Volume 3)] The Undivided Volume of the Nie Family Genealogy of Nanhai, Guangdong (Map of Zhongshan, Guangdong) "Undivided Volume of the Nie Family Genealogy of Lujinggang, Hedong County, Xinhui City, Guangdong Province" (Map of Zhongshan, Guangdong) The Four-Volume Genealogy of the Nie Family in Changshou, Sichuan Province (Hongqi Village, Yanjia Township, Changshou County, Sichuan Province)
The genealogy of the Nie surname branch in Funan, Anhui Province, reads: "Shangliang Chongwen, Guan Chang Yi Tian, Befriend the virtuous and the Great, Lian Yong." "