Distribution and Migration of the Qiao Surname in History
The Qiao Surname has been associated with the war in the north since its birth, and during the Han and Jin Dynasties, it was mainly active in Shanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan and other places. The North and South Dynasties have crossed the Yangtze River into Hunan, Sichuan and other provinces. Subsequently, all over the bridge family name to wood for the Qiao family name, has been all over the north and south of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River Basin, especially in the eastern part of Henan and Anhui Northwest to form the famous Liang Qiao clan. Tang and song dynasty, qiao surname to the east of shandong, to the southeast of jiangsu and zhejiang area development, formed to henan as the center, to the surrounding radiation distribution. After the Ming dynasty basically formed the Yu Lu as the center of the gathering area of the Qiao surname.
Song Dynasty, the Qiao surname about nearly 50,000 people, accounting for about 0.06% of the national population, ranked one hundred and eighty after. The first largest province of the Qiao surname is Henan, accounting for about 19% of the total population of the Qiao surname in the country. The distribution of the Qiao surname in the country is mainly concentrated in Henan, Zhejiang, Shandong, these three provinces Qiao surname accounted for about 56% of the total population of the national Qiao surname, followed by the distribution of Shanxi, Gansu, Jiangsu and other provinces. The country initially formed to Henan as the center, outward gradient distribution.
Ming Dynasty, the Qiao surname about 110,000 people, accounting for about 0.11% of the national population, ranked one hundred and thirty after. The population growth rate of the Qiao surname was higher than the national population growth rate in the 600 years of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties. The distribution of the Qiao surname in the country is mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei, and Jiangsu, which are the five provinces concentrating 91% of the population of the Qiao surname. Shanxi is the largest province of the Qiao surname, accounting for 43% of the total population of the Qiao surname. During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the general pattern of distribution of the Qiao surname changed considerably, with its population migrating mainly from the Central Plains to the northwest and southeast. The country re-formed the northern Jin Qin Ji Yu, eastern Jiangsu two Qiao gathering area.
Contemporary Distribution and Mapping of the Qiao Surname
In 2000, the population of the Qiao surname in the fifth census had reached more than 1.7 million, ranking 108th in the country, accounting for about 0.14% of the country's population.2011, the sixth census, the Qiao surname had a population of 2.41 million, ranking 96th among the country's 100 surnames, officially making it into the top 100, accounting for about 0.18% of the national population. In the 600 years from the Ming Dynasty to the present, the population of the Qiao surname has surged from 110,000 to more than 1.7 million, an increase of more than 15 times. The rate of increase of the Qiao population is higher than that of the national population. During the 1000 years from the Song Dynasty to the present, the rate of increase of the population with the surname Qiao has been on an upward trend. The distribution of the surname Qiao in the country is now mainly concentrated in Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and Shanxi provinces, accounting for about 55% of the total population of the surname Qiao. The next distribution is in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Shaanxi, with these three provinces and regions concentrating another 23%. Henan is the largest contemporary province of the Qiao surname, inhabiting 24% of the total Qiao population. The country has formed two Qiao concentration areas, Yu Jin Ji in the north and Lu Su in the east. During the 600-year period, the degree and direction of population movement of the Qiao surname differed somewhat from that during the Song, Yuan, and Ming periods, with return migration from the southeast to the central plains and the north becoming the mainstay. The Qiao surname is widely distributed, but unevenly distributed among the population. The frequency diagram of the distribution of the Qiao surname in the population shows that: in the central part of Inner Mongolia, Jin and Henan, most of Beijing and Hebei, northern Ningxia, most of Shaanxi, the western and eastern parts of Shandong, the northern part of Anhui and Ezhou, and the eastern end of Heijie, the Qiao surname accounted for more than 0.33% of the local population in general, with the central part reaching more than 0.8%, and the above covered an area of about 13.6% of the total area of the country, and the region was inhabited by about 45% of the population of the surname of Qiao The area is inhabited by about 45% of the Qiao population. In eastern Inner Mongolia, most of Liaoning, western Jilin, eastern Hebei, Tianjin, eastern Shandong, most of Jiangsu, central Anhui and Hubei, southern Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the proportion of the Qiao surname in the local population is generally between 0.22% - 0.33%, covering an area of about 12.2% of the total land area, the region is inhabited by about 33% of the Qiao people.