According to said "Korean", the ho family name began in the yangtze-huaihe region of China, after migration from here and widely all over the country.He in the qin period in the "vulnerable groups", was unknown, the han period before gradually prosper.

Wei jin northern and southern dynasties is one of the most glorious period of history of the ho.With ho LuJiang county (now anhui huoshan county LuJiang, buried hill area), the east China sea county (now shandong TanCheng), Chen prefecture (now in henan province huaiyang, taikang county) at the formation of three major county, the distribution of the ho also appeared during the period of the new pattern.At three county respectively in three directions, east, west, south of isometric tripartite confrontation.But the development of the ho distribution is not only limited in three counties at.This period what clan's distribution has basically formed by three county as the center, gradually to southeast development pattern, largely determines the sui and tang dynasties since the five dynasties, song yuan Ming and qing dynasties, the basic direction of the ho distribution and trends in the long years.

Sui tang five dynasties, song and yuan period, along with the three county ho hope status gradually lost, the ho family lost its former glory, but this period is still what clan people important period of development.Ho three county at the halls of most popular is the wei jin southern and northern dynasties period, the court a few of people everywhere.Wei jin southern and northern dynasties period, social unrest, many of the garrison in the central plains people are migrating south Yangtze river, this is also what clan person an important stage of the idp why people in the sui and tang dynasties era that prepared conditions of south song and yuan period of the development.

Because, with the development of tang dynasty any clan people, widely from the era of the song and yuan, Ming and qing dynasties clan people living area is also more widely.Specific reasons, mainly what clan in successive regimes in high rank, must move to a particular as required.Jin and southern dynasties period, any clan people although formed LuJiang, the east China sea, Chen prefecture county, but their political and social activity center in the city of luoyang or nanjing, many of their family are bound to settle in the places.Second, the scholar he studied, the merchant to the trade, will be he moved the reason.

In the contemporary, the distribution of any clan people present a broader trend.Its reason, on the one hand, because people weak sense of further inclination to "safe", on the other hand is due to work and unity in politics, education, the va, immigration, etc.Have any clan people today across the country, but on the whole present a more southern and northern less distribution.

In January 2006, the latest name data shows, accounted for over 1% of the total population in our country's most popular there are 18.It is understood that the current domestic what clan population accounts for about 1.2% of the total population in our country, about sixteen million people.He in all the provinces in the south is typically account for more than 1% of the provincial population, in the northern provinces account for only about 0.5%.What clan are the most concentrated is sichuan, guangdong and hunan provinces, about 44% of the country he's population.In addition, guangxi, zhejiang, fujian, henan, jiangxi and other provinces where he population more too.What clan people about living abroad more than four hundred, ten thousand people, mainly distributed in the world more than 20 countries and regions, among them the majority with southeast Asia.

He is a surname of "economy" developing faster.In the 80 s, the Chinese academy of sciences announced new of ordering for the first time, he is 17 of qualifying.In the latest new sort of "of", he listed. 18.

On January 10, 2006, the institute of genetics and developmental biology, Chinese academy of sciences announced the latest research achievements of surnames.Hosted by Yuan Yi of researcher survey and research, took two years to complete, involving the country's 1110 counties and cities, obtained the data of 296 million, received last research achievements of 4100, to refresh the order of "of" in our country.

"Of" the new order is: li, wang, zhang, liu, the Chen, Yang, huang, zhao, zhou, wu, xu, sun, zhu, horse, hu, guo, Lin, what, is high, the beam, zheng, ROM, song, xie, tang dynasty, the han, cao xu, deng, shaw, feng,, once, cheng, CAI, peng, pan, yuen, in, dong, yu, Sue, leaf, lu, wei, jiang, tian, du, butyl, shen, ginger, van, jiang, fu, clock, luo, wang, dai, cui, ren, lu, liao, yao, and gold, the high, in the summer of tan, wei, jia, zou, stone, bear, meng, qin, yan, xue, hou, ray, white, dragon, section, hao, hole, shao, history, hair, and often, gu, lai,,,,,,, yan Yin, money, fertilizer, cattle, hong, gong.

The result is pass county, district and provincial level population statistics, and got the sort of new Chinese of today.

Survey results show that in the investigation of 4100 surnames, the top three li, wang and zhang, respectively 7.4%, 7.2% and 6.8% of the total population in our country, three big surnames are no more than 100 million population;Accounted for over 1% of the total population in our country's surname has 18, accounted for over 0.1% of the population, name a total of 129, but the population of this 129 surnames accounted for about 87% of the population in our country.

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