The pre-qin period, the soup is the main activities in the central plains.The han dynasty, tang name has east, south jiangsu involved in northern Vietnam.Period of the tang dynasty, tang surname with centaline secondary southward migration distribution to anhui, zhejiang, jiangxi, hunan, sichuan, fujian and other places, the Ming dynasty soup is migrating south region of guangdong.The soup at the beginning of the qing dynasty name in Taiwan.Song dynasty, soup is about 120000 people, accounting for about 0.16% of the population, ranked ninety-eighth.Soup last name is the first big province of jiangxi, which accounts for the soup is 36.7% of the total population.In the national distribution mainly concentrates in jiangxi, jiangsu, anhui, zhejiang, hunan, sichuan, fujian, henan.The country formed the eastern gan su surname zones as the center of soup.

During the Ming dynasty, soup is about 190000 people, accounting for about 0.2% of the population, ranked ninety-first.During the Ming dynasty, for soup surname first in jiangxi province, which accounts for the soup is 24% of the total population.In the national distribution mainly concentrates in jiangxi, jiangsu, zhejiang, anhui, the four provinces about soup surnamed tang 72% of the population, second distributed in hunan, hubei, sichuan, the three provinces of soup name and concentration of 16%.During the period of song, yuan, Ming, soup is the distribution of total pattern changed, its population is mainly composed of north southeast migration.The country is still in jiangxi, jiangsu, zhejiang and anhui for the surname of soup.