1. It comes from Han surname. According to legend, Han Xin, a hero in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, was killed by Empress Lu, and Xiao He secretly sent someone to send Han Xin's son to Nanyue to escape. Han Xin's son passed down from generation to generation with Wei, the half of the word "Han", as his surname.
2, from Peng. Take the country as the surname. According to relevant historical documents, when Shao Kang was in power in the Xia Dynasty, he named the grandson of Peng's family in Zhuowei, which was also called Wei State, and was called Weber in Shang Dynasty. When Zhou Xiang was king, he lost his country and moved to Pengcheng, and his descendants took the country as their surname and called Wei State. History calls Webster's authentic. This is Henan Webster's. It can be seen that Webster's and Peng's ancestors came from the same ancestor more than four thousand years ago.
3. It is the surname of ancient northwest minorities. According to the biography of Hanshu in the Western Regions, Webster's was also found in Shule in the Han Dynasty.
Population distribution
The population of Wei surname has reached more than 4.5 million, ranking 63rd. The distribution of Wei surname in China is mainly concentrated in Guangxi at present, accounting for about 76% of the total population of Wei surname in China. Secondly, it is distributed in Anhui, Guangdong, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Henan and Yunnan provinces, and 14% of Wei's population is concentrated. The whole country has formed a distribution situation with Guangxi as the center and gradually decreasing outward.
historical celebrity
Wei Changhui: Zhuang nationality, Guiping, Guangxi, one of the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. He was made the Northern King by Hong Xiuquan. In 1851, jintian uprising was then a military adviser and led the right army commander. In December, he was made the Northern King, at the age of six thousand. Dissatisfied with Yang Xiuqing, when he was in charge of Jiangxi in 1856, he was ordered by Hong Xiuquan to take 3, people back to Tianjing, using the contradiction between Hong and Yang to kill Yang's troops and their families, which caused public outrage and was executed by Hong Xiuquan.
Wei Meng, a native of Pengcheng, was the first influential figure to appear in historical books. A poet of the Western Han Dynasty, he was proficient in Lu poetry, and his son Sun Chuan-wei Xian was a great scholar in Zou Lu in the 5th century. At that time, Wei Xuezhi said. There is a poem in Lu today.
Wei Yide: a native of Guiping, Guangxi in Qing Dynasty, Wei Changhui's nephew. Joined the Taiping Army, later sealed the state religion, and served as the prefect of military affairs. In 1854, he joined the Taiping Army in Ke Wuchang, and was ordered to station with Shi Fengkui and Huang Zaixing. Return to Tianjing. After the fall of Wuchang, he was ordered to aid Tianjia Town to the west, and died in Banbi Mountain in 1854.
Wei Yunqing: a Zhuang native of Nanning, Guangxi in the late Qing Dynasty. Guangxu entered the Qing army as a soldier in the thirty-first year. Join the League in the second year. He participated in the Nanguan Uprising and Hekou Uprising in Zhennan, and was captured and sacrificed when attacking the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. As one of the seventy-two martyrs in Huanghuagang.
Wei Shaoguang, a native of Sanyuanli in the northern suburb of Guangzhou, was a hero of Sanyuanli people's struggle against Britain during the * * War. On May 28th, 1841, British troops occupied the square battery fled to Sanyuanli area, and Wei Shaoguang organized the masses to fight back and was elected as the leader. Later, he contacted the people of 13 townships, lured the enemy to Niulangang, ambushed everywhere, defeated the British army and killed more than 2 people.
Wei Yingwu, a poet from Chang 'an, Jingzhao, is famous for his pastoral scenery and simple language, including Collection of Wei Suzhou.