There are many surnames of Jin, one from ancient times and the other from the Western Han Dynasty ("Rihao" is pronounced "Miti"). In addition to the above two Jin States, in the Qin Dynasty before the Sixteen States, the Qiang leaders had the Jin State.

King Silla in Korean history was surnamed Jin. The founding king of wuyue, one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Countries, was named Qian Liu. Because it is homophonic with Liu, I think it is taboo. Everyone surnamed Liu in this country went to Liu's knife and changed it to gold. Even pomegranate has become Jin Ying. Today, Zhejiang Jinjia still has the tradition of "giving birth to gold and killing Liu". Use gold before death and Liu as a tombstone after death. The counties named Jin are Pengcheng and Jingzhao.

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The Jin family is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group. Laobaijia's surname ranks 29th and 69th in today's surname list, belonging to the surname series, with a population of about 4.686 million, accounting for 0.3% of the total population of China. There are many surnames in the Jin family, mainly from Shandong and Shaanxi, but also from Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

There is little information about Jin's activities in the pre-Qin period. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the activities of the Jin surname rapidly expanded to the northwest, northeast, central plains and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian regions, and Henan has always been the activity center of the Jin surname. In the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the shift of population center of gravity in China to the south, the center of gravity of the Jin family shifted to the southeast, and finally formed the distribution pattern with Henan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang as the main gathering places today.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about1.3000 Jin surnames, accounting for 0. 1.7% of the national population, ranking 95th in the Song Dynasty. The largest province of Jin surname is Anhui, accounting for about 22% of the total population of Jin surname in China and 0.6% of the total population of Anhui. The distribution of Jin surname in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, Hunan, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other provinces, accounting for 90% of the population of Jin surname in China. The whole country has formed a gathering place of Anhui, Hunan, Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Jin surnames with southern Anhui as the center.