Who can tell me the origin of the surname "Jin"?

The Western Han Dynasty, also known as the pre-Han period, was troubled by the Xiongnu, Wusun and other ethnic minorities in the western regions. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Li Guang, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and other generals crusaded against Xiongnu, killed Xiutu, king of Xiongnu, and recaptured Nidan, son of Attila. At the same time, they also took back a sacred object of the clan-a gold man. Later generations have proved that the golden man is actually the golden body of the Buddha statue. At that time, Buddhism was born in India, but it had not been introduced to China, so no one knew it. King Xiutu was taken back to the Central Plains and arranged to ride horses in the palace. At that time, he was very young, about fifteen or sixteen years old. By chance, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty took a fancy to him and liked him very much, so he was promoted to be a trusted minister around him. Because he was a Jin man who was snatched back from the western regions at that time, he was given the surname Jin and the name Jin Ridan. This may be the origin of the surname "Jin".

Later, Jin Ri respected loyalty and won the trust of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. He once saved the life of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty and became a trusted official appointed jointly with Huo Guang. In fact, he is more trusted than Huo Guang, but he is a semi-final of the conference and cannot be persuaded, so he starts with Huo Guang.

Jin Ridan and his descendants have been loyal to the Han family for generations.

It is recorded in Han Shu and Romance of the Former Han Dynasty. I read the romance of the former Han Dynasty. Maybe this is the origin of the surname Jin.

Supplement: The statement of China Memorial on the origin of Jin surname is as follows:

From Jintian, Shao Hao. According to legend, Shao Hao was one of the five emperors in ancient times, and he was a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. After Shao Hao's death, he was honored as Xidi. According to the five elements theory of the ancients, the west belongs to gold, so it has the title of gold. Some of his descendants took Jin as their surname and were called Jin.

After Jin Ridi, the Xiongnu Prince. The son of the Xiongnu King of the Han Dynasty was Rihao, who surrendered to the Han Dynasty when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Because he once cast a bronze statue (also known as the golden man) to worship the sky, he was given the surname "Jin" and said. From then on, all his descendants were surnamed Jin.

Change the surname from Liu to Jin. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, Qian Liu, the founding king of Wu Yueguo (one of the ten countries), had the homonym of "Kui" and "Liu". In order to avoid suspicion, Liu was changed to Jin in Wu Yueguo.

In addition to the above three branches, there are six sources: First, there was a surname of A Jin among the Qiang people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties; Second, in the Tang Dynasty, Silla had the surname of Jin. Wang Xing Gold in Silla Prefecture (present-day Korean Peninsula); Third, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor became the ancestor to cut Mobei, and the Mongolian prince also worked hard first to lead his wife to deploy and give him the surname Jin; Fourth, there was gold wealth in the Yuan Dynasty, which originally belonged to Liu and later changed to gold; Fifth, Jin Shengtan, a literary critic in Qing Dynasty, was originally named Zhang, and later changed his surname to Jin; Sixth, many descendants of Aisingiorro in Qing Dynasty were surnamed Jin.