Cui Shi came from the fief of the eldest son of the monarch of Qi State in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which belongs to the name of fief. Ding, the son of, was the second generation monarch of Qi in the Western Zhou Dynasty. He had a son named Ji Zi, who was supposed to inherit the throne of Qi according to the etiquette, but Kiko gave way to Jiang De and ate in the fief of Cui Yi.
Among the descendants of Jiang, Cui Shi, named after the feudal city of his ancestors, has been handed down from generation to generation for more than 3,000 years. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Emperor Yan's grandson was named the King of Qi for assisting the King of Wen and destroying the Shang Dynasty. When the number reached Qi Dinggong, a young son, Jiang should attack the Duke, but he refused to accept it and gave way to Uncle B.
After Uncle B succeeded to the throne, Dr. Feng Jiziqing gave him Cui Yi as a food city. Since then, the descendants of ji zi have been living in Cui Yi. Later descendants took the name of Cuisine Capital as Cui Wei's surname and developed into the present Cui surname.
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The population of contemporary Cui surname has reached more than 4.2 million, which is the 58th surname in China, accounting for about 0.35% of the national population. Since the Song Dynasty, Cui's population has been decreasing during the period of 1000.
Cui is mainly distributed in Henan, Shandong and Hebei provinces in the Central Plains, accounting for 42% of Cui's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Liaoning, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Jilin, Anhui, Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang. Cui surnames in these ten provinces have been concentrated by 50%.
It can be seen that a large number of people named Cui have set foot on the southernmost tip of China. During the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Cui Shi migrated from the southeast to North China and Central China, and the Cui Shi family in the northeast grew rapidly. Cui surname is one of the more common surnames in North China and Northeast China.