liú 刘

Migration and Distribution The Liu surname is derived from the name of a fief. According to expert research, there are more than 80 million people with the Liu surname in the world, which can truly be described as "Liu (meaning 'flow' in Chinese homophone) is everywhere". The Liu family established the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties and ruled the country. As a result, their descendants were distributed in as many as fourteen places, including Tianshui, Zhongshan, Nanyang, Pengcheng, and Dongping. During the late Han Dynasty and the Three - Kingdoms period The Liu people in the Central Plains continuously migrated in all directions to avoid the "Rebellion of Dong Zhuo". During the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties The Liu people migrated south in large numbers and had a great influence in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Tang and Song Dynasties The Liu surname had spread across both the north and the south of the Yangtze River and was prosperous throughout the whole country, which remains the case to this day. From the late Ming Dynasty People with the Liu surname from Fujian and Guangdong began to move to Taiwan one after another, and later many of them went overseas to earn a living.