Gui / Kuei
The Gui surname has about 390,000 people today, accounting for approximately 0.031% of China's population. Hunan, Anhui, and Hubei together account for 67% of the Gui population, with Hunan the largest province at about 36%.
One tradition traces the surname to the ancient State of Gui, taking the state name as the surname, though its origin and descendants are unknown. Another traces it to the Ji surname: descendants of Ji Zhen adopted Gui to avoid disaster during the Qin period, giving this lineage a history of more than 2,200 years.
Genealogical records describe several migrations: the ancestor Wu Zhong lived in Fujian during the Tang dynasty, after which descendants moved to Guichi and Shidai in Anhui; Gui Changling moved from Poyang in Yuzhang to Tongcheng, Anhui, at the end of the Yuan; and Gui Anyu's branch moved from Leping, Jiangxi, to Qishui, Hubei, at the end of the Yuan.
Gui Zhongwu served as Protector General of Annam. Gui Xisun passed the metropolitan examination in the fifth year of the Shaoding era under Emperor Lizong of Song and later served as a censor. Gui E rose to Minister of Rites and Grand Academician of the Wuying Palace.
The Gui lineage in Macheng is divided into six branches descended from Wenxiang, Wende, Wending, Rixin, Zhixing, and Zilin. Its generation-name sequence is “Guo Tai Zhen Xiang Zhao, Jia He Fu Shou Chang, Zhi Hong Sheng Zu Wu, De Yu Ji Zong Chang.”
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