The
Zhou family of Runan () was a notable Chinese family which descended from
Ji Lie (姬烈), the youngest son of
King Ping of the
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty ( ; Old Chinese ( B&S): *''tiw'') was a royal dynasty of China that followed the Shang dynasty. Having lasted 789 years, the Zhou dynasty was the longest dynastic regime in Chinese history. The military control of China by ...
in 8th century BCE China. Ji Lie's fief was at
Runan County
Runan County () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Zhumadian, in the southeast of Henan Province, China.
History
In ancient times, this area was called "the middle of the world" (), since it was the center of ...
, which became the
ancestral home
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of his descendants. Zhou Yong (周邕), an 18th-generation descendant of Ji Lie, is considered the founding father of the Zhou family of Runan. During the
Eastern Jin dynasty
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, the Zhou family of Runan had their home located in the north of the
Huai River
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region. The Zhou family of Runan continued to maintain its influence after the
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...
.
[http://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/slides/Dissertation.pdf pp. 90, 92.]
References
Chinese clans
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