The origin of the surname Wen

Take the place name as the surname. Wen is the name of the place, that is, Wen County, Henan Province. Wen County Xia Dynasty Wen State, Shang Dynasty Wen Yi, Spring and Autumn Period Wen County, with a history of more than 4,000 years.

The origin of the name Wen is because there are hot springs in the place, and the son of the Kunwu clan was sealed here during the period of the emperor of the Xia Dynasty, and the country of Wen was built because of the hot springs. "Wen County Chronicles" contains: "About the 21st century B.C., this place has been established, named after the hot springs in the territory, called Wenguo.

In the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Xia, Shang extinguished Wen, and Wen was the inner city of Shangzhiji. During the reign of Emperor Xiang of the Xia Dynasty, the Xia regime was controlled by Han Xun, the Emperor was in exile, and the whole country was in a state of chaos. As the earl, the descendants of the Yellow Emperor's grandson, Kunwu, in his vast territory, in order to strengthen management, gave the land south of the Taihang Mountain on the north bank of the Yellow River to his son and established the Wen State, which became a powerful local state in Xia.

Wen has flat land, convenient water conservancy, abundant grain and grass, and a large population, making it a relatively wealthy small vassal state.

At the end of the Xia Dynasty, the emperor was tyrannical and excessive, causing resentment among the people, and the princes from all over the country defected to Shangtang. Shang Tang acted for the heavens, raised troops to destroy the army, and invaded the Wen State in advance, and the Wen State perished. Legend has it that the ancestor of the Wen country was good, and the monarch was loyal when the Wen country was destroyed.

After the destruction of the Wen Kingdom, the Chinese people missed their ancestors and the country, so they took the country as their name and gave birth to the surname Wen. Later generations called Wen Zhizu Wen Liang and Wen Zhong, and Wen Zhong was the ancestor of the surname Wen.

During the Shang Dynasty, Wenyi was under the jurisdiction of Jizhou. The ancestor of the Marquis of Jizhou is also the Kunwu clan of the Xia Dynasty, the Kunwu clan has four sons Wen, Su, Gu and Dong, and the location of the seal is not far from each other. Jizhou Hou Shang Dynasty at the end of the Jun, "Romance of the Gods" said to be Su Hu, there is Su Hu tomb in Wen County today, there is Su Zhuang in the southwest of the city 15 miles, Su Zhuang has Su Quanxiao, Su Xinsheng, Su Cheng, Su Ming, etc. in the north of Xiazhuang, Su Quanxiao, Su Xinsheng, Su Cheng, Su Ming, etc., is the location of Su's hometown.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, there was a Su clan who threw himself into the Zhou Dynasty, and was awarded the post of Sikou for his merits, and gave his hometown of 12 Yi to build the Su State, and the capital was in Wencheng. After 396 years of Su Guo, at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Su Ming was the king, Wen was destroyed by Di Xu, Su Ming committed suicide, and his son fled to Weiguo with some of his clansmen. "Zuo Biography - Ten Years of the Duke of Xu" contains:

Di Zhenwen, Wen Zi Benwei", in 650 B.C.

After the Wen Kingdom was destroyed by Di Xu, it was under the jurisdiction of the Zhou royal family. In 635 B.C., the Zhou royal family took Juwen to rebel, Jin Wengong led the division of King Qin, and eliminated the Taishu belt in Wen, the king of Zhou gave Wen, Zhou, Yuan and other provinces to Jin, Jin put Wen as the county to send a doctor, and the third doctor was the descendant of the Yellow Emperor's great-grandson Emperor Yu, the descendant of Tang Shuyu, the son of King Wu of Zhou. In 573 B.C., the Duke of Jin Li killed Xu Zhi, and the grandson of Yin Zhi fled to Fengyi, taking Yi as his clan name Wentian.

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**There are three main sayings: one is to give his own surname, which is the descendant of the Gaoyang clan of Zhurui, and the son of the Kunwu clan took the country as his clan after establishing the Wen Kingdom; the second is derived from the surname of Su Guo, a descendant of the Gaoyang clan and the son of the Kunwu clan, after Su Guo; The third is derived from the surname Ji, after Tang Shuyu.

Since about the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the Wen people have migrated from Henan, Shanxi and other Central Plains to all parts of the country, forming two major population clusters with the surname Wen in the north and Shanxi in the north and Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang in the south.

During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the flow of its population mainly moved from the Central Plains to the northwest and southeast, and the distribution of Wen surnames in the north and south was initially formed. Since modern times, many people with the surname Wen have frequently migrated overseas, so there are a large number of people with the surname Wen at home and abroad.

Since about the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the Wen people have migrated from Henan, Shanxi and other Central Plains to all parts of the country, forming two major population clusters with the surname Wen in the north and Shanxi in the north and Guangdong, Jiangxi and Zhejiang in the south.

Famous people with the surname Wen include Wen Xu, Wen Hui, Wen Xian, Wen Qiao, Wen Yanbo, Wen Tingyun, Wen Jiabao, Wen Haoran, etc.

The surname Wen is in the hundred family surnames.

The surname Wen is listed as the 321st surname in the Song Dynasty's "Hundred Family Names", and there are 1.82 million people in the mainland.

It accounts for 103, with a population of nearly 1,000 at the end of 2007 in Wendeng, and is the 82nd surname.

Yes, Premier Wen Jiabao's surname is Wen.

There are different theories about the origin of the surname Wen, and the most representative arguments are the "three-source theory" and the "multi-source theory".

Sanyuan said, "I advocate that the surname Wen has three sources: one is to come out of his own surname, which is the descendant of the Gaoyang clan, and the son of the Kunwu clan took the country as the clan after establishing the Wen country. The second is the descendant of the Gaoyang clan, the son of the Kunwu clan, after Su Guo, derived from the surname of Su Guo.

The third is that the Wen family is derived from the surname Ji and is after Tang Shuyu.

Duoyuan said, "I advocate that the surname Wen has more sources: first, after Uncle Tang guessed the lack of Yu, he was enshrined in Hanoi Wen, because of his life; One said that the food is taken in the temperature, and the name is the warm season, because of the life; One said that after Su Sheng; One said that the descendants of the Gaoyang clan were sealed in Wen, and then the Fengyi was the clan, which was said to be ** in the Tang Monument. The Xianbei clan, the Wen clan, and the Wen Gu clan were all changed to the Wen clan.

During the Tang Dynasty, King Kangju's surname was Wen. Liu Yi was promoted from the son of Liuling, Liuling Table, exempted from returning, and also changed his surname to Wen. Later, the Mongolian and Manchu ethnic groups also changed their surnames to Wen.

The relocation of the surname WenmigrationDistribution

In the early stage, the Wen surname was mainly distributed in the middle of the Yellow River Basin, mainly in Henan and Shanxi. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Wen people moved westward to the Qilian Mountains in Gansu Province, met with the Yueshi people, and became the Wen tribe among the Yueshi people, and then the Wen people who moved westward established the Wensu State in southern Xinjiang, becoming one of the 36 countries in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.

After the Han, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were frequent wars between the defense sides of the Northern Suizao in northern China, and the Wen surname in the northern region was greatly impacted, and the population decreased sharply. Some people migrated to the northwest, and some people, like other surnames in the Central Plains, migrated to the south and southeast to avoid the war. Eventually, it became a famous surname in the South.

During the Song and Song dynasties, there were about 20,000 people with the surname Wen, a figure that did not include the surname Wen in the north and northwest under foreign rule. The surname Wen is a small surname of the Song Dynasty. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in Henan, Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

In the Ming Dynasty, the population of the Wen surname surged, about 140,000 people, accounting for about the country's population, rising to the 111th surname of the Ming Dynasty, this data includes the Wen surname in the north and northwest regions, so the population of the Wen surname rose sharply. During the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the flow of the Wen surname mainly moved from the Central Plains to the northwest and to the southeast, and the distribution of the Wen surname in the north and south was initially formed.