The history of the Chan family, what is the origin of the Chan family?

Origin of Chan:

1, Emperor Shun. Descendants, with the country as the surname, the ancestor of the surname Chen: Hu Gongman. According to the "Tongzhi Clan Brief Encounter", King Wu of Zhou.

After the destruction of Shang, Yu Shun was posthumously sealed.

The descendants were full of concubines in Chen, named Chen Hou, called Hu Gongman, and his descendants took the country as their surname.

2. From Chen Guo.

Descendants of the Gong family. After the death of Chen Guo, his descendants have a clan with the country, that is, the Chen family. In addition to the main line of Chen Wan, during the period from Chen's civil strife to the death of the country, there were three descendants of the Chen Guogong clan who fled to other places and also took the country as their surname Chen.

Migratory distribution

Pre-Qin period. The surname Chen is mainly active in Henan, Anhui and Hubei, and during the Qin and Han dynasties, the footprints of the surname Chen have set foot in Hunan, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shandong.

In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains was turbulent, and the residents of Xiaoshu moved south one after another, and Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangshou were already the main areas where the surname Chen moved back to the west.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Henan was solid.

People are the main force, Chen Zheng Chen Yuanguang father and son led 58 surnames through Jiangxi to invade Fujian, four generations of ancestors and grandchildren have been the chief executive of Zhangzhou region, descendants respect Chen Yuanguang as the "Holy King of Kaizhang", and his descendants have become the main faction of the surname Chen in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and Nanyang Islands.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Shenzhi, the founder of the Gu Dynasty, established the Fujian State in Fujian, and a large number of Central Plains Chen surnames immigrated to Fujian again, and since then, the Chen surname has become the first surname in the southeast region.

Among the many surnames in China, the surname Chen is the fifth most common surname in China in terms of population. The surname Chen was first derived from the surname of Concubine and was a descendant of Emperor Shun. After King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, he found Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun, and sealed him in the place of Chen to establish the Chen State.

By the time of Chen Mingong, the state of Chen was destroyed by Chu, and the descendants of the state of Chen after the death of the country took the name of the original country as their surname, so they had the surname Chen.

In addition to the name of the country, the surname Chen is also changed from other surnames, one of which is changed from the surname of ethnic minorities. According to the records of the Book of Wei and the Records of the Official Family, after the Xianbei nobleman Hou Mochen moved the capital to Luoyang with Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty during the Northern Wei Dynasty, Hou Mochen changed his surname to Chen.

The surname Chen changed. After thousands of years of multiplication, Chen. Later, his grandson Chen Shida became the county magistrate of the Great Wall (now Changxing, Zhejiang), so the people surnamed Chen moved to Zhejiang. The people surnamed Chen have spread all over the land of China, forming the Chen family centered on Yingchuan, Runan, Xiapi, Guangling, Donghai and other places.

The Chen surname moved south from its birthplace, starting with Chen Bo, the Taiwei of the Western Jin Dynasty, who moved his family south to the present-day Danyang County, Jiangsu Province, and established the Southern Dynasty Chen, making the Chen family prominent for a time, covering the vast area between the Yangtze River and the Guangdong River. During the time of Tang Gaozong, people surnamed Chen entered Fujian and Guangdong. After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Central Plains region was in turmoil for a long time, and a large number of people with the surname Chen moved south, and even developed overseas, thus further expanding the team of people surnamed Chen in the south of the Yangtze River.

Today, the surname Chen has become the fifth most common surname in Chinese mainland and the first surname in Taiwan.

According to the record of "Tongzhi Clan Luo": After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the king of the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, he found Shun's descendant "Chen Hu Gongfei Man", sealed him in the place of Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan), and established the "Chen State". Hu Gongman passed to the tenth grandson concubine, Chen was in turmoil, Chen Ligong's son concubine was afraid of himself, fled to Qi State, and took the old country as his clan, called Chen.

The surname Chen, one of the Chinese surnames, is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname, which is mainly derived from the surname of the concubine and the change of the surname of ethnic minorities. Chen Hugong is the ancestor of the surname Chen.

Demographics of the surname Chen

The distribution frequency of the surname Chen in the population indicates that the surname Chen is widely distributed, but uneven. In Taiwan and southeastern Fujian, the proportion of the surname Chen in the local population is generally above, and the coverage area accounts for the total land area.

Then, the proportion to the northwest gradually decreased, and in the 100-kilometer-wide strip from eastern Zhejiang in the east to southwest to southern Guangdong, the proportion of the local population with the surname Chen was there, covering an area of the total land area.

Further to the northwest, in the east from Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang Province to the southwest to the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong Province in front of the width of 120-200 kilometers, this proportion is in, covering 2% of the total land area. Further to the northwest, in the east from the south of Jiangsu to the southwest to the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong to Hainan 200-300 kilometers wide, this proportion is in, covering the total land area.

In the vast area from the north of Jiangsu in the east to the Sichuan Basin in the west, the eastern part of Yunnan, and the south to Guangxi, this proportion accounts for the total land area. The western part of Yunnan, the western part of Xichuan, the eastern part of Qinghai, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningbo, Henan, Shandong, the southern part of Shanxi, the eastern part of Hebei, the eastern part of Inner Mongolia, the three northeastern provinces, and the northwest of Xinjiang account for the total land area.

In the west of Qinghai Lake, the northern part of Shanxi, the northwest of Hebei, and most of Inner Mongolia, the proportion of Lu ant rent is below, and the area covered accounts for 32% of the total land area, of which the proportion is less than 1% of the land area.