Historical Changes of the Cheng Family

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Cheng's family had been distributed in Jize, Hebei, Luoyang, Henan and Xianyang, Shaanxi. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Cheng Ben, a famous scholar of Jin State, moved to Qilu. When the three clans were divided into Jin, their descendants moved to Handan, the capital of Zhao. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Lu family moved to Qionglai, Shu (now Sichuan Province) and other places, and other Cheng surnames also moved to Wucheng, Zhejiang Province and Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. In short, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, Cheng's surname had propagated in the area south of the Great Wall in North China. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cheng Pu (Feng Run, Hebei) settled in Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), and the descendants of Cheng Yuanzhang (Shangchengju, Luoyang) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty settled in Ruodun, Anhui. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Runan (now Xiangcheng, Henan Province) moved to Jiaozhou (now Guangzhou) with a long history, and some branches settled in Chengxiang (now Meizhou, Guangdong). In the Western Jin Dynasty, a man named Cheng was an official in Wuwei and Zhangye, Gansu Province, and Cheng began to take root in the northwest of the motherland. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, more than 2,000 households of the Cheng family in Luoyang moved to Dongsheng House (now Togtoh, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) to settle down. During the Five Dynasties, the Xin 'ancheng family in the south of the Yangtze River moved back to Boye, Zhongshan (now Lixian County, Hebei Province) from Anhui, and some of its descendants moved to Liquan, Shaanxi. In short, during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, at the junction of Anhui and Zhejiang provinces today, people surnamed Cheng became more and more densely distributed and gradually spread to Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places. At the same time, people named Cheng once lived in the Pearl River Basin in Lingnan in the south, the Mongolian grassland beyond the Great Wall in the north, the Hexi Corridor in the west and the eastern coast in the east. Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Xijing, Luoyang, revived Cheng's surname in Henan. Nomads from the south, the descendants of Elo also moved south with the Song Dynasty. Cheng Hao's eldest son moved to Wuxian, Jiangsu, Cheng Yi's eldest son moved to Lu 'an, Anhui, the second moved to Jincheng (now Jurong, Jiangsu) and the third moved to Chizhou (now Guichi, Anhui). Since the Southern Song Dynasty, the Cheng family in Henan has become one of the main sources of the Cheng family's reproduction in the south of the Yangtze River. During Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, some Cheng surnames in Luoyang moved to Guilin and Guizhou. Cheng Deyong, the ninth grandson of Cheng Yi in Yuan Dynasty, returned to Luoyang from Chizhou, and there was already a surname of Cheng among the ethnic minorities in Guizhou. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Cheng was once distributed in a large area of China. Historically, Cheng's surname was mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and other provinces in the north. In the south, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other provinces are dominant. Today, Cheng surnames in Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Shandong and other provinces account for 60% of the national Cheng surnames. Among them, Henan has the largest number. It is said that Cheng has formed 98 factions throughout the country, among which Henan has 18 factions, with the largest number of factions. Cheng is the 3rd1surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about 0.59% of the Han population in China.

Historically, Cheng's surname was mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and other provinces in the north. In the south, Anhui, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other provinces are dominant. Today, Cheng surnames in Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan, Shandong and other provinces account for 60% of the national Cheng surnames. Among them, Henan has the largest number. It is said that Cheng has formed 98 factions throughout the country, among which Henan has 18 factions, with the largest number of factions. Cheng is the 3rd1surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about 0.59% of the Han population in China.