Migration and distribution of Chang surname

Chang surname is an ancient Han surname, ranking 222nd in China and 735th in Taiwan Province Province, with a population of about 455,000, accounting for 0.0028% of the total population of China. During the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Central Plains was in turmoil and smoke was everywhere. Like other gentry in the Central Plains, the Chang family escaped from troubled times and entered southern provinces such as Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Changshi County in Henan Province still existed, but Linzhang, the seat of Wei County, was burned down by the war several times, so Changshi had to run around, and his family moved to Shanxi, which is a mountain and river outside, and settled in Hedong County in southern Shanxi. In the middle Tang Dynasty, Chang Dang, who was famous for a poem with the same name as Wang Zhihuan, was from Hedong County. This poem and Wang's poem are both good poems with mixed scenes. The poem says, "Jiong Lin. The Southern Song Dynasty was partial to the south of the Yangtze River. After Mongolian fighters trampled on the south of the Yangtze River at the end of the Song Dynasty, Chang people could not bear the pain of war, or made a living, or fled, or their officials gradually dispersed in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Sichuan and other provinces. In the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Changshi moved to Beijing, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan and other places as one of the surnames of people who moved to Hongtong Sophora japonica. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the mainstream of Chang's reproduction was still in the north, and then there were various natural migration movements such as going west and crossing Kanto, and the Chang's family gradually distributed in northwest, northeast and south China.

Today, Taiyuan City, Yuncheng City, Wanrong County, Linyi City, Qinshui County, Yangcheng County, Gaoping City, Pingyao City, Wenshui County of Luliang City, Houma County of Linfen City, Quwo County, Shuozhou City, Qixian County of Jinzhong City, Taigu County, huozhou city City, Shanyin County, Xiangfen County, Chengguan District of Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, and Longxi County of Dingxi City. Zhengzhou, Nanyang and Xinyang in Henan Province, Huojia, Yuanyang, Jin Meng, Sanmenxia, Pingdingshan, Zhumadian and Xuchang in Luoyang City, Shenyang and Liaoyang in Liaoning Province, Suzhou, Lianyungang and Siyang in Jiangsu Province, Xianghe, Wen 'an, Longyao, Dingzhou and Quyang in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Qingdao, Shandong, changji city, Karamay, Aksu, Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Xiangtan, Hunan, Kunming, Jilin, Tongyu, Hohhot, Baotou, Qiqihar, Wuhan, Xiangyang, Chengdu, Sichuan, Suining, Guangzhou, Guangdong, Haidian and Tianjin.