The origin of Zhang's surname

Mainly from the changes of Ji surname and minority surname. Zhang Hui is the ancestor of this surname. Historically, during the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Er was made king of Zhao by Liu Bang, and Zhang Gui, the seventeenth grandson of Zhang Er (255-3 14), established the former cool country.

Zhang ranked 24th in the Song version of Hundred Family Names. By 2007, according to the statistical analysis of the registered population in China by the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, Zhang's population ranked third in the country, accounting for 87.502 million, accounting for 6.83% of the total population.

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Migration and communication

Zhang was first active in Qingyang, and his hometown was in Puyang, Henan and Qinghe, Hebei. It was not until the Western Period that there was a trace of Zhang in Shaanxi, and Zhong Zhang was engraved on the bronze wares of the Western Zhou Dynasty. They were nobles of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhong Zhang assisted Zhou Xuanwang in revitalizing the Western Zhou Dynasty.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin was the most important area in Zhang's development history. Hedong "Jieyi" is an important gathering place and birthplace of Zhang (in ancient times on the east bank of the Yellow River in Linyi, Shanxi). Zhang Bei is a matter of Jin, and Jin destroys the aftermath of Korea.

Zhang Lao and (that is) are both doctors in the state of Jin. The descendants of North Korean aristocrat Zhang Lao became the first hero of the founding of the Han Dynasty, and were regarded as ancestors by some descendants of Zhang. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, people surnamed Zhang mainly lived in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other regions.

The Qin and Han dynasties were an important period for the development and reproduction of Zhang's surname. Zhang entered Sichuan in the early Qin Dynasty, and most of them were descendants of Sanjin nobles. In the anti-Qin war and the subsequent dispute between Chu and Han, his political inclination was obvious, he made achievements in the war and was awarded a title. Then go west to Ningxia, Gansu.

Zhang's crowd activity area quickly developed to the whole north, northwest and Sichuan, becoming the first surname in the northern region at that time. At the same time, the descendants of Sean who stayed in the Western Han Dynasty set out from Shaanxi, moved to Hebei and entered Jiangsu, and crossed the Yangtze River and entered Jiangnan. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang arrived in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places.

After entering the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the war in the north, a large number of ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains, and people surnamed Zhang migrated to the south and southeast and continued to develop to the northwest. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Zhang people set foot in the northeast, and Bohai Bay became an important gathering place for the Zhang people. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zhang began to emigrate to Huguang and Yungui areas. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it began to enter Taiwan Province Province from Guangdong.

Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang