Where are Zan surnames from?

Zan surnames are distributed all over China, not limited to one or two places.

In the early days, the Zan family mainly lived in Henan, Shanxi and other places, with Taiyuan County (now Shanxi) as the county hope. Since then, due to the war in the Central Plains, it has gradually moved to Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Jiangnan and other places. In the early Ming Dynasty, as an immigrant from Hongdong County, the Zan family moved to Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places today, and became a famous family in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu). At present, the population of Zan surname in China has not yet entered the top 300.

History of long surname

Zan surname is Han nationality, and Zan surname is one of China surnames. There is no reliable information about the origin of the surname Zan. First seen in Xingyuan, it was the surname of Shu (now Sichuan) in history, and another was changed by Lu in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It is also said that Zan's surname originated from Zi's surname, which came from the early Shang Dynasty and belonged to the name of the ancestor. "Tu" surname is a very old surname, which comes from "Tu Dan", one of the five ministers in Shang Tang period, who was in charge of water and soil at that time.