Why do people with the surname Chen in Jieyang Downstairs Village change their surname to Lin after their death?

Because a long time ago, the surnames Chen and Lin were from the same family. You can find out below. Lin surname: Bigan is the son of Shang Emperor Taiding, and is brother to Taiyi, the father of King Zhou. In terms of seniority, he should be King Zhou's uncle. When he was massacred for his loyal advice, his son fled to Changlin Mountain. Soon after, King Wu of Zhou destroyed Zhou and made Biganlong the god of the country. His descendants were given the surname Lin, and they lived in Boling (now Anping County, Hebei Province). During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, their descendants were scattered throughout Shandong and Henan in the north. After Qin Shihuang unified the world, they gradually settled in Jinan, Shandong, and became a prominent family, and gradually multiplied southward. By the time the Jin Dynasty crossed south, Jiangnan There are already traces of the Lin surname, and by the Tang and Song Dynasties, the clan members had spread all over Fujian. In addition to the above-mentioned one, the surname Lin has other origins. According to legend, during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, King Ping of Zhou had a concubine whose name was Kai and whose courtesy name was Lin. His descendants took his surname as Lin. Later, he gave birth to Ziying, Ying gave birth to Mao, Qing and so on. Because King Ping of Zhou established his capital in Luoyang, this Lin surname also originated from Nanjun, where Luoyang is today. Therefore, genealogy books also call them Henan Lin surnames. In addition, during the Northern Wei Dynasty, the Xianbei people had surnames such as Qiu Lin. During Emperor Xiaowen's surname change movement, the surname was also changed to Lin, and his registration was registered as a native of Luoyang, Henan. The above three Lin surnames are derived from the main bloodlines of today's Lin surname. Among the people with the surname Lin today, there are also descendants of ethnic minorities with the surname Lin in Jianzhou, Fujian during the Tang Dynasty; some people who changed their surname from the compound surname Fan Lin; some people who changed their surname from the surname Lan; and some people who changed their surname from Liu. Nine people changed their surnames; some are descendants of Mongolian Khan Kutuktu Khan; and some people changed their surnames from Zhu. Chen surname: The surname Chen is mainly derived from the surname Chen Hu Gongman in the early years of the Zhou Dynasty. According to legend, Hu Gongman was a descendant of Yu Shun, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Shun lost his mother when he was young, and his stepmother was unkind and often beat and abused him. However, he obeyed and respected his stepmother even more. Because of his love of learning and filial piety, he was famous all over the world. In the last years of Emperor Yao, he not only married his two daughters Ehuang and Nvying, but also passed on his throne to his family. Therefore, when Shun was in power, the world was in great order and the people were prosperous. In addition, he often "mixed with the jade candle, breathed in the eternal wind, fed on the fire of the temple, drank from the sweet spring" and shared the joys and sorrows with the people, so he won the people even more support. After his death, it was passed down to Hu Gongman for about 33 generations. In 1045 BC (the second year after the founding of King Wu of Zhou), he was enfeoffed by King Wu of Zhou in Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan), where he established a vassal state and screened the royal family. The fiefdom was in Chen (Fuxi established his capital in Wanqiu, and Emperor Yan subsequently built his capital on its original site, so it was called Chen, and later Chenzhou), and its capital was Wanqiu (a low mound in the middle with high surrounding mounds today in Huaiyang, Henan). No. Chen. According to the custom of naming clans in Xutu, Guiman took the name of the country as the Chen clan, and was known as Chen Man. He was the ancestor of the Chen clan, and the Chen clan started from then on. After the fall of the Chen Kingdom, Chen Mingong's eldest son Jian changed his name to Yan to avoid the disaster of the country's collapse. He fled to Yangwu Hufu (in the northeast of present-day Lankao County, Henan), married the Tan family, and gave birth to two sons, the eldest son. Their names were Chen Lian and their second son Chen Ji, both of whom served as officials in the State of Qi. Their descendants include Chen Ping, the prime minister of the Western Han Dynasty; the second son of Duke Chen Ming, Quan Wen, fled to the State of Jin (in today's Shanxi Province) to avoid disaster, and his descendants Chen Menglian was appointed as the Hou Xiang of Gushi (now part of Henan Province), so he moved his family to Gushi. His sixth grandson, Chen Yinqi, was the governor of Xindu. He had good governance but had no children, so he took Chen Yan of Yingchuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty as his heir. Chen Laogao, the grandson of Yan, then sent his fifth son Chen Daxin to move to Gushi County, Shouzhou during the Southern Song Dynasty to inherit the Chen family's legacy in Gushi. Among the early migrations of the Chen surname, another group moved to Yangcheng (now southeast of Dengfeng, Henan) for refuge. At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng, the first peasant uprising leader in China, emerged. In the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Chen Sheng, as the commander of the camp, was ordered to lead the requisitioned people to garrison Yuyang (southwest of Miyun County, Beijing City). He encountered heavy rain on the way and was unable to arrive as scheduled. According to the law, he missed the deadline. Those who do should be beheaded. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were forced to take a desperate risk. They attacked and killed the school captain who was escorting the garrison soldiers, and led 900 garrison soldiers to revolt. The whole country responded and the momentum quickly grew. When he entered Chen County (Yin, Huaiyang, Henan), he was elected as king by his subordinates. His country was named Zhang Chu, which means Zhang Da Chu Kingdom. He sent troops to attack the city and occupied many places. Later, the Qin army counterattacked and advanced into Chen County, the capital of Zhang Chu. Chen Sheng was forced to lead his troops to retreat. When they reached Xiachengfu (southeast of today's Woyang County, Anhui), he was killed by the coachman Zhuang Jia. His bones were buried at the southwest foot of Beimangdang Mountain in Yongcheng City, Henan Province today. After Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, he assigned 30 households to guard Chen Sheng's tomb and offer sacrifices every year. Chen Sheng's tomb has been repaired by various generations and still stands tall today. It is surrounded by green pines and cypresses. In front of the tomb is a tombstone inscribed by Guo Moruo: "The Tomb of Chen Sheng, the Leader of the Peasant Uprising in the Late Qin Dynasty". It is a key cultural relic protection unit in Henan Province. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, wars continued in the Central Plains. People from all walks of life fled south across the Yangtze River and immigrated to various provinces south of the Yangtze River. A group of people moved to Fujian Province today, including the Chen family. The Chen family, together with people surnamed Lin, Huang, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu, were the first immigrants from the Central Plains to enter Fujian. This is what is recorded in the "Book of Fujian": "In the second year of Yongjia, the Central Plains was shaken, and the clothes and clothes were the first to enter Fujian. The eight ethnic groups are the so-called Lin, Huang, Chen, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu. We can know that Lin and Chen were originally from the same family. Later, Chen returned to Lin, but the ancestral home cannot be changed. In our village, the history belongs to the family. We Liu, haha... After returning home, some habits cannot be simplified. Do you know the customs of Chaoshan? That's it, thank you.