Where is Zhang's ancestral home?

Zhang was born in Qinghe, Hebei, and Puyang, Henan.

Zhang, the third surname of China, comes from Ji's surname and is a descendant of Xuanyuan Huangdi. The descendants of the eldest son of the Yellow Emperor invented the bow and arrow and were appointed as the official in charge of it. Later generations lived in Qinghe, Hebei Province in an official name. You can go to Qinghe, Hebei and Puyang, Henan to seek roots and worship your ancestors. Zhang surname comes from Ji surname and changed surname.

1, from Ji's surname

(1) comes from Sun Hui, the ancient Huangdi, and its source belongs to the official title. This Zhang family originated in Qingyang (that is, Qingyang in the east of Qinghe County, Hebei Province) and is a family. There is a folk saying that "Zhang's surname stays in Qinghe in the world".

(2) Descendants of the Yellow Emperor's surname Ji who took the word as their surname.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor in the State of Jin named Zhang, also known as Zhang.

2. It comes from changing the surname.

(1) comes from Nie surname. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Liao, a general of Wei, was originally named Nie, but his family changed his surname to Zhang to avoid resentment, and his descendants also took Zhang as their surname.

(2) From a given surname. Dragon, the leader of Nanman, lived in Yunnan. Zhuge Liang of Shu gave him the surname Zhang in the Three Kingdoms, and later generations took Zhang as their surname.

③ Originated from Gu Xi nationality. Zhang Zhongzhi, a native of Xi, now lives in Fanyang. Because he was good at riding and shooting, he was adopted as his adopted son by the prefect of Fan Yang, and his adoptive father's surname was Zhang. After Zhang Zhongzhi repeatedly made meritorious military service, he was appointed as Zhao Guogong by the Ministry of Rites.

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 to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang surname