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The Chen family entered Fujian

With the development of history, China's population gradually expanded from the Yellow River Basin to the Yangtze River Basin and Lingnan and other southern areas. According to historical records, China has had four major waves of population migration to the south:

1. The Chen surname moved south for the first time;

During the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it was a famous turbulent period in the history of our country. The Central Plains ethnic groups who suffered from the turmoil migrated in batches to Fujian and other places far away from the Central Plains.

① The first group of people moved to Fujian during the Yongjia period of the Jin Dynasty. A melee between princes occurred in the north; the "Eight Kings Rebellion" was historically known as the "Yongjia Rebellion". In the Central Plains, there are "eight tribes whose clothes and clothes have entered Fujian". Among these eight ethnic groups, the eight surnames Chen, Lin, Huang, Zheng, Zhan, Qiu, He and Hu moved south from Gushi County, Guangzhou, Henan Province for the first time to settle in Fuzhou, central and southern Fujian, Fujian. Chen Run, the governor of Nanhai County, crossed the Yangtze River and entered Fujian in the second year of Yongjia in Jin Dynasty (AD 308). He lived in Wushi Mountain, Fuzhou. He was the first ancestor of the Chen family to enter Fujian. Most of the Chen family in Fujian originated from Chen Run, and their descendants are distributed in Fuzhou, Putian, Xianyou, Fuqing, Quanzhou, Longhai, Haiden, Dongshan and Nanping. This move to the south still retains historical traces in the place names in Fujian today, such as Jin'an River in Fuzhou, Jinjiang and Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, etc., which were all named after the Central Plains entered Fujian in the Jin Dynasty.

② The second group of immigrants moved to Fujian during the Yuanxing period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Due to the outbreak of a peasant uprising, the rebel army, led by Sun En, gathered tens of thousands of people and moved to the southeastern region. After Sun En died in battle, more than 2,000 people remained, from Linhai to Dongyang, to Jin'an (Fuzhou) and the coastal areas of southern Fujian, where they made a living by building ships and sailing.

③The third group of immigrants moved to Fujian during the "Hou Jing Rebellion" from Taiqing to Chengsheng in Nanliang during the Southern and Northern Dynasties (548-552 AD). Many people entered Fujian to avoid the chaos. Jian'an (Jian'ou), Jin'an (Fuzhou), Ngee'an (Chaozhou) and other places. They fled to Fujian, but they still had lingering fears. They were afraid that their residence would not be far away and their hiding place would not be secret, so they often moved into deep mountains and poor valleys, which played a great role in the development of Fujian's mountainous areas. At the same time, in the late Nanchen period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties (AD 580), Emperor Chen Wen’s fifth son Chen Bogong, king of Jin’an, Chen Shuqing, the fourth son of Emperor Chen Xuan, king of Jian’an, and Chen Shujian, the nineteenth son of Emperor Chen Xuan, king of Nan’an, entered Fujian to establish their foundations. Their descendants were distributed in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Jianyang and other places.

2． The Chen surname moved south for the second time;

In the second year of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty (AD 669), the barbarians in southern Fujian were in chaos. Chen Zheng, a native of Gushi in Guangzhou, Henan, and the commander-in-chief of the Lingnan march, was ordered to lead the troops. Three thousand six hundred people (leading fifty-eight military officers) entered Fujian. They first lived in Fengting and Chenluyuan, Xianyou County for eight years, and then stationed troops in Yunxiao. After Chen Zheng's death, Chen Yuanguang, who was only 21 years old, went to Fujian with his grandmother and succeeded his father. After nine years of bloody battles, the border between Fujian and Guangdong was pacified. In the second year of Chui Gong (686 AD), Zhangzhou County was established. Chen Yuanguang The first governor of Zhangzhou, he was honored as the "King of Kai Zhang". Most of the Chen family in southern Fujian and Taiwan descended from Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang. Their descendants are mainly distributed in southern Fujian, Xiamen, Xianyou, Taiwan, Kinmen and other places.

Chen Hongjin, the 11th grandson of Chen Zheng, the king of Qingyuan County in Tang Dynasty, moved back to Xianyou Fengting to start a clan and build "Dexing Hall". Because he donated the two counties of Zhangzhou and Quanzhou, accepted the land to the Song Dynasty, and made great contributions to the unification of the country, he was named Qi Guogong, Qi Guogong, Yu Zhongshu Ling, and was posthumously named the king of Nankang County in the East China Sea, with the posthumous title Zhongshun. His fourth brother and seventh son were all granted the title of marquis, and later they were called the "Hou Lan" and "Five Hou" clans. They were distributed in Fengting and Jiaowei in Xianyou, Chendai, Zhangzhou in Quanzhou, and Chaozhou in eastern Guangdong.

During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Zhongyuan borrowed money from Zhouguili, Hongdu Township, Wanxian County, Jingzhao Prefecture (today's Chang'an, Shaanxi Province) to serve as an official in the Tang Dynasty and presented it to the Duke of E. His son Chen Yong was a Jinshi during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong and served as an official prince and tutor. Because of his disagreement with Li Linfu, he was banished to Fujian at the same time as his father in the 24th year of Kaiyuan of Tang Dynasty (AD 736). He first lived in Xianyou County, Xinghua Prefecture. On Fengtingjingjing, it was moved to Quanzhou Hui'an after the Sheji Altar, and then to Nanxiang Mountain on Nanyi Road in Zhangzhou, and was later granted the title of King Zhongshun. His sons Yize and Yixi lived in Jiahe Island (today's Xiamen), and Yishi moved to Fuzhou area. He is the founder of the Nanyuan Taifu sect, and his descendants are mostly distributed in Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Fuzhou.

3． The Chen surname moved south for the third time;

In the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, due to court corruption and successive wars, Huang Chao led the peasants to protest. Brothers Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi from Gushi in Guangzhou in the Central Plains led tens of thousands of peasant uprising troops He entered Fujian via Zhejiang and Jiangxi. In the first year of Kaiping in the Five Dynasties (AD 907), Wang Shenzhi was named King of Fujian by Liang Taizu, and later established the country of Fujian. According to historical records, "Eighteen surnames came to Fujian from Wang", and Wang Shenzhi was called "the ancestor of the people who opened Fujian". Among the Chen family who followed Wang Shenzhi's brothers to Fujian, Chen Siweng went to Tong'an to establish his foundation, and his descendants are distributed in Tong'an, Xiamen, Changle, Gutian and other places. Chen Bi established his foundation in Xianyou, and his descendants multiplied and developed in Puxian and Jinjiang areas.

4． The surname Chen moved south for the fourth time;

During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, ethnic conflicts became acute and caused nationwide unrest. At the end of the Song Dynasty (AD 1278), Emperor Zhao Bing of the Southern Song Dynasty took the Song royal family and fled south to Fujian, which led to a historical wave of large numbers of northern people migrating southward. The descendants of the Zhao royal family who moved south this time gathered together in remote mountain villas in southern Fujian. The direct descendants of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin live in Yintang Village, Fengshan Town, Hua'an County, and are called the "royal" branch of the Zhao family. The descendants of Zhao Guangmei Yanmai, the younger brother of Song Taizu, lived in Zhaojiabao, Huxi Town, Zhangpu County, and were called the "royal" sect of the Zhao family. Along with the Zhao royal family's southward migration, many members of the Chen clan also moved to various parts of Fujian, pursued by Yuan soldiers.

In short, among the several southern migrations of northern immigrants in history, the second and third southward migrations had the largest population and the greatest impact, and most of them were dominated by the Gushi people of Guangzhou, Henan. In the process of migrating south, one route passed through Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi and entered Fuzhou, Puxian, Quanzhou, and southern Fujian. The other route goes over the Wuyi Mountains in the south of Jiangxi, enters Tingzhou and Ninghua in western Fujian, and then turns to Chaozhou and Meixian in eastern Guangdong.

At that time, the population of the Central Plains moved southward, bringing with it the developed culture and advanced agriculture and handicraft technologies of the Central Plains, which greatly promoted the reproduction of the population and the development of the economy in Fujian