Immigrants in Hefei County in the Early Ming Dynasty

It has always been common to change the surname of the landlord.

In general, there are the following situations: avoiding disasters; Adoption; Go out and step in; Give a surname; Alien localization and so on.

As for Zhu Yuanzhang's persecution of Chen, he must be a persecuted descendant of Chen Youliang, and most descendants of Chen Youliang changed their surnames, such as Liu, Guo and Zhou. But in fact, Chen Youliang is not surnamed Chen, but his real name is Xie, which belongs to the situation of adoption. And Chen Youliang's descendants have never heard of anyone who changed his surname to Fu. As for other people surnamed Chen and Chen Youliang, there is no need to change their surnames because of Chen Youliang.

Fengyang House in Anhui Province is the hometown of Zhu Yuanzhang. If Chen was persecuted by him and fled from other places, how could he choose Anhui? This is very doubtful.

In addition, in fact, many histories about surnames are not recorded, such as adoption and adoption. People who change their surnames may only know it from their genealogy. Not even in the official history.

So I think the landlord had better check how your family records it. Then we can discuss it. I prefer to study hundreds of surnames. Welcome to communicate.