The surname Zhan has a long and complicated origin. According to the "Ciyuan" record: "Zhan had Zhan's father and Zhan Hengbo in Zhou Dynasty. It is said that he came from a branch of King Xuan of Zhou." It is also recorded: "Jin had Zhan Jia, Guo You Father Zhan, Zheng had Uncle Zhan. "Zhan Zhan of Jin Dynasty is different from the son of King Xuan. It can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the surname Zhan was distributed in Jin (now Shanxi), Guo (now northwest of Zhengzhou, Henan), and Zheng (now Xinzheng, Henan). area) and other places. During the Warring States Period, there was the warlock Zhan He in Chu (in today's Hubei Province), in the Western Han Dynasty there was the Xiongnu Chanyu Zhan Shilu (kept for future reference), and in the Eastern Han Dynasty there was Wuling (governing the south of today's Xupu, Hubei Province) Man Zhan Mountain. It can be seen that during the Han Dynasty and before, people with the surname Zhan settled in what is now Hubei and Hunan. Of course, there are historical data that show that most of the Zhan surnames in the Han Dynasty flourished in the ancient Bohai County and Hejian County. The Yongjia Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty led to unprecedented catastrophes. From then on, the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms began, and the migration of Han descendants to the south in the Central Plains also began. This was the famous first great ethnic migration in the history of our country. At that time, with the expansion of the turmoil, surnames from the Central Plains gradually appeared in today's East China, South China, and Central South China. Among the eight surnames in Fujian at that time, the surname Zhan was established early in the south, and it naturally developed into a famous family in the south of my country. One of the surnames. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period, the Central Plains was in chaos and war smoke was rising again. At that time, the people in the north wanted to avoid the war, supported the old and the young, and moved southward in search of a pure land. The descendants of the Zhan family were no exception, and they moved southward. This made There are already many Zhan families in the south, and their ranks are even larger. For example, Zhan Dunren came from Guangzhou, Henan to escape chaos and lived in seclusion in Xianyou, Fujian, and then settled there. During the two Song dynasties, many celebrities with the surname Zhan appeared in the annals of history, and most of them were from the south. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Zhan surname was one of the surnames of the immigrants from the Hongdong Sophora japonica tree, and was relocated to Shandong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, with the improvement of my country's navigation technology, some people surnamed Zhan from coastal areas such as Fujian and Guangdong crossed the sea to Taiwan to make a living. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong massacred Sichuan, causing a sharp decline in the population of Sichuan. Later, people surnamed Zhan from Hunan and Hubei followed the trend of Huguang filling Sichuan and moved to the present-day Sichuan and Chongqing. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Zhan surname spread more widely, and some people with the Zhan surname sailed to the South Sea and migrated to Southeast Asia. Nowadays, the surname Zhan is widely distributed across the country, mostly in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Taiwan and other provinces. In modern times, due to the misuse of Zhan and Zhan in the simplified characters, many people with the surname Zhan People using the surname Zhan appeared in newspapers and magazines. In fact, Zhan and Zhan are two different surnames.