According to "Xingyuan" cited in "The County Looks at Hundreds of Family Surnames": The Huan family looks out to Dongyang. "Five Books on Surnames" says: This surname exists in Zunyi County, Guizhou Province today. There are also many in Danyang County, Jiangxi. Dongyang County: established in the first year of Wu Baoding of the Three Kingdoms (AD 266), equivalent to today's Jinhua area in Zhejiang Province. Zhongshan County: ① Zhongshan State, the capital of the Warring States Period (equivalent to today's Ding County in northern Hebei Province). It was once destroyed by Wei, and after the restoration of the country, it moved to Lingshou (now northeast of Pingshan). It was destroyed by Zhao in 296 BC. ②The Shang Emperor of the Han Dynasty established a county and a country to govern Lunu (today's Ding County). Later Yan considered it the capital. Sui waste. ③In the Song Dynasty, Dingzhou was designated as Zhongshan Prefecture, with good public security (today's Ding County). ④What is now Zhongshan County has been Xiangshan County since the Song Dynasty. The name was changed after Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925. Sun Yat-sen's hometown is Cuiheng Village in the south of the county. Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty established it.
The origin of "Huan"
The surname Hu?n has a pure origin. It comes from one source: it comes from an official family other than eunuchs, with official names. called clan. During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor bestowed surnames on the princes and Taibao officials. The surname Huan became popular. According to the "Five Books on Surnames" of the Qing Dynasty: the surname "Huan" should be taken from officials, not eunuchs. Today, Zunyi, Guizhou has this surname, and there are also many people in Danyang, Jiangsu and Jiangdu, Jiangsu. "Xingyuan" also contains: "Huan surname, famous family from Dongyang." "Jiangyin County Chronicle" records: "In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, he was a Jinshi official with the courtesy name Zongxi." ?
2. Originated from Chen Meilin, a descendant of Shun. During the Warring States Period, there was a strange man, Gui Guzi, who was proficient in astrological divination and military strategies. His disciples were all high-ranking officials and he became famous for a while. Famous ones include Su Qin, Zhang Yi, Pang Juan, Sun Bin, etc. Chen Meilin was also his disciple. After his studies came down, he found it difficult to enter the official career and failed to get an official position. In the end, his wife also left him. Before he died, he told his son, "I have never entered an official career in my life. I hope you can fulfill this wish and change your name to an eunuch to comfort this thought." So his descendants took Huan as their surname.
3. The Mongolian surnames Helechude and Helechuti were changed to Han surnames as Huan.
4. Tujia surnames.
Migration distribution
The surname Huan is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan. The surname Huan comes from officialdom, which originally meant being an official. Therefore, some people who expected to be an official took "Huan" as their surname. According to the "Five Books on Surnames" of the Qing Dynasty: the surname "Huan" should be taken from officials, not eunuchs. But in the old days, some people thought it came from eunuchs. A eunuch is a person in the imperial palace who, after being purified, specializes in serving the emperor's relatives and concubines. Because he was close to the royal family and could sometimes hold great power, some people also took this eunuch as their surname. Development and evolution: Later, eunuchs developed to refer to people in the palace who specialized in serving the emperor's relatives and concubines after their death. Although due to their proximity to the royal family, there have been several eunuchs with great influence in history (such as Gao Lishi in the Tang Dynasty). They sometimes wielded great power, so some people also took the eunuch as their surname. However, because eunuchs were discriminated against, many descendants with the surname "Huan" changed their surname to him, and the number of people with the surname Huan became less and less. Nowadays, some Huan surname families have been found in Zunyi County, Guizhou and Danyang County, Jiangsu Province. There are also a large number of Huan surnames living in Wanzhou, Zhongxian County, Chongqing and other places. Prominent families with the surname Huan lived in Dongyang (now Jinhua, Zhejiang Province) and Zhongshan (Ding County, Hebei Province).
Hall number
The main hall numbers of Huan surnames are: Dongyang Hall, etc.