1. The surname Jiang has a relatively pure origin, mainly derived from the surname Ji. Its lineage and origin are related to the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty. According to "Zuo Zhuan", "Tangshu Genealogy List of Prime Ministers", "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", etc., Zhou Gong Ji Dan, the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou, had a son named Bo Ling. During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou He was granted the title of Chiang (Chiang Ji in the northeast of today's Gushi, Henan, or west of Guangshan County in today's Henan), established the Jiang Kingdom, and was made an earl. Historically, he was called Uncle Jiang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiang was destroyed by Chu, and Uncle Jiang's descendants took the country's name and called them the Jiang family. 2. Other ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Lahu, Baoan, Brown, Miao, Yao, Dai, Tujia, Zhuang, Qiang and Kucong people have this surname.
The surname was Jiang Boling, the ancestor. He was the third son of Zhou Gongdan. After King Wu of Zhou Jifa destroyed the debauched and unprincipled King of Shang Zhou, he established the Zhou Dynasty. He died shortly after his reign and was succeeded by King Cheng of Zhou. Because King Cheng was young, he was succeeded by Zhou Gongdan. As regent, Zhou Gongdan assisted King Cheng in quelling the rebellion of Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou of Shang, and the Yi people in the East. He established the patriarchal system, established a system of laws and regulations, and continued to enfeoff the princes with the same surname. Among them, his third son Bo Ling was granted the title of Chiang Kai-shek. Uncle Jiang. In 617 BC, the state of Jiang was destroyed by the state of Chu. Later, the descendants took the name of the country and respected Jiang Boling as the ancestor of the surname Jiang.
Proliferation and Migration Henan is the original birthplace of the Jiang surname. After the Chu destroyed Chiang, most of the people with the Jiang surname moved abroad except for some who stayed in Henan. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, some people with the Jiang surname moved west to Shaanxi and east to Shandong. Among them, the Jiang surname flourished most in Boxing and Shouguang, Shandong. Therefore, the Jiang surname has the custom of taking "Le'an" as its hall name from generation to generation. The Jiang surname moved southward earlier than other surnames. It started in the Han Dynasty. During the Jianwu period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Jiang Heng, the Marquis of Qudao, was slandered and his nine sons took refuge in various places. After Emperor Guangwu came to his senses, all nine of his sons were granted the title of marquis, namely: Gonghua Hou Ying, Hou Zheng of Kuaiji, Hou Zhe of Linsu, Hou Yao of Linhu, Hou Xun of Puting, Hou Chuan of Linjiang (now Zhong County, Sichuan), Hou Min of Jiujiang (now Jiangxi), Yunyang (now Chunhua, Shaanxi) Hou Mo and Hou Cheng from Hanting (now Yixing, Jiangsu). It can be seen that since Jiang Heng, most of his descendants live scattered in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and other places in southern my country, and have become the founding ancestors of the local areas. This will greatly increase the scope of activities of the Jiang family. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a branch moved from Henan to Donglai County, Shandong Province. Jiang Ji of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period was his descendant. During this period, Jiang Xiu (the tenth grandson of Jiang Yi, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty) moved from Le'an to Yiyangxian County (now Yixing, Jiangsu Province), and some of his descendants moved to Sanling in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. According to research, there is no other Chiang in the world, and the Chinese people with the surname Jiang originally came from one family. Most of the Jiang surnames after the Han Dynasty came from Yixing, Jiangsu, and their ancestor was Hanting Marquis Jiang Cheng. Later, most of the Jiang surnamed families in China were descended from Yixing. In the early Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang entered Zhangnan, Fujian Province, and was accompanied by a general named Jiang. During this period, a general named Jiang from Tiantai, Zhejiang Province immigrated to Fenghua, Zhejiang Province. During the Five Dynasties, Jiang Xian, a descendant of Jiang Yi, served as the Salt Supervisor of the Siming Dynasty and lived in Cailian Bridge in Ningbo City. His descendants became famous literati and became a prominent family in Yongshang. After the Song Dynasty, the Jiang surname became popular in Fujian and Guangdong. In the Yuan Dynasty, Shijie Gong (descendant of Song Shenzong Jin Ziguanglu, the doctor Jiang Junming) began to move to Qinxiao Township in Wuling, Fenghua (now Xikou Town). This is the ancestor of Chiang Kai-shek. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, some people from Fujian, Guangdong and Jiang surnamed immigrated overseas. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek was defeated in Taiwan, and a large number of people surnamed Chiang followed him. Nowadays, the surname Jiang has spread all over the world, especially in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hunan, Zhejiang and other provinces. The above four provinces account for about 60% of the total population of the Han Chinese surnamed Jiang in the country.