Taiyuan County: A county was established in the fourth year of King Zhuangxiang of Qin during the Warring States Period (246 BC), and its administrative seat was Jinyang (now southwest of Taiyuan, Shanxi Province). Pingyuan County: A county was established in the Western Han Dynasty, and its governance was located in Pingyuan (southwest of present-day Pingyuan County, Shandong Province), which is equivalent to Pingyuan, Lingxian, Yucheng, Qihe, Linyi, Shanghe, Huimin, Yangxin and other counties in Shandong Province today, roughly the same as today Eastern Shandong region. Jiangyuan County: The administrative seat is in the area of ??present-day Chongqing County, Sichuan Province. Hanoi County: It was established during the Chu-Han Dynasty and was governed in Huai County (southwest of present-day Wushe County, Henan Province), corresponding to the area north of the Yellow River in present-day Henan Province and west of the Beijing-Hankou Railway (including Ji County). The Western Jin Dynasty moved to govern Yewang (now Qinyang, Henan Province). Wuwei County: In the second year of hunting in Han Yuan Dynasty (121 BC), the county was established on the land of the Xiongnu King, and its governance was in Wuwei (now northeast of Minqin, Gansu Province).
The Chang surname is the 94th most common surname in China today. It has a large population, accounting for about 0.18% of the country's Han population.
The origin of "Chang"
1. From the surname "Ji", the surname is named after the town. According to "General Chronicle. According to "Clan Strategy", after King Wu conquered Shang, Prince Wen came to Kang State and was known as Uncle Kang in the world. After Wu Geng's rebellion was put down, Uncle Kang was transferred to Wei State. Later, Uncle Kang entrusted his son to Changyi, who was later named the Chang family. 2: Changed due to taboo. "Shiben" records that in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was the Heng surname after Heng Hui Gong, a Duke of Chu State, and it was once changed to the Chang surname. To avoid the name taboo of Song Zhenzong Zhao Heng. "Constant" and "constant" have the same meaning. 3: According to "Lu Shi", there was also the Chang family after the Duke of Wu during the Warring States Period. In mythology, the Yellow Emperor’s ministers Chang Xian and Chang Xi followed.
The ancestor who got the surname
Uncle Kang was the younger brother of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty. Because his fiefdom was Kangyi, he was called Uncle Kang Feng, also known as Uncle Kang. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Wu Geng, the son of Shang Zhou, launched a rebellion, which was later suppressed. As a result, Uncle Kang granted the area around the original Shang capital and the seven ethnic groups of the Yin people, and established the Wei Kingdom (today's Henan and Hebei areas along the Yellow River Basin). The capital dynasty Ge (now Qi County, Henan Province), and later moved to Diqiu (now Puyang, Henan Province). At that time, the princes had a system of enfeoffing fiefs. Uncle Kang had a son who was entrusted with a fief named Chang Chang (southeast of today's Tengzhou City, Shandong Province). Qin unified the world and Wei State was destroyed. Later, some people took Yi as their surname and called it Chang's surname. They respected Uncle Kang as the ancestor of the surname.
Migration distribution
Shandong and Jiangsu were the early birthplaces of the Chang surname. This pattern of origin made the Chang surname very early They were scattered in the north and south of the Yangtze River. According to records, during the Warring States Period, people with the surname Chang had the surname Chang in Henan and southern Hebei in the north, as well as in Wu and Chu countries in the south. In the Western Han Dynasty, there was Chang Hui, a native of Taiyuan (now part of Shanxi Province). He accompanied Su Wu as an envoy to the Xiongnu. After being detained for more than ten years, he returned to the Han Dynasty. He was promoted to General You, and was granted the title of Changluohou. Later, several people were granted the title of marquis. The surname of Taiyuan Chang was Hence its prominence. At the same time, the Chang surname also formed a prominent family in Shandong, the place of its origin, and became a prominent family in Pingyuan County. At the time of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were many Chang family members in Jiangyuan of Shu (east of today's Chongqing County, Sichuan Province). ?There are celebrities such as Chang Bo and Chang Qian. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Chang surname flourished in Henan and Gansu and became a prominent family. During the Cao Wei Dynasty, Chang Lin, a native of Wen, Hanoi (now Wen County, Henan Province), was granted the title of Marquis of Gaoyang Township, and his official title was Doctor Guanglu. Many of his descendants entered the court as officials, and their families were honored and distinguished, forming a prominent family in Hanoi. Sun Changzhen, the fourth generation of Chang Lin, moved to Liangzhou (now part of Gansu Province) with his family. His descendants also had many officials, thus forming the Wuwei Commandery with the surname Chang. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, most people with Chang surnames came from the capital Chang'an (now Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) and Xinfeng, Shaanxi (now northeast of Lintong). There were many people with the surname Xinfeng who were serving in the imperial court, and they were very prominent. At that time, Chang Gun, a native of Xinfeng, moved to Fujian (today's Fujian Province), and his descendants multiplied in the Fujian and Guangdong areas. Therefore, most of the Chang surnames in Fujian and Guangdong took Xinfeng as their ancestry, with Chang Gun as their founding ancestor. In the Song Dynasty, the surname Heng was forced to be changed to Chang to avoid the taboo of Zhenzong's name, which injected a new spring into the family with the Chang surname. During this period, the Chang surname migrated from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei and other places to Fujian and Guangdong, and then to Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. During the Ming Dynasty, people with Chang surnames in Shanxi were forced to move to sparsely populated areas in surrounding provinces. In the Qing Dynasty, some people with the Chang surname came to Taiwan and settled in Singapore and other places. Today, the majority of people with the Chang surname are Henan, Shanxi, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei and other provinces. The Chang surname in the above five provinces accounts for about 63% of the country's Han population with the Chang surname.
Chang Cu: A native of Jiangyuan, Shu County, a historian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He once served as a regular attendant of the Sanqi of the Cheng Han Dynasty, and lived in Jiankang (today's Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) after entering the Jin Dynasty.
He is the author of "Huayang Guozhi", "Han Zhi Shu", etc.
Chang Yuchun: courtesy name Boren, a native of Huaiyuan, Anhui, Han nationality, a famous general in the Ming Dynasty. Long arms, good at shooting, and extremely brave. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Liu Ju started to rebel, and in the fifteenth year of the Zheng Dynasty (1355), he surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and served as general manager of the vanguard, governor, general of the army, and general of Zhongyi. Attack the Ning Kingdom, hit the target, and fight again after being damaged. He was promoted to Provincial Governor Ma Bu and Grand Marshal of the Navy. In the 23rd year, Chen Youliang was defeated at Kanglang Mountain. He fought for three days and set fire to the Han boats, turning the lake water red. The following year, he entered the political affairs of Pingzhang and led his army to surround Wuchang and forced Chen Li to surrender. Attack Zhang Shicheng and use surprise troops to attack him. On meritorious service, he was granted the title of Duke of E. In the first year of Wu (1367), he and Xu Da launched the Northern Expedition, serving as deputy generals and Prince Shaobao. Prefectures and counties in Shandong, Henan, and Hebei were successively taken. In the first year of Hongwu (1368), he captured Dadu (now Beijing) of the Yuan Dynasty and moved to Taiyuan. In the second year, he and Li Wenzhong led the northern expedition and captured Kaiping. The master died of illness and was granted the posthumous title of King of Kaiping with the posthumous title of Zhongwu. A general never loses his life. He claimed that he could march an army of one hundred thousand men across the world, and he was known as "one hundred thousand men" in the army. People called him "the most extraordinary man in the world."