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Specifics of the origin of the surname Zhang

Origin of the surname Zhang? ***How many branches are there? The origin of each branch? The more detailed the better. Zhang surname, now the third largest surname in China. The earliest from the humanities ancestor Xuanyuan Huangdi's Ji surname. It is an important part of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The Zhang surname originated from the Yellow Emperor's son, Shaohao Qingyang's grandson of the wave of the public. Because of the invention of the bow and arrow division of the bow and arrow of the long (positive), and give the surname of wang Gong surnamed Zhang in Qingyang (now Hebei Qinghe). The Zhang surname is widely distributed, such as Shanghai Zhang surname in the first place, and many celebrities, such as vertical and horizontal Zhang Yi, military Zhang Liang, fierce general Zhang Fei, science saint Zhang Heng, medical saint Zhang Zhongjing, diplomat Zhang Jian, calligrapher Zhang Xu, poet Zhang Jiuling, painter Zhang Zeduan, national heroes Zhang Zizhong, industrialist Zhang Qian, revolutionaries Zhang Wentian, and so on. Roots can be found in Hebei Qinghe, Henan Puyang, Shanxi Hongdong. For more information, please refer to "Zhang family tree", "Chinese family name book" and other historical materials. The cemetery is in Puyang, Henan Province. Catalog Origin of the family name Zhang Origin of the family name The originator of the family name Migration and distribution County hall No. County hall No. Mudgou Township, Puning City, Guangdong Province Zhang's ancestral temple reported this hall. Citation Zhang Gongyi 百忍歌 张嘉贞家训张氏名人 历史名人 现代名人艺人宗族特征 张姓宗祠通用对联 张姓宗祠门楣题辞 张姓宗祠四言通用联 张姓宗祠五言通用联 张姓宗祠六言通用联 张姓宗祠七言通用联 张姓宗祠七言以上通用联 张姓宗祠七言通用联 张姓宗祠七言以上通用联 张姓祭祖歌 张姓典故趣事 画龙点睛 aided and abetted the evil-doers borrowed the art of the donkey riding a donkey upside down 张果老 孺子可教 《茶音》. 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The World Expo was held in Kunming in 1999. Inside the World Expo, there was a monument of "Surnames originating from Henan". Among them, the third one is "Zhang surname originated from Puyang". (4) According to the information provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the compilation of "Henan? The hometown of big surnames" map shows that: of the 100 big surnames with the highest frequency of use, 73 originate from Henan. Among them, the Zhang and Yao surnames originated in Puyang. According to 1, historical facts. 2, cultural relics and sites. 3 genealogical records. 4 Based on contemporary research results. 1, from the yellow emperor after swing. According to the New Tang Book? Zai Xiang lineage table" is contained: "yellow emperor son of shao hao qingyang's fifth son wave for the bow is, the beginning of the system bow vector, descendants of the given name Zhang's." According to Yuan He Surname Compilation, "Huang Di's fifth son, Qing Yang, was born as a bow and started to make bows and vectors for the star Arc, so he was given the surname Zhang." From the above two historical records can be seen, was once an important weapon bow inventor wave, followed by Zhang as a family name. The Zhang Totem, a family name passed down directly from the Yellow Emperor, was named after Wave, who lived in Qingyang, also known as Qingyang, which is south of the Qinghe River (east of present-day Qinghe County, Hebei Province) in the country of Yincheng. His descendants were also from this area. It is the Hebei Zhang clan. 2, from the descendants of Huangdi Ji. According to "Tongzhi? Clans," contained in the Spring and Autumn period, the state of Jin has a great doctor to solve Zhang, the word Zhang Hou, his descendants to the word name, also known as the Zhang. It is also written that Zhang's family served in Jin, and after the division of Jin by the three families of Han, Zhao and Wei in 403 B.C., most of them migrated with the three countries moving their capitals, except for some of them who stayed in their original places. Among them, to move to South Korea Zhang's influence is greater, and successive generations have been into the dynasty as an official. The first capital of Korea was Pingyang (southwest of Linfen, Shanxi Province), then moved south to Yiyang (present-day Hancheng, Yiyang County, Henan Province), then to Yangzhai (present-day Yuzhou, Henan Province), and finally to Zheng (present-day Xinzheng, Henan Province). The state of Zhao first had its capital at Jinyang (present-day southwest of Taiyuan, Shanxi), then moved to Zhongmou (present-day west of Hebi, Henan), and finally to Handan (present-day Hebei). The state of Wei began with its capital at Anyi (present-day Xiaxian, northwest of Shanxi) and later moved to Daliang (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). It is the Zhang Clan of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan. 3、From the surname or other surnames, other ethnic groups to surnames. According to "reading history FangYiJiYao", the southern barbarian chief Long YouNa, who lived in Yunnan, was given the surname Zhang by Zhuge Liang, the minister of Shu, during the Three Kingdoms, and his descendants took Zhang as their clan name in the future. Zhang Liao, a general of the State of Wei, was originally surnamed Nie, which was later changed to Zhang, and he lived in Maiyi, Yanmen (present-day Shuo County, Shanxi Province), which later became a major family name. There are other people with the surname of Han, Ji and some other minorities such as Wuhuan, Wujin, Capricorn, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qidan and so on, who have changed their surnames to Zhang. 4、According to the statistics of the Ministry of Public Security, the population of the most ...... >>

The origin of the surname Zhang Surname Source:

Surname: Zhang Ancestry: Taiyuan

Ancestor: Zhang wang County: Taiyuan County

Category: Gave the surname and refuge to change the surname

Historical celebrities

The surname of Zhang has always been a wealth of talent. Starting from Zhang Yi, who lobbied the six kingdoms in the Warring States period, there were Zhang celebrities on the stage of history in the following dynasties. In the Han Dynasty, the Zhang name has been among the top. Whether it is in the governance, the work, or academic, art, medicine, etc., are in the forefront. Early Han minister Zhang Liang, to assist Liu Bang to get the world, out of a lot of strange and good advice. Zhang Qian, who made two missions to the Western Regions, strengthened the ties between the Central Plains and the ethnic minorities, and Zhang Heng, a scientist, created the world's earliest water-powered rotating armillary sphere (armillary sphere) and the geodesic instrument for determining earthquakes. Zhang Zhongjing, a famous medical doctor, wrote "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber", which made significant contributions to the development of medicine in the motherland. Zhang Zhi, a calligrapher, was known as the "Modern Cursive" because he wrote "the body of a character is made by a single stroke, and occasionally it is not connected, but the veins of blood are continuous, and when it is connected, the veins of qi are passed through the different lines". After the Han, there is the Yellow Turban Revolt leader Zhang Jiao; Three Kingdoms general Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao; Jin with Zhang Zai, scholar Zhang Zhan; Tang Dynasty poets Zhang Ji, Zhang You, Zhang Ji, calligrapher Zhang Xu; Song Dynasty poet Zhang Feng. Legend has it that in the Tang Dynasty, there was a family of Zhang Gongyi, nine generations living together **** wealth, praised from near and far. The story spread to Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, who came to visit him in person. When the Emperor asked him for tips on how to keep the family business and keep the family in harmony, he only wrote more than a hundred characters of "forbearance" as an answer. The Emperor was y touched by the truth of ruling the country and keeping the family together and returned to the palace with a satisfied heart. Since then, the Zhang Gongyi family has adopted "Hundred Forbearance" as their family emblem to commemorate this meaningful event. According to the Tang Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, when the ministers celebrated the birthday of Emperor Xuanzong, they offered many exotic treasures, but only the prime minister, Zhang Jiuling, offered a book called "A Thousand Autumns of the Golden Annals". In the book, he discussed in detail the way of rise and fall in the past and present, and intended to advise Emperor Xuanzong to remember the lessons of the rise and fall of the past dynasties when the world was at peace, to think of danger in times of peace, and to protect the gods of the earth and grain forever. Afterwards, Emperor Xuanzong treasured this valuable "gift" and issued a special imperial edict to commend him. Therefore, Zhang Jiuling's clan was also proud, began to "Jinjian" for the hall name. Zhang surname in the Han Dynasty has developed into a large population of the family name, to the Tang Dynasty and ranked among the world's top 10 surnames. Ming Dynasty, the Zhang surname has been spread throughout the country's 113 counties, its coverage accounted for more than 93% of the total number of counties in the country, is now a tens of millions of people, distributed throughout the country and many parts of the world of the Chinese family name. From ancient times to the present, the surname Zhang*** has produced 63 prime ministers and 56 generals. In addition, such as the thinker Zhang Zai, Zhang mechanical contribution to the theory of Confucianism, Buddhist monk Zhao (commonly known as Zhang) on the sublimation of Buddhist thought, as well as Zhang Tianshi's Taoist family and so on, are of great significance. Another example is Zhang Xueliang's soldiers against the Japanese, Zhang Fulin's space exploration, etc., are also in the world, the history of the major events.

Origin of the surname

The origin of the surname Zhang can be verified from three documents. First, according to "Tongzhi? Clan Liao", the Zhang family name is based on the word for the clan. Zhang's descendants have been officials in Jin for generations, and after the division of Jin into three kingdoms, they served Han. The ancestor of the Zhang family name was the fifth son of the Qingyang clan, who was the first to make the bow and was given the surname Zhang and got the family name. Secondly, according to Yuan Jue's "Preface to the Zhang Clan Genealogy", the Zhang family name originated from the Ji family name, and there are twelve counties of hope***, which are: Xiangyang, Luoyang, Hedong, Shixing, Fengyi, Wu County, Pingyuan, Qinghe, Hetao, Zhongshan, Wei, and Shu. Third, according to the "Customs" on the record, Zhang, Wang, Li, Zhao, four surnames are given by the Yellow Emperor. Hope family resides in Taiyuan County (today's Taiyuan area of Shanxi Province). The Hundred Family Names notes Qinghe County (east of present-day Qinghe County, Hebei Province).

The specifics of the surname Zhang "Zhang Name General Dictionary" is divided into six major parts: family name chapter, name chapter, name examples chapter, customs chapter, culture chapter, people chapter. The author uses the archaeological new results and historical data to corroborate each other and compare the method, and the use of ethnohistory, folklore, toponymy and other disciplines to study the sources of Chinese surnames, ancestors, places of origin and other intricate problems, which for the identification of the vast and complex Chinese family name origin, provides a new perspective. The author teaches traditional culture and important naming methods such as the Heavenly Stems, Earthly Branches, and the Five Elements, lists auspicious models of naming strokes, and provides naming examples for readers to learn and apply. The book introduces folklore such as parent-child hyphenation, zodiac signs, and name avoidance. In the chapter of name culture, the author explains the name and the person's name, your surname county and hall number, your surname couplets and family motto, introduces the outstanding deeds of celebrities through the ages and so on.

The origin of the Zhang family name

▲About the character Zhang

Zhang is a hieroglyphic character, the whole look like a person who wants to shoot with an open bow

Zhang, the traditional Chinese character for the eye, by the bow and the long left and right together from the Zhang family name people in the introduction of their own family name, are said to others as "bent bow Zhang". "Bow Zhang", see they are very important to their family name components of the "bow". From a philological point of view, the "bow" for the "Zhang" word is really also in the core position.

The character Zhang has not been found in the oracle bone inscriptions, but there are a lot of jinwen and stone carvings, and their writing styles are different. Although these Zhang characters are written in different ways, they have a basic characteristic, that is, with the bow, vector, long, especially inseparable from the bow, it can be said that without the bow there is no Zhang. In terms of the evolution of the character, Zhang was first a combination of bow and vector. Bow and vector are naturally associated, if there is a bow, there will be a vector, no need to emphasize, so later the vector gradually withdrew and gave way to the long, and finally stabilized as a combination of the long bow. The long bow, on the other hand, indicates that this bow is even more powerful than the normal bow, more powerful.

The word "Zhang" has many meanings, and the new version of the "Chinese Dictionary" has 21 meanings, and the general dictionaries have more than ten, such as exaggerate, open, strong, abundant, post, see, look at, expand, set up, etc., but most of them are derived by later generations, and the earliest character books do not have many meanings. The Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining and Analysing Characters) says: "Zhang, applying bowstring is also. From bow, long sound." Guangya? Shiyi San (释诂三):"Zhang, shi also." There is another meaning, which is found in the Zhou Li? Autumn official ":" Luo take birds and animals said Zhang." Hu Sanxian in his commentary "Ziji Tongjian? Han Mingdi level seven years" in the "hard work Zhang arrest, not the basis of superior pension" also said: "Zhang, set up also, set up for the machine trap, to wait for the birds and animals said Zhang."

▲There are three main sources of the surname Zhang:

First, from the Huangdi, waving for the ancestor

According to the "New Tang Dynasty? According to the "New Tang Book", "Zaizheng lineage table": "Huangdi son of Shao Hao Qingyang's fifth son of the wave for the bow, the beginning of the system of the bow and vector, the children and grandchildren given the surname Zhang." This branch of the Zhang Clan is directly transmitted from the Yellow Emperor, the earliest originated in the Qingyang of the State of Yincheng, the mouth of the present southwest of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, near the ancestral temple, and the subsequent family of hope is also out of this area.

The Zhang surname is an ancient surname, which originated in a distant legendary era. It is said that the ancestor of the Zhang family name "wave", he is the grandson of the Yellow Emperor (said to be the son of the Yellow Emperor), is a great inventor, he invented the bow and arrow and net net (gu). The bow and arrows and the net net as the new production tools at that time, so that people can hunt more birds and animals, catch more fish and shrimp, but also be able to reduce the fierce beasts to their own harm. The tribe of which WANG was a member had been producing bows and arrows and netting for generations, so his descendants took "Zhang" as their family name.

The recognized ancestor of the Zhang family name, Emperor Huangdi, was the leader of the Huaxia tribal confederation in the ancient legendary era, who ruled the world with virtue, benevolence, and faith, chose the wise and appointed the capable, and punished the stubborn and fierce, and created a peaceful and prosperous world.

According to the "Century of Emperors", the Yellow Emperor was born by his mother, the highest peak of the female attached to the treasure sense of electricity. "(Yellow Emperor) mother said attached to the treasure, see the big electricity around the Big Dipper Cardinal Star, shine the countryside, sense attached to the treasure, pregnant twenty-four months, born Yellow Emperor in Shouqiu, long in Ji Shui, there is a holy virtue, subject to the country in Yuxiong, living in the hill of Xuanyuan Yuan, so because of the name, but also for the number." Later generations deduced two legends accordingly.

One legend is: the Yellow Emperor was born on the occasion of the Emperor's descent to earth, when it was the age of Shennong, Shennong's uncle has a son named Shaodian, he is a bear country (in today's Henan Province, Xinzheng County, the territory of the State) of the king. At that time, the Shaodian clan was exchanging marriages with the highest peak clan. So Shaodian took Attachment Bao, a daughter of the You (Bug Qiao) clan, as his wife. One day, Shao-Dian and Attachment Bao were carrying wooden ploughs to plant in the fields, and as they were walking, the sky suddenly darkened, and suddenly the stars filled the sky exactly as they did at night. At this time, the attached treasure raised his head to look up, only to see the sky above a flickering electric light like a snake from time to time around the seven stars of the Big Dipper, in an instant, the four fields covered with a layer of rich green light. Shortly afterward, she felt something in her abdomen move violently, causing her to cry out, but when Shaodian hurried back to inquire, she said there was nothing there. Since then, Attachment Bao became pregnant. After 24 months from the day of her pregnancy, one day in her third year, she gave birth to a boy at Xuan Yuan's hill northwest of Xin Zheng (said to be in Qufu, Shandong Province). Since he was born in Xuanyuan, he named the boy Xuanyuan. Legend has it that Xuanyuan could speak when he was first born and was very elfin. When he was still a child, he saw people constructing houses on trees and said, "It is neither convenient nor safe to build houses on trees, wouldn't it be better if they were built on the ground?" Soon after, Shennong heard of Huangdi's opinion and was greatly dismayed. So, Huang Di then built a house on the ground for him to see, Shennong's only convinced.

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The origin of the Zhang family name on the ancestor of the Zhang family name, history books have the following records: "Huangdi fifth son of Qingyang Sheng Hui, for the bow is, watching the arc star began to make the bow vector, the main worship arc star, because of the surname of the Zhang family (see the "Yuan and family name compilation") "waved to make the arc vector, sealed in the Zhang , and later for the bow family. The name Zhang came from Taiyuan." (Zhang, Huang, Li, and Zhao were given their surnames by the Yellow Emperor." (see "Customs")

The origin of the surname Zhang Zhang, one of the Chinese family names, is a typical multi-ethnic, multi-origin family name, mainly from the Ji surname and ethnic minorities to change surnames. Zhang Wang is the founder of the family name. Historically, during the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Er was named King of Zhao by Liu Bang, and Zhang's 17th grandson, Zhang Kui (255-314), founded the Qianliang Dynasty.

The Zhang surname is ranked 24th in the Song version of The Hundred Surnames. By 2007, according to a statistical analysis of China's household population by the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, the Zhang surname population ranked 3rd among Chinese surnames, with 87,502,000 people ****, accounting for 6.83% of China's total population. [1]

The original meaning of Zhang is "to make the bow string", to put the string on the bow, to open the bow, as opposed to "to relax". It is the opposite of "relaxation". It is derived from the meanings of "opening the bow", "stringing", "catching" and "stretching".

Zhang (Zhang) surname origin:

1, from the Ji surname:

① from the ancient Yellow Emperor's grandson, belonging to the official title for the family. [3-4] This branch of the Zhang surname. [3-4] This Zhang surname to Qingyang (i.e., Qingyang, in today's Hebei Qinghe County east) as the birthplace, is the Qinghe Zhang. There is a saying that "the world's Zhang surname out of the Qinghe. [5]

② from the descendants of Huangdi Ji, belong to the word for the clan. During the Spring and Autumn period, the state of Jin, a great doctor to solve Zhang, the word Zhang Hou, his descendants to his word life, also known as Zhang. [6]

2, from the change of surname:

① from the Nie surname. The Three Kingdoms Wei general Zhang Liao was originally surnamed Nie, and his family changed their surname to Zhang in order to avoid resentment, and their descendants took Zhang as their surname. [7]

The Zhang family name is also called the Zhang family name. [7]

② From the surname of the given. The southern barbarian chief Long You Na, who lived in Yunnan, was given the surname Zhang by Zhu Geliang, the Minister of Shu, in the Three Kingdoms, and then his descendants took Zhang as their family name.

③ From the ancient Xi. Zhang Zhongzhi, a member of the Xi tribe, lived in Fanyang, and because he was good at riding and archery, he was adopted by Zhang Ligao, the guard of Fanyang, as his righteous son, and then he took his father's surname Zhang. Afterwards, Zhang Zhongzhi won many war victories, and became the Minister of Rites, and was named the Duke of Zhao.

④ by ethnic minorities to change their surnames. Ancient Wuhuan, Wujin, Capricorn, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qidan and other ethnic minorities, have changed their surnames to Zhang. Today, Achang, Naxi, Lisu, Yao, Zhuang, Li, Gaoshan, Tibetan, as well as Hershey's, Zalali's, Zhangjia's, Zhang Jin's, Zakuta's, Aiyi's and other more than a dozen Manchu surnames, some people have changed the surname Zhang. [8]

How did the Zhang surname come about and who are its descendants? The origin of the Zhang surname can be traced back to the ancient legendary times. Zhang surname originated in Puyang", according to the information provided by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, compiled "Henan? The Hometown of the Great Surnames" map shows that 78 of the 100 most frequently used great surnames currently originate from Henan[1] . Among them, the surnames Zhang and Yao originated in Puyang. Mainly based on: 1. historical facts. 2. cultural relics and sites. 3. genealogical records. 4. contemporary research results. 1999 China held the "World Horticultural Expo" in Kunming, the World Expo Park, erected the "surnames originating in Henan" monument.

Specifically, the Zhang surname, the source of five:

Source a

originated from the Ji surname, from the ancient Yellow Emperor's grandson wang, belong to the official title for the family. According to the New Tang Book? According to the "New Tang Book", "the prime minister's lineage table": "Huangdi son of Shao Hao Qingyang's

The origin of the surname Zhang

The origin of the surname Zhang

The fifth son of the wave of the bow for the beginning of the production of the bow and vector, the children and grandchildren given the surname Zhang." According to Yuan He Surname Compilation, "The fifth son of the Yellow Emperor, Qing Yang, was born with the name Zhang, who was a bowman, who watched the Arc Star, made the bow and vector, and worshipped the Arc Star, so his family name was Zhang." From these two historical records, it can be seen that the descendants of WANG Gong, the inventor of the bow, which was once an important weapon, took Zhang as their family name. The Zhang family name, which was passed down directly from the Yellow Emperor, originated in Qingyang, also known as Qingyang, which is north of the Qinghe River (east of present-day Qinghe County, Hebei Province), and is known as the Qinghe Zhang family name. [2] Folk to this day, "the world's Zhang out of the Qinghe" said.

Source two

From the descendants of the Yellow Emperor Ji. According to "Tongzhi? According to the "Tongzhi" contained in the "clan", during the Spring and Autumn period, the state of Jin has a great doctor to solve Zhang, the word Zhang Hou, his children and grandchildren with the word of life, also known as the Zhang family. Also contained, Zhang Shi Shi Jin, 403 BC Han, Zhao, Wei, after the partition of the State of Jin, in addition to some stay in place, most of the three countries with the capital and

Zhang totem

Zhang totem

Migration. Among them, the Zhangs who moved to Korea had a greater influence, and there were officials who joined the dynasty in all generations. The first capital of Korea was Pingyang (now southwest of Linfen, Shanxi), then moved south to Yiyang (now Hancheng, Yiyang County, Henan Province), then moved to Yangzhai (now Yuzhou, Henan Province), and finally moved to Zheng (now Xinzheng, Henan Province). The state of Zhao first had its capital at Jinyang (present-day southwest of Taiyuan, Shanxi), then moved to Zhongmou (present-day west of Hebi, Henan), and finally to Handan (present-day Hebei). The state of Wei had its capital at Anyi (present-day Xiaxian, northwest of Shanxi) and later moved to Daliang (present-day Kaifeng, Henan). It is the Zhang Clan of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan.

Source three

From the given surname or other surnames changed. According to "The Chronicle of Reading History and Fangyu", Long Youna, the chief of the southern barbarians living in Yunnan, was given the surname Zhang by Zhuge Liang, the minister of Shu, during the Three Kingdoms period, and his descendants took Zhang as their clan name later on. Zhang Liao, a general of the State of Wei, was originally surnamed Nie, which was later changed to Zhang, and he lived in Maiyi, Yanmen (present-day Shuo County, Shanxi Province), which later became a major family name. In addition, people with the surnames of Han and Ji, as well as Wuhuan, Jurchen, Capricorn, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qidan and other minorities changed their surnames to Zhang.

Source four

From the ancient Xi tribe, from the Xi tribe in the Tang Dynasty, belonging to the emperor gave to change the Chinese surname for the clan. Xi, is an ancient ethnic group active in the Tang, Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties. In historical documents, the Xi people are often recorded as Xi Ren and Xi Hui. During the Tang Dynasty, the Xi Zhang Clan came from the surname given by the emperor.

Zhang Zhongzhi, originally from the Xi ethnic group, originally lived in Fanyang, because of good horseback riding and shooting, was Fanyang guard Zhang lock high as a righteous son, so from the righteous father surnamed Zhang. After Zhang Zhongzhi's successes in battle, he became the Minister of Rites and the Duke of Zhao. When Emperor Li Yu of the Tang Dynasty came to the throne, he appointed Zhang Zhongzhi as the Minister of Chengde Army, and changed his name to Li Baochen. Li Baochen, in some historical records are still recorded as Zhang Baochen.

Source five

Derived from various other ethnic minorities, belonging to the Hanization of the family name for the clan. Today, Achang, Naxi, Lisu, Yao, Zhuang, Li, alpine Zhang's main distribution in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan and other areas, Tibetan Zhang's main distribution in Qinghai, ***, Sichuan, Guizhou and other Tibetan areas, the origin of the family name to be verified.

The origin of the surname Zhang About the origin of the surname "Zhang" About 5000 years ago, in the Yellow River Basin in the Central Plains region inhabited by a powerful tribe - the Emperor tribe. Emperor and Yandi two tribal alliances defeated Chiyu, the unification of the Chinese tribes, the establishment of the first Chinese Zen ceded the system of statehood, built the capital in the bear, in today's Henan Xinzheng City. After a few decades, the emperor's grandson Fuxu inherited the throne, its main area is also in the Central Plains, built the capital in the Imperial mound. In the area of present-day Puyang, Henan Province, Zhuan Xu's younger brother, Wang, served as the leader of a camp among the tribes. The tribe's clansmen **** the same labor. Wearing linen or clothes made from animal skins, they rounded up all kinds of animals with sticks and stones. The tribesmen lived a life of slash-and-burn agriculture. Men hunted and women wove, raised children from generation to generation, and fought tenaciously against nature. On a dark night, a leader of the ****Working Tribe named Panther came to attack, and Wave led the clan to fight back. Swing's girlfriend Yue and her father also joined the battle, and in the end, although repelled the attack of the **** Ministry of Industry, but Yue's father was also seriously injured Swing and Yue one on the left, one on the right to hold his father's bloody snot no sound soon the old man slightly opened his eyes and very hard to say: "Children, relying on the stick alone can not win the jackal, we must think of a way to ah.... I'm going to leave, you two should be married..." With great sorrow, Wave and Moon covered their father with a rag and buried him in the sand by the Yellow River. One night later, Moon and Swing snuggled up together and looked at the stars in the sky, thinking of many things. Suddenly, found the northwestern sky there is a group of strange stars, that is the arc yagyu star this group of stars a *** there are nine, eight of them into a certain arc in an orderly arrangement, like the "bow" shape, another in the middle, as if all the power is concentrated in this point. At this time wave head down thinking, suddenly saw the willow swaying in the autumn wind, he had a bright idea, why do not I make use of the elasticity of the branches to create a tool like a "bow"? He hastened to tell this idea to the moon, the moon excitedly said: "with this tool we can defeat the beasts, to resist the invasion of foreigners," so they will be every day into the "bow" in the production of the bow, after countless failures, they finally made the bow, but also According to the principle of the star outside the arc made "arrows", so the first bow and arrow was born. Emperor Zhuan Xu was very happy to learn about this, and brought all the officials and tribal clansmen to the camp to see the wave and everyone, Zhuan Xu personally picked up the bow and arrow to try the power, when a bird flew in the distance, Zhuan Xu pulled the bow open and aimed at the bird, only to hear a whoosh, the arrow flew out, and then the bird fell straight down, Zhuan Xu was pleasantly surprised, and immediately wanted to announce to the clansmen, "My brother invented the bow and arrow, and this is a great thing! My brother invented the bow and arrow, this is a great feat, I appoint Wave as the Bow Chief, specifically responsible for making bows and arrows and training archers, in the future our tribe will be able to shoot beasts and defend against foreign enemies!" The tribe cheered and celebrated Wave's appointment as the Bow Chief. Soon after, the ****Working Tribe came to invade again, and Wave led the bow and arrow soldiers and defeated the ****Working Tribe's attack. Emperor Zhuan Xu honored Wave's achievements by carving a character on ivory, combining the words "bow" and "long" to form the character Zhang, and gave Wave his last name. So the wave was renamed Zhang wave, and later generations honored him as "wave Gong", which is the first person in history surnamed Zhang.

How did the surname Zhang come Zhang

The old surnames include: Zakuta, Zalali, Aiyi, Hanchu, Changjin, Yanzha, Wanyan, Hershey, Nala, Zhangjia, Zala, Zasuli, Nimacha, Zasvuli, and the Zhangs (Han and Korean) who joined the Manchus.

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The origin of the surname Zhang It is best to have a story, keep it short... The origin of the surname Zhang can be traced back to the era of ancient legends. The Yellow Emperor was the legendary *** same ancestor of the Central Plains tribes, and his wife, Rayon, was the legendary creator of the method of raising silkworms to cure silk, and was worshipped as the silkworm god by later generations. They gave birth to a son named Zhi Zhi, because of the practice of the method of too, so called less, is the leader of the Eastern Barbarians who rose after too. The fifth son of Shao was named Wang, who was an official of Bow Zheng (an official who supervised the manufacture of bows and arrows). He was inspired to create the bow and arrow and was given the surname Zhang. The original meaning of the character Zhang is "to string a bow", which is derived as "to open a bow" or "to make a long bow", and is closely related to the official name Bowzheng and the name of the ancient star Arc. There is also a branch of the Zhang Clan that takes its ancestor's name as its surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a Xie Zhang in the State of Jin, the word Zhang Hou, followed by his grandfather's word as a surname, and since then there have been Zhang surnames in the State of Jin for many generations. In 403 B.C., after Zhao, Han and Wei divided up the state of Jin, the population of the Zhang family name was dispersed among the three vassal states. Both of these statements explain the origin and reproduction of the Zhang surname, which has become the third largest surname today. The first is that the Zhang surname has a long history and was one of the earliest surnames in China, and it was highly regarded. In the primitive clan society, hunting for people to make a living is extremely important means, the status and role of the bow and vector can be imagined. And at that time, less East Barbarians clan reproduction is very prosperous, throughout the present Shandong Peninsula, north of Jiangsu and the vast area between the Jianghuai; According to legend, the Shang dynasty clan is its direct descendants. Second, the Zhang family name is widely distributed, Jin has this name, with the three sub-Jin and all over the Zhao, Han, Wei three countries, that is, today's North China, the central plains of the vast area. There are a lot of people were given the surname to change the surname Zhang; such as the Three Kingdoms Zhuge Liang gave Long Youna for the Zhang surname; Cao Wei general Zhang Liao, originally born Nie, after changing the surname Zhang. Non-Han people changed their surnames to Zhang are also many. Jin Dynasty Tejia's, because of generations living in Zhang Huangbao, will be Zhang as a surname. Yuan dynasty Mongolia, color people have a lot of people change their surnames to Han, often choose *** big name to change, but also for the Zhang family name to expand the population. According to records, the Jin Dynasty, there is the Central Plains Zhang moved to Fujian; Tang Gaozong total chapter years, Chen Zheng, Chen Yuanguang father and son were ordered to enter the Fujian, there is the Central Plains Zhang military colonel followed; after Wang Chao, Wang Auditory into the Fujian, and Henan Gushi Zhang Mutual accompanied by, living in Gutian Meixi, later was named Duke of Liang. Fujian Zhang, roughly divided into Jianhu, Jinpo, Banzai and other factions, and then some moved to Guangdong, are said to have originated from Henan Guangzhou Gushi. From the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Fujian and Guangdong Zhangs migrated to Taiwan one after another, and then many people went overseas to make a living. The Zhangs are mostly from the north, mainly Han Chinese, but many of them have been integrated into ethnic minorities during the many ethnic fusions. The Zhangs who have migrated overseas are now mainly located in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, the United States, Britain, France, Australia, Panama and other countries and Hong Kong. Dragon township Puyang, a long history, cultural splendor, is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, but also the Chinese Zhang ancestors of the name and ancestral home. The founder of the Chinese surname Zhang wave and Emperor Zhuanxu with the grandson of the Yellow Emperor (another said wave for the son of the Yellow Emperor). The Yellow Emperor's consort, Rayon, had two sons: the first son, Xuanhuang, was the father of Zhuan Xu; the second son, Chang Yi, was the father of Emperor Zhuan Xu. Emperor Zhuan Xu built the capital of Diqiu (now Puyang), so Puyang is known as "Zhuan Xu's Legacy Capital". Since his childhood, he lived with his father, Xuanxiang, on the banks of the ancient Qing River near Diqiu, and then assisted Zhuanxu in the production of bows and vectors, which was a great achievement, so Emperor Zhuanxu named him Bow Zheng, also known as Bow Chief, and gave him the surname Zhang. Therefore, the Chinese Zhang surname for the first ancestor, Dichu (now Puyang) for the earliest ancestral home of the ancestors of the Zhang family name. Surname culture is one of China's outstanding traditional culture. Zhang surname is one of the great Chinese surnames originating in Puyang. Zhang surname population of nearly 100 million, all over the country and the world, generations of celebrities, for the prosperity and development of the Chinese nation has made great contributions. This site focuses on the history of the origin and development of the Zhang family name, in order to develop ancient cultural resources, carry forward the glorious traditional culture of the Chinese nation, enhance the centripetal force and cohesion of the Chinese nation, promote the unity of the Chinese nation, and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.