In the early years of Shang Dynasty, the father of the 33rd generation of Shun (also known as the father of Kui) joined forces with Zhou Guo to assume the post. His superb pottery-making skills won the favor of Zhou Wenwang. After the Shang Dynasty was destroyed in the early Zhou Dynasty, when the ancestors and adherents were chased, Gui Man, the son of his father, was given the title of Chen (now east of Kaifeng, Henan Province, and north of Bo County, Anhui Province), and Chen was honored as Hou. Shun Di's ancestor worship was retained, and his eldest daughter Tai Ji married him. After Gui Man's death, posthumous title was named Chen Hugong, so it was also called Hu Gongman. Some of his descendants took the country as their surname, which was Chen.
In 672 BC, Sun Chen Wan, a wealthy 12 generation, changed his surname to Tian because he could not escape from Qi. Later, his 10 Sun Tianhe established Tianqi Kingdom. At the end of the Warring States period, Qi was destroyed by Qin. The eldest son of the King of Qi was promoted to the second son, Huan, and changed his surname to Wang. The third son fled to Yingchuan (now Yuzhou, Xuchang, Henan) and took the surname Chen. Since then, the Chen family has flourished in the Central Plains and developed into a noble family.
Another surnamed Chen was changed by ethnic minorities and was also from Henan. According to records, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty changed the last three-character surname of Xianbei people to Chen's surname in 496 after he moved the capital from Datong, Shanxi.
In the early and middle Tang Dynasty, Zhongyuan Chen moved to Fujian twice. In 669, the court appointed Zheng Chen (the 68th grandson of Hu Gongman), a native of Gushi, Henan Province, as the general of the Southern Expedition, and led troops to suppress the ethnic unrest in southern Fujian. In April 667, Zheng Chen died, and his 20-year-old son Chen Yuanguang represented his father. After nine years of war, the situation was stable. In 686, it was reported to the court for approval and Zhangzhou County was established. Chen Yuanguang is committed to the development of agriculture, industry and commerce in Zhangzhou, making the local area prosperous.
It was honored as the school by later generations, and later generations called it the Wangsheng school, which became the most important branch of Chen's surname in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and Nanyang Islands. There are 53 Chenci temples in Taiwan Province Province, which shows the reverence of Taiwan Province compatriots.
Then there is Chen Yong, the son of Chen Zhong and the descendant of Yingchuan Chen. When Tang Zhongzong was a scholar, the official was the Prince Taifu. Due to the exclusion of Prime Minister Li, he moved to Nanxiang Mountain in Zhangzhou. His sons, Chen Yixing and Tang Wenzong, were then prime ministers. Since then, children and grandchildren have flourished and developed into the Chen Taifu School in Fujian, and Chen Yong has been respected as the ancestor of the South Courtyard.
Chen entered Guangdong in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, nomadic people invaded south, and a large number of gentry in the Central Plains moved south. Chen Descendants led 93 people to move to Ninghua, Shanghang, Fujian, and then to his great-grandson Erlang, and then moved to Meizhou, Guangdong, and then scattered in Tai Po, Xingning, Changle, Longchuan and other counties. Chen entered Taiwan Province in the Ming Dynasty. Chen Yonghua, a native of Tongan, Fujian Province, entered Taiwan with Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming Dynasty and served as general Dongning. He established a reclamation system in Taiwan Province Province and founded a school, and was honored as the father of Chen Yitai. During the more than 300 years from the early Qing Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chen moved to Taiwan Province with a large population, including more than 2,000 members of the Chen family in Xiazhai, Shishan, which became the most populous family with the first surname in Taiwan Province and enjoyed a half-day reputation with Lin * * * Chen Lin.
Chen moved to Vietnam for a long time, and some of them became important ministers of Annan (now Vietnam) dynasty. Among them, Chen Ri, the wife of Empress Li of the Li Dynasty, established the Vietnamese Chen Dynasty in 1228, which lasted 175 years, and promoted the development of Chen's population. So far, Chen is still listed as one of the top ten surnames in Vietnam. Chen moved to Japan in the early Ming Dynasty, and most of them were sent sailors. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many people from Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas went out to sea to make a living in Xinmatai. Others emigrated to the Philippines, Indonesia, the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia and other parts of the world, making positive contributions to local prosperity and progress.