In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a famous scholar in Lu called Shao Zhengmao, who gave lectures and learned. He was a very famous person at that time and was called "Wen Ren" (Wen means Wen Da in ancient Chinese, which means famous). His descendants [1] are proud of him and take "Wenren" as their surname, which is called Wenren's surname. Later, Wen Renshi simplified the surname to Wen, which was passed down from generation to generation, forming the surname Wen. According to the ancient books such as "Customs Tong" and "Words and Actions of Famous Clans", the surname of Wen was originally Wen, and then it was changed to Wen. Therefore, the single surname "Wen" and the compound surname "Wen Ren" are actually the same family born by one father, but only after Wen Ren's surname comes first. In other words, Wen's surname is derived from Wen's surname.
So, when did the surname come from? According to [2] textual research, it was roughly formed in the late Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty, because there was no record and activity footprint of the surname before this. Noble families live in Wuxing County (now Xing Wu County, Zhejiang Province).
Another branch in Wen Tianxiang
is the single-word Wen surname. After the defeat of Wen Tianxiang (lord protector) army, its twenty-four sons and their descendants moved from Ji 'an, Jiangxi Province to Xishui (Macheng), Hubei Province, and changed the text to Wen. The word "Wen" changed from "Wen" originated in the forty-six years of Qing Qianlong (1781). Wen's Genealogy, which was first revised, said: "My surname is Wen, and I live in Luling, Ji 'an, Jiangxi. In the second year of Song Jingyan (1277), the patriotic army was defeated in an empty pit, and the ancestor Liang Fugong was arrested. Now he fled to Lanqingyi, where he was in exile, and changed' Wen' to' Wen' because of his family. " The letter to the Lord here is Wen Tianxiang, and Qi is today's Xishui County, Hubei Province. There are also many Wen surnames living in Taicang City, Jiangsu Province. For more than 7 years, Wen's genealogy has adopted this statement, and Wen's family members also consider themselves descendants of Wen Tianxiang, and most of Wen Yiduo's research circles have acknowledged this statement. However, in 1992, Wen Liming, the author of Biography of Wen Yiduo, questioned this issue with the rigorous attitude of a historian. He said: "This statement is difficult to verify, and it records the time of 5 years (1277 -1781)." "Whether the genealogy is true or not remains to be confirmed." Because "smell" is also a surname. Wen Yiduo himself was interested in this question. When he was studying in Tsinghua, he wanted to write an essay "An Examination of Wen's First Virtue", but due to lack of information, he only wrote such an inconclusive conclusion as "not detailed" in his diary.