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Wen's surname comes from two sources. One originated from the surname Ji. Zhou Wuwang cut merchants and established the Zhou Dynasty. He posthumously awarded his father Ji Chang as Zhou Wenwang. Zhou Wenwang has an illegitimate child, named Shi Wen after Wang Wen and posthumous title; In addition, during the Warring States Period, there was a Meng Changjun in the State of Qi, who was the grandson of Qi Weiwang. He had 3,000 diners and was very powerful. Meng Changjun's name is Tian Wen, and some of his descendants take his name as their surname, and are called Shi Wen. Wen Tianxiang, Minister of Southern Song Dynasty. Hangyuan famous soldier, writer, Luling people, Jizhou people. When the Yuan army went south, he was sent to the Yuan army camp as the right prime minister to negotiate and was detained. Later, he escaped from danger in Zhenjiang. Zhang Shijie, Lu Xiufu and others in exile in Fujian insisted on resisting Yuan. Recovering many lost lands, he was soon captured by the Yuan Army and died unyielding. After he was captured, he wrote Crossing the Zero Ocean and Songs of Righteousness, which showed his noble national integrity and have been told by later generations. Wen Zhiming, a calligrapher in Ming Dynasty, was a native of Changzhou, and was good at painting landscapes, flowers, orchids and figures. He mostly describes the gardens with lakes and mountains in the south of the Yangtze River and the leisurely life of literati. His composition is steady, and his pen and ink are light and elegant. Calligraphy works are mainly cursive, good at small script, and can also be used as official script. At that time, many people followed him to learn calligraphy and painting, forming a "Wu Pai"; Together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Chou Ying, they are also called "Ming Si Jia"; His sons, Wen Peng, Wen Jia and his nephew, Wen Bo Ren, are all famous painters and calligraphers.

Wen's family originated in Shaanxi, Henan and Shanxi provinces, among which Shaanxi (a branch of Zhou Wenwang) Wen's family is the main body of development. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people named Wen moved to the Jianghuai area. For example, the literary works of Dr. Yue, who helped Gou Jian achieve great achievements, are the people in Jiangling, Hubei Province today. In the Western Han Dynasty, an Anhui surname moved to Sichuan. "Qidong Wild Talk" contains: "There are many surnames in Shu, and then there is China Weng." Wen Weng's ancestral home is Lujiang (now Lujiang, Jiangxi) Shu County. From the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms period, Henan, Shandong and Shanxi were the places of Wen's surname, and Shanxi's Wen surname "Yanmen" was its county. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to years of war in the north, the Wen family also joined the gentry in the Central Plains to move south, which laid the foundation for the prosperity of the Wen family in the north. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the activities of Wen surname recorded in historical books were mainly in Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places, especially in Jiangxi and Sichuan, and later became the breeding center of Wen surname in the south. In Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Wen surname, as one of the surnames of Sophora japonica immigrants, was moved to neighboring provinces and Anhui. The descendants of Wen Tianxiang, an anti-Yuan hero (a native of Jiangxi in the Southern Song Dynasty), thrived in Henan and Sichuan, and some people thrived in Sichuan after Wen Tong, a painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. There are many people with Wen names in this period of history, which is the most in the history of Wen surname development. After the Qing Dynasty, Wen's surname was broadcast in every corner of China. Today, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Hunan and Sichuan are the most popular surnames, and these five provinces account for about 79% of the Han population in China. Among them, Guangdong province accounts for about 26% of the Han population in China. Wen is the 100th surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about 0. 17% of the Han population in China.