Originated from Ji surname, from the son of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, belonging to the official title. According to the Book of the New Tang Dynasty Prime Minister's Lineage Table, "The fifth son of Qingyang, the son of the Yellow Emperor, wielded a bow and arrow, and later generations gave him the surname Zhang.
The descendants of the Yellow Emperor come from the surname Ji. According to Genealogy, in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor in the State of Jin named Zhang, whose grandson was also named Zhang.
Changed by a given surname or his surname. According to Records of the Historian, Zhuge Liang of Shu gave Zhang the surname when Long, the leader of the Nan people, was taken by the Three Kingdoms, and later generations took Zhang as their surname.
Originated from the ancient Xi nationality, originated from the Xi nationality in the Tang Dynasty, and belonged to the emperor whose surname was given by the Han nationality. Xi nationality is an ancient nationality living in Tang, Song, Liao and Jin dynasties. In historical documents, Xi people are often remembered as Xi people and Xi Hui people. In the Tang dynasty, the Zhang family of the Chinese came from the emperor.
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to sinicization and changed its surname. Today, Achang, Naxi, Wa, Yao, Zhuang, Li and Gaoshan Zhang are mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan and Taiwan Province provinces, while Tibetan Zhang is mainly distributed in Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the origin of their surnames remains to be verified.
Yuan Jueyi, the seventh son of the Japanese famous Silla Saburo Yuan Yiguang, went to North Korea in the second year of Yingde, that is, AD 1085, in order to escape the revenge of the orphans in Yuan Yiguang's murder. Yuan Jueyi, under the protection of Korea's Koryo Dynasty, took Silla as an allusion, Silla as a prototype, Zhang Baohao as a Miao figure and took root in coastal islands for generations.
Zhang, one of the top ten surnames of Chinese people in the world, is currently the third largest surname, with 87.502 million people, accounting for 6.83% of the total population in China. It is one of the three nationalities with the same surname in the world, ranking 24th among hundreds of surnames.