Cui Shi's ancestral home is Shandong. Later, during the long Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, Wucheng and Anping between Qinghe and Boling were always called Sheng. At the same time, Cui Shi also spread to Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu and other provinces. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, warlords scuffled, and Cui Ya, the secretariat of Pingzhou, led thousands of people to avoid chaos and entered Korea, which later became the most popular name for Koreans. From the Western Jin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, Cui Shi was also distributed in some places in Shanxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Anhui, Shaanxi, Gansu and other provinces. In the Western Jin Dynasty, it was listed as the head of the northern clan. After the Tang Dynasty, Cui moved to the south in large numbers, mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other provinces today. The most concentrated places in Cui Shi in Song Dynasty were Qinghe and Boling. After the Song Dynasty, Cui Shi was more widely distributed, and some migrated to some countries in Southeast Asia after the Qing Dynasty.
Celebrities of past dynasties include Cui Yong, an upright official, Cui Jian, a writer, Cui Yuan, a calligrapher, Cui Ai, Cui Hao and Cui Hu.