Chen, the eldest son of Gui, was born and raised. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun, was discovered, and he was placed in this place of Chen, and the State of Chen was established. When it came to the public, it was destroyed by Chu. After the national subjugation, the descendants took the original country name as their surname, hence the name Chen.
Chen's surname comes not only from the country name, but also from the renaming of other surnames, and the renaming of ethnic minorities is one of them. According to Wei Zhi, the noble Hou of Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty changed his name to Chen after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei moved his capital to Luoyang.
First, the change of Chen's surname.
After thousands of years of reproduction, Chen. Later, his grandson Chen Shida became the county magistrate of the Great Wall, so Chen moved to Zhejiang. The Chen family has spread all over China, forming the Chen family centered on Yingchuan, Runan, Xiapi, Guangling and Donghai. Since the Western Jin and Autumn, the surname Chen has moved from its birthplace to the south. During the Southern Dynasties, the Chen family moved south to eight counties in Danyang County, Jiangsu Province, and established the Chen family, which became famous for a while and spread all over the vast area between the Yangtze River and the river. In Tang Gaozong, people surnamed Chen entered Fujian and Guangdong. After the 1950s, there was a long-term war in the Central Plains, and a large number of Chen people moved south, even overseas, further expanding the ranks of Chen people in the south of the Yangtze River. Today, Chen has become the fifth surname and the first surname in Taiwan Province Province.
Second, Chen and Yao Gankun.
Throughout history, Chen's family history has left a brilliant stroke?
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Chen Yuan, a disciple of Confucius. Chen Sheng, the leader of peasant uprising in the late Qing Dynasty, was a pioneer of peasant uprising in China history. Chen Ping assisted Liu Bang in the early Han Dynasty, and Chen Lin, one of the "seven sons of Jian 'an" in the late Han Dynasty, was a great writer. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Chen Tang attacked Xiongnu many times. In the era of follwed, Chen Zun was named Hou. At that time, Chen was swept off his feet, and consulted with his father to alienate Lu Bu and Yuan Shu. The History of the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Chen Shou is one of the most widely circulated historical books in the twenty-four histories. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were famous generals such as Chen Qingzhi. The most famous person surnamed Chen in this period was the founder of Chen in the Southern Dynasties.
In the Tang Dynasty, Chen Ye was famous and talented. Politically, there were prime ministers Chen, Chen Xilie and Chen Yihang in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, there were Michael Chen who struggled with eunuchs, and Chen Junqing who was upright and upright. In terms of literature and poetry, there were Chen Ziang, Chen Hong and Chen Tao in the Tang Dynasty. There were Chen Pengnian and He Chen in Song Dynasty. In addition, there are Chen Liang, a thinker and writer, and Chen Juzhong, a painter. A number of peasant uprising leaders emerged in the Tang Dynasty, such as Chen Shuozhen, the female leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Tang Dynasty, and Chen Sanqiang in the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, celebrities named after Chen in the Tang and Song Dynasties included Xuanzang, a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty, and Chen. General Chen Youliang of Yuan Red Scarf Army; In the Ming Dynasty, there were Sanqu writer Chen Duo, patriotic poet Chen Zilong, writer Chen Jiru, traveler Chen Cheng and Chen Chen. In the Qing Dynasty, there were travelers Chen Gongyin, Chen Wenshu, Chen Weisong, Chen Ling, Chen Duansheng and Chen Li, thinkers Chen Jian, Chen Xianzhang and Chen Que, and painters Chen Hongshou.
The exhibition will display the works of Chen Zilong, a famous anti-Qing scholar at the end of Ming Dynasty, Chen Hongmou, a great scholar in Dongge during the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, and Chen Huacheng, who died heroically in the Opium War. The peasant uprising was led by Chen Kai, the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in the late Qing Dynasty, and Chen Yucheng and Chen Decai, the young generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement. In the Qing Dynasty, there were scholars Chen Huan, Chen Li, Chen and writer Chen Li. There are also modern democratic revolutionaries Chen and Chen Tianhua, proletarian revolutionaries Chen Tanqiu, Chen Yi, Chen Geng and Chen Yun, early * * * Party leader Chen Duxiu, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Chen Shutong, and senior Kuomintang generals Chen Lifu, Chen and Chen Cheng. There are also modern historians Chen Yinque and Chen Yuan, famous scholars Chen Wangdao, mathematicians Chen Jingrun, writers, famous poets Chen, painters, opera musicians, playwrights Chen Moxiang, film artists and so on. In addition, there are many famous overseas Chinese, such as Chen, a patriotic industrialist, and a close friend of Sun Yat-sen who benefited from it.