1, the first branch is the wind named Cheng.
According to legend, in the era of the Yellow Emperor 5000 years ago, Li of Zhu Rong, the descendant of Zhuan Xu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, ruled Jiuli and was still called Li. At that time, there were two tribes, Tongbu and Chengbu, who helped Zhu Rong's Li rule Jiuli nationality. According to legend, Cheng Tribe is a branch of the Feng family in Dongyi after Fu, hence the name Feng.
The Cheng tribe was established long before the Xia Dynasty. Their hometown gathered in the ancient history east of Luoyang, Henan Province, and they were powerful allies of the Xia Dynasty. In about 1600 BC, the Shang Dynasty destroyed the summer, and the adults who were pro-summer withdrew from the Central Plains and retreated to Biying in the western Jingwei area, which is now the east of Xianyang, Shaanxi. In 65438 BC+065438 BC+009 BC, the king of Shang Dynasty was annexed by Zhou Guo and became a vassal state of Zhou Guo, so his descendants took the country as their surname.
2. The second branch is Ji Cheng.
The last name is Cheng, born to his youngest son. Xunguo was a country, and then it was destroyed by gold. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the fief of Xun Gou, a doctor of Jin Dynasty, was completed, that is, the ancient land, that is, the east of Luoyang, Henan Province, and his descendants took the city as their surname. In the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, Cheng played an important role in the history of Jin State. Ji's surname and Cheng's surname are important parts of Cheng's group with a history of more than 2,600 years.
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population distribution
Cheng mainly originated in Henan and Shanxi. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Cheng's family mainly spread in Jin State (now Shanxi Province). During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Cheng family not only further multiplied in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and other places, but also moved to Sichuan (now Sichuan), that is, Wucheng County, Zhejiang, Nanchang, Jiangxi and other places.
By the Han Dynasty, Cheng's surname was mainly found in northern China, distributed in Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi and other provinces, and some of them moved south to Sichuan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, especially in the late Jin Dynasty, due to frequent wars in the north, clans in the Central Plains moved southward on a large scale.
Among them, Anhui, Jiangsu and other provinces were the main areas where Cheng Xian moved south, and then he flourished in Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces. At the same time, the Cheng family also made new progress in the northwest, forming a "stable" big county hope. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, people named Cheng had scattered in most parts of the country.
According to relevant scholars' research, during the Northern Song Dynasty, another influential Iluocheng family was formed in Henan. This Cheng family originated from Cheng Yu, a Luze native of Shenzhou (near the south of Shenxian County, Hebei Province) in the Five Dynasties. When Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi brothers started Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties, they became famous all over the country. Therefore, Yi Luocheng's family is also called Cheng's original by later generations. Cheng Nan moved to Fujian, Guangdong and other provinces at the end of Yuan Dynasty.
According to the genealogy of Cheng family in Taiwan Province Province, its predecessor was Taishoufang, Xiangfu County, Kaifeng Prefecture, Henan Province. At the end of yuan dynasty, he became the ancestor of Fuzhou satrap and Kaimin. His brother Wen Huiju is a native of Zhangpu, and Di Feng Gonglang. During the reign of Sejong in the Ming Dynasty, after Wenhui, Cheng Qujue and his two sons, Wei Shan and Wei Hai, came to Houmen Mountain in Zhaoan from Liangshan in Zhangpu, which was the ancestor of Zhaoan.
Then move to Guangdong and other places. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Cheng family was widely distributed in China. In short, historically, the distribution of the Cheng family is mainly in northern provinces such as Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Shandong. Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong are the main areas in the south.
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