The origin of Zhang's surname
In the song version of Hundred Family Names, Zhang ranked 24th. By 2007, according to the statistical analysis of the registered population in China by the Public Security Administration of the Ministry of Public Security, Zhang's population ranked third among the surnames in China, with a total of 87.502 million people, accounting for 6.83% of the total population in China.
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Zhang was first active in Qingyang, and his hometown was in Puyang, Henan and Qinghe, Hebei. It was not until the Western Period that there was a trace of Zhang in Shaanxi, and Zhang Zhong was engraved on the bronze plate of the Western Zhou Dynasty. They were nobles of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Zhong Zhang assisted Zhou Xuanwang in revitalizing the Western Zhou Dynasty.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Jin was the most important area in the history of Zhang's development. Hedong "Jieyi" is an important gathering place and birthplace of Zhang (on the east bank of the Yellow River in Linyi in ancient times). Zhang Daishi Jin, Jin destroyed the aftermath of Korea.
Zhang Lao and Zhang Hou (that is, Zhang Jie) are both doctors in the State of Jin. The descendants of Zhang Lao, a North Korean aristocrat, became the first hero of the founding of the Han Dynasty, and were also revered as ancestors by some descendants of Zhang. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people surnamed Zhang mainly lived in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other regions.
The Qin and Han Dynasties was an important period for Zhang's development and reproduction. Zhang Ruchuan was born in the early Qin Dynasty, and most of them were descendants of the nobles of Sanjin. In the anti-Qin war and the subsequent dispute between Chu and Han, his political inclination was obvious, and he made contributions in the war and was awarded a title. Then go west to Gansu and Ningxia.
Zhang's crowd activity area quickly developed to the whole north, northwest and Sichuan, becoming the first surname in the northern region at that time. At the same time, the descendants of Sean who stayed in the Western Han Dynasty set out from Shaanxi, moved to Hebei and entered Jiangsu, and crossed the Yangtze River and entered Jiangnan. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhang Jian had arrived in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian.
After entering the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the war in the north and the large number of ethnic minorities entering the Central Plains, Zhang moved to the south and southeast, and continued to develop to the northwest. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Zhang people set foot in the northeast, and Bohai Bay became an important gathering center for the Zhang people. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zhang began to emigrate to Huguang and Yungui areas. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, it began to enter Taiwan Province Province from Guangdong.
Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zhang