According to the demographic statistics of surnames, Nanxing ranks 129 in Shanxi Province, with 20024 people. Nan surname, whose surname is a place name, came from the State of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period. There was a noble scholar in the state of Jin who lived in seclusion in Nanxiang, and his descendants took Nanxiang as their surname.
The origin of nan surname is complicated: the descendants passed down from generation to generation take nan as their surname; Pan Geng's concubine Chiang Kai-shek dreamed of holding a red dragon in her arms at night and gave birth to a son in December. When he grew up, he was in charge of Jingzhou and was named "Nan Chilong". His great-grandson Nan Zhong was a doctor at the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, which was the main source of Nan's surname. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Ying, the son of Wei State, was named Nanzi, and his descendants took Nanman as their surname. The State of Chu in the Zhou Dynasty had a son named Nan, also called Nan; During the Spring and Autumn Period, the state-owned senior officials in Jinzhong City were trapped in Nanxiang, because they changed their surnames to Nan. Historically, the Nan surname formed a noble family in Runan, Hedong (now Yongji, Shanxi) and Dunqiu (now southwest of Qingfeng, Henan). Historical celebrity: Lu Younan in the Spring and Autumn Period. Nanji, a mathematician in Han Dynasty, Nanji, a great scholar in Tang Dynasty, Nanji Yun. In the Ming Dynasty, there were several large families of Nannan family in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, which was obvious to all in the world. Among them, Nandaji, the magistrate of Shaoxing, the grandson of Nandaji, was appointed as the official minister of Nanjing at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Chinese word Nan Juye and Juren in the enterprise also served in the DPRK, which was not guilty. In the Qing Dynasty, Nan's family in Kunming, Yunnan Province stood out, and celebrities such as Nan Tianxiang, the magistrate of Jiangnan, and Nan, the magistrate of Huguang, appeared.
There is also a story passed down from generation to generation in our Hebei, Shandong and Henan area: Queen Zhang Ming (Jixing, Cangxian County, Hebei Province) built Jianhe and Pangu Temple, and two brothers occupied private fields and committed crimes. 1549, later generations fled everywhere, and Zhang was divided into four surnames: East, South, West and North. The vague records in Ming History are ominous. To this end, there is a saying that the surname Zhang is in the southeast and northwest. In our place, Nan surname and Dong surname are considered as a family. (This statement is limited to Hebei, Shandong and Tianjin, and should be different from the origin of South-South surnames in the south. )