He made Chen Guo prosperous for many years by selecting talents, promoting good and punishing evil, and making great efforts to govern. After Guiman's death, posthumous title was named Gong Hu, so he was also called Chen Hugong and Gong Hu. Later generations took the country as their surname, called Chen, and respected Chen as the ancestor.
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In the Song Dynasty, there were about 3 million people surnamed Chen, accounting for 3.9% of the national population, and it was the sixth largest surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province of Chen surname is Fujian, accounting for about 20.8% of the total population of Chen surname in China.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces, accounting for 57% of the total population, followed by Henan, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Hunan provinces, with a concentration of 26%. The whole country has formed four gathering places of Chen's surname centered on Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Sichuan and Henan.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 4.2 million people surnamed Chen, accounting for 4.5% of the national population, and it was the fourth largest surname in the Ming Dynasty. In the past 600 years, the net population growth rate was 20%, which was much higher than that of the whole country, and the net growth rate was as high as 40%.
The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, accounting for 55.4% of the total population, followed by Guangdong, Anhui, Shandong and Hunan provinces, with a concentration of 24.6%. Zhejiang is the largest province in Chen, accounting for about 20% of Chen's total population. The country has re-formed two major regions where Chen's population is concentrated, namely, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and Hunan. The center of gravity of Chen Jiji began to split and separated to the southeast.