Chen originally belonged to Gui family, but he is a descendant of Gui family. After Zhou Wuwang established the Zhou Dynasty, he found Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun, sealed him in this place of Chen, and established the State of Chen. By the time of Chen Minggong, Chen Weichu was destroyed, and Chen's descendants took the original country name as their surname after the national subjugation, so they had Chen's surname.

In addition to the country name, Chen's surname was renamed from other surnames, one of which was changed by ethnic minorities. According to the Records of Guan Shi, Hou, a noble of Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty, changed his surname to Chen after he moved to Luo with Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

In Tang Gaozong, people surnamed Chen entered Fujian and Guangdong. After the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a long-term war in the Central Plains, and a large number of people surnamed Chen moved south and even developed overseas, thus further expanding the ranks of people surnamed Chen in the south of the Yangtze River. Today, Chen has become the fifth largest surname.

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Chen is a celebrity?

1, peasant uprising leader Chen Sheng?

Bobby Chen is from Yangcheng. Bobby Chen made a living as a long-term laborer when he was young. Once, he and his friends were resting in the field. He said to his friends, "If some of us are rich in the future, don't forget our old friends!" Everyone was amused and said, "where did you get the money for working hard to farm for others?" Chen Sheng sighed and said to himself, "Alas, how can a sparrow understand Hongyan's ambition!" ?

In 209 BC, Chen Sheng, Guangwu and others were ordered to be stationed in Yuyang. When they arrived in osawa Township, the rainstorm delayed their trip, which was punished according to the laws of the Qin Dynasty. Chen Sheng and Guangwu decided to rebel. They used people's superstitions to write the word "Chen" on a piece of white silk and stuffed it in the belly of fish caught by others.

When the soldiers bought fish, they found the words on this white silk and were very surprised. In the middle of the night, he sneaked into a ruined temple near the military camp, lit a bonfire, pretended that the fox said something first, and then shouted, "Great Chu Xing, Chen." The soldiers of the whole battalion were even more surprised and scared.

Chen Sheng and Guangwu saw that the time was ripe for the uprising, so they killed two officers who led them and launched an uprising in osawa Township. The uprising team developed rapidly, and Zhang Chu regime was established in Chenjun, and Chen Sheng became king. Then Chen Sheng sent troops to attack Zhao, Wei and other places, and sent the main force to attack the Guanzhong area. However, due to the counterattack of Qin Jun's superior forces, Chen Sheng was killed by the traitor Zhuang Jia after the defeat.

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