Fan is a kind of grass in the Chinese philology monograph Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and the place where Fan grass is produced is also called Fan.

The font "Fan" in Xiao Zhuan comes from grass and water. Fan's surname is a snake totem, with the snake as the family emblem, which consists of table wood, water and snake. It is four, which is a snake totem, elegance is a symbol of wood, and ten is a symbol of square, representing four seasons. The cloud lives in and takes the land as its surname.

Fan's voice originated in Henan? Fan county? Laofanzhuang Village, Gaowharf Township, southeastern China.

Fan is located in Fan County, Henan Province, and his original surname is located in Dongjiu Village, Zhangzhuang Township, Fan County.

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Fan's surname, respecting Fan Wuzi (Scholar's Club) as the ancestor of Fan's surname, originated from the Yao Emperor of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and can be traced back to the Xuanyuan and Shaodian of the Yellow Emperor.

According to the records in Dialectics of Ancient and Modern Surnames and Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames, Liu Lei, the grandson of Yao Emperor in the Zhou Dynasty, moved to the Tang Du family, unjustly killed Du Bo, and his son Du Ji fled to the State of Jin as a judge, changed his official name to a scholar, and gave birth to his son Shi (wěi).

Fan's ancestors stood out at the beginning of his surname. Since Fan Wuzi became a scholar-bureaucrat, Fan Wenzi, Fan Zixuan, Fan Xianzi and other generations have been ministers of the State of Jin, which can be said to be one of the aristocratic families who once dominated for a while in the early days.

Fan is one of the most popular surnames, ranking 5 1 among the new 100 surnames, with about 4.68 million people, accounting for 0.36% of the total population in China. China Fan moved to Vietnam, and now Fan is the fourth surname in Vietnam, accounting for 7.5% of the total population of Vietnam, with about 6.78 million people.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Fan surname