Chen can be said to be the world's super surname. Chen is the fifth largest surname in China with a large population. According to incomplete statistics, Chen is the surname of the most overseas Chinese, and many countries in the world are Chen. Our neighbor, Vietnamese Chen, is the second largest surname. With a population of more than 80 million in the world, it is no exaggeration to say that Chen is a super surname.

The origin of the surname Chen.

1, descendant, country as surname, ancestor of Chen surname: Hu Gongman. According to the genealogy, after Zhou Wuwang destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the descendants of Yu Shun were named as Chen Hou and Hu Gongman, and later the descendants took the country as their surname.

2, from the descendants of Chen Guogong. After Gui Man's death, some of Chen's descendants took the country as their surname, namely Chen. In addition to a main clan in Chenwan, during the period from civil strife to national subjugation, there were three descendants of Chen Guogong who took the country as their surname.

3. Ethnic minority Chen surname. For example, Chen of the Xianbei nationality in the Northern Wei Dynasty was changed when the three-character surname Hou moved to Luoyang with Emperor Xiaowen, while Chen of the Jurchen nationality was changed by the Jurchen nationality, and Chen of Mongolia was the surname given to Mongolian nobles by Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor of Ming Dynasty.

He changed his surname and used his own. For example, Chen from Haining, Zhejiang, was originally surnamed Cao. Because he married Chen's daughter, he took his mother's surname after giving birth to a son, and later became a noble family in Haining. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after the King of Qinghe River in the Northern Qi Dynasty had a high moon, he became an ordinary person after several changes in Linggu. In the fourteenth generation of the Yuan Dynasty, he was adopted by his wife in the Chen family and changed his surname to Chen. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, his real name was Gao, and he changed his name to Chen because the diviner said that his father was jealous of his birthday.

5. Chen surnamed Yimin, Yimin. Jia Min or Jiahu refers to the residents who are engaged in fishing or water transportation in coastal ports and inland rivers of Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi. Most of them take boats as their home. Among them, those who were driven away by Chen Youliang's defeated troops were Chen Weishi. As for the fallen, Chen Youliang, who was captured at the beginning, was compiled as a beggar; Ming Taizu destroyed Chen Youliang, captured his descendants Jiuzu, and fell into a degenerate family, a lowly musician, not in the same position as Qi Min. But retain the title of family system, still surnamed Chen.