In the first year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1368), Hui Zhang was appointed as the commander of Wei (Shaoyang, Hunan). According to Volume 33 of Baoqing Fuzhi, Zhang's ancestor was a proud man from Sanhe, Beiping. After Zhang took office, he settled in Jigaotang, Chelinpu, Wugang, and lived on wasteland 100 mu of farmland. Today, most of the Hui people in Shaoyang are Ma, Zhang, Su, Hai and Cai. The Hui people surnamed Zhang may be descendants of Pulod. One of the Hui Zhang family, whose surname was changed from Pulod in Ming Dynasty. The origin of other tribes is not very clear. Zhang surname is one of the most popular surnames in Hui nationality. For example, among the Hui people in Shaoyang, Hunan, Ma, Zhang, Su, Hai and Cai are the majority. The most common surnames of Hui people in Minhe County are Ma, Ye, Liu, Yang, Bai, Zhang and Chen. They were moved from the twelve villages of Shuifuhe River in Gansu by the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu during the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. Today, the three surnames of the Hui people in Lhasa, Zhang, Li and Yu, are all Sichuanese.

Yao Zhang:

In today's Hunan, Guangxi and other provinces, there are many settlements of the Yao Zhang family. Such as the stone boundary in Shangdong Town, Wugang County; Congping, Houpi and Gaoshan in Hekou Township, Ziyuan County; Rural prosperity in Shazhai, Luzhai County: Nale, Minxing and Pingtan in Baihe Township, Napo County, Shang Hua and Guiliu in Xiahua Township, and Poya in Nalong Township; Under the umbrella, on the tip of Jialong Township, lingyun county; Dongdong, Li Na and Banxing in Dongdong Township, Qinzhou City, and Bangou, Dakeng, Xikeng and Heping in Banba Township. Dongshan and Naqin in Najun Township; Life in Miao Township of Shangsi County is better; Xiangjiaoshan, Xiangzhuang, Yulongtang, liu village, Dabei Village, Mozuo Mountain, Johor Bahru, Xicaotang, Xiaomantu, Niustable, Mengbanshan, Wenqing, Mamboshan, Sugarcane Garden, Ichiro and Alpine; The Zhang family of Yao nationality is located in Madiren Township, Longsheng County. The celebrity of Yao Zhang family is Zhang Youjun, director of the Institute of Ethnic Studies of Guangxi University for Nationalities.

Dong Zhang:

A part of the Zhang family of the Dong nationality was changed from the Zhang family in Xiangxi in the Song Dynasty, and married and blended with the Dong people living there. See the first section of this chapter. The origin of other branches is not very clear. Initially mainly distributed in Hunan, Guizhou and other regions. During the forty-three-year drought in Qingganlong, some Dong Zhang families in Huangzhou (Xinhuang County, Hunan Province) moved to Xuanen, Enshi, Lichuan and Xianfeng in Hubei Province.

Zhang Wei:

One of the Yi people named Zhang is the Mongolian of Nanzhao. See the first section of this chapter for details. There is a Zhang in Ma Quan Commune in Dechang County, Sichuan Province. Its ancestor was Tusi Zhang in Huidong, a Yi nationality, but it gradually became Chinese and eventually became a Han nationality.

Zhang Miao:

Zhang's family of Miao nationality is a branch of marriage between Miao nationality and the descendants of brothers who moved from Jiangxi to Xiangxi in Song Dynasty.

Tujia Zhang:

A branch of the Zhang family of Tujia nationality was changed from the descendants of Song Dynasty and his brothers. There is a Tusi family named Zhang in Longshan County, Hunan Province, which experienced three generations: Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty. These two brothers, the elder brother named Zhang Jinlong, is the governor of Baiyangdian, and the younger brother named Zhang Yibao, is a local official in Shanxi. In the 24th year of Yuan Zhiyuan (1364), my younger brother married Zhang Youliang, who was only one year old. In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1376), You Liang attacked Bai Yandong as the director of the lawsuit, while the post of Tuxi Zhouzhi remained vacant because Yibao died in Hongwu for three years. In this case, Xuanwei asked Peng Tianbao to come forward and ask you to forgive me for returning to the ancestral title, while Zhang, the leader of the clan cave, was invited to fill the vacancy of Uncle Baiyangdian. These two chieftain families were handed down from generation to generation, which lasted until the fifth year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty. There are many descendants, and the customs are gradually different, and they are gradually divided into Tujia, Han and Miao.

In Yongshun, Baojing, Huayuan and other counties in Hunan today, there are many families surnamed Zhang, and their ancestors changed their surnames from Zhang. According to legend, in the Song Dynasty, two brothers surnamed Zhang from Jiangxi went to Tunbian, Xiangxi, and when they became Tunchang, they no longer returned to the east and settled here. Children and grandchildren multiply, and the population is getting more and more prosperous. It is called a big chapter under the old man's head and a small chapter under the big brother's door. Later, perhaps because Zhang and Zhang had the same pronunciation, or because reclamation was inseparable from bows and arrows, or in order to encourage everyone's military strength, they changed their surnames from Zhang to Zhang, and continued to branch and migrate, scattered in Yongshun, Baojing and Yongsui counties, especially Pingba, Yajia, Chadong, Laowangzhai and Jianyan. The mountainous area of western Hunan was still under the jurisdiction of Tusi before the change of the current in Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and it was a concentrated area of ethnic minorities such as Tu, Miao and Dong. For a long time, this chapter changer married and lived with the indigenous minorities, and was gradually assimilated. The so-called "soil village is soil, Miao village is seedling" (Qing Yan Ruyu's Miao Fang, Volume 9). Not only the surname has changed, but also the ethnic group has changed. Since the Qing dynasty, with the development of production and the improvement of living standards, the number of descendants of Zhang has been increasing, and they have expanded and migrated to the surrounding areas of western Hunan. Today, there are descendants of Zhang Da and Zhang Xiao in the border areas of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou, and even in Yunnan and Guangxi.