The Fang family originated in Henan province, and later some Fang families in southern China became aristocratic families, all of which were the result of Henan Fang family's southward migration. In the pre-Qin period, Fang was active in Henan, but he was not. It was not until the end of the Western Han Dynasty that Fangdong moved to northern Anhui that it began to develop and form a large family. During the Tang Dynasty, Fang's surname had been distributed in the Central Plains, East China and South China.

Fang's surname has always been centered on the Central Plains and immigrated to the South many times. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Fang's footprints appeared in Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places, and he entered Taiwan Province Province in the early Qing Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, there were about 450,000 people named Fang, accounting for 0.58% of the national population, and the surname ranked 35th. At that time, the province with the largest Fang surname was Fujian, accounting for about 37% of the total population of the country.

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Celebrity surnamed Fang:

1, Wang Fang: a native of Ping Ling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a strategist of Xiao Wei, a local separatist force in the late Western Han Dynasty. Later, he left Xiao Wei and made Liu Ying the son of heaven. After his failure, he was killed by the regime of starting a new stove.

2. Wang Fang's younger brother, because of resentment, changed his emperor and killed his younger brother, and persuaded the leader of the Red Eyebrow Army to set up another Liu clan to compete with the regime that started a new stove, and then disappeared.

3. Place: Chun 'an, Zhejiang. Dr. Ren moved to Yilang, Luoyangling and Taichangqing. After his death, he was posthumously awarded Shang Shuling and Yixian Hou and buried in Chun 'an City. Huizhou and Zhejiang have "Fairy Weng" temples.

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