For reference only:

The Chen Family of Chenbaji in Xiaoxian County

From the 18th generation onwards: Binghuai from noble strength to longing for merit [now to the 26th century]

There are many generation characters in use in each branch, roughly as follows:

Seventeenth generation: Guangda Chaozhong Zhizhao

Eighteenth generation: Bingxingxian Jianzhao Fengkai Jade

The 19th generation: Huaizhao famous Hongwanyu

The 20th generation: From Huaizhong, Jingfu and Guangle

Twenty-one Generation: Gao Zongsheng

The Chen family in Shishaogou, Xiao County

Eighteenth generation: Live in civilized times, cultivate good deeds, Hengchang, respect scriptures and worship Confucianism

Xiao County The Chen family of Chengou

The fourteenth generation of the Chen family: Zhongchang Yishang Youyusheng Hong Guangsheng

The Yanwu Chen family of Xiaoxian

The fifteenth generation of the Chen family : Dahuai has a long history of lofty ideals and sage virtues that have lasted for hundreds of generations - Chen family tree

During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, I, the Lord of Xianzan Prefecture, pioneered the Chen family's Yongbin Gong family chariot in Qiyang. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Yongbin Gong's sixth descendant and the head of Yongning County, Book Dou, repaired Yongbin Gong's family chariot for the first time in Qiyang. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Daliang, the 15th heir of Yongbin Gong, continued to build Yongbin Gong's family vehicle for the second time in Qiyang. At the same time, a class line was drawn up and promulgated to use Bin Gong as the ancestor of the Qi Dynasty, and use Bin Gong's eleventh generation descendant as the "I" character sect. Virtue, the right way will lead to prosperity in time, the family tradition will be inscribed in it, and the world will follow it forever. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, the descendants of Yong Bin Gong moved to Shu from Qiyang, Yongzhou Prefecture, Huguang, in accordance with the "Edict of Emperor Zuren of the Qing Dynasty to invite people to move to Shu". During the Yiwei period of Qianlong, Yong Bin Gong and his descendants added 32 records of entering Shu from the "Qi Pu". The heirs and grandsons of prefectures and counties are named "Xishu Continuation of Chen Family Genealogy", referred to as "Shu Genealogy". This is the third continuation of the genealogy of Bin Gong. Chen Zhangmo of the Personnel Bureau of Tongliang County, Chongqing spent ten years compiling most of the historical materials based on the "Shu Genealogy". He also selected relevant historical materials from classics and word-of-mouth to enrich them. The content covers various fields of Chen family culture and has a good understanding of the history of the Chen family. During the Kangxi and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty, the lineage of the descendants of Yongbin Gong who moved from Qiyang to Shu was continued. In 1999, the "Chen Family Cheng Ji" was compiled. "The Records of the Chen Family" is a 32-carat book with more than 700 pages. It is printed and hardcover.

During the Qingming Dynasty in 2002, Chen Zhangmo led seven members of the Chen family from Yushu to Qidong County, Hunan Province to find their roots and worship their ancestors, and brought the "Chen Family Journey". On April 6, 2002, the Qidong Conference was formed by five representatives from more than 30 counties and cities in Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Chongqing: Ziliang, Zizheng, Ziming, Ziwen, and Zigui. More than 190 members of the compilation committee of Chen's Family Records (Continued), as well as colleagues from the majority of the clan, discussed, revised, and improved it. It lasted 8 months, and the draft was revised three times, and the Chen family's Yongbin Gongyi was officially promulgated. Sun Tongtong continued the Fuzi School (see the article Chen Yongbin Gong Yuanliu, the ancestor of Qi Dynasty).

In today's market economy, Chen Zhangmo does not seek fame or profit; he collects information, consults classics, devotes himself to postgraduate research, quotes a large number of ancient and modern historical materials, and analyzes the emergence of the Chen family since the Tang Dynasty. He put forward his own opinions on the various disagreements. The "Chen Family Chengji (Continued)" edited by the editor also selected and published textual research articles on the origin of the Chen family by celebrities in ancient and modern history. Since there are more than 40 Chinese surnames branching from the Chen family, these materials are of reference value not only for the study of the origin of the Chen family, but also for the origins of more than 40 other surnames; they also focus on recording the details of modern celebrities. The situation involves more than 60 people at or above the county level in more than 30 counties and cities in Chongqing, Sichuan, Hunan, Taiwan and other provinces and cities (including 1 person at the military level and 1 at the regiment level of the Taiwan Kuomintang), as well as famous professional and technical personnel Details of personnel, retired cadres, centenarians, entrepreneurs, revolutionary martyrs, etc.

"The Records of the Chen Family" and "The Records of the Chen Family (Continued)" only record the genealogy charts of most of the descendants of the Yongbin Gong sect in the four provinces and cities of Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Chongqing. This does not include the descendants who migrated to Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places during the Qing, Kang and Qian dynasties. Some of their descendants have moved to other provinces, cities and counties (including Taiwan), and some have even lived abroad.

"The Records of the Chen Family (Continued)" is a 32-karat, over 1,000-page, printed, hardcover edition. Published in November 2003.

I called Chen Zhangmo today (he is my great-grandfather by generation) and he said that recently more than a thousand people from Ziliang, who lives in the Santai area of ??Sichuan Province, have requested a continuation of the book. According to preliminary records in "Chen Family Cheng Ji" and "Chen Family Cheng Ji (Continued)", there are more than 80 people named "Yougang" by the 22nd generation descendants sent by Bin Gong; There are more than 8 people named "Yougang"; there are more than 7 people named "Yougang".

*Taiqiu Dewang1; Yingshui Yuanyuan2.

Notes: 1 Chen Shi, the chief of Taiqiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, "cultivated virtue and quietness, and brought peace to the people". He died at the age of eighty-four, and more than 30,000 people died at home. His posthumous title is Mr. Wen Fan.

2 refers to the surname Chen looking out of Yingchuan.

*Bi Xin Mo Qi avoids chaotic grass 3; Guangyuan Zhengdapu Mountain 4.

Notes: 3. The chronicle of Chen Hongxu, a famous painter and Imperial College student in the Ming Dynasty. Chen Hongxu, a native of Zhuji, was given the courtesy name Zhanghou and the nickname Laolian. His calligraphy is elegant and he is good at painting old lotuses, landscapes and special figures. He is as famous as Cui Zizhong of Peiping and is known as "Chen of the South and Cui of the North".

4 The story of the modern democratic revolutionary Chen Shaobai (1869-1943). Chen Shaobai, also known as Wen Shao, courtesy name Kui Shi, was from Xinhui, Guangdong. Together with Sun Yat-sen's classmate, *** founded the Hong Kong General Association of the Hong Kong Association. When Sun Yat-sen became the Extraordinary President in 1921, he served as an adviser to the Presidential Office. There is "Xingzhonghui Revolutionary History".

*Zhang Chukai era 5; Wen Jia’s first person 6.

Note: 5 Chen Sheng (?-208), leader of the Yangcheng peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, was named She. In the first year of Qin II (210 BC), he was conquered and stationed in Yuyang (now southwest of Miyun, Beijing). He went to Daze Township, Qixian County (now southeast of Suzhou, Anhui). He was blocked by heavy rain. According to Qin law, he should be executed if he missed the deadline. Then he and Wu Guang launched an uprising of more than 900 soldiers, which was the first large-scale peasant uprising in the history of our country. The rebel army fought successively and reached Chen County (now Huaiyang, Henan Province). There were six to seven hundred chariots, more than a thousand troops, and tens of thousands of soldiers. After capturing Chen County, he was promoted to king and his country was named Zhang Chu (which means Zhang Da Chu Kingdom).

6 Chen Shuozhen (?-653), the female leader of the Zhejiang peasant uprising during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, was from Muzhou (now Jiande, Zhejiang). In the fourth year of Yonghui (653), she and her brother-in-law Zhang Shuyin organized a peasant uprising in Muzhou, with tens of thousands of participants. She called herself Emperor Wenjia and made Shuyin her servant.

*Wind and thunder drive the earth; majestic energy penetrates the rainbow7.

Note: Episode 7 of Marshal Chen Yi's Sentences. In the early and middle Tang Dynasty, the Chen family in the Central Plains made two far-reaching moves to move south to Fujian. In 669, the imperial court sent Chen Zheng (the 68th grandson of Hu Gongman) from Gushi, Henan, as the general manager of the southern march, to lead troops to suppress the unrest of ethnic minorities in southern Fujian. In April 667, Chen Zheng died, and his 20-year-old son Chen Yuanguang led the army on his father's behalf. After nine years of war, the situation calmed down, and in 686 he applied for the imperial court's approval and established Zhangzhou County. Chen Yuanguang devoted himself to the development of agriculture, industry and commerce in Zhangzhou, making the area prosperous and developed.

He was revered as the "Kai Zhang Holy King" by later generations, and his descendants were called the "Kai Zhang Holy King Sect", becoming the most important branch of the Chen surname in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and Nanyang Islands. . There are currently 53 Chen Shengwang temples in Taiwan, which shows from one aspect the reverence Taiwan compatriots have for Chen Yuanguang.

Then there is Chen Yong, the son of Chen Zhong, a descendant of Chen in Yingchuan. He was a Jinshi during the reign of Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty and became the crown prince and Taifu. He was squeezed out by Prime Minister Li Linfu and moved to Nanxiang Mountain in Zhangzhou. His son Chen Yixing was the prime minister of Emperor Wenzong of Tang Dynasty. After that, the descendants prospered and developed into the "Taifu Sect" Chen family in Fujian, and Chen Yong was respected as the founder of "Nanyuan".

The Chen family’s entry into Guangdong began in the Southern Song Dynasty. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin soldiers invaded the south, and a large number of gentry from the Central Plains moved south. Chen Kui, a descendant of Chen, led 93 members of his clan to move to Ninghua and Shanghang, Fujian. His great-grandsons Erlang and Sanlang then moved to Meizhou, Guangdong, and later scattered in Dabu, Xingning, and Changle. , Longchuan and other counties. Chen's entry into Taiwan began in the late Ming Dynasty. Chen Yonghua, a native of Tong'an, Fujian, entered Taiwan with Zheng Chenggong in the late Ming Dynasty. He served as the chief envoy to Dongning, established a farming system and set up schools in Taiwan. He is revered as the ancestor of the Chen family in Taiwan. During the more than 300 years from the early Qing Dynasty to the founding of New China, a large number of Chen family members immigrated to Taiwan. Among them, there were more than 2,000 Chen family members in Wu Rong Shi Shan Xia Zhai alone, making it the most populous family with the first surname in Taiwan. It is the same as the Lin surname. *The reputation of "Chen Lin Half the World".

When the Chen family was divided and moved away, Chen Zongyu (the 80th grandson of Man Gong) took up a post in Runzhou. He moved to Yuetang, Erling, Danyang with his children and grandchildren, and became the founder of the Chen family in Danyang. "Danyang County Chronicles 6.1 City Outline" records, "Yuetang Bridge was built in the eighth year of Song Xiangfu (1016) by Chen Cheng, a local resident.

"Chen Chengzhi's fourth grandson, Chen Zhen, gave birth to two sons in Yuetang, the eldest son Chen Dong and the second son Chen Nan. Chen Dong died in 1127 at the age of 42. There was a posthumous son named Si Zong. "Danyang County Chronicle? 6? According to "Yin Xi", Chen Sizong was granted the title of Di Gonglang by his father Chen Dong. Chen Ming, the youngest son, moved from Yuetang to Erling Huajiadu.

The Chen family has passed down the spirit of "Yimen" from generation to generation, and famous people have emerged in large numbers. As for the Chen family in Danyang, Zong Yu's 7th grandson Mingdong, courtesy name Shaoyang, was a student from Taipei. In order to protect the country of the Song Dynasty, he advocated resistance to the Jin Dynasty. Chen Fu, whose name was Fu Zhi, was famous for his talent and righteousness, and was well known by the people of his time for his patriotic and caring actions. Respected. Wang Anshi once praised him as: "Danyang Chen Fu is a good scholar in western Zhejiang." Sima Guang praised him and said: "Mr.'s virtue is the hope of a scholar, and his talent is the light of the country." Zong Yu's 15th generation grandson Jingshi, named Xuehan, originally lived in Huajiadu Village, Erling. He cherished the virtue of respecting his ancestors and built a hut next to the Shaoyang Mausoleum. He swept the house every year and performed sacrifices diligently to comfort the spirits of the ancestors in heaven. Jingshi became the first ancestor of the Chen family in Tongcun (Chenxiang). According to the genealogy, the Chen family branch in Danyang spread throughout Danyang, Jurong, Yixing, Liuhe, Nanjing and other neighboring counties. The Danyang people are now distributed in Chenxiang, Chenjia, Huajiadu, Yuetang in Erling, Dachenjia, Xiaochenjia, Liushu, Chenxiangli, Chenjia, Xinggong, Shilipai in Quanzhou and Situ in Hengtang. , Heyang, Fangxian, Maixi, Lingkou, Erling, Daoshu, Jiangshu, Douzhuang, Chenjia, Chenjia Village, etc. . As of May 8, 2000, there were 41,892 registered members of the Chen family in Danyang City.

The Chen family in Yimen attached great importance to the ancestral temple and began to build it in the ninth year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty (1496). The genealogy was revised as many as 12 times in the 36th year of the Republic of China. The history is relatively long, and some became important ministers of the Annan (now Vietnam) Dynasty. Among them, Chen (ie Chen Ri), the husband of Queen Li Zhaohuang of the Li Dynasty, founded the Chen Dynasty of Vietnam in 1228, which lasted 175 years and promoted the population of Chen. development. To this day, the Chen surname is still listed as the top ten surnames in Vietnam. The Chen family began to immigrate to Japan in the early Ming Dynasty. People went to sea to make a living in the present-day Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and some people continued to move to the Philippines, Indonesia, the United States, Britain, France, Canada, Australia and other places around the world, making positive contributions to local prosperity and progress.

In terms of region, the Chen surname ranks first in the southern region (Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and Guangxi), accounting for 10.57% of the population in the region; in the Yangtze River Basin area (Jiangsu and Zhejiang) Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan) with the Chen surname ranked fourth, accounting for 4.86% of the region's population; in the northern region (ie, except for the south and the Yangtze River Basin), the Chen surname ranked seventh, accounting for 4.86% of the region's population. 2.51%.

From a provincial perspective, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Zhejiang and other provinces are the areas where the population with the surname Chen is most concentrated.

The proportion of people with the surname Chen in their respective provinces is 14.01%, 12.21%, 10.52%, 7.74%, and in Taiwan, Guangdong, and Zhejiang provinces, the surname Chen is the largest surname in the province (the surname Chen in Fujian is slightly lower than the surname Lin, ranking second in the province).

See the table below for details of each province:

Proportion of population in the province (%) Remarks on the ranking of surnames in the province

Fujian 14.01 2

Taiwan 12.21 1

Guangdong 10.52 1 including Hainan

Zhejiang 7.74 1

Guangxi 5.95 3

Guizhou 5.53 4

Yunnan 5.36 4

Jiangsu 5.27 3 including Shanghai

Sichuan 4.8 4 including Chongqing

Jiangxi 4.75 3

Hubei 4.69 5

Xinjiang 4.18 5

Gansu 4.16 4

Hunan 4.11 6

Anhui 3.58 5

Henan 3.15 7

Liaoning 2.98 5

Heilongjiang 2.75 7

Shandong 2.57 7

Shaanxi 2.24 7

Jilin 2.15 8

Hebei 1.69 9 including Beijing, Tianjin and Shanxi

The surname Chen does not enter the top ten in the ranking of surnames in this province, no data: Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Ningxia

From In terms of total population, Guangdong is the largest province with the surname Chen in contemporary China. The population with the surname Chen in this province accounts for 14.7% of the total population with the surname Chen in the country, followed by Sichuan and Fujian. The total population of the three provinces with the surname Chen can account for 14.7% of the total population with the surname Chen in the country. 33% of the total population. Note: The above data were calculated by Mr. Yuan Yida (associate researcher at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) based on the sampling data of the third census in 1982. For details, see Yuan's book "Chinese Surnames - Population Genetics and Population Distribution". The statistics do not include ethnic minorities. [Edit this paragraph]Some famous people in history