What is the origin of Chen's surname?

The surname Chen comes from Sun Gonggui and belongs to the ancestral fief.

Zhou Wuwang married his eldest daughter, Tai Ji, to Mann, and prepared three gifts to commemorate Yu Shun. Chen Jiandu (now Huxiang Town, Zhecheng County, Henan Province), known in history, later moved to Wanqiu (now Chengguan District, Huaiyang County, Henan Province), which governs the most of the 14 cities and is roughly a part of eastern Henan and central Anhui.

From the closure of Hu Gong to the killing of King Hui of Chu in 479 BC, the State of Chen lasted for 25 generations, lasting more than 568 years. After Chen's death, the descendant of Chen Gongzi Wan, a branch of Chen Gongzi Wan, took the place of surname in 386 BC, and was called Chen (Tian) in history.

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Other legends about the origin of Chen's surname

Chen's tongzong Shun is the ninth grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Chen is the most important clan in Youyu clan. When it spread to Shun, she married the Huangdi clan, and Shun became Yao's adopted wife (an ancient woman was married as a whole son) and became the chief of the Huang tribe alliance, thus respecting Shun as the emperor.

Shun is the throne, the capital is in Puban, and the old city is located in Yuyu Township, 30 miles east of Yongji County, Shanxi Province, commonly known as the capital of Yu Shun. Youyu tribe has many branches, and its descendants are prosperous, which constitutes one of the main bodies of the Chinese nation and the Han nationality and an important part of the Chinese nation.

Among the Youyu tribe, the surname Chen is the most important one. (Chen, Yu, Hu, Yao and Tian are all emperors of Shun Dynasty, and there are five relatives named Lian Zong). At the end of Shang Dynasty, Sun Zhifu, the 33rd generation of Shun, defected to Zhou, where he worked, and won the favor of Ji Chang for his exquisite pottery-making skills.

After the son of Chang () destroyed the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, when he pursued the ancestors' adherents, he named his father's son Gui Man as Chen (now east of Kaifeng, Henan Province, north of Bo County, Anhui Province), honored Chen as Hou, and kept worshipping Shun Di, betrothed his eldest daughter Tai Ji to him. After Gui Man's death, posthumous title became Chen Hugong, also known as Hu Gongman.

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