Zhan / Chan
The Zhan surname has two origins: one from a son of King Xuan of Zhou, who was enfeoffed as Marquis of Zhan and took the settlement name as his surname; the other from the descendants of Chu Zhan Yin, who took the name of Zhanxu as their surname.
The Xingyuan records that a son of King Xuan of Zhou received the surname Zhan and was enfeoffed as Marquis of Zhan. The Yuanhe Xingzuan also records the descendants of Chu Zhan Yin and mentions figures including Zhan Fu and Zhan Jia.
Existing Zhan genealogies record halls such as Peiyuan Hall, Dunben Hall, Hejian Hall, Xutangmu Hall, Shude Hall, and Ruiqing Hall, along with local founding migrants and migration routes.
Before the Qin and Han periods, the Zhan surname was mainly active in Henan and Shaanxi. By the end of the Eastern Jin, it had reached Fujian, and in the early Qing it entered Taiwan.
In the Song period, the Zhan population was about 103,000, concentrated mainly in Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Anhui. In the Ming period, it exceeded 186,000, with Fujian becoming the largest province and the population center remaining in the southeast.
Genealogies record migrations from Yanling to Xinzhou Yushan during the Yuanhe era of the Tang, from Fuliang Xinan Township to Changde in the early Ming, from Jiangxi Le'an to Hunan Ningxiang in the ninth year of the Zhengtong era, and from Wuyuan Luyuan to Lanxi during the Yuan period.
Different accounts exist for the origin of the Zhan surname: one attributes it to a son of King Xuan of Zhou who was enfeoffed as Marquis of Zhan, while another attributes it to the descendants of Chu Zhan Yin. The records also differ in their descriptions of the formative region.
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