Chen Wanqian is polite and has always had a good reputation. Qi Huangong admired him very much, so he appointed him as a magistrate (an official in charge of craftsmen) and sealed him in the field. Later generations took the land as their surname and called it Tian. They respect Tianwan as the ancestor of Tian's surname. Families in every place have genealogies.
The birthplace of field pioneering information is now Shandong Province. After Qin annexed Qi, Tian was first transplanted to the west and north. In the early Han Dynasty, the aristocrats in Tian were once kings, but they were all soon destroyed. In order to destroy the rebel forces all over the country and maintain the rule of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gaozu forcibly moved the Kanto nobles to Yangling (now Shaanxi) in Guanzhong, and Tian nobles had to move here.
Later, the Tian family moved to Beiping (equivalent to Hebei and Tianjin today). During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, the counties in Tian were Xindu (now Hebei), Fanyang (now Hebei), Yingchuan (now Henan), Ruyin (now Anhui), Bingzhou (now Shanxi), Yizhou (now Hebei), Fenzhou (now Shanxi) and Yanzhou (now Shandong).
It can be seen that from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Tian was basically distributed in the vast area north of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Song Dynasty, Tian moved south and propagated in Fujian and Guangdong. According to relevant records, Tian Xisheng was the ancestor of Tianjia in Fujian and Guangdong, originally living in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. He moved to Ninghua, Fujian after being introduced to Tianyan, and moved to Changting, Fujian after being introduced to Zimao.
Zhiying moved to Xingning, Guangdong. Tian Zi Maozisonggang moved to Haiyang, Guangdong at the end of the Song Dynasty, and then moved to Tai Po, the ancestor of Kaiji. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tian's family spread in the vast areas north and south of the river. In short, from a historical perspective, Tian surname is basically a typical northern surname.
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