The surname Fan, derived from the surname Ji and Zi, originated in Henan, and multiplied in Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other places during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It ranked 157th in the Song version of "100 Family Names", and now has a population of about 2.3 million, ranking 111th.
Origins, origins
Source 1: The surname Fan is derived from the surname Ji, from the fief of Sun Zhongyu, a descendant of King Wen of Zhou. Zhong Yu was a famous minister who assisted King Zhongxing of Zhou Xuan, and his status was noble. After his death, his descendants took the name of Fengyi as their surname, called Fan. The people of the Fan clan revered Zhong Yu as the ancestor of the surname. According to the record of "Tongzhi, Clan Luo, Yiyi as the Clan", the surname Fan began with Zhongshan Fu, who was a famous minister during the reign of King Xuan of Zhou, and was sealed in the Fan State by Zhou Tianzi for his merits. The descendants of the descendants took the country as their clan and began the surname Fan. The descendants of the surname Fan respect Zhong Shanfu as the ancestor.
Source stream two. Derived from the surname of the child, the descendants of Shang Tang formed seven major clans after the middle of the Shang Dynasty, among which there was the Fan family. According to the records of "Zuo Biography", the descendants of Tao, Fan and other four ethnic groups have surnames with the name of the country, and the surname Fan is one of them. After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the Fan family was mostly in the Qi and Lu areas. Fan Xu is a descendant of the Fan family in the Seven Clans of Merchants and is the ** of Confucius.
Source flow three. Originated from the official position, from the official Fan people in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Fan Ren was the official position in charge of the path of King Zhou. According to the Zhou Li, the Fan people were responsible for decorating the horse's head, binding the horse's belly belt, and pulling the horse's neck leather to keep the horse tidy and for the king to drive the carriage. Among the descendants of the Fan people, there are those who take the official title of the ancestor as their surname, called Fan Ren, and later simplified to Fan.
Source stream four. Originated from the Manchus, it belongs to the Sinicization and changed the surname to the name. According to the historical book "Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Clan Luo Manchurian Eight Banners Surname" records: Manchu Yilali clan, also known as Yili clan, Yilali clan, Yilali clan, Hanyi "open", Shiju Wula, Yehe, Shuyoucheng, Yihan Alin City, Songhua River basin and other areas. Later, there were people who were introduced as surnames by the Xibe people. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu and Xibe Yilali clans had many Han surnames as Fan, Yi, He, Zhao, etc.
Source stream five. Far away in the era of the emperor of the Tai Yi clan, when it was passed to Emperor Yao, around 2000 BC, there was a chief surnamed Fan Zhongwen to the imperial capital Tunqiu (now Qingfeng, Henan), to participate in the abolition of the emperor Zhi Yao as the emperor. His Yaochen Fan Zhongwen was later enshrined in the southwest of Shandong as the king, and moved to the southeast of Chang'an, Shaanxi Province in the Xia and Shang periods, followed by Fan Zhongshi.
To sum up, the surname Fan is a nobleman