The ancients had different views on the time and reason of the formation of Zhong surname. The Tang people wrote in Yuan He's Family Name Compilation: "After Zhong, the great-grandson of Huan Gong, Bo Zong, was an official in Jin, born in Chu, and separated because of food. Because of his family name, his descendants were named. Zhong Yi and Zhong Jian are friends of Bole. Xiang Yu will be, and the surname Zhong is Zhong. " What is said here is Yin's younger brother. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Song State was established in the south of Shangqiu, Henan Province under the seal of Zhou Gongdan, and it was the founding monarch of the Song State. Duke Huan of Song Dynasty was the first 19 monarch of Song Dynasty. His great-grandson, Bo Zong, was a doctor in the State of Jin, and was called "Jin Sheng". But he was killed for his loyalty and daring to remonstrate with the ruling family. Zhou Li, the son of Bo Zong, fled to Chu, and later served as Taizai, eating in Li Zhong (now northeast of Fengyang, Anhui). His grandson takes Yi as his surname and is divided into two surnames, one of which is a compound surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were Yun Gong, doctors, people who were good at listening to Qin and Bole who were good at drumming. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Zhong Limei and Lu Yiren (southwest of Haizhou Town, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province), a general of Xiang Yu, succeeded by his second son, began to live in Yingchuan Changshe (northeast of Changge, Henan Province). In order to avoid enmity, the province "left" the single surname of Zhong.
According to Zuo Zhuan, in the seventh year of Lu Chenggong (584 BC), Zheng people "imprisoned foreigners and sacrificed Jin"; In the fifteenth year of Lu Chenggong (576 BC), "Jin San harmed Bo Zong, killed him, and was jealous of his father. Bozhou ploughed to Chu. " It can be seen that before the arrival of Chu State, there was already a Zhong family in Chu State. Therefore; In Dialectics of Ancient and Modern Letters, the poet Deng in the Song Dynasty said, "I am the grandson of Yi, but the grandson he built in his childhood is also a non-state tiller", and "I should say that I am the first official of Chu and take the city I eat as my surname". However, where is Zhong Yi's ancestor "Food City"? Deng didn't say it, and it was not recorded in ancient books. Therefore, Zhang Shu of A Qing Dynasty believed that Zhong Shi should take the official as his surname. According to Zhou Li Chun Guan, in ancient times, there was an official named Zhong Shi who specialized in ringing bells and playing music. According to Zhang Shu, the earliest branch of Zhong's family took Guan as its surname and was a descendant of Duanle Gongguan.
As mentioned earlier, Zhong mainly lived in Chu (now Hubei and Hunan) during the Qin Dynasty. Since the Han Dynasty, Yingzhou Changshe has been the center of Zhong's development and reproduction for hundreds of years, and many outstanding figures have been born here. Therefore, many surname books say that Zhong Wang Yingchuan (the county seat is located in the east of Xuchang City, Henan Province), and Zhong's clan relatives take "Yingchuan" as the hall name. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhong You, a member of Changshe Society, lived in seclusion. He taught poetry in Mishan, and his family moved to more than a thousand people. His seventh grandson Zhongya crossed the river with Jinshi at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty and lived in Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu). He joined the army as a prime minister clerk in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, and later became an official in the empire. According to the records of Taiwan Province Provincial Chronicles, People's Chronicles and Genealogy, the Jin Dynasty entered Fujian Province from the Central Plains, with a surname of *** 13, including Zhong. At the same time, some people moved to Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Sun Zhongyu, the seventh generation of Zhong You, was born in Yongjia County, Liang Dynasty. Zhong You, the son of Yuzi, was born in Linhai, and moved to Ganxian County, Nankang (now Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province) to avoid the hardships of the scenery. At the end of the Southern Dynasties and the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, there was Zhong Shixiong, who was once General Chen of the Southern Dynasties. History books called him "Lingnan Tusi". Lingnan refers to the south of Wuling, equivalent to Guangdong, Guangxi and northern Vietnam. This shows that there were also Zhong's family among Lingnan ethnic minorities in the Southern Dynasties. In the early Tang Dynasty, Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang from Gushi, Gwangju, were ordered to open Zhangzhou in Fujian, accompanied by Zhong Dexing, and then settled in Fujian. In the Tang Dynasty, bells were also distributed in Shanxi, Sichuan, Guangzhou, Guangdong and Hefei, Anhui. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, residents of Fujian, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Ninghua, Guangdong, Nanhai, Nanxiong, Lianling, Chaozhou, Meizhou and Xingning all lived in Zhong's settlement. From the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, people from Fujian, Guangdong, Zhong and other places moved to Taiwan Province Province one after another, and later some people moved overseas.
In the Three Kingdoms period, Zhong You, minister of Wei and calligrapher, was a member of Yingchuan Changshe Society, Tingwei and Taifu, and was called "Zhong Taifu". He is good at all aspects of his calligraphy, especially Li and Kai, and he is known as a calligrapher with Jin Wang. Zhong Hui, the son of Zhong You, is an important counselor, knowledgeable and good at learning from famous scholars. In the Southern Dynasties, there was a literary critic Zhong Rong, a native of Yingzhou Changshe, who lived in the Qi and Liang Dynasties. From Han Dynasty to Liang Dynasty, more than 65,438,000 people commented on his poems, which occupied an important position in the history of literature. Zhong Shaojing, the prime minister and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, was the grandson of Zhong You 10. In the early Southern Song Dynasty, Zhong Xiang, the leader of the peasant uprising in Dongting Lake area, grew to hundreds of thousands and was once promoted to the king of Chu. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty (now Longchuan, Guangdong), she people led more than 10,000 people to revolt, which lasted for two years. There was also a dramatist Zhong Sicheng in the Yuan Dynasty. There was a writer Zhong Xing in the Ming Dynasty. Zhong, the leader of the peasant uprising in Chongyang, Hubei Province, was called Zhong. In modern times, there is a botanist Zhong Guangguang. Zhong has made positive contributions to the civilization and progress of China.