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What is the origin and history of Tian surname?
Tian's family comes from Gui's family, and it is in the same strain as Chen's and Hu's. After the demise of Chen (located in Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province), Chen Wan, a descendant of Chen, fled to the State of Qi, and later took Tian as his surname. The ancestor of the surname is Chen Wan (now from Huaiyang County, Zhoukou City, Henan Province).

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 570,000 people surnamed Tian, accounting for 0.74% of the national population, ranking 27th. The largest province of Tian surname is Hunan, accounting for 16% of the total population of Tian surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Hebei and Shandong. ?

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 320,000 people named Tian, accounting for 0.35% of the national population, and it was the 67th surname in the Ming Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shanxi, Shandong and Hebei.

With a population of nearly 5.2 million, Tian is the 46th surname in China, accounting for about 0.4 1% of the national population. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and Guizhou provinces, accounting for about 35% of the total population of the field. Followed by Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hubei, these five provinces have concentrated 29% of the population of Tian.

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1 1 century BC, Zhou Wuwang eliminated the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty. Gui Man, the descendant of Shun in posthumous title, was Chen Hou, and was called Hu Gongman in history. In the last years of Hu Gongman's tenth grandson, Sun Gui, he killed the prince and Kou, ended his personal relationship with Kou and fled to Qi.

Gui Wan is modest and courteous, and has always enjoyed a good reputation. Qi Huangong appreciated him very much, so he appointed him Justice (the 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.