Tian is a very old, multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group, ranking 36th in today's surname list, belonging to the super surname series, with a population of about 6.4 million, accounting for about 0.4% of the total population of China.
In 39 1 year BC, Sun Tianhe, the eighth Tianwan, exiled Qi Kanggong to the sea and established himself as a monarch, which was called Tianhe Dai Qi in history. It can be seen that Tian surname was the birthplace of Linzi, the capital of Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. From the analysis of Tian surname who was active in politics during this period, Tian surname was distributed in Shanxi, Henan, Beijing, Hubei and other places in the pre-Qin period. When Tian and his great-grandson arrived, the State of Qi was destroyed by the State of Qin, and the King of Qi moved to * * * (now Huixian County, Henan Province). Other Tian surnames began to flee to the west and north. Shortly after the end of the Qin dynasty, insurgents rose all over the country, and the family was moved by the wind. Eight people cracked it and became king, but they all collapsed soon. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the high-impedance Liu Bang adopted Lou Jing's words and forcibly moved the hero of Kanto to Yangling (now northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi Province) in Guanzhong. Zhu Tian was also forced to move, and later developed into a noble family in Jingzhao area. Later, Tian's ethnic group migrated to Beiping (now northern Hebei Province). Since the Han Dynasty, there have been many Tian surnames among the Han people and some ethnic minorities in the border areas of Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou. During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to social unrest, Tian's surname avoided chaos and moved south. It can be said that Tian has been distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and moved to Taiyuan, Shanxi, Guyuan, Ningxia, Tianjin and other places. Now, Tian was named King of Yanmen County and settled in the local area. Before the Song Dynasty, Tian's family mainly spread in the northern and central parts of China. The founder of Henan Tian surname was in the Song Dynasty, and the founder of Yingchuan Ruyintian surname was Shi Tian. At this time, Tian began to transfer to Fujian and Guangdong. Tian Xisheng is the ancestor of Fujian and Guangdong. He originally lived in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and later spread to Tian Yan. He moved to Ninghua, Fujian, and worked with Tian Tian Zi Mao. At the end of the Song Dynasty, he moved to Changting, Fujian, and Zimaozi Songgang moved to Haiyang, Guangdong (now Chaoan), and then moved to Tai Po, the ancestor of Tai Po. Spread to Tian Wenchang, the five brothers moved to Chengxiang (now Meixian) in Guangdong, and the second son of Wenchang, Fa Cong, and the third son, Fa Sheng, moved to Huilai, Guangdong. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Tian's family had spread in the vast areas north and south of the Yangtze River. From the middle of Qing Dynasty, people from Fujian, Guangdong and Tian moved to Taiwan Province one after another, and then moved overseas. Today, Tian surname is widely distributed in China, with Henan, Sichuan, Shandong and Hebei provinces as the majority, which account for about 43% of the Chinese surname population.