From Dai Xing population can be roughly divided into three stages: the pre-qin to the northern and southern dynasties, sui and tang dynasties, five dynasties and song yuan Ming and qing dynasties.

1. The pre-qin to the northern and southern dynasties

The pre-qin period, Dai Xing population mainly in its birthplace is reproduced in eastern area of today.In the spring and autumn period of the song kingdom wear evil is a famous doctor.

To the western han dynasty, when liang (now in henan shangqiu south) cure dade, Dai Sheng an uncle, with the ceremony.Dai Xing when the western han dynasty and southern henan branch move house: a move to RuNa ShenYang (now henan zhenyang county beijiang port), a move to RuNa PingYu (now henan pingyu county north).Such as: the western han dynasty emperor then shi empire, called "kanto hao" wear follow (word), for RuNa ShenYang.", were YiMin preach, "said he has great wealth, generosity and rescue, home keep of diners often three or more, then they called him" great kanto hao Dai Zigao ".His son tai leung and filial piety, high, integrity is famous in the world.Thus, wear a settled at ShenYang has more than one generation, and in the local of big home, outside, powerful noble family.At the end of the western han dynasty at the beginning of the eastern han dynasty is famous for its solution by the imperial capital, the officer ren shi dai by, PingYu population.It is proved that no later than in the late western han dynasty, wear with this team has moved to PingYu.

Dai Xing in southern henan to migration at the same time, also to the migrating in jiangsu, shandong, hebei and other places, such as the western han dynasty when the officer to Dan Dai Chong, for (now jiangsu peixian county) people, nothing to Zhang Yu study the zhouyi;Officer when the eastern han dynasty to LiQuan positively, "he Confucian, famous east summer" Dai Hong and Sherwood to wear, are economic just north county county (now shandong ningyang county northeast).

In The Three Kingdoms to the northern and southern dynasties, Davis and move house in anhui and hubei.Such as the eastern han dynasty last years, cao cao's counselor Dai Gan to danyang (now anhui dangtu county northeast small town of danyang) cure.In wei and jin dynasty, Dai Xing qiaocheng states (now anhui bozhou region), straight (now jiangsu yangzhou) cure, qing spread (now shandong linqing city east cure), Hong Kong and become a family, form three breeding center.So, Dai Xing qiaocheng, straight, qinghe as tong he tong.

Dai Xing migration to the jiangnan region, in the late western han dynasty has begun.Such as: when the western han dynasty (now zhejiang province) people wear and;When the eastern han dynasty officer to light master lu dai, for will take the county shangyu county (now zhejiang shangyu county baiguan town) cure.About in the eastern han dynasty last years, straight Davis has a migration to the south.The Book of Jin records: Dai Lie into three general dongwu left, his son Dai Chang dongwu qiu, jin will take the satrap, wuling satrap, Dai Yuan Dai Chang son, reed {langya} is Wang Sima theory (that is, the later jin emperor) of general, and with shay smart south health (now nanjing city, jiangsu province).Because of the late western jin dynasty, the central plains war-torn, before and after the chaos of king eight lasted for 16 years, plus northern minorities fled south, unrest in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River area, a large number of people are forced migration of a warmth-loving creature in the south of the Yangtze river flow is relatively stable, many of whom is the family or clan warmth-loving creature, Dai Xing also follow the crowd came to jiangnan at this time.

2. The sui and tang dynasties

This period Dai Xing population into fujian and across the country went to Taiwan.According to the zhangzhou government record "records: early stage, the central plains Dai Xing a moved to fujian.The emperor tang ZongZhang two years (in 669), gwangju gushi county (now in henan province) Chen, Chen yuanguang father and son were ordered led admirals, 123, 3600 government soldiers in fujian, to pacify the quanzhou, chaozhou "pretty Lao" between the noise.A significant portion of these soldiers were the central plains people.According to the Taiwan province annals ", people's volunteers, clan, family with Chen, Chen yuanguang is the last name of father and son in fujian, 45, including Dai Xing.At that time, the author believes that with Chen and his son are main Dai Xing will assist Chen yuanguang's son-in-law Dai Junzhou and Dai Ren etc, all of them are, gwangju gushi people in zhangzhou, after opening in fujian alight settled.Scholars of surnames is generally believed that Dai Junzhou father and son from henan gushi with Chen, Chen yuanguang, father and son in fujian, is the beginning for Dai Xing people in fujian.

In addition, the tang dynasty wear Hugh YanWeiXia state (now shaanxi cure jingbian northeast baicheng), Dai Jian for changsha (now hunan) person, wearing armor to wuyuan (now jiangxi province) people."Yuanhe surname code" listed in the Davis jewish settlements are: dhi north (now shandong ChangQing County southwest), qiaocheng states (now anhui bozhou), Wu Xing Great Wall (now zhejiang changxing), Wei Jun investing high (now hebei shing), hedong SangQuan (now shanxi jin).When Dai Xing the extent of population distribution.

3. The song yuan Ming and qing dynasties

This period Dai Xing population from jiangsu and zhejiang, fujian and other places moved to Taiwan and overseas countries.

Since the song dynasty, Dai Xing people a lot by migrating south jiangsu, zhejiang, anhui, jiangxi and other places to fujian, guangdong, Taiwan and other places, some people still further across moved overseas.

According to Manila hill county of guangdong province "dai clan hall origin spectrum qiaocheng countries" records, Manila ridge Davis Dai Yulin for sai-jo liang-fon estate located in fujian, in the yuan dynasty move house ascending (now Manila ridge) for the township yellow DE, sweet sheng, son to 12 v (about) when the qing dynasty, have RenZhong, RenGong brothers moved to pingtung, 13, 14, and there are dozens of people moved to Taiwan, seed distribution in Taiwan kaohsiung, meinung, Po, taoyuan, hsinchu and miaoli county and other places.Davis and fujian in the qing dynasty are constantly moved to Taiwan.Yongzheng years, fujian Davis moved to miaoli county, Taiwan dajia township in Meng Chun base, this is the beginning of mass into Dai Xing from the mainland.Since then, nine years of qianlong (1744), and miaoli county town fujian Dai Xing into the settlers;Light 26 years (1846 years), quanzhou people Dai Naren reclamation in the hsinchu this new rich.

Nowadays, Dai Xing ranks 52nd in Taiwan, relatively concentrated area, hsinchu, chiayi and tainan in Taipei and nantou Dai Xing many population, too.

The qing dynasty, there are many Dai Xing people moved overseas, now in the UK, Argentina, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines has settled Dai Xing people in many countries.