Ding branch source is numerous, but on the whole, shandong as the earliest cradle, after has become in the biggest jiyang ding county, shandong ding is also moving across the main source.Qin and han dynasties, ding settlements major in the same region as today, shandong, jiangsu, henan, hebei, shaanxi, hubei, guangdong, guangxi province also has a population of a small amount of ding to fall.The three jin and the northern and southern dynasties, the north war led to ding frequent migration, is ding from prosperous period in history.Three kingdoms of sun wu cawthon changed, for the development of ding added the new branch, large parts of southern jiangsu and zhejiang become the main area of ding reproduction.During this period, ding still thrive for the center with shandong, henan, in addition, jiangxi, anhui has ding the incomers.The tang dynasty, dhi YangDing surname have into in fujian.According to a report in the contained in zhangzhou government record: "Chen yuanguang army clients drink offering has the scholar, gave jiyang, after migration, gwangju gushi ZongZhang two years, from yuan light open zhangzhou."The branch of the tang dynasty ding moved to quanzhou, guangdong and other places.Song and yuan period, jiangsu people Mr Ting the posterity separated from cliff state (now cliff county, guangdong province, northwest) and guangzhou.Having Ding Yunwen, Ding Zhaoxian respectively for the base in chaozhou and meizhou, guangdong province, is regarded as local ancestor.In the qing dynasty, ding has moved to Taiwan in fujian and guangdong area, after the move house in places such as Thailand, Singapore, the United States.At this point, since the song dynasty spread across the country, ding has been increasingly to continue its branches all over the world.Ding today in jiangsu, fujian, hunan, hubei, anhui, shandong, jiangxi, zhejiang, guizhou, jilin, liaoning provinces such as more than the name, the 11 provinces ding accounted for about seventy-two percent of the national population of han ding.Ding is the Chinese surnames 46 out of the most popular, the population is more, about zero point four four percent of the han Chinese population.