As though to surnamed early, but has been buried in developing due to the show, so its early history has been difficult to let people know the details.The above each surnamed ren, a after so much influence is from the yellow emperor.According to some surnamed ren genealogy records, son of emperor Yu Yang after have surname, six to XiZhong, again to xue (now shandong teng county south).

The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, wei ren, qin state Ren Bi, they are all descendants of the Yu Yang, chu is not neat.Visible in the pre-qin period, surnamed ren has removed planting in hubei, shanxi, shaanxi and so on.At the same time, also can determine surnamed ren shandong as the breeding center of the early, it was surnamed ren "lean" as its tong he tong, then became a local county.According to the historical records · biographies of south Vietnam, the commandant of the south China sea as tao has often fabricated a ling Chinese, suggesting that the qing dynasty has been surnamed ren migration in guangdong.

To han, surnamed ren had already scattered in north China, shandong, shanxi, henan, shaanxi area is in the south sichuan, jiangsu, guangdong and other places.Visible, surnamed ren before han has a warmth-loving creature.Han have localized pei (now the jiangsu xuzhou) of ao, then the children have moved weinan in shaanxi province.Wei jin southern and northern dynasties, warlords, YiZu invasion, the central plains become mohican, surnamed clansmen to avoid war, began to aggressively since the migrating south jiangsu, anhui, zhejiang, hubei and other places.And a man surnamed ren in fujian.

Tang, social stability, political correctness, make the commute of henan, shandong surnamed ren and prosper.Around the end of the southern song dynasty zhao last emperor fled, yuan Mongol horsemen south, make surnamed ren fleeing in all parts of southern China.

Yuan Ming, flood and locust plague sadistic, peasant uprising, cause the central plains, jiangnan population decline, surnamed ren as a one of the people name hongtong big locust tree, was moved to shandong, henan, hebei, jiangsu, shaanxi and other places.

About since the qing dynasty, fujian, guangdong surnamed ren has move house overseas, such as Singapore existing Chinese surname, and establish the clan organization.

Nowadays, surnamed ren has been spreading all over the country, especially in henan, shandong the surname, two provinces surnamed ren accounts for about twenty-five percent national population of han nationality surnamed ren.Surnamed ren is the Chinese surnames today's 59th largest of the most popular.The population is more, accounts for about zero point three seven percent of the han Chinese population.