Choi choi originated in shandong province.Plum posterity has shi qi QingDaFu.

For the state of qin, qin and han dynasties, the plum seed Cui Yiru (are now shaanxi xianyang) doctor, a surname hou.The firstborn Cui Boji for a surname of the western han dynasty, in the qinghe east Wu Cheng (now hebei total northeast, said today the shandong wucheng county can dispose the west), after points derived YanLing (now in henan province), south face, qinghe capacious room, qinghe narrow, of the tribe of the children of qinghe qingzhou room and so on.The second Cui Zhong seeks, ju bo ling anping (now hebei), after points derived bo, bo ling ling anping room in the room, bo ling fannie and Freddie, bo ling of the tribe of the children of the third room and so on.Choi gens is a conversion of prominent, prosperous, reason has "qinghe county," bo ling "two big hope.The eastern han dynasty last years, warlords battle, flat state secretariat of ethnic cui Bi rate BiJu north Korea, after the development for north Korea.

The wei jin southern and northern dynasties, choi to a shade of nobility, of all the while.History set, when the western jin dynasty, choi first on the list of the north the cremation after first most popular "cui Lu Wang thank" was listed in the first place.The new tang book · prime minister genealogy table "contains:" cui Yin (sun Cui Boji viii), the seventh, peulthai the firstborn Cui Shuang as the east face, the second for west progenitor, cui the third cui lodged for south face, also the progenitor.Iv sun cunha, cui wei is, anyang xiao hou, the son Cui Yue, han zhao inside shanhaiguan pass, Stuart, ZuoChangAn, three sons: muddy, latent, cham.Cui Zhan Cui Wei sun, northern wei dynasty YingZhou secretariat, in xingyang (now in henan province), zhengzhou yet."

Tang dynasty choi GuanShi prime minister as many as 27 (the new tang book · prime minister genealogy table column 23 people, the book "the textual criticism and supplemented four people), thus it can be seen in the tang dynasty choi of prominent.This period, choi breeding place is given priority to with the north, shandong, hebei, henan, shaanxi, shanxi, gansu throughout choi.

Migrating south song and yuan period, there are more choi in jiangsu, anhui, zhejiang, jiangxi and other places.

The early years of the Ming dynasty, a land of shanxi big pagoda tree choi immigrants on sparse traveled.

Ming and qing dynasty and a large number of ethnic choi moved to liaodong area, and a number of Korean nationality.

The late qing dynasty and into the southeast Asian countries.All in all, after the tang dynasty, although choi to continue the migration of, but he is still a surname north.

Choi today especially in shandong, henan, heilongjiang, liaoning, jiangsu provinces such as more than the name, the above five provinces choi make up about sixty percent of the population of the han choi.Choi is surname ranking seventy-fourth in the most popular in today's China, the population is more, about zero point two eight percent of the han Chinese population.