White surname first originated in shaanxi and henan area.During the warring states period, henan white surname (white male - a) to move in shaanxi and other places.According to the load, the son of white male - first move house qin, this development in shaanxi province.

Warlords, the emperor unify the whole country, sealing Bai Qizhi Bai Zhong in taiyuan, shanxi and its descendants lived in taiyuan.

After the wei jin southern and northern dynasties, Bai Zhong form taiyuan county, then or moved, weinan in shaanxi Seoul;Or moved to hubei xiangyang;Or moved to henan luoyang, is strong in local development.

After the sui dynasty, people have more fresh blood injected (e.g., "roots" traced note), make the white family more lush.

Tang descendants Bai Zhong Bai Wen, under moving state Gui (now shaanxi weinan northeast);White wall in zhengzhou (now in henan province);White wall of the sun to the tang dynasty poet bai juyi, old age in luoyang (now in henan province) xiangshan, the transferred white surname ancestor, its offspring points from henan, spectacular.

When the five dynasties, people moved from the ancient nanyang, breeding, after forming local notables, and "nanyang" for the county at tong he tong.

Song and yuan period, there are white surnamed clansmen to avoid gold and Mongol army down, have moved to the south campus.Overall, however, people still is given priority to with the north.

The Ming dynasty, white is one of the big pagoda tree in shanxi immigrants surnames, moved to shandong, hebei, henan, shaanxi, Beijing, tianjin and other places.Starting from the qing dynasty, fujian, guangdong people have gradually into the Taiwan, then moved to overseas.

Today people in sichuan, shanxi, shaanxi and henan provinces for many, the four provinces white surname population accounts for about sixty-five percent national population of the han people.White is in today's Chinese surnames ranking seventy-third in the most popular, the population is more, about zero point two nine percent of the han Chinese population.