As early as the spring and autumn period and the warring states period, with wen clan people moved in jianghuai region.In the spring and autumn dynasty, chu culture, working as a doctor of yue, for king goujian, hard hard, finally destroyed wu.

The western han dynasty LuJiang shu county (now anhui lu, jiangxi) humanities weng, scene emperor ren shu stayed late, contribute to the local culture development, their offspring have a development in sichuan.

The western han dynasty to The Three Kingdoms period, Venn, living in henan are mainly distributed in kaifeng city always, gushi county, nanyang, etc.Gushi county southeast of the ancient city ruins, there are the han dynasty relics unearthed, wen clansman of indigenous land.

After the tang dynasty, Venn distributed widely throughout the country, said that in shanxi and jiangnan.

According to research, the wen in China one of the most common is the 100th member of the han surnames.Close to Singapore state name of overseas Chinese.