It is a descendant of Zhuanxu, and its ancestors are Dong Fu, Guan Longfeng, and Yin Xi. It is the 153rd contemporary surname in China. The ancestors of the Guan family, who immigrated to the Hongdong Great Pagoda Tree in the Ming Dynasty, were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other regions. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to migrate to different places in the Hongdong Great Pagoda Tree. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, and other places.

The record of the Guan surname was first seen in the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Customs Communication - Surnames Chapter".

There are four main sources of surnames:

① Originating from the change of the surname 'Huan'. Dong Fu, a descendant of Zhuanxu, was named Emperor Shun Yanglong and was granted the title of Huanlong. In ancient times, the two characters "Huan" and "Guan" were homophonic, so they were later written as the "Guan Long" surname, and their descendants took Guan as their surname.

② Originating from taking the surname of an ancestor. According to the records in "Tongzhi: A Brief Introduction to Clans" and "Surname Source", Emperor Jie of the Xia Dynasty was tyrannical and licentious, using wine as a pool and piling up mountains with wine. He drank all night and ignored political affairs. A wise minister named Guan Longfeng went to advise and angered Jie, but was imprisoned and killed. Guan Longfeng was the first loyal minister in Chinese history, and his descendants took his name Guan as their surname.

③ Originating from the surname Yin. According to the Book of Customs and Customs, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Yin Xi, a high-ranking official of the Zhou Dynasty, served as a customs officer at Hangu Pass. It is said that when Laozi traveled westward and left the Pass, he wrote 5000 words of the "Tao Te Jing" for Yin Xi. Yin Xi spread this book to later generations and followed Laozi to become an immortal. Yin Xi's descendants took the official name of their ancestors, Guan, as their surname.

④ Originating from the transformation of other ethnic groups. The Manchu surname Guan Erjia was later simplified to a single surname Guan.

The county titles of the Guan surname mainly include Longxi County and Donghai County. Longxi County: Established in the 27th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin during the Warring States period (280 BC), it was named after its location west of Longshan. Equivalent to the area east of Dongxiang and Longxi in Gansu Province today.

The main hall number of the Guan surname is Wusheng Hall. Wu Sheng Tang: Guan Yu of Shu Han, good at "Spring and Autumn", loyal and righteous, worshipped the Marquis of Han Shouting. Governor of Jingzhou, former general. Sun Quan of Eastern Wu secretly attacked Jingzhou, and Guan Yu was attacked from both sides, sacrificing his life in the Han Dynasty. His posthumous title was Zhuang Miao, and he was conferred the title of King Wu'an. During the Ming Dynasty, he was posthumously conferred the title of "Xie Tian Protector, Loyalty and Righteousness Emperor." Therefore, the Guan family is also known as the "Loyalty and Righteousness Hall. In the third year of the Republic of China, Ming Ling and Yue Fei jointly worshipped the Wu Temple, known as the "Martial Saint" (Confucius was a literary saint).

The Tang couplets of the Guan surname mainly include: Zhidan Songshi (Guan Kangzhi); Yijie Taoyuan (Guan Yu). Zhongzhao Sun and Moon (Guan Longfeng); Fire Puyun Sky (Guan Yu). Inheriting the legacy of the past (Guan Kangzhi); Having a good pronunciation and understanding of the calendar (Guan Jingren). Hongfei's poetry sent back to the old (Guanlu); Swallow Tower's sorrowful brokenhearted concubine (Guan Panpan).

Celebrities: The "Chinese Dictionary of Names" includes 20 cases of Guan family members, and the "Chinese Dictionary of Names" includes 28 cases. The historical figure of the Guan surname during the Han Dynasty was Guan Bing, a colonel of Changshui; During the Three Kingdoms period, the state of Shu was Guan Yu; During the Five Dynasties, he was a painter from Chang'an during the Later Liang Dynasty; In the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister Guan Bo; During the Song Dynasty, there was a painter named Guan Tong; During the Yuan Dynasty, Han Qing was a prominent figure and playwright; During the Qing Dynasty, there was a famous general named Guan Tianpei.

According to the seventh population census, there are 55446 surnames in Shanxi Province, 12895 in Linfen City, and 1875 in Hongdong County.

The ancestral deity of the Guan family is enshrined in the fourth cabinet of the Great Pagoda Tree Ancestral Worship Hall.

The genealogy of the Guan family mainly includes: "A genealogy of the Guan family in Jinxian, Liaoning" (in Jinxian, Liaoning); A Volume of the Genealogy Table of the Guan Clan in Liaoning Province (Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province); Five Volumes of the Guanshi Genealogy of the Branch of Wusheng Prefecture in Shandong Province (Yanzhou County, Shandong Province); Twenty four volumes of the genealogy of Shude Hall at Xiaqiao Pass in Jili, Nanhai, Guangdong (Jilin University, North); The Guangdong Guan Clan Genealogy is not divided into volumes (North Sun Yat sen University); One Volume of Guan's Genealogy Examination (Shanghai Map).

In the second year of the Xuantong reign of the Qing Dynasty, Guan Xueli revised the "Guan Family Genealogy", The genealogy of a branch of the Guan family in Quanzhou, Fujian Province is as follows: "Hongdao Ancestor Geng Xiu Photon, Hua Yu Prays for Eternal Prosperity and Prosperity." The genealogy of the Guan family in Yangshao Township, Qingfeng County, Henan Province, from the fourth generation onwards, is as follows: "To preserve the prosperity and happiness of Qi, to have a high reputation for Hong, to achieve the Nine Exhaustions of Hua, to uphold the Xianrun Law, and to maintain the loyalty of Chang." The genealogy of the Guan family in Nangong County, Hebei Province is as follows: "Jin Zhen Xiao Yuan, Yongshou De Ji, En Cheng Pei Lai, Guang Zu Yi, and to work as The genealogy of a branch of the Guan family in Nanle County, Henan Province is as follows: "Jin Zhen, the source of filial piety is eternal, the guardian of virtue records the inheritance of grace, Pei Lu, Guangzu Yin, studied as a scholar of Pei Confucianism

Migration: Two brothers, the founder of the Qingfeng Guan family, the taboo Donglou and taboo Xilou brothers, migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Houhansibin Village, Yangshao Township, Qingfeng County in the late Ming Dynasty, and have been passed down for 23 generations; The ancestor of the Guan family in Xinxiang moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Guandi Village in Xinxiang County in the early Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Guan family in Xin County moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Guanzhuang Village, Danmiao Township, Xin County in the early years of the Ming Hongwu era; The ancestor of the Nangong Guan family moved to Nangong County from under the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Daxingguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Weipuzhuang Village, Daxing County, Beijing in the eleventh year of the Ming Hongwu reign; The ancestor of the Guan family in Puyang moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Guanzhuang Village, Baiyang Township, Puyang County during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Guan family in Anguo moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Anguo County in the early Ming Dynasty; Two brothers, the founder of the Wuqing Guan family, made a living by forging iron. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, they moved from Luobuding Village in Hongdong, Shanxi to Wuqing County, Tianjin; The ancestor of the Dachengguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Guanjiatun Village, Wangxiangtun Township, Dacheng County in the second year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Nanleguan clan moved to Nanle County in the early Ming Dynasty from the Old Stork's Nest of the Great Pagoda Tree in Hongdong, Shanxi; The ancestor of the Guan family in Jincheng moved to Guanshan Village in Jincheng during the Ming Dynasty from under the big locust tree in Hongdong, Shanxi.The founder of the Yangguguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Yangguguan Village, Shandong Province in the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Yangguguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to the entrance of Yangguguan in Shandong Province in the early Ming Dynasty; The founder of the Yangguguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Yangguguan Village, Shandong Province in the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Wangshou Guguan clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Guanzhuang, Wangshou Guxiang, Henan Province in the early Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Jining Guan family moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Guanzhuang, Jinxiang, Shandong Province in the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Jining Guan family moved from Pingyang Prefecture in Shanxi Province to Guanzhuang, Liangshan County, Jining, Shandong Province during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty; The first ancestor of the Jining Guan family moved from Hongdong County, Shanxi Province to Guan Township, Liangshan County, Jining, Shandong Province in the second year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Wudi Guan family moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Guanjiazhuang, Wudi County, Shandong Province in the second year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Wudi Guan family moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Guanzhuangzi, Wudi County, Shandong Province in the second year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty.