According to legend, Zhuan Xu gave birth to Li and two sons, Li and Li successively served as Zhu Rong's dependents. Zhu Rong was the leader in charge of fire in ancient times. Lu Zhong, the son of Zhu Rongjia Wu Hui, and the third son of Lu Zhong, also known as Peng Zu, are the ancestors of Peng. Peng was a powerful square country in Xia and Shang dynasties, also known as, one of them was formed.

In the late Shang Dynasty, Peng declined, and Wu Ding, King of Shang Dynasty, destroyed Peng, followed by Peng. Cui Fu, a descendant of Da Peng's family, once served as a small official and chief financial officer in Qian (Quan) House in Zhou Dynasty, and later generations took the official name as their surname. Shaanxi An is the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the land of Hao Jing and the birthplace of Qian family, with a history of more than 3,000 years.

Qian's population distribution:

According to the "300 Most Surnames in China (Middle)" in 2006, the population of Qian is nearly 2.2 million, ranking 96th, accounting for about 0. 18% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Qian surname has increased from 530,000 to 2.2 million, an increase of more than four times. The population growth rate of Qian surname is much lower than that of the whole country. From the Song Dynasty to the present, the population growth rate of Qian family showed an A-type trend during 1000 years.

The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, accounting for about 52% of the total population of Qian, followed by Guangdong, Shanghai and Yunnan, which account for 20%. Jiangsu has 24% population of Qian surname, which is the largest province with Qian surname population. The Yangtze River Delta region with a high proportion of Qian surname has been formed in China. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of money population flow are somewhat different from those in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Although there are cases of migration to Central China and North China, migration to the southeast and south is still the mainstream.