Yingchuan aristocratic family is a famous family with Yingchuan County as its county. Originated in Yingchuan County (now Yuzhou City, Xuchang City, Henan Province). The historical facts of family members can be found in The History of the Later Han Dynasty, The History of the Three Kingdoms, The Book of Jin, The Book of Song, The Tales of the World, The Book of Chen, etc.

Among them, Chen Mao, Chen Ji, Chen Qun and Chen Tai all have special biographies in the History of the Later Han Dynasty and the History of the Three Kingdoms. As a noble family at that time, the Chen family in Yingchuan also wrote the Chen family tree, which can be said to be the earliest private family tree of Chen.

Noble families bred in Yingchuan

In Yingchuan County of Han Dynasty, there were many big surnames, crown families and first surnames. According to the statistics of Japanese scholar kazuo kawasaki, there were 95 famous heroes in kanto region in the Han Dynasty, including 13 in Yingchuan County, which was the county with the most concentrated heroes.

They are: Guan; Yang Zhaixue, Yuan, Chu, Zhao, Li and Guo; Wang Yu's Yao: Wuyang Han family; Changshe Zhong Shi; Zang and Shen. In fact, his statistics are very incomplete, but it is enough to show that there are many local heroes.