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Migration and Distribution As early as the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods, the Wen clan members had migrated to the areas along the Yangtze and Huai Rivers. At the end of the Spring and Autumn period, Wen Zhong, a native of the State of Chu, served as a high - ranking official in the State of Yue and assisted King Goujian of Yue. The king and his official worked hard together and finally conquered the State of Wu. During the late reign of Emperor Jing in the Western Han Dynasty, Wen Weng, a native of Shu County, Lujiang (now the west of Lujiang, Anhui), served as the governor of the Shu Prefecture and made contributions to the local cultural development. One branch of his descendants developed and multiplied in Sichuan. From the Western Han to the Three Kingdoms period, the Wen clan members living in Henan were mainly distributed in Kaifeng, Nanyang, Yongcheng, Gushi and other places. There is an ancient Wen - clan city site in the southeast of Gushi County, where Han - Dynasty cultural relics have been unearthed. It is said to be the long - time residence of the Wen clan. After the Tang Dynasty, the Wen clan was more widely distributed across the country and became prosperous in Shanxi and the regions south of the Yangtze River.