The Origin of the Surname Wang The Wang surname, in terms of its origin, came from two main factions, one of which came from the Wangmang tribe in ancient times. According to legend, the Wangmang tribe was a tribe of giants, and its leader, the Fangfeng clan, was more than three zhang tall. During the time of Dayu, the Fangfeng clan was appointed to guard the mountain of Fengyu (southeast of present-day Wukang, Zhejiang Province). Once, when Dayu was on a hunting expedition to Huiji (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), he held a meeting with the lords there. The Fangfeng clan was late for the meeting because they had received the news late, causing misunderstanding among Dayu and were killed. When the news got back to the Wangmang Clan, they were afraid that Dayu would come to attack them, so they left the mountain and moved westward to the mountains around Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, still known as the Wangmang Clan. During the Warring States period, the Wangmang clan was under the rule of the Yue state, and after the Yue died, they moved westward again, arriving at the area of Min County in present-day southern Anhui Province, and simplified their family name by going to the simple name of "Wang". Another branch of the Wang family name came from the Lu family. The state of Lu was a vassal state with the same surname as the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the distant ancestors honored the Yellow Emperor, Houji and King Wen of Zhou, while the near ancestor was Boqiu, the son of the Duke of Zhou, the founding monarch of the state of Lu. According to the historical records, from Bo'an19 to Duke Cheng of Lu, he gave his son, Man, an eacup in Wang (in the area of present-day southwestern Shandong Province), and thereafter, the nobles of the state of Lu who developed in Wang changed their surname to Wang. In addition to the two major branches mentioned above, there is another less influential source of the surname Wang. According to "Wen Gui Tang Series", in the early years of the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Weng Qiandu in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, who gave birth to six sons, respectively, with the surname of Hong, Jiang, Weng, Fang, Gong, and Wang, and from then on, it was divided into six. The 6th son, Weng Chu-hsiu, was also known as Wang Chu-hsiu because of his split surname, Wang Chu-hsiu. He and his five older brothers are well known for their talent, the same scholar list, the successive generations of noble and prominent, when people have "six Gui Lianfang" reputation. Since then, the descendants of Wang Chuixiu have taken "Liu Gui" as their hall name, and called the surname Wang "Liu Gui Tang". In the development of the above three branches of the Wang surname, those who came from the Wang Mang clan had the greatest influence. Around the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, some of them moved to Anhui under the leadership of Wang Wenhe. In the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wenhe's grandson, Wang Huaren, became a prominent eunuch and was named Duke of Yue, and his family developed into a prominent clan in the area of Shexian, Anhui Province. In addition, such as the Song Dynasty politician Wang Boyan, literati Wang Zao, poet Wang Wulan, Yuan literati Wang Yuanheng, Ming Dynasty literati Wang Tingne, Wang Daokun, the powerful minister Wang Zhi, Qing Dynasty philosophers Wang Zhong, medical doctors Wang Ang, literati Wang Bowls, painters Wang Shiqi, the famous ministers Wang Yudun, Wang Kangnian, the artist Wang Guifen, or the home of the Zhejiang Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, or ancestral home in Jiangsu Province, Hubei Province, Guangdong Province, are all the people of the Wang family name through the ages have a representative character. Origin and Sources of the Surname Jiang The origin of the surname Jiang The surname Jiang originated in the Yan Huang era and is one of the oldest surnames in China. According to legend, there was a tribe of Shaodian Clan in ancient China, whose leader was Shaodian, who gave birth to two sons: one was Emperor Yan Di and the other was Emperor Huang Di. Yandi lived in the Jiangshui basin, a tributary of the Weishui River (southwest of Qishan, Shaanxi Province), and his children and grandchildren lived by the water, so they were named Jiang because of the water. Later, when Bo Yi was born, during the time of Xia Yu, he was appointed as the governor of the four mountains, called Taiyue, and sealed in Lü (present-day Nanyang West, Henan Province) because of his success in helping to cure the water. From then on, the descendants of Yandi were also known as Lü, or Lü and Jiang. Bo Yi grandson Tai Gongwang in the early Zhou dynasty to assist King Wu in the rise of the historical name Lu Shang or Jiang Shang, the reason for this. According to some Jiang genealogical statistics, after the Yandi Jiang branch **** as many as 247 or 247 surnames, the above mentioned Lv surname, Lv is only one of them. After obtaining the surname, many people moved out from the original place of residence, and some people stayed and succeeded each other, and developed into a big clan in Guanzhong in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Because of the place of residence belonged to Tianshui County (present-day Tianshui, Gansu) when they became a big clan, they are also called Tianshui Jiang Clan. Until today, the vast majority of people with the surname Jiang still refer to the Tianshui Jiang Clan when they talk about their county name. There is no lack of famous people in the Jiang family name. Jiang Shang in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, known as Jiang Tai Gong Jiang Ziya. Legend has it that he used to fish with a hook 3 feet above the surface of the Weihe River, from which the famous allusion to "Taigong's Fishing, the one who wants to be hooked" is derived. He was also portrayed as a fairy-like character in the chapter book Fengshen Yanyi (The Enchantment of the Gods). Jiang Wei, a general of the State of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, was also a well-known military man, and some of his deeds are still sung in the form of operas and commentaries. In addition to Jiang Shang, Jiang Wei, Jiang names also have the Southern Song Dynasty lyricist Jiang Baishi, the musician Jiang Ai, the Qing Dynasty Zhili Governor Jiang Guitian, as well as the Red Army general Jiang Jingtang and so on. Supplementary: First, from the Wangmang Shang time there is Wangmang country, the king of the state for the defense of the wind clan, lacquer surnames, guarding the mountains of Fengyu. Ancient and Modern Surname Book Identification" says that the Wang surname "from the ancient vassal Wang Mang's descendants", "Tongzhi - Clans" also says: "Shang Dynasty, there is Wang Mang (also known as Wang Hui) country, its people to the country for the clan." According to legend, Wangmang is the country of giants. The Fangfeng clan was three feet tall. At that time, Dayu summoned all the lords of the world in Huiji, but the Fangfeng clan was late and was executed by Dayu. The people of the country later moved to the mountains of Huzhou and became known as the Wangmang Clan. During the Warring States period, Chu destroyed Yue, and the Wangmang clan was overrun. Later, they fled to the area of Shexian County in southern Anhui Province and changed their surname to Wang, which is the Anhui Wang surname. Second, from the 姬姓 ( 姬姓) is the son of the Duke of Zhou, after the bird. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of Duke Cheng of Lu, Man Yin, had his cognizance in Wang (in present-day Shandong Province), and his descendants took the cognizance as their family name, i.e., the Shandong Wang Clan. Zhang Shu of the Qing Dynasty, "Searching for the Origin of Family Names," said, "The first son of the Wang Clan came from the branch son of Duke Cheng of Lu, who ate and picked at Wang, and was therefore called the Wang Clan." The state of Lu was a feudal state with the same surname of the Zhou Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and the ancestor of the Zhou family was Houji, who, according to the legend, was born because of ginger salamanders stepping on the footsteps of giants, and was first surnamed Ji. King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty established the Western Zhou Dynasty after overthrowing the Shang Dynasty. In order to rule over this vast new frontier, it was necessary to establish vassal states to support the royal family, so the feudal system was adopted. King Wu, the Duke of Zhou, King Cheng successively divided 71 vassal states, including 15 of his brothers, 14 people with the same family name, the Zhou royal descendants generally get the fiefdom, do the size of the vassals. The eldest son of the Duke of Zhou, Bo Yu, was appointed as a vassal of Lu, and established his capital at Qufu (present-day southwestern Shandong Province). The 21st monarch of the state of Lu was Duke Cheng of Lu, and Duke Cheng's concubine son (formerly known as the child of a concubine) Ji Man's fiefdom was in Wang, whose descendants took the name of the county as their family name, Wang. Regarding the Wang family name as a descendant of Lu Chenggong, the Qing Dynasty scholar Wang Wan's Yaofeng Wenxue (Yaofeng Wenxue), Volume 1, "The Origins of the Wang Family Name", recounts the miraculous experience: "My Wang should be from the descendants of the family name of Ji for the right. And according to the old genealogy, Lu Chenggong commoner son was born with a text in his hand, the left water right Wang, so the name is Wang. Its descendants then clan. ...... my wang's surname, when the food from the pick for the right. Cover the beginning is to pick land for the family name, followed by the family name for the family name also." That is to say, Lu Cheng Gong concubine son born, left, right hand were written on the "water", "Wang" two words, so named Wang, and then the descendants to Wang for the family name, and then to the family name. Anhui "Qimen County Zhi - Clan Examination" recorded more legendary: "Wang's family name began in Yingchuan Hou, surnamed Ji name Wang, Lu Cheng Gong Heihu's second son also. The first mother of the wife Si, dreamed of traveling to Wen (now Wenshang County, Shandong, during the Spring and Autumn period for the state of Lu in the capital), watching the rainbow across the sky, the heart knows its auspiciousness, Jue and pregnant, pregnant twenty-five months and gave birth to a son, holding hands for three months to open, the left (hand) has water lines, the right (hand) has Wang lines, the synthesis of the word Wang, and so the name of the Lu on the Daifu Caiupai, Inchon because of the family name." Third, the minority Wang surname "Liao Shi", "Jin Shi", "Yuan Shi" and "Li Dynasty Real Records" and other books, are recorded in a number of female Zhen surname, mostly multi-syllabic surnames, female Zhenjin into the Central Plains, by the influence of Han culture, began to change the female Zhen language surnames to Chinese characters surnames, which will be the Guru Shen's, Wang Gu's and so on, changed to the Han "Wang surname. Continuing Tongzhi - Clan": the Yuan Dynasty Weng Guan, that is, Wang Gu, also known as the yellow slap, Yong Gu Department of people to Wang for the clan. Yuan dynasty Wang Shixian family is the Wang Gu tribe of the Wang surname. Manchu WANG surname "Qing dynasty general journal - clans": Wang, Qing Manchurian surnames, living in Shenyang. Liu Qinghua "Manchu family name record" said: Qing Manchuria eight banners Guarjia clan, the Wanyan clan, etc. have changed their surnames to Wang. Today, the Manchu in Longhua County, Hebei Province, there is the Wang family name. Tujia Wang surname Ming Hongwu four years (1371), Nanmuguo rate of subordination to the Ming Dynasty, for the merit of the command commander. Nanmuguo's son was called Wang Lost Plus, so he took the first character of Wang Lost Plus as his surname and called himself Wang Tusi. As a result, his descendants and his people took the name Wang as their surname. Yao People Wang surname Ancient Ming Dynasty eunuch Wang Zhi was a Yao person. In addition, there are also Wang surnames in the Tujia, Hui, Xibo, Dongxiang and other ethnic minorities. Fourth, the Weng family name to change the name Weng family name to avoid the chaos to change the name is another source of the Wang family name in this period of history. Weng surname is also a branch of the surname Ji, according to the "Yuan and the compilation of surnames" records, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the branch of King Zhaowang was sealed in Wengshan (now Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province, east, one says in Guangdong Province, Wengyuan County, east), and then the name of the Eup name "Weng" as a family name. During the reign of Emperor Dezong of the Tang Dynasty, a branch of the Weng Clan, Mr. He Gong, came to Putu from the Central Plains and settled in Xingfuli, Putuyang (present-day Gaozhuzhuang, Putian North) as the first ancestor of the Weng Clan to enter Putu. In the fifth generation, he gave birth to Weng Qiandu. Weng Qiandu was appointed as an official in the Tianfu period of the Later Jin Dynasty (936) and married Chen, giving birth to six sons. Fourth brother with the same list of bachelor's degree, the official to the Dali straight, the supervision of the Royal Secretary; Sixth son of the Hugh, the word Bo Rong, Song Yongxi two years with the second brother with the same list of bachelor's degree, the official worship Chaosan Lang, Shaobao State, the Tongjian. The six sons of Weng Qi Rong, then known as "full of Weng six Gui Lianfang", so the legend. ================================================================================================================== Migration History of the Wang Surname The Wang Mang Clan, which started in Anhui Province, has a long history of migration. The Wang surname, which originated from the Wangmang clan in Anhui Province, and the Wang surname, which was derived from the Yiyi clan in Shandong Province, were the centers of the Wang surname in the north and south of China in the early history of the country. In the north of China, the Wang clan developed in Shanxi Province, where it became a major clan. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Wenhe moved to Xin'an (present-day Shexian County, Anhui Province) and developed into a prominent family in the area of Xin'an, and in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Hua was awarded the title of Duke of Yue. The family lives in Shexian County, Anhui Province, the family is very prosperous. After the Song Dynasty, the Wang family name rapidly multiplied and became a typical family name in the south of China. Moving into Taiwan WANG clan as early as the Song Dynasty has been on the island of Taiwan, "Taiwan Tongzhi - People's Records" on the development of Taiwan, mentioned in the section: Southern Song Dynasty filial piety seven years of Qian Dao (1171) WANG Dayou Zhi Quanzhou, under the jurisdiction of the territories by the sea, there are "tens of thousands of acres of sandbars, the number of the Pinghu (now Penghu)", often surrounded by the islands of the barbarians ashore to loot things, killing and capturing! to loot things and kill the population. In order to prevent harassment, initially, every year, when the south wind rises, Wang Dayou will send soldiers to guard against it, but repeatedly so the soldiers are tired, the cost of military expenditure, but still can not prevent. So he personally boarded the island, built 200 houses, and dispatched generals and soldiers to guard the island, and the barbarians did not dare to invade the island again. This incident was also recorded in the Song History - Wang Dayou's Biography, making Wang Dayou the first person of the Wang family name to enter Taiwan. In the Yuan Dynasty, the navigator Wang Dayuan also crossed the strait from Quanzhou to the island and wrote a detailed account of the geography and social status of Penghu (Taiwan) in his book "Island Yi Zhiliao". The Wang family name settled in Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty, and most of the migrants were people from Fujian and Guangdong who lived across the sea from Taiwan. Taipei three pendant town "wang clan genealogy" said it from fujian, "wang surname start home xinan (that is, shexian), after from shexian migrate wuyuan, from wuyuan migrate huning (today's anhui huning county), and then into min, live in quanzhou of the tianma mountain". Later, he entered Taiwan from Fujian. Kangxi forty to fifty years (1701-1711), Wang Yangzhan into the reclamation of bamboo north - Fort bitter Ling feet (now Hsinchu City, Guxian Li); Kangxi fifty-nine years (1720), Wang Yurun residence in Taiwan Province, is the year in the martial arts; Yongzheng seven years (1729), Quanzhou Wang Dongwen reclamation in the Cuizhu In the seventh year of the Yongzheng era (1729), Wang Dongwen from Quanzhou reclaimed the old harbor in Cuizhu (present-day Hsinchu City); in the seventh year of the Yongzheng era (1729), Wang Qichu from Guangdong reclaimed the Hongmao Harbor in the second harbor of Zhubei (present-day Hongmao Township, Hsinchu County); in the twenty-fourth year of the Jiaqing era (1819), Wang Fulong from Guangdong reclaimed the area in Chulan Township, present-day Miaoli County; in the twenty-fifth year of the Guangxu era (1899), Wang Chunyuan resided in the present-day Tainan City, where he was a successful candidate for the imperial examination in the same year. In 1899, Wang Chunyuan resided in Tainan City and became a successful candidate for the imperial examination in the same year. After two or three hundred years of reproduction, today's Wang surname has developed into one of Taiwan's larger surnames, in 1954 the Taiwan Documentation Commission conducted a survey of Taiwan's surnames, at the time of Taiwan's 737 kinds of surnames, 828,804, household residents, the Wang surname has 1,259 households, in accordance with the number of households, ranked 74th. In the county statistics, there were 205 households with the Wang surname in Taipei, 5l households in Hsinchu, 8 households in Miaoli, 1 household in Taichung, 79 households in Nantou, 176 households in Changhua, 171 households in Jiayi, 76 households in Tainan, 5 households in Pingtung and 6 households in Hualien. In terms of cities, there are 104 households in Taipei City, 160 in Keelung City, 38 in Yangming City, 89 in Taichung, and 80 in Tainan. Among them, Taipei County and Keelung City have the highest concentration. Moving into Hong Kong and Macao Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland geographic proximity for the mainland residents to move in to provide a convenient, these two places in the Wang family members of some people have also made considerable achievements, such as Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Tak Cheong Electric Holdings Limited Wang Suizhong, chairman of the home town of Shanghai, the company's main business, production and marketing of a variety of micro-engine, the world's top three micro-engine manufacturer is one of the year 1996 with a wealth of 300 million U.S. dollars. Hong Kong Pacific Concord Group of Companies Chairman and Managing Director Wang Shizhong, originating from Dongguan, Guangdong Province, was born in Taiwan, with his brother Wang Shichang, Wang Shihua *** hold more than 70% of the Pacific Concord and the United States Concord Group shares. 1979 was sent to Hong Kong to set up a Pacific Concord Company, the operation of the liquid crystal body display table and watch components trade. Later, he set up a factory in Shenzhen, and his Tianba and Haiba watches were once very popular in mainland China. In addition, it also operates retail department stores, property development and telecommunication services, of which the retail department stores are mainly in the mainland China market. Currently, it has shopping malls in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Xi'an and Ningbo, with an estimated asset of about US$300 million. Migrating overseas After the Opium War in 1840, China was reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, with political corruption, constant civil wars, frequent droughts and floods, and the people were in dire straits, but at this time, with the development of the capitalist economy, especially with the opening up and development of overseas colonies, the capitalist market's demand for labor force was getting bigger and bigger, and the people of Fujian, Guangdong and other areas along the Haitian coast were migrating to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Thailand and other areas in Southeast Asia. Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and other places to make a living, and there were many people with the Wang surname. Migrated overseas Wang family members through their own efforts in the local roots, and some have made greater achievements, such as Thailand's Wang Dongfa, originating from Jieyang County, Guangdong Province, Thailand, two Yi Sugar Group Chairman. Two Easys Group is one of the largest sugar groups in Thailand, accounting for about 15%-Z0% of the market. In addition to the sugar industry, the group also operates in the financial sector, real estate, manufacturing and mining, etc. In 1996, the family's wealth had reached 1 billion dollars. Today, the Wang family has a worldwide presence.

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