Peng surname is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname. Originated from Ji's surname, after Zhuan Xu, Emperor Levin, his ancestor was _ Keng (also known as Peng Zu), which was a national surname. In the pre-Qin period, Peng's activity area started from the south of Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, went directly to the middle of Sichuan in the southwest, arrived in the west of Zhejiang in the southeast, entered the mountains in the northeast, swept Henan in the north, and depended on Xiangjiang River in the south.
Focusing on this activity area, Peng's surname spread around, and by the time of Tang and Song Dynasties, Peng's surname had been distributed all over the country. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Peng surname changed greatly, mainly from the north to the southeast, but the Peng surname in western Sichuan decreased a lot and moved to the south. China has re-established Peng population gathering areas in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei. Since the Qing Dynasty, some Peng families in Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province Province, and some Peng families moved to Southeast Asia, Europe and America.
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Peng surname related information:
1. The population of contemporary Peng is about 7.66 million, accounting for 0.58% of the national population, ranking 32nd in the country. Mainly distributed in Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, accounting for about 56.3% of Peng's total population; Followed by Chongqing, Henan, Guizhou and Anhui, these four provinces and cities account for about 18% of Peng's total population.
2. Hunan accounts for about 19.5% of Peng's total population and is the largest province in Peng. There are two high-density residential areas named Peng in China, namely, Sichuan and Chongqing in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan.
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