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Surname Peng

The Peng surname is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname. It first came from the Ji surname after Zhuanxu, Emperor Gaoyang. Its ancestor was Zhen Keng (also known as Peng Zu), which took the name of the country as the surname.

In the pre Qin period, the activity area of Peng's family name was a vast area which started from the south of Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, reached the central part of Sichuan in the southwest, reached the west of Zhejiang in the southeast, entered the mountains in the northeast, swept Henan in the north, and bordered Xiangjiang River in the south. Taking this activity area as the center, Peng's family name spread around. By the time of Tang and Song Dynasties, Peng's family name had been distributed all over China. During the song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, the general distribution pattern of Peng family changed greatly, mainly from the north to the southeast, but the number of Peng family in Western Sichuan decreased a lot and moved to the south. All over China, the population gathering area of Peng surname in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei has been formed again. Since the Qing Dynasty, some of the Peng surnames from Fujian and Guangdong emigrated to Taiwan, and some of them emigrated to Southeast Asia, Europe and America.

Peng's family name ranks 47th in a hundred family names. According to China's Four Hundred Surnames published in 2013, the contemporary population of Peng is about 7.66 million, accounting for about 0.58% of the national population, ranking 32nd in China. It is mainly distributed in Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Henan, Guizhou and Anhui. Hunan accounts for 19.5% of the total population of Peng, and is the largest province of Peng. In the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei and Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan are two high-density areas inhabited by Peng family.

Historical development

Origin and development of surnames

1、 The surname Peng comes from the surname Ji.

① The fiefdom of Dapeng, the son of Lu Zhong, the son of Wu Hui, the great grandson of emperor Zhuanxu, took the name of the country as his surname. According to the records of Tongzhi · clan brief and the origin of surnames, Emperor Zhuanxu had xuansun Lu Zhong, the third son of Lu Zhong, whose surname was Zhen and his name was Keng. He was granted the title of pengdi (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province) and established the great Peng state, known as Pengzu. The great Peng state was destroyed by King Wuding of Shang Dynasty at the end of yin and Shang Dynasties. Later, the descendants of the state of Dapeng took the name of the state as their surname. According to the history, Pengzu is the ancestor of all Peng's surnames.

② In the spring and Autumn period, Duke Ji of Luzhuang had three brothers. Prince Qingfu was the elder brother of the common people, and Prince Shuya and Prince Jiyou were the younger brother of the same mother. The descendants of Shuya's grandsons, shusun Dechen and Shuzhong Pengsheng, derived five surnames: Gongsun, shusun, Shuzhong, Peng and Zi, and later became Peng, Zi, sun and Zhong.

2、 The Peng surname comes from the Yu surname. It is one of the eight surnames after Zhu Rong, the huoguan of the time of emperor he. According to Guoyu, "after zhurong, there were eight surnames, namely Ji, Dong, Peng, Tu, Luo, Zhen, Cao and MI." It is said that Peng's surname is one of the eight after Zhu Rong.

3、 Peng's family name was changed from his. According to the textual research on surnames, there are Hu, Xiqiang, Nanman, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Miao, Bai, Yao, Tujia, Kucong, Yi, Lahu and other nationalities with Peng surname in Qing Dynasty.

4、 The Peng surname originates from the MI surname and comes from the descendants of Xiong Peng, the official of the state of Chu in the spring and Autumn period. It takes the ancestor's name as the surname. Xiong pengming made great achievements in defeating the invincible Jin army in the battle of Chu, Jin and Ying (Battle of liangtang) in 597 BC. Among the descendants of Xiong pengming, those whose surname is Peng's name are Peng's.

5、 Peng's surname originates from the official position and belongs to the surname of the official position. Pengshi (pengpaishi), Pengshuai, Pengjun and Pengren were military officers of the state of Chu in the Warring States period. Among the descendants of Peng Shi (Peng Paishi), Peng Shuai, Peng Jun, Peng Ren and other officials, some of them took their ancestors' official titles as surnames, which were called Peng Shi, Peng Pai, Peng Shuai, Peng Jun, Peng Ren and so on. Later, most of them were simplified to single surname Peng.

The ancestor of the surname de

The first ancestor of the surname Peng was Zhen Keng (Tang Yao granted Zhen Keng to Pengcheng, who was known as Peng Zu because of his Taoism). The surname Peng comes from the descendants of emperor Zhuanxu. In ancient times, Emperor Zhuanxu had a great grandson named Wu Hui. Wu Hui was huozheng zhurong (the official who used fire) at the time of emperor he. Wu Hui's son Lu Zhong married Gui Fang's daughter. After three years of pregnancy, Lu Zhong's wife failed to give birth to a son. In all desperation, Lu Zhong had to use a sharp blade to cut open the lower part of his wife's left rib to give birth to three sons. Then he cut open the lower part of his right rib to give birth to three sons. The third of the six sons was named Zhen Keng, who was later granted the title of Dapeng. He was one of the vassal states in the Shang Dynasty. Zhen Keng was a famous long-lived man. It is said that he lived for more than 800 years and went through the Xia and Shang Dynasties, so he was also called Peng Zu. According to the custom at that time, his descendants took the surname of Guoming as their surname Peng. They respected Peng Zu as the ancestor of the surname Peng.

Migration communication

The Peng surname is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group.

After the fall of Peng state, Peng people scattered. A group of Peng people emigrated to the southeast from Xuzhou (formerly known as Pengcheng) to Hexian county (formerly known as Liyang) in Anhui Province, crossed the Yangtze River to Poyang Lake (formerly known as Pengli) in Jiangxi Province and Taojiang area in the upper reaches of Ganjiang River. They met Shanyue people, and some of them merged into Shanyue people. The other branch moved from Hexian county to Tianzhu peak of Dadi mountain, Southeast of Lin'an, Zhejiang Province. One of them retreated southwest to the southeast of Lushan County in the west of Henan Province, and later became the subjects of the state of Chu. The third branch went westward through Mianchi County, Henan Province, and reached pengyabao in Baishui County, Shaanxi Province. Some of the Pengs mixed with the drama department of the Qiang Rong nationality to form the Pengxi nationality. The Pengs continued westward to PENGYUAN, southwest of Qingyang County, Gansu Province. When King Wu of Zhou went to the east to destroy the Shang Dynasty, Peng was one of the United tribes and princes he led. This Peng was a descendant of the former Peng state who lived in PENGYUAN. After the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, the Peng people crossed the Han River to the South and moved to the present Nanhe area in Hubei Province. Since then, the Peng people have been separated and mixed with the indigenous people in the south, becoming the ancestors of the Tujia surname Peng. A group of Pengs from Qingyang, Gansu Province crossed the Qinling Mountains, passed through the Ziwu Valley, passed through Pengxi in Shiquan County, Shaanxi Province, and landed in Pengzhou, Sichuan Province at one stroke. Then they moved southward to Pengshan County.

In the pre Qin period, the activity area of Peng's family name was a vast area which started from the south of Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, reached the central part of Sichuan in the southwest, reached the west of Zhejiang in the southeast, entered the mountains in the northeast, swept Henan in the north, and bordered Xiangjiang River in the south. Taking this area as the center, Peng's family name moved around. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, the surname Peng was distributed all over the country. In the early Qing Dynasty, the Peng family immigrated to Taiwan for the first time.

population distribution

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 380000 people surnamed Peng, accounting for 0.5% of the national population, ranking 42nd. Jiangxi is the largest province of Peng, accounting for 37% of the total population of Peng. In the whole country, the distribution is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan, accounting for about 65% of the total population of Peng, followed by Guangxi and Fujian, accounting for about 14% of the total population of Peng. In the middle and lower reaches of the south side of the Yangtze River, there is a gathering area of Pengxing in ganxiangchuan.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 500000 people surnamed Peng, accounting for about 0.54% of the national population, which was the 42nd largest surname in the Ming Dynasty. The main body of Peng family had left the north in the Qin and Han Dynasties, so the continuous wars in the north had little impact on the people of Peng family. Jiangxi is still the largest province of Peng family, accounting for 37.7% of the total population of Peng family. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi and Hunan, accounting for about 50% of the total population of Peng, followed by Sichuan, Guangdong and Hubei, accounting for about 16% of the total population of Peng. During the song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, the general distribution pattern of Peng family changed greatly. The population of Peng family mainly moved from the north to the southeast, but the number of Peng family in Western Sichuan decreased a lot, and they mainly moved to the south. The whole country has re formed a population gathering area of the surname Peng in Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei.

The contemporary population of Peng is about 7.66 million, accounting for about 0.58% of the national population, ranking 32nd in China. It is mainly distributed in Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, accounting for 56.3% of the total population of Peng, followed by Chongqing, Henan, Guizhou and Anhui, accounting for 18% of the total population of Peng. Hunan accounts for 19.5% of the total population of Peng, and is the largest province of Peng. In the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Sichuan and Chongqing and Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan are two high-density areas inhabited by Peng family.

traditional culture

County Hall

There are Longxi County, Huaiyang County, Yichun county and so on.

1. Longxi County. In the 28th year of emperor Zhaoxiang of the Warring States period (279 BC), the county was set up to govern Didao (today's Gansu Province is near Taonan). In the Western Han Dynasty, it was equivalent to the middle reaches of Taohe River to the east of Dongxiang, Gansu, the upper reaches of Weihe River to the west of Wushan, the upper reaches of Xihanshui River to the north of Lixian and the eastern part of Tianshui city. Xiangwu (now southwest Gansu) was ruled by Wei of the Three Kingdoms. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, it was near Longxi County.

2. Huaiyang county. In 196 B.C., Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty established Huaiyang state as one of the nine states with the same surname, all of which were in Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan Province). After emperor Hui, it was a county and a state. During the reign of emperor Ping, it was equivalent to Huaiyang, Luyi, Taikang, Zhecheng, Fugou and other counties in Henan Province. Daye of Sui Dynasty, Tianbao of Tang Dynasty and Zhide of Tang Dynasty changed Chenzhou into Huaiyang county.

3. Yichun county. Yichun county was established in Han Dynasty, Yiyang County in Jin Dynasty and Yichun County in Sui Dynasty. In today's western Jiangxi, adjacent to Hunan Province, Zhejiang Jiangxi railway and Jiangxi tributary Yuanshui run across the county.

Peng's name includes kezu hall, Changshou hall, Longxi hall, Huaiyang hall, Yichun hall, Shangxian hall, Zhuxia hall, Wuyi hall, Shugu hall, Shuxin hall, Xinshu hall, dunben hall, Ziben hall, Aijing hall, Sicheng hall, Sijing hall, Benyuan hall, Yuanben hall, Shaozu hall, Fengxian hall, Fenghua hall, Cuiran hall, Shouyuan hall, Yantang, Chunfu hall, etc Ji Hou Tang, Guang Yu Tang, San Rui Tang, Chang Mao Tang, you Li Long Tang, Yong Mu Tang, Huai de Tang, San Zhao Tang, Yi Xun Tang, Yi Yan Tang, Zhen Ye Tang, Jing Tang, Cheng Jing Tang, Xiao Mu Tang, Ming Jing Tang, Kui Ju Tang, Doctor Tang, Shuanggui Tang, Chun Xu Tang, Dunlun Tang, Liang Yi Tang, Zhong Yi Tang, Hua Xiu Tang, Kong Bi Tang, Wu Fu Tang, etc.

"Kezu hall" and "Changshou hall" both come from Zhen Keng, the ancestor of Peng family. Zhen Keng was granted the title of Peng. His Tao is worthy of learning by later generations ("his Tao can be the ancestor") and is known as "Peng Zu". Pengzu lived for 800 years. In the last years of the Shang Dynasty, Zhen Keng became the history of guarding Tibet, and in the Zhou Dynasty, he became the history of Zhuxia. So it is also called "longevity hall".

Peng Chengtang: Peng, who was born in Ji'an, Jiangxi Province in the late Northern Song Dynasty

Chinese PinYin : Peng Shi