Origin of surname: Cheng Tang, the 14th grandson of Di Ku (legendary ancient tribal leader), also known as Tianyi. He became the leader of the Shang clan in one fell swoop at the end of the Xia Dynasty. Because he cared for the people and implemented benevolent policies, he won the support of the people, so that some small countries around him came to admire him and joined him, and his power quickly became strong. He was originally from Millie, and he was Fang Bo of Xia Dynasty, who was in charge of conquering. At the end of the summer, the emperor was ruthless and ruthless, and the country became increasingly turbulent. Seeing its situation, he had the ambition to replace the summer. So I began to implement the plan of eliminating summer. He first wiped out Geguo, a small country near Shang, and soon after, after 11 expeditions, he wiped out three important allied countries of Xia Dynasty, namely Qianwei, Gu and Kunwu, and then wiped out Xia Dynasty in one fell swoop, banishing Xia Jie to Nanchao. In this way, the second slave country in China's history, the Zao Shang Dynasty, was established, with its capital in milli. Because of his ability to cut and cut, he was cut into soup after his death. One of the descendants named after posthumous title became Tang's. It's for Tang's family in Henan.
county view: Zhongshan county: the county was set by Emperor Han Gao, and the King Emperor was changed to the state to govern Lunu (now Dingxian County, Hebei Province). Fanyang County: In the seventh year of the Three Kingdoms Wei and Huang Chu (AD 226), Zhuojun was changed to the county. It is located in Zhuoxian County (now Zhuoxian County, Hebei Province).
TangNo.: Yumingtang: They were all named after Tang Xianzu in the Ming Dynasty. He was in charge of the official department in the DPRK, and his personality was straightforward. He saw that the emperor did not adopt the advice of loyal ministers, and he often punished those who made suggestions, so he decided to risk his life to protest to the emperor, so he was dismissed. When he returned home, on the one hand, he continued to play this protest, on the other hand, he wrote a script and wrote "Yu Ming Tang Ji".
Migration and distribution: Because the surname of Tang was inherited from Shang Tang, the earliest birthplace of the surname of Tang should be in present-day Henan Province. During the Shang Dynasty, from Shang Tang to Zhou Wang, there were seven migrations, namely, Shang Tang was the capital (now Shangqiu County, Henan Province); By the time of Zhongding, the capital was moved to Xiao (now southwest of Yingze County, Henan Province); When the river was in the capital, it moved to Xiang (now the west of Anyang County, Henan Province); At the beginning of Zu Yi, he moved his capital to Geng (now south of Hejin County, Shanxi Province); Then moved the capital to Xing (now Xing County, Hebei Province); To Pan Geng, with its capital in Yin (now in the west of Yanshi County, Henan Province), it changed its name to Yin, known as Yin Shang; When he arrived in Wuyi, he moved the capital to Chaoge (now northeast of Qixian County, Henan Province) until his death. Therefore, the Shang family spread all over the country in the Shang Dynasty, but by the time of Qin and Han Dynasties, Tang's surname was mainly centered on the territory under the jurisdiction of Fanyang County, Zhongshan River in ancient times. Therefore, most of the Tang people in all parts of the country should come from here. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, Tang Long's great-great-grandson Tang Dexin moved from Kaifeng to Jinling (now Changzhou, Jiangsu), and his son Tang Zhang moved to Jiaodi (now northwest of ha noi, Vietnam). At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang were ordered to enter Fujian to open Zhangzhou, and a surname of Tang accompanied him from Gushi (now Henan) in Gwangju to settle in Fujian. In Song Dynasty, the Tang family mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan and other provinces. In the Song Dynasty, Yin Chongyi, a native of Qiupu (now Guichi, Anhui Province), changed his name to Tang Yue because he avoided the taboo of Zhao Hongyin, the father of Zhao Kuangyin, Song Taizu. In the Ming Dynasty, some Tang people moved to present-day Guangdong and Guangxi. Since the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, people from the Tang family in Guangdong have moved to Taiwan Province, and later Taiwan Province moved to Brazil, Japan, Mauritius, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Timor, Australia and other places.
Tang is the ninetieth most popular surname in China, with a large population, accounting for about .19% of the Han population in China.
tracing to the source
1. from the surname. According to "A Brief History of the Clan", Cheng Tang was the founding monarch of Shang Dynasty, so he was also called Shang Tang, and some of his descendants took anonymity as their surname.
2. According to the genealogy of ten thousand surnames, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Song Dynasty played the surname of Dang, and later went to Caotou to become the surname of Tang.
3. According to Records of the Historian Yin Benji, at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, Shang Zhouwang's elder brother Wei Ziqi established the Song Kingdom (now the south of Shangqiu, Henan Province) around the old capital of Shang Dynasty, and later generations took Zi as their surname. Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, and his son was afraid of disaster, so he changed his surname to Tang.
4. Change your surname and others. In the Song Dynasty, there was Tang Yue, whose real name was Yin. At the beginning of Jianlong, he avoided Xuanmiao and changed his surname to Tang. Other Manchu, Dong, Mongolian, Tu and other ethnic groups all have Tang surname.
the surname is ancestor
Shang Tang. Shang Tang, also known as Cheng Tang, was the leader of Shang tribe in the last years of Xia Dynasty, and was appointed as Fangbo in Xia Dynasty, specializing in conquering. At that time, the last monarch of Xia Dynasty was unruly, cruel and heartless, and the domestic unrest became increasingly turbulent, so Shang Tang intended to replace him. He first made an alliance with another powerful tribe, the Xin family, married its daughter, appointed the sage Yi Yin to assist him, cared for the people, and implemented benevolent policies, which won the support of the people, so that many small countries around him joined in admiration and became powerful rapidly. Finally, he banished Xia Jie to Nanchao (now southwest of Chao County, Anhui Province) and established Shang Dynasty, all of which were Bo (now Shangqiu, Henan Province). In memory of the founding monarch, his descendants took his surname Tang, and Shang Tang was regarded as the ancestor of Tang's surname.
reproduction and spread
Tang's surname was inherited from Shang Tang, so the earliest birthplace of Tang's surname should be today's Henan province. Since the Shang Dynasty moved its capital seven times, the surname of Tang in Shang Dynasty has spread all over Henan, Shanxi, Hebei and the surrounding Central Plains. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the surname of Tang was the most prosperous in Hebei, so there were two counties in the history of the surname of Tang: Zhongshan County and Fanyang County. In this period, Tang moved southward to Jiaodi (now the northwest of Hanoi, Vietnam), which is recorded in history. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, South Vietnam surrendered, and Emperor Wu sent Tang Zhang to Jiaodi, where he was a secretariat. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the northern warlords scuffled, and there was a bonfire in the Central Plains. Therefore, Tang moved to the south on a large scale, mainly in the east and south directions to avoid chaos. At the end of the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, from the beginning of the Huang Chao Uprising, the surname Tang of the Central Plains moved south again, and its route was roughly from Henan to Hunan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. The above-mentioned many moves to the south made the Tang surname from the north become the southern surname. Before the Song Dynasty, Tang's celebrities were scattered in the history books. After the Song Dynasty, a large number of Tang's celebrities emerged, mostly from Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan and other provinces in the southeast. It can be seen that Tang's surname was said to be prosperous in these areas in later generations. In Song Dynasty, there were prime ministers Tang Yue and Tang Si, who went out of Anhui and Zhejiang, so the clansmen became prominent and became local famous families. In the Ming Dynasty, Tang He, a founding hero, went out of Fengyang, Anhui Province, and after his death, he was posthumously sealed as the King of Dongou. During Hongwu and Yongle, as one of the immigrant surnames of Sophora japonica, Tang moved to Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, people from Guangdong, Tang, moved to Taiwan Province one after another, and then moved to Southeast Asia. Today, the Tang surnames are mostly in Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu, Hubei and other provinces, which account for about 56% of the population of the Han nationality in China.
No. of County Lookout Hall
There are two main names of Tang surname:
1. Zhongshan County, which is located in Lunu (now Dingzhou, Hebei Province);
2. Fanyang County is located in Zhuoxian County (now Zhuozhou, Hebei Province).
Hall numbers:
Linchuan, Yuming, Yishi, Sumu, Guangyu, Shuanggui and Dangui.
clan characteristics
1. The surname of Tang originated in the north and gradually evolved into a typical southern surname after migration.
2. There are many famous people named Tang, including poets, writers and painters. For example, there were poets Tang Huixiu in the Southern Dynasties, writers Tang Xianzu and pipa player Tang Yingzeng in the Ming Dynasty, painters Tang Yifen and historians Tang Qiu in the Qing Dynasty.
3. The word lines of Tang surname are arranged neatly in generations, with deep meaning. For example, in the handwritten copy of Tang's Genealogy in the Republic of China, there is a word named Tang in yujiang county, Jiangxi Province, which reads: "Enlighten the country, Zhong 'an, and be broad-minded and deeply rooted".
the essence of celebrities
Tang Huixiu: a poet in the Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty, who was the official secretariat of Yangzhou, was also called "Hugh Bao" with Bao Zhao. Tang Yue: A native of Guichi, Anhui Province, is famous for his excellent literary talent. At the beginning, he was the prime minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, monopolizing the books and letters of the Li royal family. After returning to the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin named it Guang Luqing, which was very important, and he wrote ten volumes of Jiangxi Record. Tang Wangshou: a native of Liuyang (now Hunan), he was a scholar in the Song Dynasty, and his official position was Shao Qing in Dali. I once wrote to invite Zhu Xi, who was well-known for his rights and interests. Tang Peng: A native of Wuhu in Qing Dynasty, he was an ingenious blacksmith. His neighbor was a painter, and Peng was deeply envious, so he closed the door and conceived to make landscapes, figures, flowers, birds, fish and insects with wrought iron. Because of his exquisite and vivid works, people rushed to buy them, which was called "iron painting" in the world. Tang Situi: A native of Lishui, Zhejiang Province, Song Gaozong and Xiaozong were two lovers. Tang Zhengzhong: A native of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, was a famous painter in the Song Dynasty. His works are unique and well-known in the painting world. Tang Li: A native of Huai 'an, Jiangsu Province, was a theorist of painting and calligraphy in Yuan Dynasty. He was good at appreciating antiquities and painting and calligraphy, and once wrote a volume of Painting Guide. Tang He: A native of Haozhou (now Fengyang, Anhui Province), he was a founding hero of the Ming Dynasty, a general, and a believer in the Lord protector. In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, he invited himself to relieve the military power and avoid the suspicion of Mao. Later, he was ordered to build a city along the coast to defend against the Japanese pirates. Tang Kekuan: A native of Pizhou, Jiangsu Province, was a famous anti-Japanese soldier in the Ming Dynasty. When he was ordered to be in danger, he repeatedly defeated the enemy, and the enemy was very afraid. Because of his merits, he moved to Guangdong. Tang Binyin: A native of Xuancheng, Anhui Province, was an official in the Ming Dynasty. The official went to imperial academy to offer a drink. The collection of sleeping temples. Tang Wenqiong: Shidai, Chizhou Prefecture (now the northeast of Shitai, Anhui Province), a patriotic scholar in the Ming Dynasty. When the capital was captured, Wen Qiong's skirt was "not the position of a prime minister, but the heart of a prime minister". Later, he joined the gorgeous country and became a beautiful talk. Tang Xianzu: Linchuan (Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province), a dramatist and writer in the Ming Dynasty, worked as a doctor in Nanjing Taichang, and was the head of the ritual department. His creation emphasizes the correspondence of melody, and opposes imitation of antiquity and sticking to rhythm. The Peony Pavilion is his representative work, and there are other works such as Zi Chai Ji, Nan Ke Ji and many kinds of poems. Tang Yifei: a native of Wujin, Jiangsu Province, was a famous painter in the Qing Dynasty. He is good at painting mountains and rivers, elegant and elegant in brushwork, and also works in cursive script and poetry. He is also called "Tang Dai" with Dai Xi. Tang Youzeng: Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) was a poet in the Qing Dynasty, an assistant minister from the official department to the official department, and also held a bachelor's degree in charge of the academy. His poetry is great and can be restored, and he was given the title of "Poet" by the Emperor, and he was the leader of Zhejiang School together with Xiushui Zhu Yizun. Author of Huai Qing Tang Ji. Tang Shishu: Wujin, a poet and painter in Qing Dynasty. Mi Fei, a calligrapher with exquisite inscriptions and vivid sketches, is one of the most famous painters in the south of the Yangtze River, and is called "three unique skills".
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