The surname Wang is a surname with many origins and various clans. Specifically, there are kings with the surname Ji from the Zhou Dynasty, kings with the surname Gui from Yushun, and kings with the surname Zi from the Shang Dynasty. There are also kings, given surnames, and Wang surnames from ethnic minorities. The only thing they have in common is that most of them have Jue as their surname.
The descendants of Bi Gonggao, the 15th son of King Wen of Zhou Jichang, were originally from the royal family, so they took Wang as their surname. They mainly lived in Jingzhao (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi), Hejian (today's Hebei) and other places.
Ji Qinxin, King of Zhou Ling, reigned for twenty-seven years. His son Ji Jin once criticized and admonished him, but he was deposed as a commoner and lived in the area of ????Jiaonan County, Shandong Province today. Because the ancestor of Ji Jin and his descendants was the Emperor of Zhou, people called them the Wang family at that time, and they took Wang as their surname from then on.
In 225 BC, the Wei State was destroyed by the Qin State, and their descendants were scattered all over the country. Because they came from princes, the world called these people the Wang family.
One of the famous "Four Gentlemen of the Warring States Period" in history is Lord Xinling, the son of King Zhao of Wei. During the dynasty, the descendants of Lord Xinling were summoned to the dynasty to serve as palaces, and were granted the title of Marquis of Lanling. At that time, people thought that he was from a royal family, so they called him the Wang family and extended his surname to him. All of the above are from the Wang family with the surname Ji of the Zhou Dynasty.
In 386 BC, the monarchy of Qi State with the Jiang surname was seized by the Tian family. The Tian family was a descendant of the legendary emperor Shun and had the surname Gui. The State of Qi was destroyed by the State of Qin in 221 BC. Since the ancestors of each branch of the Tian family were emperors and princes, they were called the Wang family. This comes from the Wang family with the surname Gui.
There is also the Wang family that comes from the surname Zi. Zi's ??surname is the surname of the Shang Dynasty. The last emperor, Zhou, was violent and promiscuous. His uncle Bigan tried to dissuade him many times. Zhou became angry and killed him, and performed a dissection to examine his heart. The surname Wang is after Bigan.
In ancient times, many tribal leaders of ethnic minorities and descendants of political kings also had the surname Wang. The reason is roughly the same as the above-mentioned Wang surname, which comes from the surnames of Ji, Gui and Zi. For example, Wang Shichong of the Sui Dynasty was originally a member of the Hu Zhi clan in the Western Regions. After entering the Central Plains, he assumed the surname of Wang. Wang Sengbian, a Liang general in the Southern Dynasties, was originally from the Wuwan clan and belonged to the Xianbei clan. Another example is Hanlile Khan, the chief of the Kele tribe in the Mongolian Plateau, who was named king by the Wanyan family in the Jin Dynasty and changed his name to Wang Han.
Many people were given the surname Wang in history. In 8 AD, Wang Mang usurped the throne of the Liu Han Dynasty and established a new dynasty. He gave the descendants of Prince Dan of Yan during the Warring States period as kings. The Zhu Ming Dynasty gave many Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty the surname Wang. This is the king who gave the surname. This has added new members to the already numerous and widely distributed Wang team.
Historically, the Wang family mainly developed and multiplied in the north in the early days. The Wang family moved to the south of the Yangtze River in the late Western Jin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Zheng, Chen Yuanguang and his son were ordered to enter Fujian, accompanied by three generals named Wang who settled there. During the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi from Gushi, Henan, entered Fujian, and some members of the Wang clan followed them. Starting from the late Ming Dynasty, people from the Wang family moved to Taiwan one after another. From the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people surnamed Wang began to immigrate overseas, spreading to famous places in Europe, America, and Southeast Asia.