Feng (f ē ng) surname

It is the 270th contemporary surname in our country. The ancestors of the Feng family, who migrated to Hongdong Dahuai Tree during the Ming Dynasty, were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other places. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to move to other places in Hongdong Dahuai Tree. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanxi and other places.

The earliest record of enfeoffment of surnames can be found in the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe Surname Compilation".

There are two main sources of surnames:

① Derived from the surname Jiang. According to the "Family Name Garden", it is said that in ancient times, Emperor Yan Shennong had a grandson named Ju, who was of high moral character and profound knowledge, and was a famous sage in ancient times. Before Huangdi ascended to the throne, he admired his reputation and visited him specifically. After a conversation, he was greatly impressed and became his teacher. After Huangdi ascended to the throne, he granted the fiefdom to Ju, and the former fiefdom was located in the west of present-day Fengqiu County, Henan Province. The descendants of Feng Ju took Feng Guoming as their surname.

② Originating from the change of surname by the Ben family. According to the "Annals of the Official Family" in the Book of Wei, the Xianbei tribe of Northern Wei adopted the surname of Feng after the migration of the Ben family to the Central Plains.

The county lords with surnames mainly include Bohai Commandery. Bohai Commandery: located along the coast of Bohai Bay between Liaoning, Hebei, and Shandong provinces. In the second year of the Xiantian reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (713), the Tang Dynasty conferred the title of Prince of Bohai upon Da Zuorong. Feng Longzhi, a native of Bohai during the Later Wei Dynasty, lived through the Five Dynasties of Northern Wei and was a prominent family.

The main hall name for a given surname is Pinglu Hall. Pinglu Hall: During the Tang Dynasty, Feng Ao served as the Xingyuan Jiedushi of Pinglu. He made contributions to pacifying bandits, and the emperor ordered him to write an imperial edict titled 'Comfort for Border Soldiers' on behalf of the emperor. After he finished writing it, he handed it over to the emperor for review. The emperor praised him for writing well and gave him multiple palace brocades (silk fabrics used by the emperor and empress in the palace)

The main types of hall couplets with the surname of Feng include: the title of Grand Minister (Feng Fu); There is Gao Shifeng (Feng Yanbo). Minister of Education (Fengfu); Claiming to be an elder (Feng Longzhi). The Wind God refused to show mercy, who will protect the beauty (Feng Jiayi); Fenglang eventually resided here and married his daughter (Fengde Yi).

[Celebrities] The Dictionary of Chinese Names includes 26 cases of Fengshi, and the Dictionary of Chinese Names of Past Dynasties includes 40 cases. During the Xia Dynasty, there were feudal lords who granted titles to their fathers; During the Jin Dynasty, the Minister of Personnel was granted the title of Fu; Sixteen states had the former Yan Xiangguo enfeoffed Yi; In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was Fengguan, a native of Nandun; During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Dynasty had officials from Fengjin, Bohai, and Kaifu Yitong, as well as the Prime Minister of Northern Qi, Fengzihui; In the Tang Dynasty, there was the title of Ao, and during the Yuanhe period, he passed the imperial examination and became a scholar in Hanlin. There was also a famous prime minister named De Yi; In the Qing Dynasty, there was a enfeoffment of Jun.

According to the seventh national census, there are 5052 people with the surname Feng in Shanxi Province, 164 in Linfen City, and 17 in Hongdong County.

The ancestral altar of the sealed surname is enshrined in the fifth altar of the Ancestral Hall on the Great Huai Tree.

Genealogy: The main genealogies of the Feng family include: "The First Volume of the Sixteen Volumes of the National Rongzhou Feng Family Genealogy" (Rongxian County, Guangxi Province); The Fourteenth Revision of the Family Genealogy of the Feng Clan in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province (Volume 17); Three Volumes of the Fengshi Genealogy in Dezhou, Shandong (North Map); The Undivided Genealogy of the Feng Family (Shanghai Map);