Who knows the origin of the surname Fang!

1. Fang Shuoyuan

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The Fang family has a long history of nearly 4,700 years and is descended from the Fang Lei family. The eleventh grandson of Emperor Yan of Shennong, the eldest son of Emperor Yugong of the eighth generation, was named Lei. When the Yellow Emperor attacked Chiyou, Lei was granted the title of Fangshan (now Yuzhou City, Henan Province) for his meritorious service. After Lei was granted the title of Fangshan, he was called Fanglei. , the descendants took the land as their surname, and were divided into Lei and Fang. During the reign of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, General Fang Shu, a descendant of Fang Lei, was very wise and brave and was ordered to conquer the south and achieve great victory, and made immortal contributions to the revival of the Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, some genealogies of the Fang surname in later generations adopted the theory of "after Zhou Dafu Uncle Fang". In the fifth year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 284), the Fang family inherited the imperial edict and established the genealogy. In the second year of Xiankang (AD 336), Emperor Cheng of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the "Fang Family Genealogy" was approved by the imperial court as a "celebration of famous families", and the descendants of the Fang family were ordered to "It has been passed down from generation to generation and should never be lost." It is recorded in the Genealogy of the Liushan Zhenying Temple Fair of the Fang Family of Shechun: “The Fangs of She originate from Guzhi in Henan, and they all come out without distinction. The directions of Jiangnan, Fujian and Guangzhou all come from Dongxiang of She, and they all come from the same origin. She's Dongxiang is now Chun'an. Those who were in She, Hui, all came from Chun'an, and the genealogies are very clear. "In She, there is only one temple in Liuting Mountain, which is recorded in the county annals." In the Song Dynasty, there was a family whose surname was changed from Fang to Kuang in Xuancheng, Anhui Province. There were "Lei Fang Kuang" tracing organizations in many places in Guangdong and overseas. The three surnames Fang, Lei and Kuang "come from the same lineage and are derived from three sects".

2. Overview of the Fang family

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At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Danyang County Magistrate Fang Hong moved from Henan to She, Anhui to avoid chaos due to Wang Mang usurping power. County Dongxiang (now Chun'an, Zhejiang) became the ancestor of the two prefectures of Huiyan and even all Jiangnan clans. Hong was passed down as Chu, and his descendants multiplied in Yan, Wu, Yue, Jiujiang, Chuyang, Putian, Hui, Xuan, Chi, Xiu, Hu, and Chang. Chu had three sons. His eldest son, Yi Hou, moved to Hu, Chang, Yin, Chu, Renhe, Nanhai, Putian, Xinghua and Jiujiang, with Putian being the most prosperous. Secondly, after Zi Zhan and Ji Zihong, it also spread widely. The Fang family who lived in Shedong Township and convenient transportation areas in Zhejiang Province during the Han and Tang Dynasties were mainly descendants of Jian Yuhong. The Fang family is a famous family, one of the eight major surnames in Huizhou. The Fang surname is the third most common surname in She County, and Chun'an is the first most common surname. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, 31 people of the Fang family were awarded the title of Marquis or above. Until modern times, for thousands of years They are all famous people. They mainly include the famous eunuch Fang Chu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fang Qing, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Tang Dynasty, Fang Qian, the talented poet of the Tang Dynasty, Fang La, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty, Fang Fengchen, the No. 1 educator, Fang Hui, the writer, Fang Yue, the poet, and Fang Yue, the medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty. Fang Yulu, a famous ink maker and master, Fang Fengchen, a great scholar, Fang Shishu, a Qing Dynasty writer, Fang Chengpei, a dramatist, Fang Jianchen, the contemporary "China's No. 1 Sword" inkstone carving master, and so on.

The first person with the surname Fang who moved to Putian, Fujian, was Fang Shudaguan Quanzhou in the Tang Dynasty. He later lived in Fangshan, Putian, and his descendants were called "Fangshan Fang". Another person who moved to Putian in the late Tang Dynasty had the surname Fang Tingfan Guan Changle, an ancient She person. , was named "Jin Zi Guang Lu Da Fu". He gave birth to 7 sons, 6 of whom were officials and were called "Liu Gui Lianfang" at that time. He respected Fang Tingfan as the "Father of Liu Gui" and his descendants were called "Jin Zi Liu Gui Fang Family". Some of the relocated tribes of the Zhifang family took "Liu Guitang" as their hall name. During the Song and Ming dynasties, the Putian Fang family's imperial examinations were unprecedentedly grand, with more than 360 people competing for the top grades (Jinshi and Juren). There were 28 couples of the Fang family in the two Song dynasties. Among the 26 pairs of brothers, father and son, there are as many as 132 Jinshi. They are the highest among all surnames in Putian. Three of the six major libraries in Putian's history were built by the Fang family. Fang's famous libraries in the Song Dynasty include: Fang's Wanghu Tower, Baidu Wanjuan Tower, Fang Wanyi Sutra Hall, Fang Jianfu Wen Pavilion, Fang Yubao Sanyu Zhai, and Fang Songqing also have tens of thousands of volumes in their collections.

Among them, Baidu Fang's "Baidu Wanjuan Building" had a total collection of more than 50,000 volumes, which was the largest library in the country at that time. Due to the grand imperial examination, many tribesmen became officials abroad, and their descendants settled in other places, with the largest number in Guangdong. Among them, there are 170,000 Putian people from the Fang family in Huilai County. Putian has therefore become another important transit place and birthplace for the migration of the Fang family after Gushe County. The Fang family has a prosperous family business, with celebrities and high-ranking officials emerging in large numbers. "The fame of Confucianism is too numerous to mention." The main celebrities include: Fang Jun, a book collector in the Song Dynasty, Fang Lue, Fang Heng, a minister of the Ministry of Justice, Fang Songqing, a scholar of textual research, Fang Xinru, a famous scholar, Fang Dachong, a famous eunuch, and a Neo-Confucian calligrapher. The famous alchemist Yao, the poet Fang Weishen, the famous doctor Fang Bao of the Yuan Dynasty, the Minister of Punishment of the Ming Dynasty Fang Liangyong and so on.

The Fang family in Tongcheng (today's Tongcheng and Songyang) mainly has three branches, namely "Guilin Fang", "Lugu *** Fang" which is "Orion Fang" and "Huigong Fang". Tongcheng The Fang family is famous for its ancient prose, with generations of talented people and a long-lasting writing style that has lasted for hundreds of years. Some people think that it is the family that has made the most historical contributions to academic culture and morality since the middle of the Ming Dynasty in my country. Until contemporary times, the Fang family in Tongcheng can be said to have produced numerous celebrities, forming a huge group of scholars. Among them, the more famous ones include: Neo-Confucian Fang Xuejian, Yi scholar Fang Dazhen, Neo-Confucian Fang Kongzhen, and poet Fang Weiyi , the thinker Fang Yizhi, the scholar Fang Zhongde, the mathematician Fang Zhongtong, the scholar Fang Zhonglu, the poet Fang Wen, the writer Fang Dengfeng, Shi Jiji, the writer Fang Xiaobiao, Fang Gongqian, the calligrapher and painter Fang Hengxian, the writer Fang Shiju, Fang Zhenguan, Fang Bao, the founder of the Tongcheng School, Fang Guancheng, a writer, politician, and water conservancy expert, Fang Weidian, a writer, the governor, Fang Zongcheng, a writer, Fang Dongshu, scholars Fang Shouli, Fang Shoudun, Fang Xiaoyue, a literary theorist, Fang, an important official of the Republic of China Zhi, the "great philosopher of the generation" Fang Dongmei, writer Fang Lingru, poet Fang Weide, scholar Fang Guide (Shu Wu), journalism scholar Fang Zuode (dialect), painter Fang Hongshou, entertainer Fang Zige, politician Fang Zhaoxiang, etc. Tongcheng Fang's family not only created the broad and profound "Tongcheng Fang's School of Yi Studies", but also founded the "Tongcheng School" that dominated the literary world of the Qing Dynasty for more than two hundred years. Liang Shiqiu said to the Fang family in Tongcheng, a scholarly family that is famous all over the world: "The Fang family in Tongcheng may be second only to the Kong family in Qufu in popularity." Contemporary scholar Qian Liqun said, "The Fang family in Tongcheng is the successor to the Kong family in Qufu." The family that has the greatest influence on Chinese culture after the family is a swan song of a Chinese cultural family." Taiwanese writer Gao Yang praised: "The Fang family is characterized by loyalty, filial piety, justice, and all four characters. It is the first-class family of poetry and etiquette in China." The second largest cultural family in China.

The Chinese surname originates from Henan and spreads around with ancient Huizhou as the center. It is a typical southern surname. The population center is in the southeastern provinces. The largest population is in Anhui with more than 1 million, followed by about 1 million in Zhejiang. 550,000, the third is Guangdong with about 400,000, and other provinces with larger numbers are Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu, Taiwan, etc. The population of the Fang surname is sparse in the northern provinces, and Henan ranks 86th. It has the largest population. The county is Huilai County, Guangdong, where there are as many as 170,000 people with the Fang surname. Other counties and cities with larger populations are Yunxiao County, Putian County, Zhejiang Province, Chun'an County, Tonglu County, Jinhua County, and Tongcheng, Anhui Province. , Songyang, Shexian, Xiuning, Hunan Pingjiang, Yueyang, Guangdong Puning, Kaiping, Dongguan, etc. The most populous town is Hongyang Town, Puning, Guangdong, with about 70,000 people surnamed Fang, accounting for about 50, which is the real " "Fang Ban Town".

The Fang family of Wenyang in South Korea migrated from the Central Plains to Henan in the Tang Dynasty, with a population of more than 100,000. The ancestor of the migration was Fang Zhi, a Hanlin scholar in the Tang Dynasty and a great historian of Silla culture. The Fang surname in Thailand was mostly from Chaoshan immigrants, with a population of 60,000. Fang Xiaoru in the Ming Dynasty refused to be Zhu Di, who had usurped the throne, drafted an edict to ascend the throne, but was killed by the tyrant of 10 tribes. More than 800 people were killed. Tens of thousands of tribesmen were implicated in exile. This was the biggest disaster in the history of the Fang family. Many people with the Fang surname fled in order to escape. All over the country, many tribesmen who escaped from the clutches of the devil changed their surnames to other people, such as Liu, He, Cai, Zhang, Shi, Xuan, Yu, Wang, etc. The Fang surname was listed as the 35th most common surname in the Song Dynasty, with a population of about 450,000; Accounting for 0.59% of the country, the Yuan Dynasty ranked 28th; the Ming Dynasty ranked 49th, with a population of about 440,000. According to the latest statistics, the population of the contemporary Fang family ranks 63rd in the country, accounting for 0.36 in the country.

Historically, elites emerged in large numbers, and there were many famous figures and heroes. The Fang family genealogy prefaced by Wen Tianxiang, the number one scholar in the Song Dynasty, praised: "The Fang family was prominent in the Zhou Dynasty, and it reached our dynasty in the Han Dynasty. It was so prominent that Liuze and the latter were so prosperous! Su Dongpo wrote the inscription "Articles about China, heirlooms of poetry and etiquette", and Su Xun inscribed "The descendants of the civil and military generations, through the ages. "Liu Fang". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Fang family of poetry and etiquette, represented by the Fang family in Tongcheng, brought the Fang family's reputation to its peak. The "Dictionary of Chinese Names" includes 242 celebrities with the surname Fang in the past dynasties, accounting for the total number of celebrities. 0.53% of the total, ranking 38th; famous writers accounted for 0.8% of the total number of Chinese writers of all dynasties, ranking 25th; famous medical scientists accounted for 0.66%, ranking 31st. According to the population ratio of celebrities with surnames, the rate of people with Fang surnames ranks 11th, reaching 147.22%. (In order: Qian, Gu, Lu, Cui, Wang, Shen, Xiao, Du, Kong, Fang, Meng, Zheng, Fan, and Yao. Representatives of famous people in the past dynasties of the Fang family: Doctor Zhou Fang. Uncle, Fang Chu, a famous eunuch of the Han Dynasty, Fang Qian, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, Fang La, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Song Dynasty, Fang Yue, a patriotic poet, Fang Guozhen, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Yuan Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru, a great scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Bao, the originator of the Tongcheng School in the Qing Dynasty, a writer Fang Dongshu, the hero Fang Shengdong, the revolutionary leader Fang Zhimin, the anti-Japanese hero General Fang Zhenwu, General Fang Xianjue. "The Great Philosopher of the Generation" Fang Dongmei, the Vice Premier of the State Council Fang Yi, and the "Three Saints of the Fang Family": "Mo Sheng" "Fang Yulu", "Lian Sheng" Fang Dishan, "Bone Saint" Fang Xianzhi. etc.