What is the origin and history of the surname Feng?

The origin and history of the surname Feng are as follows:

1. The surname originates from and returns to the surname.

During the Yao and Shun period more than 4,000 years ago, there was a Guiyi tribe among the Dongyi people with the white-headed man as their clan totem. They originally lived in the Shangqiu area of ??present-day Henan Province. The side branch of the Gui surname moved eastward to the Heze area in present-day Shandong Province, forming the Hebo tribe with the lotus as its totem. Entering the Emperor Mang era of the Xia Dynasty, Feng Yi, an outstanding leader of the Hebo tribe, dominated the Heluo area for a while. Later, he was forced by the Xia Youqiong family to cross the Yellow River north, and his descendants established it in Dali County, Shaanxi Province. He conquered the Feng Yi Kingdom and went through the Xia, Shang and Wednesday dynasties. At the beginning of Zhou Dynasty, Feng Yi Kingdom split into three kingdoms: He Zong, Feng and Han. After King Wu of Zhou Dynasty destroyed Feng and others, the descendants of the Three Kingdoms all took the surname of their country. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Feng Jianzi, an official of the State of Zheng, was the first person to adopt the surname Feng. The surname Feng has a history of at least 3,700 years.

2. Originated from the surname Ji.

King Wu of Zhou granted his relatives to Feng Yi’s hometown and still called them Feng. They were annexed by Jin in the early Spring and Autumn Period, and the descendants of Feng Yi also took Feng as their surname. In 661 BC, the Jin Dynasty destroyed the Wei Dynasty, and the official Bi Wan was granted the title of Wei. Bi Wan was a descendant of Bi Gonggao, the fifteenth son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. Sun Changqing (i.e. Wen Sun), a side descendant of Bi Wan, lived in Feng Yi. The ancient city is in today's Henan Province. To the west of Xingyang, the descendants took the feudal city as their surname, and this became the Ji surname Feng. The Ji surname Feng has a history of 3,000 years. The contemporary Han surname Feng is believed to come from the surname Ji, who was the descendant of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty.

3. Change of surname from foreigners.

my country's Feng surname has been active in the northern region for a long time, constantly communicating with other ethnic groups, and there is a flow of genes from each other. The foreign nationalities who joined the Feng surname group mainly include: the Huns in the early Han Dynasty, the Baekje people in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Wei people in the southern part of Guangdong and Guangxi during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The Manchus and Mongols in the Qing Dynasty also changed their surname to Feng. These ethnic minorities have mixed with the Han people for a long time, gradually assimilated, and transformed into the local Han people with the surname Feng.

Population distribution:

Feng surname is distributed in most of Guangdong and Guangxi, Hainan, northern Guizhou, southern Hunan, most of Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei, Henan, Hebei, Beijing and Tianjin, eastern Gansu, Shanxi and Shaanxi , most of Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu, central Inner Mongolia, the western end of Liaoning, the eastern end of Heilongjiang, and the northwest end of Xinjiang, are the areas where the surname Feng is common. The proportion of the surname Feng in the local population is generally more than 0.63%, and it can reach more than 1.7% in the central area. Its coverage area accounts for approximately 33.3% of the total land area, and is home to approximately 71% of the people surnamed Feng.

In most of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, eastern Inner Mongolia, eastern Shandong, most of Gansu, eastern Qinghai, northern and southern Sichuan, northern and eastern Yunnan, most of Guiyang and Hunan, northern Guangxi, southern Hubei, and Jiangxi In most of Zhejiang and Fujian, the eastern end of Guangdong, the southern end of Anhui and Jiangsu, and Shanghai, the proportion of the local population surnamed Feng is generally between 0.42% and 0.63%. Its coverage area accounts for 28.5% of the total land area, and about 26% of the residents live there. People with the surname Feng.