The origin of the surname Tang

The historical origin of the surname Tang is as follows:

The surname Tang is derived from the surname Feng, which comes from Tang, the ten sons of the Fuxi family in Taixu (Hao) in ancient times. It is a surname based on the name of the ancestor. . Legend has it that during the prehistoric times, Fuxi married his sister Nuwa and had ten sons. Fuxi admired the sun and called his ten sons "旪". Later history also recorded them as "旸", "阳", etc.

They lived separately in Tangshan (Duxian and Duling, today's Xi'an, Shaanxi). Most of their descendants took the name of their town as their surname, which was passed down from generation to generation. It is one of the very ancient surnames. The correct pronunciation of this branch of the Tang family is yáng (ㄧㄤˊ). There are still people in the Tang family who respect Fuxi and Nuwa as the ancestors of the surname, and they do not coincide with their son's surname Tang.

Population distribution:

During the pre-Qin period, people with the Tang surname were mainly active in the Central Plains. During the Han Dynasty, the Tang surname had moved east to Jiangsu and south to northern Vietnam. During the Tang Dynasty, the Tang surname was distributed to Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan and other places with the second migration southward from the Central Plains.

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 120,000 people with the surname Tang, accounting for about 0.12% of the country's population, ranking 98th. The province with the largest number of people with the surname Tang is Jiangxi, accounting for about 36.7% of the total population with the surname Tang in the country. The distribution across the country is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan, and Henan. The whole country has formed a Tang surname gathering area centered on Gansu and Jiangsu in the east.