Is the surname Peng an aristocratic surname?

The surname Peng is not an aristocratic surname.

Xiong Pengming was a fierce general of the Chu State. At that time, he defeated the Jin army in one fell swoop in the Battle of Liangtang, and finally achieved great achievements, so his descendants commemorated him, so Some descendants took his name "Peng" and changed their surname to Peng, which eventually formed another branch of the Peng surname.

Distribution of the surname Peng

In the pre-Qin period, the active area of ??the surname Peng was from southern Shaanxi and Gansu in the west, to central Sichuan in the southwest, to western Zhejiang in the southeast, to southeastern Shandong in the northeast, and in the north It enters Henan and borders the vast area of ????the Xiangjiang River in the south. With this active area as the center, the surname Peng spread to all surrounding areas. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, the surname Peng was already distributed throughout the country. In the early Qing Dynasty, people surnamed Peng immigrated to Taiwan for the first time.