What is the origin of the surname Ouyang?

The surname Ouyang can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty. The surname Ouyang comes from the surname Si. The Xia monarch Si Shaokang granted his concubine Wuyu Yu in Kuaiji. When the Yue king Wujiang was destroyed by Chu, Wujiang's son Ti was granted the title of Ouyang Tinghou in Wucheng. , so his descendants were named "Ou" or "Ouyang".

Ouyang is a compound surname. Its distant ancestors are more than 4,000 years old, and it has been more than 2,300 years since they got their surname. "New Book of Tang: Genealogy Table of Prime Ministers" says that the Ouyang family was Wuyu, the concubine of Si Shaokang, the monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and was granted the title of Kuaiji. This was the early Yue Kingdom.

When the Yue Kingdom spread to Wujiang, it was destroyed by the Chu Kingdom. Wujiang's son, named Ti, was granted the title of Ouyang Tinghou in Wucheng Ouyu Mountain (now Wuxing County, Zhejiang Province), so they took Ouyang as their surname, and their descendants were called Ouyang or Ou.

In the pre-Qin period, people with the surname Ouyang were mainly active in Zhejiang. Entering the Qin and Han dynasties, the Ouyang surname spread across Jiangsu, Shandong, and Hebei in the north, Jiangxi in the west, and Fujian in the south. By the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Ouyang surname had reached Shaanxi and Sichuan in the west and Hunan in the south. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were two large-scale immigrants from the Central Plains. A large number of people with the Ouyang surname entered Hunan, Fujian, and Guangdong and Guangxi. In the early Qing Dynasty, people with the Ouyang surname entered Taiwan. Later, some people with the Ouyang surname moved to Singapore, Thailand, European and American countries, and lived in Southeast Asia and other countries.

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In history, the Ouyang family was once forced to change to the single surname Yang.

According to the historical document "Ningyuan County Chronicle", at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, farmers across the country revolted against the decadent Yuan Dynasty government. At that time, there was an insurgent army led by the Ouyang family. In the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368), Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, first tried to stabilize the world and intended to recruit the Ouyang rebel army. However, the Ouyang family's entire army refused to surrender. Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was furious and ordered the Ouyang family to be exterminated. The Ouyang family was forced to disperse and flee, and changed their surname to "Yang" to avoid disaster.

It was not until the later reign of Zhu Houzhao, Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty (1506-1521 AD), that the Jinshi in the third year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty (1508 AD) were promoted to the right deputy capital censor and governor Yingtian (today's Jiangsu Province). Yang Duo, a famous minister of the ten prefectures including Nanjing, invented the strategy of "spreading people into the ground", which greatly increased the taxes of the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty was overjoyed. Yang Duo then took the opportunity to petition for the restoration of his original surname. Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty issued an edict. Yes, from then on the Ouyang family was able to restore the Ouyang surname.

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