Looking for a surname in Shandong

People with the same surname gathered in Jinxiang, Liangshan and Wenshang all respect Gong Xun as their ancestor. They first moved from Zhou Pu, Shanxi Province to Liangshan, Shandong Province during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1403 or 1408). "Gong Xun moved to Shandong and lived in the Black Tiger Temple in the northwest of Wen Yi. He has two sons. The first one is called Xunfu, and the second one is called Xungui. Later, the ancestor moved to Jinxiang County with his second son, while the mother and eldest son stayed in Wen Yi. According to the Records of Jinxiang County, Xuande Wu Geng (AD 1430), the eldest son passed on Liangshan and Wenshang, and the second son passed on Jinxiang. "

The search for surnames gathered in Feixian County probably belongs to another branch with a history of more than 500 years. The warlords' scuffle at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty made Shandong, Henan and other places become the hardest hit areas, resulting in a sharp drop in the local population and barren land. In order to develop production rapidly and increase the revenue of the national treasury, the Ming government began to practice the system of reclaiming farmland (military, civilian and commercial) in the third year of Hongwu (AD 1370), and implemented the policy of "lenient immigration" to move people with narrow land and large population to sparsely populated land for farming. Shanxi is an important place to move out and Shandong is an important place to move in. "Most people in Feixian County will tell such a story: In the early Ming Dynasty, due to years of war, seven chickens and dogs in Linyi were silent and deserted. Our ancestors, together with many people, were gathered by the court under a big locust tree in Xiquewo Village, Hongdong County, and left their homes to find surnames in Shihuibu Village, Fangcheng Town, Feixian County ... "By the end of 2006, there were more than 2,800 people looking for surnames in Shihuibu Village. "

There are also some people looking for surnames in the three northeastern provinces, mostly in Muling, Hulan, Mishan and Gannan in Heilongjiang, Huadian, Jiaohe and Liuhe in Jilin, Kaiyuan in Liaoning and Sanlibao in Dalian. "Most of them moved from Shandong to escape the war from the 1920s to the early liberation. Now there are several families with the same surname in Taipei. Their ancestral home is Feixian County. After the reform and opening up, they have returned home many times to visit relatives and worship their ancestors. "