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Peng (Péng) surname has three sources:

1, from the Zhuang family, took the country as the surname after Emperor Zhuan Xu had Zhuang Keng, the third son of great-grandson Lu Zhong. According to "A Brief History of Clans" and "Tracing the Origin of Surnames", Zhuan Xu Emperor had great-great grandson Lu Zhong, and Lu Zhong's third son Mi Mingkeng was sealed in Pengdi (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province) to establish the Great Guo Peng, which was called Peng Zu in history, and his grandson named Shi Peng in history.

2. Judging from the big surname, one of the eight surnames after the fire official Zhu Rong is Peng. According to "Guoyu", "After Zhu Rong, eight surnames, Ji, Dong, Peng, Bald, Female, Inverted, Cao and Qian, all disappeared in Zhou." That is to say, Peng's surname is Zhu Rong, one of the eight surnames.

After Han Dynasty, everyone else changed their surnames. According to the research of surnames, there were Hu, Xiqiang, Nanman, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Miao, Bai, Yao, Tujia, Kucong, Yi and Lahu in Qing Dynasty.

Ancestor: Peng Zu. Peng is a descendant of Emperor Zhuan Xu. In ancient times, Emperor Zhuan Xu had a great-grandson named Ng Wui, and Ng Wui was a fire official in Di Ku. Lu Zhong, the son of Ng Wui, married the daughter of Ghost Fang. Lu Zhong's wife failed to give birth to a son after three years of pregnancy. In desperation, Lu Zhong had to cut open the lower part of his wife's left rib with a sharp knife and gave birth to three sons, and then cut open the lower part of his right rib and gave birth to three more sons. The third son of six sons? Later, Geng was sealed in Da Peng, one of the vassal states of Shang Dynasty. Peng Keng is a famous longevity person. It is said that he lived for more than 800 years and experienced Xia and Shang Dynasties, so he was also called Peng Zu. According to the custom at that time, his descendants regarded the country as Peng's surname and respected Peng Zu as the ancestor of Peng's surname.

Migration distribution

The vassal state in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, that is, today's Tongshan in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, was the birthplace of Peng's surname, and the spread and migration of Peng's surname came from this branch. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Da Peng lost his country. At this time, a man named Peng moved to Nanyang, Henan. One of them, Peng Zhongshuang, went from Nanyang to Chu as a doctor, which was the beginning of the migration of Hunan and Hubei in Xiang Peng. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chu and Han fought for hegemony, and Xuzhou, the capital of Chu State, was at war. A family named Peng moved from Pengcheng to Longxi in order to escape the war. Hou Pengxuan, Changping (now Xihua, Henan Province) in Han Dynasty, moved his family to Huaiyang, Henan Province, and later developed into a noble family in Huaiyang. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, due to the war and the weekly official transfer, people named Peng moved south on a large scale. At this time, historical data show that people surnamed Peng are active in Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Fujian and other provinces. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Northern Qi Dynasty, Peng Jing, the eighth grandson of Peng Xuan, moved to Yingzhou (now Hejian, Hebei Province) and Zhong Sun, the ninth grandson, moved to Anding (now north of Jingchuan County, Gansu Province). During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Peng Gouyun, the son of Peng Jing, moved to Yichun, Yuanzhou, and his surname Peng began to call himself a native of Jiangxi. Sun Pengxuan, the fifth son of Peng Gouyun, was born in Shankou Village, Jishui, Luling (now Ji 'an, Jiangxi) because of his official position. Other Peng surnames moved from Jiangxi to Fujian. Among them, Peng Shiran's descendants moved to Xiangxi, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Peng Xuan VI Sun Pengsi moved to Fenyi County. Sun Pengyan, the ninth son of Siyuan, lived in Pukou Village, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province in 2000, and was the ancestor of Peng surname in Guangdong Province. Later, it was divided into Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, and developed into a noble family in Fujian and Guangdong. Among them, Sun Pengjunda, Peng Yannian's third son and descendant, moved to Meizhou, Guangdong Province in the 16th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1383), and was the ancestor of Peng's surname in Meizhou. It is also reported that Peng's surname is also one of the surnames of people who moved to Sophora japonica in Hongdong in the Ming Dynasty. 145 people moved to Henan, Gansu, Shandong, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan and other places. Since the Qing Dynasty, some Peng families in Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province Province, and some Peng families moved to Southeast Asia, Europe and America. So far, Peng's surname has spread all over the country. Today, Peng is widely distributed, especially in Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei and other provinces. Peng in these three provinces accounts for about 49% of the Han population in China. Peng is the 39th surname in China with a large population, accounting for 0.49% of the Han population in China.