The origin of Fang surname

The Fang family has a long history of nearly 4700 years, which originated from the family. The eleventh grandson of Emperor Yan of Shennong and the eldest son of the eighth emperor are called Lei. When the Yellow Emperor hacked Chiyou, Lei Yingong was sealed in Fangshan (now Yuzhou City, Henan Province), and Lei Feng was behind Fangshan, which was called Fang. Later generations took the land as their surname and divided it into Lei surname and Fang surname. Originated from Ji surname, from the late Western Zhou Dynasty, when he was a doctor, he was a general named Ji. He was very brave. He was ordered to travel south, put down the rebellion in Man Jing, and made great contributions to Zhou Shi Zhongxing. Therefore, many genealogies of Fang surname in later generations adopted Chow Tai Fook's statement after Fang Shu.

According to the name of Lei Sun, the descendant of the ancient emperor Shennong, it was named after a feudal city. According to historical records such as "Customs" and "Shiben", it is said that Lei, the son of Shennong in ancient times, made great contributions in the battle between the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou, and was sealed in Fangshan (now in the north-central part of Henan, starting from Longmen in Luoyang in the west and extending to Songshan in Mi County in the east, stretching over Yichuan, Yanshi, Gongyi, Dengfeng, Xingyang and Mi County. Because Lei Fang's family sealed Fangshan Mountain with merit in ancient Huangdi, and Huangdi's base was mainly in Henan, this branch of Lei Fang's family originated from Songshan Mountain in Henan.

Origin 2: from Ji surname

(1) from the official residence of the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the official title as the surname. Fang Shixiang, according to legend, was a good witch doctor after Mo Mu in the Yellow Emperor period. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, a special official was set up, which was subordinate to the Xia Department and was responsible for expelling plagues and ghosts. According to the ancient book Shimonoseki, Zhou Li, Fang is homesick, with bearskin in his palm, four eyes of gold, mysterious clothes and Zhu Shang, holding Levin shield, which is beneficial and difficult to do, and the room is used to drive away the epidemic. In the late Spring and Autumn Period, with people's gradual understanding of many natural phenomena, Fang's witchcraft and medicine gradually separated and gradually opposed. Fang's official position gradually disappeared at the end of the Warring States period. Among Fang's descendants, those who take their ancestors' official titles as their surnames are called Fang. Later, it was simplified to a single surname Fang and Xiang.

(2) From the late Western Zhou Dynasty, after the doctor, its ancestors were named. According to historical records such as Yuan He's Compilation, A Brief History of Tongzhi Imperial Clan, during the reign of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a physician named Ji, who made great contributions to the conquest, especially the suppression of the rebellion in South Man Jing. To this end, the cube is Luo (now Luoyang, Henan). Among the descendants of my uncle, some take their ancestral surname as their surname, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and history calls it authentic.

Source 3: official position

(1) from the Western Zhou Dynasty official alchemist, belonging to the official title as the surname. The alchemist, an official title established in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, was subordinate to the Taiwei government office and was in charge of the prison proceedings in the fief of the royal children and officials. Sometimes it is necessary to mediate disputes between fiefs. It is recorded in the classic "Zhou Li Qiu Guan's Sex" that sex is in charge of the aristocratic family in the capital, and he listens to his words in prison proceedings and asks for the death penalty. Among the descendants of alchemists, those who take their ancestors' official titles as their surnames are called Fang.

(2) Fang Bo, an official in the pre-Qin period, was named after his official position. In ancient times, the leader of a vassal was Fang Bo. From the Warring States period, the chief executive of a state under the county system was called Fang Bo, and it was not until after the Eastern Han Dynasty that he was renamed the secretariat, but people still respected him as Fang Bo. In the Tang Dynasty, people called the visiting and observing ambassadors who were instructed by the emperor to visit Fang Bo as visiting ambassadors. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, he was called Fang Bo. Generally speaking, in the past dynasties, the chief executive of an administrative region was generally called Fang Bo. Among Fang Bo's descendants, there are those who take their ancestors' official titles as their surnames, which are called Fang Bo's. Later, it was simplified to a single surname Fang.

(3) It comes from Fang Shang's family, an official of the Qin Dynasty, and belongs to the official title of surname. Fang Shang family is an official position established in Qin Dynasty, also known as Fang Shang, Shang Feng and Shang Feng. The highest official is called the Knights Order of Fang, whose main responsibility is to be responsible for the production of imperial vessels. It is a very important functional organization. Shangfangling is under the jurisdiction of Tianguan government department. Under it, there are two disciples, two disciples and six disciples, and there is a separate craftsman department with several craftsmen and service history. Among the descendants of the Fangshang family, there are those who take their ancestors' official titles as surnames, which are called the Fangshang family. In later provinces, they were simplified to the single surnames of Fang Shi and Staff Sergeant.

Origin 4: from Weng's surname

From the late Tang Dynasty, Weng Gan, a descendant of Weng He, a native of Putian, Fujian, became a teacher. Belong to the elders and give the surname as the surname. Changing Weng's surname is another source of Fang's surname. Weng surname is also a branch of Ji surname. According to Yuan He Shi Bian and a series of records, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the branch were sealed in Wengshan (now the east of Dinghai County, Zhejiang Province), and later took the city name Weng as their surname. During the period of Tang Dezong, a branch of Weng's family, He Gong, entered Pupu from the Central Plains, and Buju Puyang Xingfuli (now North Gaozhu Village in Putian) was the ancestor, which was introduced into the fifth generation and gave birth to Weng Gan.

Weng Gandu was an official in Fujian (936). He married Chen and gave birth to six sons, namely Hong, Jiang, Weng, Fang, Gong and Wang. His six sons are all scholars, known as Liugui Lianfang in history. The eldest son is thick, and the word "bo" starts. He was a scholar in the first year of Stegosaurus in Song Taizu, and Yuan Wailang was the official of Libu. The second son, Gong Chu, the word Bo Qian, was a scholar in the second year of Yongxi, Song Taizong, and the official worshipped the state's Facao; Sanzi is changeable, and the word is "Jane". In the first year of Stegosaurus in Song Taizu, he was listed as a scholar with his eldest brother, and he was a second lieutenant in Jiannan. The fourth son was a scholar in Kaibao for six years, and his official position was Cao Chang, and later he changed his surname to Fang. The fifth son is honest, with the word "Job". Song Taizu Kaibao has been in the same column as the four brothers for six years, and the official is in Dali, supervising the empire; Six sons retire, and the word "Bo Rong". In the second year, Song Yongxi was listed as a scholar with his second brother, and the official worshipped the court and scattered the lang, and the few States passed the sentence. These six brothers are all listed scholars, and their status is very noble, and they have the reputation of "Six Gui Lian Square".

Origin 5: from Manchu

Belong to Chinese culture, change the surname to surname. According to the historical record "Manchu Eight Banners Tongzhi Family with a Slight Surname", Fang Jiashi, Manchu, was taken by the Wuhuan Department of Xianbei in Liaodong at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then gradually evolved into a jurchen in Liaodong, living in Fengtian (now Shenyang, Liaoning). After the middle of the Qing dynasty, the Han surname was the square.

Origin 6: Originated from other ethnic minorities.

Originated from other ethnic minorities, among the Dai, Hui, Tujia, North Korea, Gaoshan, Zhuang and other ethnic minorities, Fang changed his surname from Han to Japanese. Most of their sources come from the policy of imprisonment implemented by the central government in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the movement of returning to the motherland passed down from generation to generation.

Migration and distribution of Fang surname

Fang is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, ranking sixty-third in today's surname list, belonging to the big surname series, with a population of about 5.046 million, accounting for about 0.3 1% of the total population in China. The Fang family originated in Henan province, and later some Fang families in southern China became aristocratic families, all of which were the result of Henan Fang family's southward migration.

In the pre-Qin period, Fang was active in Henan, but he was not. It was not until the end of the Western Han Dynasty that Fangdong moved to northern Anhui that it began to develop and form a large family. During the Tang Dynasty, Fang's surname had been distributed in the Central Plains, East China and South China. Fang's surname has always been centered on the Central Plains and immigrated to the South many times. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Fang's footprints appeared in Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and other places, and he entered Taiwan Province Province in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 450,000 people named Fang, accounting for 0.58% of the national population, and the surname ranked 35th. At that time, the province with the largest Fang surname was Fujian, accounting for about 37% of the total population of the country. The distribution of Fang surnames in China is mainly concentrated in Fujian, Anhui and Zhejiang, accounting for 78% of the total population of Fang surnames in China, followed by Hunan and Jiangxi, and the Fang surnames in the two provinces account for 12% of the total population of Fang surnames. The whole country has formed a gathering place for surnames of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and Hunan.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 440,000 people surnamed Fang, accounting for 0.48% of the national population, and it was the 48th surname in the Ming Dynasty. In the past 600 years, the national net population growth rate was 20%, and the population growth in China almost stopped. At that time, the distribution of Fang surnames in China was mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Anhui, accounting for about 55% of the total population of Fang surnames, followed by Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Fujian and Hubei, with 30% of Fang surnames in these four provinces. Zhejiang is the largest province with Fang surname, accounting for about 36% of the total population of Fang surname in China.

During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Fang surname changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated from north to southeast and from south to north. The distribution characteristics of Fang surname scattered all over the country with Zhejiang as the center have been re-formed, and the population center of Fang surname has moved from southeast to north.

The contemporary population of Fang surname has reached more than 465,438+10,000, which is the 63rd largest surname in China, accounting for about 0.33% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of surnames in China increased from 440,000 to 4.3 million, an increase of nearly 10 times. Today, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Anhui, Zhejiang and Henan provinces, accounting for 37% of the total population, followed by Guangdong, Hubei, Liaoning, Fujian and Hunan, which account for 33% of the total population. Anhui is the largest province with Fang surname, accounting for 15% of the total population of Fang surname. Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong have formed two Fang surname gathering areas throughout the country.

The distribution frequency of Fang surname in the crowd shows that Fang surname is one of the more common surnames in East China, Southeast China and Yunnan. In most of Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan Province, southeastern Henan, eastern Hubei, eastern Guangdong, southern Guangxi, most of Yunnan, western Liaoning and other places, the proportion of the local population is generally above 0.45%, and the central region is above 1.7%, accounting for about12.5 of the country's total area. In northern Anhui, eastern and southern Henan, western Hubei, northern Chongqing, northern and southeastern Hunan, central Guangdong, most of Hainan, western Guangxi, eastern and northwestern Yunnan, southwestern Gansu, most of Liaoning, eastern Heiji and southeastern Inner Mongolia, the proportion of the local population is generally between 0.3% and 0.45%, and the coverage area accounts for about12.7 of the national total area.