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The origin of "Huang surname"

Huang Chu wins the surname, which is named after the name of the fief. Is one of the top ten surnames in China. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was the State of Huang (now west of Huangchuan County, Henan Province), which was said to be the fief of the descendants of the ancient emperor Zhuan Xu. In 648 BC, it was destroyed by the state of Chu, and its grandson took Huang as his surname, that is, Huang. In addition, in the Tang Dynasty, the surnames of ethnic minorities, such as Huang and Huang Shaogao, were also descendants of Huang. Noble families lived in Jiangxia County (now southeast of Yunmeng County, Hubei Province). There are the Prime Minister of the Western Han Dynasty, Qiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous players Huang Zhong and Huang Gai of the Three Kingdoms, Huang Chao, a farmer who left righteousness in the late Tang Dynasty, Huang Quan, a painter of the Five Dynasties, Huang Tingjian, a writer and calligrapher of the Song Dynasty, Huang, a painter of the Yuan Dynasty, and Huang Zongxi, a historian of the Qing Dynasty.