Surname:Zeng; origin?

Source 1:

The surname Zeng originated from Si.

1.Huang Di's 25th son is called Chang Yi, Chang Yi gave birth to Zhuan Xu, Zhuan Xu gave birth to Jiu Ji Ji, Jiu Ji gives birth to Yu. Jiu Ji son's wife is said to be father and son of Yu, then Emperor Shun gave Yu Si surname. The Zeng Ren tribe, who invented the retort, is a branch of Si tribe. When Yu succeeded in ruling the water, Shun abdicated the throne to Yu. Yu's son, Kai, founded the Xia Dynasty, the first hereditary dynasty in Chinese history, with the state name Xia Houzhi.

2. The Xia Dynasty established its capital at Yangcheng, which is the present-day city of Yuzhou in Henan Province. King Shaokang of Xia named his second son Qu Lie as the Viscount of Caille and founded the State of Zeng in Caille (present-day Xiangcheng Town, Laning County, Linyi City, Shandong Province).

3. In ancient times, it was customary to give a surname to a fiefdom, and Qu Lie was henceforth called Zeng. The state of Zeng, which was not very powerful, survived the Xia, Shang, and Zhou Dynasties until the Spring and Autumn Period, when it was destroyed by the state of Ju in 567 B.C. The state of Zeng, which was not very powerful, was destroyed in the Spring and Autumn Period. With the pain of losing his country, Prince Wu ran away to the neighboring state of Lu. His descendants adopted the original state name "Zeng" as their family name, removing the radical "邑" (阝) to indicate that they had left the old city and did not forget their ancestors, and were called "Zeng" (曾).

4. The Zeng family name has long been passed down from Prince Wu, a descendant of Yu, who was a member of the same family 4,000 years ago, so there is a saying that "there are no two Zengs in the world".

Source 2:

The minority Zeng surname. There are a small number of Zeng surnames among the Jing, Yi, Tujia, Buyi, Manchu, Miao, and Li ethnic groups, but most of them have Han Chinese parentage.

Expanded Information:

Classification of surnames

1. Single surnames

Single surname (dān xìng): a surname with only one character. As opposed to compound surnames. For example: "Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen, Zhi, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Zhou, Wu, Xu, Sun, Ma, Hu, Zhu, Guo, He, Luo, Gao, Lin. According to statistics, there are 6,931 single surnames in China.

2, compound surnames

Compound surnames (fū xìng), refers to surnames composed of two or more Chinese characters. For example: Ouyang, Sima, Shangguan, Ximen. There are more sources of compound surnames, such as official names, fiefs, occupations, etc. Some of them originated from ethnic minorities who changed their surnames.

3. The Dictionary of Chinese Surnames shows that there are 9,012 double-character surnames, 4,850 three-character surnames, 2,276 four-character surnames, 541 five-character surnames, 142 six-character surnames, 39 seven-character surnames, 14 eight-character surnames, and 7 nine-character surnames recorded in Chinese by all Chinese nationalities in ancient and modern times

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