Bing / Ping
The surname 邴 is pronounced bǐng. Its principal lines include descendants who took their surnames from the fiefs of the Jin official Bing Yu and the Qi official Bing Zhu, as well as a Southern and Northern Dynasties line in which 丙 was used interchangeably with 邴.
The Guliang Commentary records, “The Earl of Zheng sent Yuan to return Bing.” The Treatise on Clans in the Comprehensive Records states that 邴 was also written 丙 and that descendants of the Jin official Bing Yu adopted the name of his fief, Bing, as their surname.
The surname’s ancestral commanderies were Lu and Pingyang. Its hall name, Caoshang Hall, refers to the Eastern Han figure Bing Yuan’s high regard for moral integrity.
The Bing surname is found in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, and Xinjiang, with additional communities in Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Tianjin, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Singapore.
Notable figures include the Zhao architect Bing Fu, the Western Han chancellor Bing Ji, and the Eastern Han scholar Bing Yuan. Bing Fu directed the reconstruction of palace buildings, Bing Ji served as chancellor under Emperor Xuan, and Bing Yuan lived for a time in Liaodong before joining Cao Cao.
Recorded genealogies include the late Qing woodblock movable-type Revised Genealogy of the Bing Clan of Jilin, the Qing-era Genealogy of the Bing Clan of Dongge, Shandong, and the Revised Genealogy of the Bing Clan of Yanli Village, Shandong. One Laixi-Laiyang generation-name sequence is “De Wan Ji Qi Xing Long Zuo Zhan Yong Chang.”
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