Feng / Feng
The Feng surname has two major origins: Gui and Ji, with histories of at least 3,100 years and more than 2,600 years respectively. Contemporary Han people with the Feng surname generally regard it as originating from the Ji surname and descending from King Wen of Zhou.
One Gui-origin branch arose from the Dongyi Guiyi and its Heber clan branch. Feng Yi's descendants established the Fengyi state in Dali, Shaanxi; in the early Zhou period it split into the states of Hezong, Feng, and Peng, whose descendants adopted the state names as surnames. The Ji-origin branch was connected with Fengyi, where Changqing received his fief, after which his descendants adopted the fief's name as their surname.
Feng Jianzi, a minister of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn period, is the earliest recorded notable figure of the Gui-origin Feng surname.
Before the Spring and Autumn period, the Feng surname was mainly active in the Wei River basin of Shaanxi. During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, it spread to Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, and Shandong. By the Tang and Song periods it had spread throughout China, and it first entered Taiwan in the early Qing period.
During the Song dynasty, the Feng surname was concentrated mainly in Sichuan and Henan. During the Ming dynasty, it was mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Shandong, and Guangdong, with its population center shifting from the north toward the southeast.
In addition to Han people with the Feng surname, records describe Feng surnames among Xiongnu people in the early Han, Baekje people during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Li people of southern Liangguang during the Song, Yuan, and Ming periods, and Manchu and Mongolian people who adopted the surname during the Qing dynasty.
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