Jing / Jing
The recorded origins of the Jing surname include Ji-surname Jing Hou; descendants of Gongshu Duan who changed the surname while fleeing danger; descendants of Ying-surname Jing Fang who changed it to avoid persecution; descendants of Mi-surname Liu Xi who adopted an ancestral style name; and sinicized surname changes among groups including the Ewenki.
The surname Jing is recorded in the Clan Records sections of the Zheng, Xu, and Qing Comprehensive Annals. The Research on Surnames records a Jing Hou of Wei, considers the Jing surname to descend from him, and places its commandery origin at Pingyang.
The principal commandery origins are Yingyang and Pingyang. Main ancestral hall names are Yingyang Hall, Pingyang Hall, Ciyan Hall, and Yuren Hall.
The main places of origin were Pingyang around present-day Linfen, Shanxi, and Yingyang around present-day Zhengzhou, Henan. After the Song dynasty, migration began toward Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and other southern areas because of the southward movement of the Song court and warfare, eventually spreading nationwide.
Extant genealogical works include Genealogy of the Jing Clan of Shangyu, Zhejiang, and Genealogy of the Jing Clan of Guyu Yiting, Zhejiang. The Baoying and Jiangdu branch in Yangzhou uses the generation sequence “忠孝寿年宽仁守正,” while the Quanzhou branch in Guilin, Guangxi, uses “才承继本孝友.”
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