Jing / Jing
Jing is a relatively rare surname among present-day Chinese surnames. It is a Han Chinese surname, accounting for about 0.01% of the Han population nationwide; Sichuan has a relatively large concentration, accounting for about 63% of the national Jing-surname population.
The Jing surname is associated with Ji-surname, Gui-surname, and surname-change origins. One branch descends from Ji Jingkang, a great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and took the ancestor's name as its surname. Another descends from Chen Wan, son of Duke Li of Chen in the Spring and Autumn period, whose posthumous title was Jing. In the Qing dynasty, Gou Huanan was also ordered to change his surname to Jing.
Members of the Jing lineage are distributed in Guangxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Hunan, Henan, Sichuan, Gansu, Chongqing, Shandong, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Anhui, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Vancouver, Canada. Multiple migration records are preserved in places such as Nanbu and Langzhong in Sichuan.
One Jing branch in Biyun Village, Baiya Town, Langzhong, Sichuan, preserves the generation sequence “Si Tian Wan Yong Deng Ting Xian Yuan Liang Ming De Da Ji Chang”; another preserves “Fan Wei Da Jun Chong Zi Fang Chun Yu Bao Yong Guang Tian Chao Ting Wen Zhang Xian.” A branch in the Muchengsi area preserves “Peng Yuan Si Jun Shao Da Wen Yong Zheng Bo Cheng Ji.”
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