Peng / Peng
The surname 朋 is pronounced péng and may also be pronounced bēn. It is outside the top 1,000 surnames in mainland China and ranks 1,269th in Taiwan, with its principal distribution in Anqing, Anhui; Yunxi County in Shiyan, Hubei; and Taiwan.
One lineage of the Peng surname originated from the Jiang clan and descended from Xi Peng, a minister of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period, taking an ancestor's personal name as the surname. The Jiang-lineage Peng clan honors Xi Peng as its surname founder.
Qixing Tong records that the Peng surname descended from Xi Peng, a minister of Qi in the Spring and Autumn period, and also names Peng Shui, Peng Shan, and the Song-era Peng Jiuwan.
The Peng clan's ancestral commanderies are Lu Commandery and Taihu. Its hall names include Taihu Hall, Lu Commandery Hall, and Sanshou Hall; Lu Commandery Hall is also known as Chaobo Hall, Hufang Hall, Luzhou Hall, Lujiang Hall, and Hefei Hall.
In the 34th year of the Qianlong reign (1769), Peng Fakang moved with his family from Taihu, Anhui, to the Shangjin area of Yunxi, Hubei, because of famine. His descendants later moved into the Guan Fang Township area, and he is regarded as the founding migrant ancestor of the Yunxi Peng clan.
The Anhui Taihu Peng Genealogy comprises eighteen volumes plus one introductory volume, compiled by Peng Yixun and Peng Yisong and printed in nineteen woodblock movable-type fascicles by Sanshou Hall in 1946. A modern mimeographed Hubei Yunxi Peng Genealogy also survives, with its author undetermined.
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