Pi / P'i
Pi is pronounced pí and ranks 85th in the Song-dynasty edition of the Hundred Family Surnames. Today it is concentrated mainly in Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hebei, and Shandong, and occurs among groups including the Han, Yao, and Lisu.
One branch descends from the Zhou minister Fan Zhongpi; descendants adopted either the name of his fief or his courtesy name as their surname and later became prominent in Tianshui Commandery. Another branch descends from the Zheng official Zipi, whose descendants adopted his courtesy name and later formed the Xiapi Pi lineage.
The Pi surname's commandery associations include Tianshui and Xiapi. Hall names include Tianshui Hall and Xiapi Hall, both named for commanderies, as well as Lumen Hall in areas including Honghu, Xiantao, Qianjiang, and Jiayu in Hubei, and Guilin Hall in You County, Hunan.
The Yiyang-Yuanjiang branch in Hunan migrated from Ji'an Prefecture in Jiangxi to the Yuanjiang-Yiyang area in the second year of the Jingtai reign, regarded Pi Shunyi as its founding ancestor, used the hall name Tianshui Hall, and later expanded across Hunan and Hubei.
Notable figures include the Northern Wei general Pi Baozi, the Northern Qi general Pi Jinghe, the Tang writer Pi Rixiu, the Qing classical scholar Pi Xirui, and Pi Dingjun, a founding lieutenant general of the People's Republic of China.
The Yiyang-Yuanjiang Pi lineage in Hunan had no generation-name sequence for the eight generations before arriving in Hunan. From the ninth generation onward, it used: “You Zhi Ru Zong Yuan; Xi Ming Guang Zuo Shu; Dun Ben Xiao Xian Liang; De Mao Xian You Yuan; Jia Rong Zu Ze Chang; Jing Wen Neng Jian Guo; Wei Wu Ke An Bang; Yan Yi Yi Mou Hou; Hong Tu Shi Yong Chang.”
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