Teng / Teng
There are approximately 780,000 people surnamed Teng today, concentrated mainly in Guangxi, Hunan, and Shandong. Guangxi is the largest province-level region, accounting for about 35% of the Teng population.
The Teng surname has two origins: one is attributed to descendants of the Yellow Emperor who received the surname; the other derives from the Ji surname, when King Cheng of Zhou enfeoffed Cuo Shuxiu, the fourteenth son of King Wen, at Teng, after which descendants took the state name as their surname.
The Records of the Grand Historian states that fourteen of the Yellow Emperor's twenty-five sons received surnames; in the twelve surnames of the Yellow Emperor's sons recorded in the Discourses of the States, Teng ranks sixth.
The Nanyang Commandery Teng genealogies of Tangxi, Jinhua, Zhejiang, use Nanyang Commandery in their title and the hall name Zhongde Hall; the Datang Teng genealogy of Lanxi, Zhejiang, uses the hall name Xile Hall.
Before the Qin dynasty, the Teng surname was mainly active in Shandong. During the Han and Jin periods, it had crossed the Yangtze into southeastern China and the Hunan-Hubei region. Shandong was the largest concentration in the Song period, while Fujian was the largest in the Ming period.
The Wuxi Teng genealogy records that the founding migrant ancestor Fu moved from Dongyang to Suzhou at the end of the Song dynasty; later descendants moved to Jinling, and Wugong settled in Wuxi.
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The Jian'ou Teng genealogy records that the founding migrant ancestor Pingzhang entered Fujian at the end of the Southern Song, settled in Hegongli of Ouyi, Jianning Prefecture, and that his descendants multiplied and divided into eastern and western branches.
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