Zhuang / Chuang
The Zhuang surname mainly derives from the Mi, Zi, and Ji surnames, associated respectively with descendants of King Zhuang of Chu, Duke Zhuang of Song, and Duke Zhuang of Lu; the surname was often formed from an ancestral posthumous title.
Records from the Spring and Autumn period connect the surname with descendants of the rulers of Song, Chu, and Lu. During the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, it was changed to Yan to avoid taboo, and some Yan families restored the Zhuang surname during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties.
The Zhuang clan's commanderies include Tianshui, Kuaiji, and Donghai. Its principal hall names include Nanhua, Wuqiang, Jinxiu, Tianshui, Kuaiji, and Donghai.
Before the Qin dynasty, the surname was mainly active in Shandong, Hubei, and Hunan; after the Qin and Han, it spread to Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and elsewhere. In the late Tang, Zhuang Sen entered Fujian with Wang Shenzhi, and in the early Qing, Zhuang families from Fujian and Guangdong entered Taiwan.
Zhuang Zhou, also known as Zhuangzi, was a Warring States thinker from Meng in the state of Song. Zhuang Xia was a Southern Song minister and scholar who rose to Vice Minister of War and Hanlin academician-in-attendance.
Genealogical records state that Zhuang Di, the founding migrant ancestor of the Jiangyin Zhuang clan, moved south from Huaiyou during the Jingkang era of the Song dynasty and settled in Tongli east of Jiangyin; his descendants later spread across Yunting, Huangtang, Yuecheng, and other places.
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