Zong / Tsung
The contemporary Zong population is about 220,000, representing roughly 0.018% of China's population and ranking 268th. Hebei, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Henan, and Shandong together account for about 55%, with Hebei alone accounting for about 13%.
The Zong surname has four lineages: descendants of the Four Peaks adopted the office title Zongbo; the Zi-surnamed branch adopted the name of the ancestor Bo Zong; the Yan-surnamed branch took its name from the Spring and Autumn state of Zong; and the Gui-surnamed branch came from the ruling clan of the state of Chen.
The Zong surname's ancestral commanderies include Nanyang, Jingzhao, Hedong, and Pengcheng. Its hall names include Nanyang, Hedong, Jingzhao, Pengcheng, Zhongjian, and Anxi.
During the Song dynasty, about 27,000 people bore the Zong surname, chiefly in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Henan, Anhui, and Fujian, with Zhejiang accounting for about 29%. During the Ming dynasty, the population was about 42,000, chiefly in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Shandong, with Jiangsu accounting for about 36%.
Zong Ze (1060-1128), courtesy name Rulin, was a political and military figure at the transition from the Northern to the Southern Song. In the first year of Jingkang he served as commander-in-chief of the Hebei volunteer forces, appointed Yue Fei as a general, repeatedly defeated Jin forces, and cried “Cross the River” three times before his death.
The Zhongwu Hall genealogy records that the founding ancestor Zong Daopu took refuge south of the Yangtze during the turmoil of the Five Dynasties and settled at Shibantang in Shaxi, Yiwu, Zhejiang. His eighth-generation descendant Zong Ze was banished to Zhijin Ward in Dantu, Runzhou, during the Xuanhe era of the Northern Song, and later descendants dispersed across Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and other areas.
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