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The origin of "Qiang"
The surname Qiang (Qi?ng) has three origins: 1. It comes from the surname Jiang, which is an ancient Descendants of Emperor Yan. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Gongsun Qiang among the Dukes of Qi State. His descendants took their ancestor's name as their surname and called them Qiang. Qiang Ji, the official of the Zheng State, was the grandson of Gongsun Qiang, and everyone from then on had the surname Qiang. 2. The clan surnames in history are descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor was named Yu Jiang, and his descendants took the surname "Jiang". Because "Jiang" was connected with "Qiang" in ancient times, the surname was later changed to "Qiang". 3. It is a member of an ethnic minority. For example, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, the descendants of Fu Jian of the former Qin Dynasty had the surname Qiang. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Shu Kingdom had Qiang Duan, and his descendants lived in Lueyang (now Qin'an County, Gansu Province), also named Qiang.
Migration distribution
The surname Qiang is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan. The surname Qiang has a wide origin. At the same time, he is the descendant of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang. In the history of Chinese surnames, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms appeared one after another, which made the Chinese nation grow larger and stronger. Over time, the so-called Han people and Hu people at that time were nurtured by the influence of traditional culture. Under this, they can no longer distinguish each other, nor can they tell each other apart. It was Fu Jian who single-handedly caused this situation. Everyone knows that he is a clansman. As he became famous in the world, his people also became prominent and played a very important role during that period. The surname Qiang in our country was a major surname of the clan at that time, and Fu Jian's descendants were surnamed Qiang. Regarding the relationship between the surname Qiang and the clan more than 1,000 years ago, there is a record in the "Manuscript of the Words and Deeds of Mingxian Clan". It can be explained that the manuscript says: Qin Lu has Qiang Yong, Qiang Bo, Yao Qin Lu has Qiang Yue, Qiangbin, Xiyang Qiangjing, and Lueyang Zhiye. ?From the above description, you may think that the Qiang family is a surname derived from the clan. In fact, this idea is completely wrong. The Qiang family in our country has a long history. Their history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period about 3000 years ago. It was only in During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the descendants of the Qiang clan performed particularly well. So how did the first Qiang family in our country come from? This point is very clearly recorded in the book "Xingyuan": According to Zuo Zhuan, Doctor Zheng looked out of Danyang after forcibly beheading him. ?The ancestor of this Qiang family, Qiang Qian, was also a man of great influence in the Zheng State during the Spring and Autumn Period. From this point of view, there are two main sources of the Qiang clan in our country. One comes from the Qiang clan of Zheng Guo, a doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the other comes from a clan that performed well in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The main breeding area of ??the former is Anhui Province (Danyang in ancient times), while the latter is active in Shaanxi Province. All of them are derived from a surname in northern my country. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos, which once again caused the great migration of our nation. The Qiang clan, which had always been active in the north, also spread to various parts of the south at this time. During the Song and Ming Dynasties, the Qiang clan in Jiangsu and Zhejiang emerged one after another, among which the Qiang clan The powerful families in Qiantang, Zhejiang Province in the Song Dynasty were the most outstanding.