County Hope Hejian County: The Han Dynasty was the Hejian Kingdom, and its governance was in Lecheng (now Xian County, Hebei Province). During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the county was established, and its administrative location is southwest of Hejian, Hebei Province.
The origin of "Xing"
1. It comes from the surname Ji. Named after the country. According to the "Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames", the fourth son of Zhou Gongdan was granted the title of Xingguo (today's Xingtai City, Hebei Province). In 662 BC, the state of Xing was captured by the state of Wei, and the descendants of the public family were named after the original state. 2. Name the surname after the town. According to "Xingkao", during the Spring and Autumn Period, the family of Han Xuanzi, a senior official of the Jin Dynasty, gathered food in Xingyi (in the east of Wenxian County, Henan Province today). Later, there were also Xings.
The ancestor was given the surname
Zhou Gongdan. His surname was Ji and his name was Dan, and he was also called Shudan. He was the fourth son of King Wen. Because his fiefdom was in Zhou, he was a duke, so he was called Zhou Gongdan. Zeng Zuowu, the king of the Shang Dynasty, made many achievements. When King Wu died, King Cheng was regent because he was young. During the regency, he personally led the army to march eastward and annihilated the joint rebellion of Wu Geng, Guan, Cai and Dongyi tribes. He strengthened the supervision of the recalcitrant people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, comprehensively implemented the policy of feudal state-building, and successively established seventy-one states as a shield to defend the royal family. The implementation of the well-field system within the closed area and unified land planning consolidated and strengthened the economic foundation of the slave country. After King Cheng took charge, Duke Zhou made rituals and music, and established various regulations and systems. Later, King Cheng recognized his great achievements and hard work, so he granted his four sons the title of Marquis of Xing. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xing was destroyed by Wei, and his descendants took the country as their surname and called it Xing. Zhou Gongdan is respected as the ancestor of those with the surname Xing.
Hall number
The main hall numbers of the surname Xing are: ?Hejiantang?, ?Shouyatang?, ?Sanli Hall?, ?Dexing Hall?, etc.
Migration distribution
The descendants of the Xing surname who migrated from Dahuaishu, Hongdong County, Shanxi Province are distributed in Hebei and Shandong , Henan, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Northeast China (mainly in the form of breaking into Guandong), Guangdong and other places. In 635 BC, the Xing State with its capital in Xingtai, Hebei Province was destroyed by the Wei State, and the descendants of the Xing family fled to other places. Weiwei was annexed by the Jin State, so some of the descendants of the Xing surname settled in the Jin State. At this time, Qi had Xing Limugui, and Jin had Xing Kuai, indicating that the Xing surname was distributed in today's Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong. Soon, the surname Xing, which originated from Han Xuanzi, a doctor of the Jin Dynasty, began to appear in Wen County, Henan Province. Xingdai was a descendant of Han Xuanzi. During the Han Dynasty, the Xing surnames found in historical records include Xing Yuan, Xing Shuo, Xing Ji, Xing Ju, and Xing Mu from Nanyangwan (now Nanyang, Henan Province) who was the prefect of Julu during the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, a large number of people named Xing emerged and high-ranking officials continued to appear. Fifteen people were included in the "Dictionary of Chinese Names of All Times" alone, and most of them were from Hejian Mo. Many of their fathers were honored and their sons were noble, and their poems and books were passed down from generation to generation. This indicates that at this time, the Hejian county commander surnamed Xing had been formed. During this period, the Eight Kings' Rebellion, the Five Husbands' Rebellion in China, and warlord disputes caused violent social unrest, and a small number of descendants of the Xing surname fled to the south of the Yangtze River. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Xing surname was still prosperous and prosperous in Hejian County. The migration and reproduction were mainly in the neighboring areas in the north. However, in some places in the south, such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places, the Xing surname has appeared in the history books. . During the Northern Song Dynasty, the Liao, Jin and other ethnic minorities in the north were very powerful and constantly intruded on what is now Hebei and northern Shanxi. Many people with the Xing surname moved to Kaifeng, the then capital, and various places in Henan due to official positions or to avoid chaos. After the humiliation of Jingkang, Zhao Gou settled in the south of the Yangtze River and all the northern parts were ruled by the Jin people. The Xing surname fled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The queen's family settled in Lin'an (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). After the Jin Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, the Xing surname in the north developed steadily, while the Xing surname in the south was scattered in various places in the south of the Yangtze River to avoid chaos. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Xing surname was one of the surnames of the people who migrated to the Hongdong Sophora tree in the Ming Dynasty. They were relocated to Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Northeast Liaoning and other places. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, some people with the Xing surname crossed the Taiwan Strait and went to Taiwan to make a living. From then on, after the Opium War in the Qing Dynasty, some people with the Xing surname settled in some remote provinces due to reasons such as border guarding, exile, officialdom, and making a living.
Today, the Xing surname is widely distributed across the country, especially in Hebei, Henan and other provinces. The Xing surname in the above two provinces accounts for about 31% of the country's Han population with the Xing surname. Xing is the 131st surname in China today. It has a large population, accounting for about 0.1% of the country's Han population.