The origin of the surname Dongfang
1. There are two sources.
Fuxi created the Bagua in ancient times, and the direction of the Bagua is in the east. In ancient times, humans made a living by fishing, hunting, and gathering. The Shennong family taught their people to make agricultural tools such as ploughs, cultivators, shovels, hoes, etc., and engaged in agricultural production, allowing people to live a settled life, and they were therefore called the Shennong family. It is said that the Shennong clan invented the method of burning mountains for farming and pioneered slash-and-burn farming. Therefore, they are also known as the Lieshan clan. Because he used fire to rejuvenate the country and bring peace to the people, he was revered as Emperor Yan by the world. Shennong's actions promoted the evolution of China's primitive society from gathering, fishing and hunting to primitive agriculture, which is equivalent to the era of matrilineal clan society. According to legend, Shennong also personally tasted hundreds of herbs and was poisoned seventy times in one day. He discovered many medicinal herbs for treating diseases. Later, he wrote "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" to treat diseases for the people, so he was also respected as the inventor of medicine.
It is said that during the reign of Shennong, he also opened markets and exchanged goods among the tribes, which inspired primitive commodity circulation. Shennong died after ruling for 140 years. His descendants were passed down to eight generations, and their descendants ruled for 520 years. They later merged with the Huangdi tribe and became the first of the descendants of Yan and Huang today, collectively known as the Huaxia tribe. After the Shennong clan started farming, the sun rising from the east every day was an important moment to start farming. Therefore, among the farming-oriented descendants of Fuxi, the Dongfang compound surname was formed.
2. Originated from the surname Ji, after Dongfang Shuo in the Han Dynasty, it is a surname based on the surname of the ancestor.
Dongfang Shuo's father was named Zhang Yi, but he died before he was born. His mother Tian died three days after his birth, so Dongfang Shuo was raised by his brother and sister-in-law. Because Dongfang Shuo was born at dawn in the east, his uncle named him Dongfang Shuo. During the Western Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo was worshiped as a Taizhong doctor. He was humorous by nature, and his words were humorous, but he was able to see things clearly and speak out frankly. Among the descendants of Dongfang Shuo, they all take the Dongfang in their ancestor's name as their surname, forming a Dongfang compound surname.
2. Migration distribution and gathering places
The Dongfang family is a very ancient Han surname group. It is not among the top 300 surnames in mainland China and Taiwan. , ranked as the 416th surname in the Song version of "One Hundred Family Surnames". The Dongfang surname is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan. Dongfang is an ancient surname. As early as ancient times, the ancient emperor Fuxi founded Bagua, and his descendant Sun Zhong was in charge of the Order of Qingyang in the East. According to ancient records, it is said that when he was born, he was born out of a earthquake, and his position was in the east. That is to say, according to the Eight Diagrams, he was in the earthquake position, and the earthquake position was expressed as Dongfang. Therefore, he took Dongfang as his surname. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the famous writer Dongfang Shuo, whose real surname was Zhang, was named after his mother died of illness not three days after he was born, and his father had also passed away for many days. Dongfang Shuo. When he grew up, he became famous, and Dongfang was consolidated as a surname. Dongfang Shuo was from Pingyuan Yanci (now Huimin, Shandong Province). During the Tang Dynasty, the Dongfang surname had become one of the prominent surnames in Pingyuan County. There are many people with Eastern names in history, including Dongfang Qiu, Dongfang Xian, etc. Dongfang Qiu was a historian and poet in the Tang Dynasty, and Dongfang Xian was a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty and one of the eighteen bachelors of Kaiyuan.
After the Song Dynasty, the Dongfang clan has become elusive. Nowadays, there are a small amount of distribution in Beijing, Shanxi, Shandong, Taiwan, and other places.
3. Junwangtang No.
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Pingyuan County: Founded in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty (Yiwei, 206 BC) during the reign of Emperor Gaozu of the Western Han Dynasty , the governance is located in the southwest of Pingyuan County, Shandong Province today. Its jurisdiction is equivalent to Pingyuan, Lingxian, Yucheng, Qihe, Linyi, Shanghe, Huimin, Yangxin and other places in Shandong Province today. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was either a country or a county. Deposed during the Northern Wei Dynasty. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Dezhou, Shandong Province was once designated as a plain county, governing Ande, which is now Ling County, Shandong Province.
Hall name
Pingyuan Hall: The hall is built with hope.
Sihe Hall: During the Han Dynasty, Dongfang Shuo was humorous and good at rhetoric.