Why did others name Zhou Ouyang?

It is possible that Zhou's surname is Ouyang because their father's surname is Zhou and their mother's surname is Ouyang.

Ouyang is a compound surname. Its distant ancestor has been more than 4000 years ago, and its surname has been more than 2300 years. According to the genealogy of the Prime Minister in the Book of the New Tang Dynasty, Ouyang was the illegitimate child of Xian Shaokang, the monarch of the Xia Dynasty, and was sealed in Huiji, which was the early stage of Yue. The State of Yue was destroyed by the State of Chu when it expanded to the boundless territory. The son of Wujiang named hoof was named Ouyang in Yushanyang, Wucheng (now Xing Wu County, Zhejiang Province), so he took Ouyang as his surname, and later generations called Ouyang or Euclid.

2. The earliest appearance of Zhou surname can be traced back to the Xuanyuan family of Huangdi in ancient times. According to the research of surnames, it is said that there was a general named Zhou Chang in the Yellow Emperor and a surname named Zhou Ren in the Shang Dynasty. The descendants of these two people all take Zhou as their surname. From Ji surname, ancestors are.