The surname Feng is an ancient surname of many nationalities and origins, ranking ninth in the Song edition of the Hundred Family Names and 27th among Chinese surnames in order of population.
Feng originated from the surname, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Guo's doctor Jianzi (surname) was enshrined in Feng by Zheng Jian, so he got the name with the fiefdom, and was the first person with the surname Feng.
Feng comes from the surname Ji and was originally Wei. According to the records of "Yuanhe Surname Compilation" and "Guangyun", the son of Bi Wan, a descendant of Bi Gonggao, the fifteenth son of King Ji Chang of Zhou Wen, followed the Jin Wen Gongguo and was named the son of Wei Wuzi and was given the title of Wei land. In 403 B.C., King Weilie of Zhou officially canonized the Wei family as princes, and his descendant Wei Changqing was enshrined in Fengcheng (one says that it is now Xingyang County, Henan Province, and the other is that it is now Dali County, Shaanxi Province). So this branch of descendants gradually gave up the surnames of Bi and Wei, and changed their surnames to Feng with Yi as their name, which is known as Feng's authenticity in history.
Han Taishi Sima Qian was convicted and imprisoned, and his eldest son Sima Lin changed his surname to Feng to avoid trouble. The descendants live in Xu Village, Zhichuan Town, Hancheng City, Shaanxi Province.
The Feng clan originally originated in the Xingyang region of Henan Province, and the clansmen migrated earlier, starting to migrate in the pre-Qin period. To the south, he first entered the land of Chu (present-day Hunan and Hubei). To the west, it entered the middle of Shaanxi Guan. To the north, Feng entered Shanxi and other places. To the east, the Feng clan entered the land of Qilu, and this branch of the Feng clan came from the Wei land mentioned above.
Before the Three Kingdoms, the Feng family also moved to Sichuan and Hubei, and the Henan Feng family was distributed in present-day Neihuang, Baofeng, Jiaozuo, Nanyang, Anyang and other places, among which Chaoyang was the big family at that time.
In the early days, the surname Feng mainly bred in present-day Henan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Shanxi and other places, and began to move south or north to avoid Liaodong during the "Yongjia Rebellion" at the end of the Jin Dynasty, and successively moved into Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Liaoning and other places.
To the Sui and Tang dynasties, there have been those who moved south to Fujian Province. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the Feng family moved south twice in a big way, so that the Feng family lived in the vast area south of the Yangtze River in China, and spread all over the country during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
There are not a few outstanding talents surnamed Feng in history, and in the Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Guo's doctor Feng Jianzi was erudite and talented, able to judge major events, and was the ancestor of the surname Feng.
During the Warring States period, there was a Korean general Feng Ting, ** Zhao Guo, Feng Huayang Jun, who refused to die in the Qin war, and descended Sun Feng to the right prime minister when he was the first emperor of Qin.
Three minutes to talk about culture During the two Han Dynasty, there was Feng Tang who was "Feng Tang Yi Lao", and Feng Yi, the founding general of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Feng Jing of the Northern Song Dynasty was the last champion of the Song Dynasty.
Feng Menglong, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, wrote "Three Words", which is the first large-scale collection of vernacular short stories in the history of Chinese literature. Feng Zicai, a patriotic general at the end of the Qing Dynasty, defeated the French army at the age of seventy. ** Patriotic general Feng Yuxiang and others.