A study on the history and current situation of the bear surname

A study on the history and current situation of the bear surname

I. Formulation of the problem.

There are many Chinese surnamed Xiong in our country. How did the surname "bear" come from? Who are the celebrities? What is the ranking of the number of people in "Hundred Family Names"? With these questions in mind, I did a study on the history and current situation of the surname "Xiong".

2. Research Methods.

1.Access to books and newspapers.

2.Ask the people involved.

3.Network queries.

3. Data collation.

Category. Content.

**。The surname "bear" has three main origins, one is derived from the surname "芈 (mǐ)", and the descendants of the Shang Dynasty bear bear are surnamed by the name of their ancestors; The second is derived from the "bear surname", which was a tribal surname during the Yellow Emperor period. Because it was built on "there is a bear", it was simplified to the surname "bear"; Third, it originated from the change of surnames of ethnic minorities.

For example, the Benya clan in the Pumi tribe changed the surname "Xiong" after Ming Taizu.

History. Celebrity.

Xiong Yi is the great-grandson of Xiongxiong, and the first feudal monarch of the Western Zhou Dynasty vassal state of Chu. When Zhou became king, Xiong Yi was enshrined in the land of the Southern Barbarians and established the state of Chu. Xiong Ansheng is a scholar of the Northern Dynasties and one of the representatives of Northern Studies.

Following the Confucian scriptures of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the "Zhou Li", "The Book of Rites" and "The Book of Filial Piety" have all been lost. Xiong Penglai is a Jinshi in the Southern Song Dynasty. After the death of the Song Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the countryside and taught Confucianism.

Xiong Wencan is a Jinshi in the 35th year of Wanli, awarded the Huangzhou Push Official, the director of the Ministry of Rites, Langzhong, the left political participation in Shandong, the Shanxi according to the inspection envoy, the right political envoy of Shandong, the military department of the Lang, Shangshu and other positions. Comrade Xiong Xiong was a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation in China and one of the leaders of the Communist Party of China engaged in the political work of the revolutionary army in the early days. Xiong Zhengshi was a major general who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan.

Gu Long, formerly known as Xiong Yaohua, is an outstanding contemporary martial arts artist.

Status quo. According to statistics, in 2018, there were about 4 million people with the surname "Xiong" among the registered population in the country, accounting for the entire Chinese population, ranking 72nd in the surname population.

4. Conclusions.

1.Legend has it that the surname "Xiong" has three origins, one is derived from the surname "Mi". The descendants of the bears of the Shang Dynasty took the names of their ancestors as their surnames; The second is derived from the surname "Youxiong".

The surname "Youxiong" is a tribal surname in the period of the Yellow Emperor, because it was built in Youxiong and got the surname, and later generations simplified it to the surname "Xiong"; Third, it originated from the change of surnames of ethnic minorities. For example, the Benya clan in the Pumi tribe changed the surname "Xiong" after Ming Taizu.

2.The surname "Xiong" has produced many talents, and Xiong Yi was enclosed in the land of the Southern Barbarians and established the Chu State. Xiong Ansheng is one of the representatives of Beixue, and has written "Zhou Li", "Rites", and "Filial Piety".

Xiong Penglai was a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, and after the death of the Song Dynasty, he lived in seclusion in the countryside and taught Confucianism. Xiong Wencan is a Jinshi in the 35th year of Wanli, awarded the Huangzhou Push Official, the director of the Ministry of Rites, Langzhong, the left political participation in Shandong, the Shanxi according to the inspection envoy, the right political envoy of Shandong, the military department of the Lang, Shangshu and other positions. Comrade Xiong Xiong was a Chinese proletarian revolutionary and one of the early leaders of the Communist Party of China.

Major General Xiong Zhengshi participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan. Xiong Yaohua is an outstanding contemporary martial arts artist.

3.According to statistics, in 2018, there were about 4 million people with the surname "Xiong" among the registered population in the country, accounting for the entire Chinese population, ranking 72nd in the surname population.

The history of the surname Xiong: The surname Xiong originated in the ancient Chu State, that is, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces, and naturally this area has become the main area where the surname Xiong first reproduced. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the surname Xiong still used the above places as the center of its reproduction and development, but there were also a few scattered in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other places, and the surname Xiong entered Taiwan in the early Qing Dynasty.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the surname Xiong has moved into the vast area of Jiangnan in China, and after a long period of reproduction and development, it has gradually prospered and grown in Jiangling, Hubei, and Nanchang, Jiangxi, and has successively been sent to the court as officials, so the surname Xiong has "Nanchang" and "Jiangling" as its county Wangtang number.

The current situation of the surname Xiong: The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Guizhou Province, accounting for about 74% of the total population with the surname Xiong, followed by Chongqing, Henan, Jiangsu, Yunnan, these four provinces and cities are concentrated in 13% of the population with the surname Xiong. Hubei is home to 27% of the total population with the surname Xiong, making it the largest province with the surname Xiong.

Celebrities with the surname Bear:

1. Xiong Deshan: A native of Jiangling, Hubei Province, a member of the China League, a patriot and a newspaper person. He is the author of "The Way Out of the Chinese Revolution" and "Chinese Social Research".

2. Xiong Shili: A native of Huanggang, Hubei Province, a famous scholar in modern times. As early as the Wuchang Uprising, he served as a staff officer of the Governor's Office. Later, he taught at Peking University and wrote "New Theory of Consciousness", "Ten Forces Theory of Learning", "Yuan Confucianism" and so on.

3. Xiong Xiong (1892—, a native of Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province. He was a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation in China and one of the leaders of the Communist Party of China who was engaged in the political work of the revolutionary army in the early days.

This study is very useful to me.

The surname Xiong Wangque originated in the ancient Chu State, that is, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces.

Therefore, the Xiong surname is mainly distributed in Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hunan and other provinces, and the Xiong surname in the above four provinces accounts for about 66% of the Han Xiong surname population in the country.

The surname Xiong is the 68th largest surname in China today, with a large population, accounting for about the national Han population.

The surname Xiong has three distinct characteristics:

First, the surname is earlier and has a long history.

Second, the clan is large and multiplying, covering the whole country.

The third is that there are many talents, innumerable, from ancient times to the present, there are outstanding figures of the Xiong family in all dynasties, especially the Northern Song Dynasty is the most.

Origin of the surname

1, from the Yellow Emperor after the Xiong family.

According to the "Yuanhe surname compilation", according to legend, the Yellow Emperor was born in Shouqiu, grew up in Jishui, lived in Xuanyuan Hill, built the capital in Youxiong (now Xinzheng, Henan), also known as Youxiong, and then there was a person who took the land as his name, called Xiong's surname.

2, from the surname Mi.

According to the "Shiben", "Ancient and Modern Surname Book Dialectic" and "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", etc., the Yellow Emperor's son Changyi was born to Ji Lian, the sixth son of the fourth grandson Lu Zhong, named Ji Lian, and gave him the surname Mi. Ji Liansheng is frustrated, and frustrated is a cave bear.

Among his descendants, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, there was a person called Mane Bear or Ruler, the word Xiong, very learned, who had been the teacher of King Ji Chang of Zhou Wen, and was called Mane Bear by later generations. His son later became a victim of King Wen of Zhou and died young. Great-grandson Xiong Yi took the word Wang Father as his name and called Xiong's.

3. From another clan who changed his surname.

The Miao people are trapped in the early Xiong family, and the Han surname is Xiong.

1. Originated from the surname Mi

It comes from the bears and their descendants at the end of the Shang Dynasty, and belongs to the clan with the name of the ancestors.

There were thirty-one and forty-three monarchs in the state of Chu. In the twenty-third year of the reign of King Yingzheng of Qin (the fifth year of King Xiong of Chu, 223 B.C.), the state of Chu was destroyed by the state of Qin.

2. Originated from the Bears

The tribal surname from the Yellow Emperor belongs to the name of Juyi. According to the historical book "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", according to legend, the Yellow Emperor was born in Shouqiu, grew up in Jishui, lived in Xuanyuan Hill, and built the capital in Youxiong (now Xinzheng, Henan), also known as Youxiong. Among the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, there are people with the surname of the place, called Xiong.

Xiong is one of the oldest surnames in China.

3. Originated from the Miao people

It belongs to the sinicization and changes the surname to the name.。 The Miao Xiong clan was deeply influenced by Chu culture in the middle of the Warring States period, and there were people who changed their Han surname to Xiong at that time. By the time of the Ming Dynasty's land reform and return movement, it had basically changed to the Han surname Xiong.

4. Originated from the Manchus

It belongs to the sinicization and changes the surname to the name.。 According to the historical book "Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Clan Luo Manchurian Eight Banners Surname" records: Manchu Karla clan, also known as Karla clan, Manchu Karla hala, Shiju Yehe (now Jilin Lishu), Liaohe River Valley, the Han surname is Xiong.

Manchu Ke Hala, Manchu Kere Hala, originated from the Yuan Dynasty period of the Jurchen Gengkel Department, with the ministry as the clan, living in Nia Manchu (now Liaoning New Pennia Manshan), is one of the oldest surnames of the Manchus, after the crown of the Han surname Xiong.

5. Originated from other ethnic minorities

It belongs to the sinicization and changes the surname to the name.。 Today, among the Buyi, Yi, Mongolian, Yao, Achang, Zhuang, Tujia and other ethnic minorities, there are Xiong clan people, most of whom are in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in the implementation of the policy of bondage and the movement of changing the land and returning to the stream, the flow was changed to the Han surname Xiong, passed down from generation to generation.