The origin of Ding Xing?

Surname: Ding

Origin: After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang Kingdom, he enfeoffed the princes. One of his important vassal states was Qi, and the founding monarch was Lu

< p>Shang. After Lu Shang died, his son Ding Gong Lu Ji took his place. Among the descendants of Ding Gong and Lu Ji, one branch uses "Ding" as the surname. In addition, there are three branches of the Ding surname that were changed from other surnames. They were formed in the Wu Kingdom and the Northern Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period.

In the Song Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, Sun Kuang, a relative of Wu Guozong, changed his surname to Ding because he violated military orders. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a scoundrel named Yu Qing, who changed his surname to Ding in order to seduce the prime minister named Ding. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was Ding Henian, a member of the Hui ethnic group. After entering China, he adopted Ding as his surname. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Ding family mainly gathered in the current Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, and some of them had moved to the current Hebei, Shaanxi, Guangxi, Hubei and other provinces. During the Three Kingdoms and Western Jin Dynasties, the Ding surname was more widely distributed in Jiangnan.

During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, some people with Ding surnames from Fujian and Guangdong immigrated to Taiwan. After that, some people moved to Thailand, Singapore, the United States and other countries.

There are many people named Ding, including Ding Gong, a classics scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In 968 AD,

Ding Bu and his son Ding Lian defeated the twelve envoys and queens and established the Ding Dynasty of Vietnam, called the Quyue Kingdom, which lasted for 12 years. The Northern Song Dynasty

There was Ding Qi, a bibliophile, and Ding Du, a literary exegesis expert. There was a painter Ding Yunpeng in the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, there were writers Ding Yao

kang, Ding Jing, the head of the "Eight Families of Xiling", Ding Baozhen, the governor of Sichuan, Ding Richang, the military commander and minister of affairs, and Ding Bing, the book collector

family. Naval general Ding Ruchang, modern geographer Ding Qian, physician Ding Ganren, founder of the Medical Book Company Ding Fubao, agriculturist and rice expert Ding Ying. The surname Ding ranks 46th among current Chinese surnames.

The surname Ding is one of the ancient surnames of the Hui people. "Many people from the Western Regions were named Ding. After they entered China, they took it as their surname." ("Dongli Collected Works") Most of the surname Ding comes from the last sound "Din" (Din) of the ancestors' names. It can be read or translated according to the Chinese pronunciation. For "Ding". Because "Dini" means "religious belief" in Arabic, Muslims tend to choose names related to it. For example, "Allah, Dini" (old translation as "Alaoding"), means "the religion of Allah"; "Shemusong. Dini" (old translation as "Fansidin"), means "religion" "The Sun"; "Nasu Ci. Dini'" (old translation: "Na Su Ci Ding"), which means "Victorious Religion", etc. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were quite a few Hui people whose names ended with "Ding" (Dini), so the descendants of some of them took "Ding" as their surname. For example, "The descendants of Kanma Ciding are surnamed Ding." ("Hui Hui Tribe Theory") Ding Henian "was originally from the Western Regions. His father was Ma Luding, and he moved to Wuchang, so he took it as his surname." ("History of the New Yuan Dynasty" A Lao Ding returned to the Western Regions. In the 23rd year of Emperor Yongle's reign (1424), he was appointed as the commander of the Dezhou Weidu. The name is complete. Ding Quan's son's name is Ding Zongzhi. "("Huihui History and Islamic Culture") The largest family of the Ding surname belongs to the Saidianchi. Gansiding family. Because of its many descendants, it is divided into Na, Su and La ( La), Ding and other surnames are widely distributed in the country. For example, the Hui people with the surname Ding in Chendi, Quanzhou, Fujian, "The first ancestor of the Jiezhai Prefecture, the taboo is cautious, and the courtesy name is Shensi (衡思丁)." ("Zhizhai Gong Tupu." "General Catalog of Death Anniversaries in the Past Dynasties") "It can be concluded that Sai Dian Chizhan (衡) Siding is the ancestor of the surname Chen Di Ding in Quanzhou today." ("Research on the Surname Chen Di Ding") The Hui people with the surname Ding are distributed throughout the country.