Feng (Surname)#

Surname: Feng, pronounced as “fēng”.

Regions where the Feng surname is prevalent**#

The Feng family originated from Bohai County, which was established during the Western Han Dynasty. This county was located along the coast of the Bohai Bay, encompassing parts of present-day Hebei Province and Liaoning Province. Its administrative center was Fuyang, situated in the eastern part of Cang County, Hebei Province.

Origin of the Feng surname**#

1. Derived from the Jiang surname: The Feng surname was created by taking a place name as its basis. According to the “Xing Yuan” (Garden of Surnames), during the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was a state called Fengfu (located in present-day Fengqiu County, Henan Province). After the fall of Fengfu, its inhabitants adopted the surnames Fengfu and Feng.
2. According to the “Wei Shu · Guan Shi Zhi” (Book of Wei · Records of Official Families), during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Xianbei tribe in the Northern Wei Dynasty originally had the surname Ben. After migrating to the Central Plains, they changed their surname to Feng.

Founder of the Feng surname

The founder of the Feng surname is Fengfu. This surname originated from the Jiang lineage and was derived from a place name. As recorded in the “Xing Yuan,” Fengfu was a vassal during the Xia Dynasty, with his fief located in Xifengfu Ting, Fengqiu County, Henan Province. His descendants adopted the place name as their surname, thus becoming the Feng family. Therefore, Fengfu is revered as the progenitor of the Feng surname.

Hall names (Tang Hao):

• Ping Lu Tang: During the Tang Dynasty, Feng Ao served as the military governor of Ping Lu and made significant contributions to suppressing rebellions. The emperor commissioned him to draft an imperial edict to comfort the soldiers on the border. Two lines from this edict, “The pain is on your bodies, but I feel it personally,” were particularly well-received.

Migration and distribution:

During the Song Dynasty, the number of people with the Feng surname was very small, and they were mainly concentrated in Sichuan and Zhejiang. By the Ming Dynasty, there were approximately 46,000 people with the Feng surname, with Shandong being the largest province, accounting for about 35% of the total population. Other provinces with significant populations included Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Henan, and Sichuan. Today, the Feng surname has a population of around 280,000 people, ranking 257th among the most common surnames in China, accounting for approximately 0.022% of the national population. Over the past 1,000 years since the Song Dynasty, the population of the Feng surname has shown an increasing trend. Shaanxi remains the largest province with this surname, accounting for about 18% of the national total. The main distribution of the Feng surname is in Shaanxi, Shandong, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Hebei, Hunan, and Guangdong, with these eight regions accounting for approximately 80% of the total Feng population. Other regions with significant populations include Guizhou and Sichuan. The distribution of the Feng surname shows that in areas such as Shaanxi-Ningxia, southern Gansu, southeastern Qinghai, central Inner Mongolia, western Shanxi-Henan-Hubei, Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan-Chongqing, most of Hunan and Guangdong, Guangxi-Hainan, southwestern Jiangxi, northern Zhejiang, eastern Anhui, Shanghai-Jiangsu-Shandong, southeastern Hebei, and southern Liaoning, the Feng surname accounts for more than 0.04% of the local population; in some core areas, this proportion can exceed 0.2%. These regions cover approximately 34% of the national territory and are home to about 72% of the Feng population.