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Fang's origin was first related to Shennong. The Fang family has a long history of nearly 4700 years, which originated from the family. According to legend, among the descendants of Emperor Yan, a man named Yu Wang was named Lei Fang because he helped the Yellow Emperor to crusade against Chiyou and was enfeoffed in Fangshan (now northwest of Yuzhou, Henan). The descendants thought that the surname was Fang's.
In the middle of the Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Fang Shu who worked as a doctor in North Korea and was ordered to lead troops to quell the barbarian rebellion in the south. To this end, he organized an army with 3000 chariots to attack the barbarians. The result was a total victory. Before that, he conquered Huaiyi and repelled the invasion of northern minorities. At this point, he was awarded several merits, allowed to establish his own surname in various countries, and given the surname "Fang". Since then, his descendants have taken Fang as their surname. Fang Shu had the same surname as the royal family of Zhou Dynasty. His surname is Ji and Ming Hong, and Fang Shu is just his words.
Weng Gan, a native of Quanzhou, Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty, gave birth to six sons, taking Hong, Jiang, Weng, Fang, Gong and Wang as surnames respectively. Among them, the fourth son Weng Chulin got the Fang family, and later generations also took the Fang family.
Among the above three sources, the second source has the greatest influence, and later developed into the discipline of Fang surname. Because its birthplace and later development center were in Luohe area of Henan Province, it was under the jurisdiction of Henan County in ancient times. When it comes to its source, people surnamed Fang often take "Henan" as their county hope. Fang, from Weng's family, is different from the other five surnames in the same period, and has the friendship of "six guilianfang", and later takes "six guifang" as the Tang name.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people in Tongcheng, Anhui Province spread books with poems, and successively produced famous scholars such as Fang, Fang, Fang Guancheng and so on. They attach great importance to learning, have profound historical experience and do things carefully. * * Together with others, they founded a school of academic circles, which was called "Tongcheng School" in history. They are the backbone of this school.
Fang's celebrities have come forth in large numbers in past dynasties. In addition to the above, there are Tang Dynasty poet Fang Gan, Song Dynasty peasant hero Fang La, Yuan Dynasty writer Fang Hui, painter Fang, Ming Dynasty poetess Fang, Qing Dynasty thinker Fang Yizhi, writer Fang Yurun and modern revolutionary Fang Zhimin.
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The Fang family has a long history of nearly 4700 years, which originated from the family. The eleventh grandson of Emperor Yan of Shennong and the eldest son of the eighth emperor are called Lei. When the Yellow Emperor cut Chiyou, Lei was sealed in Fangshan (now Yuzhou City, Henan Province). After the thunder sealed Fangshan, he changed his surname. His descendants are divided into Lei and Fang. During the Western Expedition, the descendants of the generals were ordered to conquer the South and made immortal contributions to ZTE. Therefore, some genealogies of Fang surname in later generations adopted the theory of "following and Fang Shu". In the fifth year of Taikang in the Western Jin Dynasty (AD 284), he was ordered to repair Fang's genealogy. In the second year of Xiankang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 336), Fang's blood spectrum was awarded as a "famous book" and told Fang's descendants that "it will be hidden for generations and will never be lost". According to the genealogy of Yingshan Temple Fair in Liushan Town, "Yun Fang, since the beginning of Yu, is unique. Jiangnan and Minguang belong to Dongxiang, but nothing else. Dongxiang, her hometown, is now Chun 'an. All the people in the emblem are Chun 'an people, and their genealogy is very clear. Various factions have multiplied, making it difficult to tell stories. Ancestors' tombs and temples are in Chun, and later generations keep them. There is only one temple in Liuting Mountain, and the county is full of ambitions. In the Song Dynasty, the Fang family in Xuancheng, Anhui Province was changed to Kuang family. In many places in Guangdong and overseas, the "Lei Fang Kuang" organization was established. Fang, Lei and Kuang come down in one continuous line.
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Fang Yi, the governor of Danyang County, moved from Henan to Dongxiang, Shexian County, Anhui Province (now Chun 'an, Zhejiang Province) because of Wang Mang's usurpation of power, and became the * * * ancestor of two states in the south of the Yangtze River and even all the local governments. The second biography was completed for storage, and its descendants propagated in Yan, Wu, Yue, Jiujiang, Chuyang, Putian, Hui, Xuan, Chi, Xiu, Hu and Chang. There are three sons in the shop. After the eldest son, he traveled to Hu, Chang, Yin, Chu, Renhe, Nanhai, Putian, Xinghua and Jiujiang, and Putian was the most prosperous. Secondly, it was widely spread after Ziyi and Ji Zihong. Fang, who lived in Shedong Town and the traffic hub in Zhejiang during the Han and Tang Dynasties, was mainly descended from Yi and Hong. Fang family is one of the eight famous surnames in Huizhou. Fang is the third surname of Shexian County, and Chun 'an is 1. During the Han and Tang Dynasties, there were 3 1 person above Hou Bo. Until modern times, they were celebrities for thousands of years. They mainly include Fang Chu, a famous minister in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Fang Qing, the leader of the peasant uprising in the Tang Dynasty, Fang Gan, a gifted scholar in the Tang Dynasty, and farmers in the Song Dynasty. Fang Youzhi, a medical doctor in the Ming Dynasty, a famous ink painter, a college student, a writer and dramatist in the Qing Dynasty, and a master of the contemporary "Chinese First Knife", etc.
Fang, who first moved to Putian, Fujian, was a native of Quanzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and later lived in Fangshan, Putian. Later, he was called Fang. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, another party moved to Putian. His surname was Fang Guan Changle, and he was named Dr. Jin Zi Guang Lu. He gave birth to seven sons, six of whom were bureaucrats. He was called "Six Parties" and Fang was honored as "Father of Six Guis", and later generations called him "Father of Six Guis". Putian Fangjia imperial examination is unprecedented, with more than 360 people taking the imperial examination (Jinshi, Juren). In Song Dynasty, there were 28 fathers and sons, 26 brothers and 32 scholars/kloc-0, ranking first among all surnames in Putian. Of the six major libraries in Putian history, three were built by the Fang family. The famous libraries of Fangjia in Song Dynasty are: Fangwanghu Building and Baiduwan. Among them, Bai's "Bai Wan Du Juan Lou" had a total collection of more than 50,000 books, which was the largest library in China at that time. Due to the grand occasion of the imperial examination, many ethnic minorities went abroad to serve as officials, and their descendants settled in other places, with the largest number in Guangdong, including 1.7 million square meters in Huilai County. Therefore, Putian has become another important transit point and birthplace of immigrants after Gushe County. Mosquito a target = _ blank name = Baidu snap1> Fang's family business is booming, and celebrities and senior officials come forth in large numbers. The main celebrities are: Fang Heng, a bibliophile in Song Dynasty, a minister of punishments, a famous scholar Fang Xinru, a famous official Fang Xinru, a calligrapher of Neo-Confucianism Fang Dayan, a poet Fang and a famous doctor Fang Fang in Yuan Dynasty.
There are three schools in Tongcheng (now Tongcheng and Zongyang), namely "Guilin Square" and "Lugufang", namely "Orion Square" and "Gong Huifang". Tongcheng Fangjia is famous for its ancient prose, which has a long style for hundreds of years. Some people think that it has made the greatest contribution to China's academic culture and morality since the middle of Ming Dynasty. Today, Tongcheng Fangjia is a large family of literati, among which the famous ones are: Neo-Confucianism Fang, Yijing scholar Fang Dazhen, Neo-Confucianism Fang Kongying, poet Fang, thinker Fang Yizhi, scholar Fang Zhongde, mathematician Fang Zhongtong, scholar Fang, poet, writer Fang Dengfeng and writer Fang. Writers Fang Shiju and Fang Zhenguan, founder of Tongcheng School, writer, politician and water conservancy expert Fang Guancheng, writer and governor Fang, writers Fang Zongcheng and Fang, scholars Fang Shoujia and Fang Shoudun, literary theorists, important figures in the Republic of China, "great philosopher" Fang Dongmei, writer Fang Lingru, poets and scholars, etc. Tongcheng Fangjia not only created the profound "Tongcheng Fangyi School", but also created the "Tongcheng School" which dominated the literary world in Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years. Liang Shiqiu said to Tongcheng Fangjia, a world-famous scholarly family: "Tongcheng Fangjia may be second only to Qufu Kongjia." Contemporary scholars say: "Tongcheng Fangjia is the family that has the greatest influence on China culture after Qufu Confucius House, and it is the swan song of China cultural family". Taiwan Province writer Levin praised: "Fang Jia is a first-class poet in China, with four words." In the book "Cultural Families that have Influenced China for a Hundred Years", Tongcheng Fangjia is known as the second largest cultural family in China.
Chinese surnames originated in Henan, and spread around with ancient Huizhou as the center. It is a typical southern surname, and the population center is in the southeast provinces. The most is Anhui 1 10,000, followed by about 550,000 in Zhejiang and 400,000 in Guangdong. Other provinces are Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu and Taiwan Province. It is sparsely populated in the northern provinces. Ranked 86th in Henan Province. The most populous county and city is Huilai County, Guangdong Province, where there are170,000 ethnic groups. Other counties and cities with large population include Yunxiao County, Putian County, Chun 'an County, Tonglu County and Jinhua County, Tongcheng, Zongyang and Shexian County in Anhui Province, Xiuning, Pingjiang, Yueyang, Puning and Kaiping in Guangdong Province. The Fang family in Wenyang, South Korea, moved from Henan Province in the Central Plains in the Tang Dynasty, with a population of over 65,438+10,000. It is the founder of Hanlin in Tang Dynasty and the great Silla cultural historian Fang Zhi. Most of the Thai surnames are Chaoshan immigrants with a population of 60,000. In the Ming Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru refused to draft an imperial edict for Judy who usurped the throne. The tyrant killed 10 families, with more than 800 victims. Even the number of people exiled is as high as 10 thousand. As a result, many people surnamed Fang fled all over the country. Many people who escaped from the clutches changed their surnames to him, such as Liu, He, Cai, Zhang, Shi, Xuan, Yu and Wang. Fang surname was listed as the 35th most popular surname in Song Dynasty, with a population of about 450,000. It accounts for 0.59 in the whole country, and the Yuan Dynasty ranks 28th as the most popular surname. There were 49 in the Ming Dynasty, with a population of about 440,000. Accounting for 0.47% of the country. According to the latest statistics, Fang's population ranks 63rd in China, accounting for 0.36% of the whole country.
At the top of history, there are many elites and celebrities, and they are famous as heroes in the world. Wen Tianxiang, the champion of the Song Dynasty, praised Fang's genealogy: "Fang's appearance is in Zhou Dynasty, Han reached our dynasty, and the sound and light were prominent, while the latter was the flow. How magnificent! Su Dongpo wrote the inscription "Writing China, Spreading Poetry Rituals", and Su Xun wrote the inscription "Immortality of People in the Civil and Military Dynasties". In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the reputation of the Fang family represented by the Fang family reached its peak in Tongcheng. The China Dictionary of Names contains 242 celebrities of Fang family, accounting for 0.53% of the total number of celebrities, ranking 38th. Famous writers account for 0.8% of the total number of writers in China, ranking twenty-five; Famous doctors accounted for 0.66%, ranking third1. According to the proportion of celebrity surnames, the celebrity rate of Fang surname is 1 1, reaching 147.22%. Celebrities of past dynasties: Chow Tai Fook, Fang Shu, a famous minister in Han Dynasty, Fang Gan, a poet in Tang Dynasty, Fang La, a leader of peasant uprising in Song Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, Fang Yizhi, the originator of Tongcheng School in Qing Dynasty, Fang Shengdong, a hero, Fang Zhimin, an anti-Japanese hero, and General Fang Xianjue. Fang Dongmei, the "great philosopher", is the vice chairman of the State Council.
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