First, the origin and origin of the public surname 1 comes from Ji's surname and takes the title as the surname.
Gong is a very old surname, which originated from Ji and originated in ancient times. During the Zhou Dynasty, King Lu named his brother's two sons princes, one named Yan and the other named Wei. People called them He Wang Wei. The descendants of Gong Yan and Gong Wei took their ancestors' titles as their surnames and passed them down from generation to generation. Therefore, most people in the Gong family respect public office and are the ancestors of this surname.
2, evolved from the compound surname.
How many crowns were there in the history of China? Public? Most of the characters' compound surnames are changed to single surnames Gong: from the crown of Ji surnames? Public? More than 50 Chinese characters with compound surnames were changed to single surnames Gong, and more than 20 were from Jiang, Zi, yuanshi county and Mi. There are more than 65,438+00 multi-word compound surnames all from ethnic minorities, some of which were later translated into Chinese characters with the single surname Gong.
3. Change the surname from Chinese to surname.
① From Mongolian: Mongolian Gongjite Banner, living in Keshiketeng Banner; Mongolian Gong Jirat lives in Zhuote, Harraca. After the mid-Qing Dynasty, it was mostly named Gong Shi.
② From Manchu: The Manchu Gong family lived in Songhua River valley, and later the official Han surname Gong; Manchu Gong Li, also known as Gong Li's and Gong Li's, after the middle of Qing Dynasty, many crowned Han surnames were Ji's and some were Gong's.
Second, the ranking of public surnames is a typical multi-source and multi-ethnic ancient surname. The origin and origin of public surnames are mainly the above three places. It originated from the surname Ji, whose ancestors were He. At present, it ranks 408th among hundreds of surnames, after Huan surname and before Wan surname. Interested friends can also look at the origin and origin of Huan surname and Wanxian surname.
Third, how many people have public surnames at present? Although it doesn't rank high among hundreds of surnames, there are quite a few people who disclose their surnames. The population of China is about 184000, accounting for 0.0 1 1% of the total population. As for the distribution range, there are ethnic men in Fujian, Shandong, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Henan and other places.