Descendants of Hongjia: Hongjia Ancestral Temple was built in Tongzhi of Qing Dynasty for seven years. At that time, there was an outstanding local gentry named Hong Tuanlao, who took the lead in initiating the construction of Hongjia ancestral hall. At that time, the children of the Hong family all over the country responded in succession.
According to historical records, "Hong Jiacheng has three branches". In other words, today's Hong surname originated from three different clans. One is a descendant of an ancient water official, and the other two are from taboo words.
In 780 AD, a Hong family who lived in Danyang, Jiangsu Province for a long time changed their surname to Hong because of taboo. In Hongdong County, Shanxi Province, there used to be some people who took place names as their surnames.
The oldest surname Hong originated from the descendants of Gong after the ancient Yan Emperor Shennong. In the Yao-Shun era, Gong, who was in charge of civil water conservancy, was sent to Youzhou, which is today's Hebei-Liaoning area, because of his unfavorable work. Gong Shi, who developed in Youzhou, omitted his surname as "* * *", and later added three points of water next to the word "* * *" to avoid hostilities. Become a surname of Hong. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the war in the Central Plains led to great ethnic migration, and a large number of descendants of the Hong family moved south to today's Jiangxi and other places. The ancestor of the Hong family in Quanzhou originated from the descendants of the ancient Gong family.
Descendants of Hong: This house is my fifth generation. This was left by my great-great grandfather. My hometown is from Heshi. We moved from Henan to Jiangxi, then from Jiangxi to Hui 'an, and then from Hui 'an to Heshi. My great-great grandfather used to be an imperial examination officer in the Qing Dynasty. He always thought at home that he must build an ancestral temple for his ancestors in the future.
Although it is difficult to see the whole picture of Hong's grand ancestral hall in modern urban construction, it is not difficult to imagine the prosperity of Hong's family through the existing ancestral hall relics and the materials collected in the museum. With the continuous development of the surname Hong, this surname originated in the north, and now it is relatively rare in the north. The flood that moved southward began to spread to Southeast Asia as early as the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Descendants of Hong family: After my great-great grandfather became a juren, he became a magistrate in Jinmen and was in charge of Dongyang. He set up a private school there, and many students came to sponsor it when they knew that the teacher was going to build a house.
In the 28th year of Ming Dynasty, that is, A.D. 1674, a Fujian man named Hong and seven other people moved from Fujian to Taiwan Province Province to make a living by fishing. And built Mazu Palace here. Since then, the number of Hong people from Fujian has been increasing, and they have traveled all over Taichung, Nantou and other places, eventually becoming one of the famous families on the island of Taiwan Province Province.
The vicissitudes of history have created generations of Hong Yingjie. In the seventh year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty, the classical literary work "The Palace of Eternal Life" written by Hong Sheng, a native of Qiantang, Zhejiang Province and a native of imperial academy, alluded to reality with history and was an immortal masterpiece in the history of China literature. Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, was originally named Hong Renkun, a native of Hua County, Guangdong Province, and an intellectual from a peasant family. 185 1 year 1 month1day, an uprising was held in Jintian Village, Guiping, Guangxi, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was founded. In addition, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the scholar Hong Yu 1793 put forward the population view, which was five years earlier than the western Population Theory. Today, people after Hong continue to write the history of the Hong family.