Gang surname is a surname derived from a place name. According to legend, during the Warring States Period, there was a city called Gang Shou in the State of Qi (now Dongping, Shandong), and people who lived there later took this place name as their surname. It turned out to be a Han surname, and later there was a Manchu gang.
Textual research on surname: Gangshi took Yi as his surname. Historical records: cutting qi for righteousness. According to news reports, there is a resolute history of the Ministry of War of the Qing Dynasty. Single origin: from the Han nationality, from a surname of the Han nationality to Manchu, it belongs to the refuge of sinicization.
There are three similar theories about the origin of Manchu families:
1. According to the records of Tang family tree:
At the end of Ming Dynasty, there were five brothers, originally from Han nationality. Their names were Tong Gong, Tong Kuan, Tong Xin, Tong Min and Tong Hui, originally from Tiejiazhuang, xian county, Hebei. When the Qing soldiers enter the customs, they enter the flag. At the beginning, it belonged to Manzhouli with a red flag and followed Nurhachi all the way. Later, because of their meritorious military service, it was changed to a white flag.
The five brothers live in Jinzhou West, Wutai in Montenegro and Tongjiagou in Beining. The last five brothers stayed in Kanto for development because of the scattered war. The ancestor's name is Tonghui, which has left a gathering place for future generations, such as Tongjiatun, Tongjiadian and Tongjiagou.
Recently, some scholars believe that because Tong's genealogy is dated seriously and has a long history, no one has repaired or continued it, or it was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The existing genealogy is only completed by future generations from memory, and the surname is very likely to be wrong. Today's Tiejiazhuang, xian county, Hebei Province, has no nationality with this name in history. Therefore, the argument about the origin of children's surnames in xian county, Hebei Province is debatable.
2. It is also recorded in Tong's genealogy:
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were five brothers, originally from Jiang's family of Han nationality and originally from southern Shandong. Later, in order to commit the crime of dynasty, they fled together, went north from Shandong coast, landed on Liaodong Peninsula, and lived incognito near Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. Later, the Qing army expanded into the customs, incorporated into the flag, and became Manchu. Because the pronunciation of the word "Jiang" in its local dialect is gāng, "Shen" is probably the dialect pronunciation of "Jiang".
Recently, some scholars believe that if it is the family branch mentioned in the second part above, it should belong to the Chiang family. It is said that it once belonged to Manchuria with a red flag in the Qing Dynasty. Judging from the main inhabited areas of Manchu clan, there are not many people who entered the customs with Manchu in history, so there are not many officials, so they should belong to a lower position in Manchu clan. It may be due to other small tribes conquered in the early Qing dynasty, or the surnames given by the Han border people after they surrendered. Generally speaking, Manchu classified such people as people living in the birthplace of Manchu outside the customs for control. Clan people in the south should have moved there in small quantities in modern times. The Tang family in Shenyang, whose ancestors were five ministers of the Ming Dynasty, became sworn friends in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Later, when the Ming Dynasty perished, their people were incorporated into Manchuria by the Red Flag. So I took a small "Jiang" from Jiangshan as my surname, in order to be ashamed of losing my country.
According to the introduction of the older generation of Tong's family in Jinzhou, Liaoning Province, Tong's ancestral home is Manzhouli, and he is a local official in charge of Liaoning's water transport. Later, he was forced to flee because he offended the court or local officials. So the original Manchu surname was changed to "Fu", so there was a Fu surname.
If only the Manchu surname Gang and Shen are mentioned, the first difference lies in their different flags. There is no way to prove their future relationship.