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The Jiang (姜) Surname: From the Yan Emperor and Jiang Taigong to the Wuyi Diaspora

A River Named a People Most northern Chinese surnames trace to one of two ancestral stems: Ji (姬, Jī), the Zhou royal surname, and Jiang — written 姜 (Jiāng) — the older kind of name, a place before it was a family. The classical Guoyu preserves the charter: 「黄帝以姬水成，炎帝以姜水成」 — the Yellow Emperor came to…
October 12, 20260Comments

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The Tang (汤) Surname: From the Shang Dynasty’s Founding King to a 900-Year Wuyi Lineage

The Tang (汤) Surname: From the Shang Dynasty's Founding King to a 900-Year Wuyi Lineage A Surname from the Founding of a Dynasty (Tang, Tāng) The Tang (汤, Tāng) surname takes its character from Cheng Tang (成汤, Chéng Tāng), the king who founded the Shang dynasty (商朝, Shāng cháo) around 1600 BCE. Surname tradition derives…
September 17, 20260Comments

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A silver-and-letter (yinxin) remittance envelope with Chinese calligraphy, stamps and postmarks.
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Vancouver Taishan Remittance: How Qiaopi Letters Crossed the Pacific

Vancouver Taishan Remittance: How Qiaopi Letters Crossed the Pacific For a quarter-century around the turn of the twentieth century, the busiest thing crossing the Pacific between British Columbia and Guangdong was not a steamship or a passenger — it was a letter with money folded inside. Between 1895 and 1915, thousands of Taishanese men working…
September 11, 20260Comments

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The Peng (彭) Surname: A Top-31 Name, Scattered Thin at the Edge of the Wuyi Diaspora

The Peng (彭) Surname: A Top-31 Name, Scattered Thin at the Edge of the Wuyi Diaspora The Peng surname (彭, Péng) ranks about thirty-first among China's surnames, with roughly 6.9 million bearers — about 0.49 percent of the Han population — according to the cited surname study, Wu Jianhua's Peng Surname History (Peng Xing Shihua),…
September 10, 20260Comments

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