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Hong
is the
pinyin
romanization
of the
Chinese surname
洪
(
Hong
). It was listed 184th among the
Song
-era
Hundred Family Surnames
. Today it is not among the
100 most common surnames
in mainland China but it was the
15th-most-common surname
in Taiwan in 2005. As counted by a
Chinese census
,
Taiwan
is the area with the largest number of people with the name. It is also the pinyin romanization of a number of less-common names including
Hong
(
弘
),
Hong
(
t
?
,
s
?
), and
Hong
(
宏
). All of those names are romanized as
Hung
in
Wade-Giles
.
"Hong" is also one spelling employed for the
Cantonese
pronunciation of the surname
Xiong
(
熊
).
The
Hokkien
and
Teochew
romanization of Hong (that uses the character 洪) is
Ang
, which is also used for
Wang
(
汪
,
W?ng
).
It is also the romanization used for the Korean surname
Hong
, which uses the character 洪 in
hanja
, the Khmer surname
???
(Hong), as well as the surname
H?ng
in Vietnam, from the
Sino-Vietnamese
reading of Chinese character 洪.
Origin
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The name
洪
literally means "flood".
The legendary origin of the family links it to descendants of the
Yan Emperor
who originally bore the
ancestral name
(
xing
)
Jiang (姜)
and the
clan name
"Gonggong" (共工). The Gonggongs directed irrigation works and managed flood control on the west bank of the
Yellow River
in the southeast corner of the
Ordos Loop
above the
Wei
.
After the
Yellow Emperor
conquered the Yan Emperor's territory, his relatives and descendants were persecuted and the Gonggong rebelled during the reign of the
Gaoyang Emperor
. The future
Ku Emperor
led an army against the rebellion and crushed them at the
Battle of Bei Zhou Shan
. Supposedly, among his soldiers were the descendants of
Suiren
, credited with the
invention of fire
, so that this is referred to in Chinese sources as a battle between fire and water. The Gonggong were reinstated in their former position only to provoke widespread flooding under the
Yao Emperor
when they opposed some of his orders. A second army brought a second defeat and the Yao Emperor banished the Gonggong to
Jiangnan
.
When the Chinese ceased to have both ancestral and clan names, many Gonggongs combined the water
radical
from
jiang
with the character
gong
to produce Hong.
[
dubious
–
discuss
]
Ancestral centers
[
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]
Dunhuang
in
Gansu
and
Nanchang
in
Jiangxi
.
[
citation needed
]
List of persons with the surname
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Hong
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]
- Apple Hong
(born 1978), Malaysian-born Singaporean actress
- Hong Chengchou
(1593?1665), Chinese official
- Hong Liangji
(1746?1809), Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
- Hong Peiyun
(born 2001), Chinese singer
- Hong Rengan
(1822?1864), Chinese revolutionary
- Hong Xiuquan
(1814?1862), Chinese revolutionary and religious leader
- Hong Yuanshuo
(1948?2015), Chinese football manager
- Jess Hong
, New Zealand actress
- Jian Fang Lay
(born Hong Jianf?ng, 1973), Australian table tennis player
- Joshua Hong
(born 1995), Korean-American singer
Hung
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- Amy Hung
(born 1980), Taiwanese golfer
- Bruce Hung
({born 1990), Taiwanese actor
- Chris Hung
(born 1963), Taiwanese singer and television host
- Emily Hung
(born 1987), Taiwanese actress
- Hung Cee Kay
(born 1972), Hong Kong swimmer
- Hung Chi-chang
(born 1951), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Chung Yam
(born 1967), Hong Kong former cyclist
- Hung Hei-gun
(1745?1825), Chinese martial artist
- Hung Hsiu-chu
(born 1948), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Huang
(born 1961), American-Chinese media figure
- Hung I-Hsiang
(1925?1993), Taiwanese martial artist
- Hung Jui-chen
(born 1990), Taiwanese tennis player
- Hung Meng-chi
(born 1947), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Shih-han
(born 1990), Taiwanese badminton player
- Hung Shing
, Chinese folk religion deity
- Hung Tung
(1920?1987), Taiwanese painter
- Hung Tzu-yung
(born 1982), Taiwanese politician
- John Hung
(born 1938), Hong Kong businessman
- Ken Hung
(born 1987), Hong Kong singer
- Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
(born 1976), Chinese-American new media artist
- Kit Hung
(born 1977), Hong Kong filmmaker
- Mien-Chie Hung
(born 1950), American molecular biologist and cancer researcher
- Osman Hung
(born 1979), Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- Sammo Hung
(born 1952), Chinese actor, martial artist and film director
- Shih-Ting Hung
(born 1980), Taiwanese film director
- Stephen Hung
(born 1959), Hong Kong businessman
- Timmy Hung
(born 1974), Hong Kong actor
- Tony Hung
(born 1983), Hong Kong actor and television host
- William Hung (sinologist)
(1893?1980), Chinese historian and sinologist
References
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