The Surname Meng is the seventy-third surname with the most Chinese, especially in the land of Luyu and Hebei. Today, the Meng population accounts for about 0.29% of the country's population, and the total population is about 3.83 million.
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Meng, long also. Meng's original meaning should refer to the largest of the brothers or sisters, also known as Bo. The Meng surname in the surname also comes from the largest branch.
Meng, guwen tongbao, bao, guwen also tongfu. The negative son is said to be the protection of the back, the incubation is called the fu, and the two words are combined to extend the meaning of protection and nurturing, and the grace of nurturing is the first grace between heaven and earth. This should be the name of Meng, and it is also the highest meaning of taking Meng as its family name, a primitive totem in the realm of worship and thought.
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There are two main origins and evolutions of the Meng surname:
1. From the Gu Meng clan
According to legend, emperor Gao Yang of the Emperor Had the surname of Meng, and Meng Yi, the minister of The Emperor of The Emperor. Subsequently, Meng Kua, the minister of Yu Shun, Meng Tu, the minister of The King of Xia, and Meng Mi, the minister of the King of Zhou Mu, etc., but I don't know where the clan came from? Or is Meng Yi the ancestor of the Meng surname? All in all, the Gumeng clan has existed for more than 4,000 years.
2. From the surname Ji
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou occupied the state of Gulu in Lushan, Henan, and enfeoffed the eldest son of his son Zhou Gongdan, Bo Bird, as the state of Lu. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, he appointed Xu and Xiang, an ally of Lu Bo's bird to march east to the Shang, and after the peace, he ordered The Bird to be stationed in Yandi, that is, in present-day Qufu, Shandong, and the state of Lu was moved from Lushan in Henan to Shandong, becoming a powerful princely state in the east during the Spring and Autumn Period. It was passed down to the Duke of Lu Huan, who had entered the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the eldest son of the Duke of Lu Huan, Qing Father, was originally the Zhongsun clan, which was later changed to the Meng Sun clan, and its descendants were the Meng clan. This ji surname Meng has a history of at least 2600 years.
In addition, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wen of Zhou enfeoffed his son Kang Shu Yu Kang, in present-day Yuzhou, Henan, the former Xia King Shaokang's ancient city. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed Shang, he moved Uncle Kang to Wei, and Wei was the shang capital chaogecheng, northeast of present-day Qi County, Henan, known historically as Uncle Wei Kang. By the time of the Duke of Wei Xiang, it had entered the late Spring and Autumn Period, and the State of Wei had moved its capital three times, with its capital at Diqiu, southwest of present-day Puyang, Henan. Duke Xiang of Wei's eldest son, Gongzi Zi (公子絷), was the eldest son of Duke Meng, and his grandson's name was Yi (彄), with the character of Wang Father's zigzag as his clan. The history of the Ji surname Meng also has more than 2500 years.
Foreign genetic integration
Like other surnames, The Meng surname in China is constantly communicating with other ethnic groups and has the flow of genes. The main incidents of foreign tribes joining the Meng surname group are: the Jurchen clan of the Northern Song Dynasty was changed to the Han surname Meng; the Meng surname of the Manchus of the Qing Dynasty, originally Han, later entered the Banner of Manchuria; the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Merzhele clan, the Mordile clan, the Mengjia clan, the Muyan clan, and the Mokle clan also changed their surnames to Meng, and most of these foreign Meng surnames were later assimilated into the Han nationality, and some of them became the Manchu, Dahuoer, orunchun and other ethnic groups in today's northeast region. Therefore, the Duomeng surname in the northeast region is closely related to the change of surname of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.
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Frequency plot of the Meng surname distribution
In the 1000 years since the Song Dynasty, the increase rate of the population of the Meng surname is ∨.S. The distribution in the country is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan and Hebei, and the Meng surname in these three provinces accounts for about 40.1% of the total population of the Meng surname. It is secondly distributed in Liaoning, Anhui, Heilongjiang and Jiangsu, which concentrate 25.8% of the meng population in these four provinces. Shandong is the largest province with the surname Meng, accounting for about 16.4% of the total population of the Surname Meng. The whole country has formed two large areas of Meng surname gathering area centered on Luyuji and Northeast China. During the 600 years, the degree and direction of population movement of the Meng surname mainly migrated from the southeast to the Central Plains and North China, especially to the northeast.
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Blood group distribution of the Meng population
The blood group distribution of the Meng population is generally:
Type O accounted for 30.4%, Type A accounted for 27.5%, Type B accounted for 32.1%, and Type AB accounted for 10%.
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Mencius
Mencius (372 BC - 289 BC), name Ke, Zi You, Zou Guoren in the Warring States Period, descendant of Lu Guoqing's father, a famous thinker and educator in ancient China, a representative figure of Confucianism in the Warring States period, known as "Ya sheng", and together with Confucius, he was called "Kong Meng". Mencius inherited and carried forward the ideas of Confucius, becoming a generation of Confucian masters second only to Confucius, and had a comprehensive and tremendous impact on Chinese culture in later generations. Mencius and his protégés wrote the book Mencius.
Meng Haoran
Meng Haoran (689-740), real name Meng Hao, character Haoran, number Mengshan people, Xiangzhou Xiangyang (now Xiangyang, Hubei) people, known as Meng Xiangyang, Sheng Tang landscape pastoral poet, together with Wang Wei called "Wang Meng". Meng Haoran had the ambition to use the world in his early years, traveled to Chang'an, and should not be promoted to the first. He once studied poetry in Taixue, moved the public secretary, and was convinced by it. However, his career was difficult, and he eventually retreated to seclusion and lived in seclusion on Lumen Mountain. Most of The poems of Meng are short stories of five words, mostly writing about the landscape and the idyllic yixing of seclusion and the mood of bondage and service, and the artistic achievement is unique, and there are three volumes of "Meng Haoran Collection" that have been handed down.
Mengjiao
Mengjiao (751-814), also known as Dongye, was a Poet of the Tang Dynasty, known as the "Prisoner of Poetry", and also known as "Suburban Cold Island Thin" along with Jia Island. Mengjiao was 46 years old and served as a county lieutenant and joined the army. His poetic attitude is extremely rigorous, often thinking hard and hammering, into the depths of the risk, representative works include "Wandering Son", "Feeling Nostalgia", "Hurt Spring" and so on.
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Junwang and Tang Number: The county wang of the Meng surname mainly includes Pingling, Pyeongchang, and Wuwei. The Meng surname is Pinglu and Sanqian as its hall name. "Three Migrations" is an allusion to MengMu's Three Migrations. When Mencius was young, his home was close to the family cemetery, and Mencius liked to learn about crying and burying graves in funerals. In order to educate her son, Meng's mother moved her family to the market, and Mencius liked the shouting of doing business. Meng Mu had to move for the third time and moved to the side of the school, and since then, Mengzi has liked to learn the number of etiquette and retreat, and Meng Mu is very happy to say, "This place can make my son a good person." Mencius later became the most learned man and was called Yasheng by posterity.
There are five important couplets of the Meng surname:
Longshan Yixing; Lumen hermitage.
Zhu also Hepu; Jiezhen Jingyang.
The five friends are far away; the seven articles are long.
Du Sheng Zhou Shi Ji; Private Shu Sage Gate.
The godson is not like the Tong clan; the jingfu looks up to Meng Guang.
Family motto: Meng Chaoran, a scholar during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, wrote a wealth of works in his lifetime, and the "Record of Family Commandments" is one of them. Meng Chaoran is based on "There are three adults in man: knowing and fearing adults." Knowing shame adults, knowing the difficulties of adults, otherwise, animals and beasts are also "folk ordinary family training ideas, collected up to the pre-Qin, down to the Qing Dynasty a number of famous family training, aphorisms, poems and works, compiled this influential collection of family training. The purpose of this book is to educate future generations and the world to be filial, to cherish honesty, to govern the family diligently, and to move customs in order to maintain and maintain excellent traditional morality and etiquette.