hóng 红

Migration and Distribution (Lack of information) The Hong surname is not listed among the top 100 surnames in the Hundred Family Surnames in both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. During the Spring and Autumn Period, among the royal descendants of the State of Chu, there was a prince named Zhi, also known as Xiong Hong. Among his descendants, in order to show their ancestral royal status, they took their ancestor's name as the surname and called themselves the Hong Clan. Another theory is that in the early Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty enfeoffed his younger brother born of the same mother, Liu Jiao, as the King of Chu Yuan. Liu Jiao's son, Liu Fu, was first enfeoffed as the Marquis of Xiu and later as the Marquis of Hong, with his fiefdom in Hong (the present - day Hongting west of Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province). His descendants later took the name of the fiefdom as the surname and were called the Hong Clan. In the Han Dynasty, there was a place called "Hong" near the southwest of the present - day Xiaoxian County, Jiangsu Province, and most of the residents there took Hong as their surname. The Hong Clan, which originated from the State of Chu, was located in the present - day Shanxi Province according to historical records. The prominent branch of the clan was based in Changping Commandery (east of present - day Changping District, Beijing).