shàng guān 上官

Migration and Distribution (Information lacking) The Shangguan surname is not listed among the top 100 surnames in the main - land of China and Taiwan. The Shangguan surname originated from the Mi surname and is a compound surname named after an official position. According to the records in "Yuanhe Xingzuan" and "New Book of Tang: Genealogies of Prime Ministers", the ancestral founder of the Shangguan clan was Zilan, the youngest son of King Zhuang of the Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period. This Prince Zilan held the position of Shangguan Dafu (a high - ranking official position) and took the name of his official position as his surname, thus the surname Shangguan came into being. Another theory is that "Shangguan" was a place name, located in the southeast of present - day Huaxian County, Henan Province, and the members of the noble family there took the name of the fief as their surname. After the Qin Dynasty conquered the six states, the noble families of the Chu State were migrated to the Guanzhong area, and the Shangguan clan was moved to Longxi Shanggui. As recorded in "New Book of Tang: Genealogies of Prime Ministers", during the Han Dynasty, to increase the population in the Guanzhong area, the imperial court ordered many noble families to move to Guanzhong, among which the Shangguan clan was moved to Longxi Shanggui. Shanggui is today's Tianshui, Gansu Province, which is the reason why the Shangguan clan, originating from the noble family of the Chu State, became a prominent and influential family in Tianshui. During the Tang Dynasty, the Shangguan clan had emerged in the Henan area in the Central Plains and became prominent in Shanzhou, Henan. Shangguan Yi, a litterateur during the Zhenguan period of Emperor Taizong, was from Shanzhou. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, due to the social unrest, the people in the Central Plains were forced to migrate southward on a large scale. The ancestors of the Shangguan clan were also affected and soon settled and thrived in present - day Shaowu, Fujian. The Shangguan clan was originally in the area of the southeast of present - day Huaxian County, Henan Province. Later, the prominent branch of the clan was based in Tianshui County, which is in the southwest of present - day Tongwei County, Gansu Province. Famous people with the Shangguan surname include Shangguan Wan'er, a talented woman in the Tang Dynasty, and [the description about the Song Dynasty person is incomplete in Chinese and thus hard to accurately translate here].