yǎng 养

Migration and Distribution (Information missing) The Yang surname is not among the top 100 surnames in the list of Chinese surnames on the Chinese mainland or in Taiwan. During the Zhou Dynasty, there was a state called Yang (southeast of today's Shenqiu County, Henan Province), which was later conquered by the State of Chu. However, some of the people of the Yang State still took Yang as their surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, a high - ranking official in the State of Chu named Youji was enfeoffed in Yang and was called Yang Youji. His descendants took the name of the fief as their surname, becoming the Yang clan. Yang Youji was a famous archer, and the idiom "shooting through a willow leaf a hundred paces away" describes his archery skills. After the high - ranking official Yang Sheng of the State of Deng, his descendants took Yang as their surname, and later generations followed, becoming part of the Yang clan. The prominent families of the Yang surname were located in Shanyang Commandery, which is now northwest of Jinning County, Shandong Province. Note: There is an error in the original text. "伪神箭手" (pseudo - divine archer) seems to be a wrong description. Yang Youji was a real and well - known archer in history, so it is translated as "famous archer" here.