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Migration and Distribution (Lack of information) The Dongfang surname is not listed among the top 100 surnames in the main - land of China and Taiwan. "Dongfang" is an ancient surname. As early as in ancient times, Fuxi, the ancient emperor, created the Eight Diagrams. And his descendant, Sun Zhong, was in charge of the order of the eastern green sun all the time. According to ancient records, it is said that when he was born, "he came out of the Zhen position, which represents the east". That is, according to the calculation of the Eight - Diagram, he was in the Zhen position, and the Zhen position represents "the East". Therefore, he took "Dongfang" as his surname. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the famous literati Dongfang Shuo originally had the surname Zhang. Because his mother died of illness when he was less than three days old, and his father had passed away many days ago, the neighbors named him "Dongfang Shuo" according to the fact that the sky in the east had just dawned when he was born. When he grew up, he became well - known for a while, and the Dongfang surname was further consolidated. Dongfang Shuo was from Yanci, Pingyuan (now Huimin, Shandong Province). In the Tang Dynasty, the Dongfang surname had become one of the prominent and well - known surnames in Pingyuan Commandery. There were many famous people with the Dongfang surname in history, such as Dongfang Qiu and Dongfang Xian. Dongfang Qiu was a historian and poet in the Tang Dynasty, and Dongfang Xian was a litterateur in the Tang Dynasty and one of the eighteen scholars in the Kaiyuan period.