First, from Ji's surname.
He is a descendant of Kang Shu, the founding monarch of Wei in the Spring and Autumn Period, and is a surname with a fief as his surname. Kang Shu's reputation began to be sealed in Kang, so in history, he was also called Kang Shu's name. After the Wu Geng Rebellion was rehabilitated, Zhou Guogong sealed the land of Shang Dynasty to him and established the national defense. Some of Kang Shu's descendants were sealed in cold water and took fiefs as their surnames, which were called Leng's.
Second, take the professional surname.
Taking technology as the surname is changed by Ling. According to legend, there was a musician named Ling Lun in the era of the Yellow Emperor, who was the inventor of China ancient tune. Ling Lun made two chimes, which were matched with the palace, the Shang Dynasty, the horn, the sign and the feather. After all these are completed, it is convenient for Ling Lun to perform a grand music and dance on the second day of February in mid-spring, when the sun appears in the direction of Wei Xiao. The name of Lewu is "Xianchi", and his surname is Ling.
Ling was also written as a singer, so people in charge of court music in past dynasties were called "actors" and later became the names of actors. Linglun's descendants were called Linglun's, but later they misspelled it and misrepresented it as Leng, becoming Leng's.
Third, minority surnames.
The Qiang nationality in the Song Dynasty, the Miao nationality in modern times, the Tujia nationality, the Yi nationality, the Manchu nationality, the Mongolian nationality and the Hui nationality all have cold surnames.
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Migration and distribution of cold surnames
First, the Han Dynasty: people surnamed Leng formed large settlements in Xincai, Henan and Xi 'an, Shaanxi. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Lengguang in the first year of Hongjia was named loyal, with 1800 restaurants. After Leng Guang's death, his son Leng He Qi inherited the title and lost it in Xin Mang. His descendants are scattered around Xi city, Shaanxi province today.
2. Sui and Tang Dynasties: Leng family not only continued to breed in Shaanxi, Henan and Zhejiang, but also settled in Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong in the north and Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan and Sichuan in the south.
Three. Song and Yuan Dynasties: The residence of Leng surname was further expanded, and Leng surname people moved to Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi today.
4. The local biography of the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty: the cold surname of Sichuan fled from Yunnan and Guizhou, and then Huguang filled Sichuan, making the cold surnames of the two lakes move to Sichuan and Chongqing.