Taishan surnames › The 曾 surname
Lineage of the 曾 families of Taishan
Translated from the Chinese, each part followed by its Chinese original. Places in Taishan are given with their pinyin; the sources’ own words (Source text) are in Chinese.
Compiled from the sources listed at the end. Every generation and every branch gives its source, and “Source text” shows the source’s own sentences; one that gives none is marked “no source”. Where a source says generations are lost or unknown, a dashed line marks the gap; where sources disagree, both are given.
In Daxiang Village, under the Tiantou Village Committee of Chixi Town, the surnames long settled there are Zeng, Li and Luo; the villagers are Hakka, and the village has a Zeng ancestral hall. According to Chixi Town's village records, in the Ming the Zeng forebears led their clansmen from Fujian to Xinning County in successive groups, and their descendants then moved to this village; but the article "Huang", citing "An Overview of Taishan Past and Present", says the ancestors of the Chixi Hakka came to Xinning in the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns of the Qing from the counties under Huizhou, Chaozhou and Jiaying.[1][2][edit]
赤溪镇田头村委会的大巷村，世居姓氏为曾、李、罗，村民属客家民系，村中有曾家祠。据赤溪镇的村落资料，明代曾氏先祖率领族人陆续从福建迁居新宁县，子孙再迁居该村；而「黄氏」一文引《台山古今概览》，说赤溪客家人的祖先是清朝雍正、乾隆年间从惠、潮、嘉所属各县迁入新宁的。
Lineage chart
Each box is a stretch of the line; a name leads to its entry and sources below. Each branch ends in the villages it settled - a linked one opens its village page. Scroll sideways when the chart is wide.
- Settled · 赤溪 Chixi大巷村 Daxiang Village
The line in detail
The Zeng of Daxiang Village, Chixi[1][2][edit]
赤溪大巷村曾氏
In the Ming, the Zeng forebears led their clansmen from Fujian to Xinning County in successive groups; their descendants then moved to Daxiang Village
明代曾氏先祖率领族人陆续从福建迁居新宁县，子孙再迁居大巷村
Daxiang Village is in the southwest of Chixi Town, under the Tiantou Village Committee; the surnames long settled there are Zeng, Li and Luo. After the Zeng, the forebears of the Li, Luo, Zhong and other surnames also came here one after another from various parts of Xinning County and settled. The villagers are Hakka and speak Hakka. The village has a Zeng ancestral hall. The records do not give the name of the Zeng's first migrant ancestor.
大巷村在赤溪镇西南部，属田头村委会，世居姓氏为曾、李、罗；曾氏之后，李、罗、钟等姓先祖也陆续从新宁县各地来此定居。村民为客家民系，通用客家话。村中有曾家祠。资料没有记曾氏始迁祖的名字。
Sources differ: When they came and from where: the village records say "in the Ming" and "moved from Fujian to Xinning County"; the article "Huang", citing "An Overview of Taishan Past and Present", says the ancestors of the Chixi Hakka "came to Xinning (Taishan) County one after another in the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns of the Qing, from the counties under Hui(zhou), Chao(zhou) and Jia(ying Prefecture, i.e., Meizhou)" - this refers to the Chixi Hakka in general, not to the Zeng in particular.
迁入年代与来处：村落资料作「明代」「从福建迁居新宁县」；「黄氏」一文引《台山古今概览》，说赤溪客家人的祖先「于清朝雍正、乾隆年间，从惠（州）、潮（州）、嘉（应州，即梅州）所属各县先后迁入新宁（台山）县」——这是泛指赤溪客家人，没有专讲曾氏。
Settled: 大巷村 Daxiang Village
Moved away to: Fujian 福建
A place with a link was matched to its village page within the same town; the others are as the sources write them. See the villages of the 曾 surname.
References[edit]
- Written by Zhu Yiguang, chief compiler Zhong Riping, "Natural Villages of Chixi Town - Daxiang Village, Tiantou Village", in the "History and Culture" section of the Chixi Town People's Government website, Taishan, May 20, 2025 朱奕光撰稿，钟日平总纂：「赤溪镇自然村落情况-田头村大巷村」，台山市赤溪镇人民政府网站「历史文化」，2025年5月20日
- "Huang", in the "Taishan Surnames" column of the Taishan Municipal Government website, December 19, 2017 「黄氏」，台山市人民政府门户网站「台山姓氏」栏目，2017年12月19日 (archived copy)
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