The 熊 surname

Xiong (熊) is one of the surnames of Taishan. According to a family genealogy of the Taishan Xiong compiled and printed in 1997, the Xiong of Taishan take Xiong Weijing (熊惟靖) of the Song as their founding ancestor and Xiong Hongrui (熊洪瑞), who came to Taishan in the Ming, as their first migrant ancestor.^[1]

Origin of the surname[edit]

The Xiong surname comes from Jilian (季连), a descendant of Emperor Zhuanxu, Gaoyang (颛顼帝高阳氏), and is of the Mi (芈) surname. One account says that Jilian's descendants held for generations the office of straining sacrificial wine through thatch grass and took the name of the office, "Yan" (酓), as their clan name, which texts mostly wrote with the similar-sounding character 熊 (Xiong); this is where the Xiong surname came from.^[2]

Coming to Taishan[edit]

The Family Genealogy of Hongrui Zu, First Ancestor to Come to Ning and Eighth-Generation Ancestor of the Xiong (《来宁始祖熊氏八世祖洪瑞祖家谱》), in one volume, was compiled and printed in 1997; its catalogued location is Taishan, Jiangmen, Guangdong. According to its catalogue entry, the founding ancestor was Weijing, courtesy name Jiyu (积玉), a man of the Song; the first migrant ancestor, Hongrui, moved to Taishan in the Ming. "Laining" (来宁) in the title means coming to Xinning (新宁, the old name of Taishan), and "eighth-generation ancestor" (八世祖) refers to Hongrui's generation in the clan.^[1]

How the Xiong came to Taishan and where they live is yet to be added. Family members who know more are welcome to edit this article.