Taishan surnames › The 龚 surname
Lineage of the 龚 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.
The Gong descend from Gonggong of remote antiquity; old books say their forebears were the Gong clan whose name is written without "dragon", who, fleeing danger, added "dragon" to it to make this Gong. The Gong of Taishan City came from Zhujili in Nanxiong, Shaoguan, 500 years ago; they live apart in the three towns of Haiyan, Shalan and Baisha, and the three villages of Wangtou, Changqing and Dongcun are the largest.[1][2][edit]
龚氏源自上古共工氏，古籍称其先共氏避难，加龙为龚。台山市的龚姓是500年前由韶关南雄珠玑里迁来的，分居海宴、沙栏、白沙三镇，以望头、长庆、东村三村最大。
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.
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
- The Gong of Taishan 台山龚氏
- Settled · 海宴 Haiyan, 沙栏 Shalan, 白沙 Baisha望头村 Wangtou Village大狂坡 Dakuangpo坦安村 Tan'an Village硕仁村 Shuoren Village龚边村 Gongbian Village东村 Dongcun Village长庆村 Changqing Village田心村 Tianxin Village
Where the surname lives, by town - the sources do not say which branch:
- The 龚 families by town
- 海宴 Haiyan望头村 Wangtou Village大狂坡 Dakuangpo坦安村 Tan'an Village
- 沙栏 Shalan (today 海宴镇 Haiyan Town)硕仁村 Shuoren Village
- 白沙 Baisha龚边村 Gongbian Village东村 Dongcun Village长庆村 Changqing Village田心村 Tianxin Village
The line in detail
共工
By one account, a minister of the Yellow Emperor, in charge of water and land
一说为黄帝臣，司水土
Old books say the forebears of the Gong were the Gong clan whose name is written without "dragon", who, fleeing danger, added "dragon" to make this Gong; the "Compendium of Surnames" says the descendants of Gonggong formed two clans, both called Gong, one written with "dragon" and one without. This article says that more than four thousand years ago Gonggong was banished by Emperor Shun to what is now Hebei and Liaoning, and began to use "Gong" as the surname of the whole family; later, to escape their enemies, some added the three-dot water radical to the left of the character "Gong", becoming the Hong clan, and some added the character "dragon" above "Gong", becoming the Gong clan written with "dragon".
古籍称龚氏之先为共氏，避难加龙为龚；《姓纂》称共工后有共、龚二氏。本文称共工氏四千多年前被虞舜流放到今河北、辽宁一带，开始以「共」为整个家族的姓氏；后为避仇，有的在「共」字左旁加三点水成为洪氏，有的在「共」字上面加「龙」字成为龚氏。
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The Gong of Taishan[1][2][edit]
台山龚氏
Came from Zhujili in Nanxiong, Shaoguan, 500 years ago
500年前由韶关南雄珠玑里迁来
They now number more than 600 households and more than 3,000 people; the three villages of Wangtou, Changqing and Dongcun are the largest and most populous.
现共有户数600多，人口超过3000；以望头、长庆、东村三村最大，人口最多。
Sources differ: "Dakuangpo": the reprint has "Dafupo".
「大狂坡」，转载本作「大覆坡」。
Settled: 望头村 Wangtou Village, 大狂坡 Dakuangpo, 坦安村 Tan'an Village, 硕仁村 Shuoren Village, 龚边村 Gongbian Village, 东村 Dongcun Village, 长庆村 Changqing Village, 田心村 Tianxin Village
Where they live[edit]
They now number more than 600 households and more than 3,000 people; the three villages of Wangtou, Changqing and Dongcun are the largest and most populous.[1][2]
现共有户数600多，人口超过3000；以望头、长庆、东村三村最大，人口最多。
| 海宴 Haiyan | 望头村 Wangtou Village, 大狂坡 Dakuangpo, 坦安村 Tan'an Village · "Dakuangpo": the reprint has "Dafupo" 「大狂坡」，转载本作「大覆坡」[1][2] |
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| 沙栏 Shalan (today 海宴镇 Haiyan Town) |
硕仁村 Shuoren Village [1][2] Source text (Chinese)
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| 白沙 Baisha |
龚边村 Gongbian Village, 东村 Dongcun Village, 长庆村 Changqing Village, 田心村 Tianxin Village [1][2] Source text (Chinese)
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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 龚 surname.
References[edit]
- "Gong", in the "Taishan Surnames" column of the Taishan Municipal Government website, December 19, 2017 「龚氏」，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)
- Gong Ziming, "Gong", in "Origins of Taishan's Surnames" (vol. 1), compiled by the Cultural and Historical Materials Committee of the Taishan Municipal CPPCC; reposted on the Taishan Classmates website in the thread "[Share] Origins of Taishan's Surnames", August 2007 龚子明：「龚氏」，载《台山姓氏源流》（第一册），台山市政协文史资料委员会编；转载于台山同学网「[分享]台山姓氏源流」，2007年8月
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