About the Liang family history

The Liang family comes from the surname Ying, ranking 128th in the Song version of "One Hundred Family Surnames". Originated from the Shaohao tribe of Dongyi, after Boyi. The thirty-fifth great Luo of Boyi gave birth to a son named Fei. After another five generations of Qin Zhong, Qin Zhong's youngest son Kang was granted the title of Liangshan in Xiayang (south of today's Hancheng, Shaanxi Province), established the Liang Kingdom, and became an earl. In 641 BC, Duke Mu of Qin sent troops to attack and destroy the Liang Kingdom and renamed the Liang region Shaoliang. Liang surname is mainly distributed in Guangxi and Guangdong. In these two provinces, Liang surname accounts for about 25% of the total population of Liang surname.

The ancestors who got the surname:

Bo Yi, Ying Kang, Liang Yang, Ji Tang, Wei Bi, Liang Guoer, Liang Le (Liang Qin), Liang Pinglao, Liang Zhu, Liang Biao , Shi Yanchang (Boer Jijin, also first Timur), Liang Yina. According to the "Liang Family Genealogy", Liang Yi'er was the great-great-grandson of Liang Kangbo and lived in Hedong (the county seat is in the present-day King Yu City in the northwest of Xia County, Shanxi). He was the founder of the Liang family in Hedong. Liang Eu was the ninth grandson of Kang Bo. He lived in Qufu (now part of Shandong) in his later years. His son Liang Cong moved to Yunzhou (now around Yishui County, Shandong). In the last years of Emperor Ping of the Western Han Dynasty, Liang Qiao, the 20th grandson of Liang Yi'er, moved to Anding (approximately on the north bank of the Beijing River in Jingchuan County, Gansu Province today) and was the founding ancestor of the Liang family in Anding; there was also a branch that moved to Fufeng (now Xingping County, Shaanxi Province). southeast). During the Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the above-mentioned areas, there were already Liang residents in some places near Henan and Jiangnan. During the Western Jin Dynasty, there was Liang Fen, whose daughter was Emperor Huai of the Jin Dynasty. Due to the chaos in the Jin Dynasty, the whole family followed the Jin Dynasty across the river, and their descendants multiplied in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang), Hepu (now Guangxi) and other places. Liang Xia, the grandson of Liang Fen, served as an official in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because Huan Xuan was enthroned, he was forced to follow Emperor An of Jin and fled to Sanshan in Luoyang County, Fujian. He later settled here and became the ancestor of the Liang family in Fujian.

With the surname Yao, during the time of Emperor Shun, Boyi was given the surname Ying by Shun because he helped Yu control floods and tamed birds and beasts for Shun. The surname Ying appeared. The surname Ying of the ancestors of Liang appeared because of the surname given by Emperor Shun, and Shun gave his son-in-law Boyi the surname Ying, and also gave him his daughter named Yao in marriage. Emperor Shun, whose surname was Yao, lived in the land of Yao and took his surname as Yao from the place where he lived. His descendants took Yao as their surname. The surname Liang of this branch is based on Guo. The surname Ying was later passed down to fourteen surnames, among which the surnames Qin and Liang were important tributaries. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, because one of his descendants, Qin Zhong and his son, had made contributions in conquering Xirong, King Xuan of Zhou named Qin Zhong's second son Kang in Liangshan, Xiayang (near today's Hancheng, Shaanxi), established the Liang Kingdom, and established him as the king, called Liang Kangbo. In 641 BC, Duke Mu of Qin attacked and destroyed the Liang Kingdom. The descendants of Liang Bo took the country as their surname and named it Liang. Kang Bo also became the ancestor of the surname Liang.