Guo Dong Hong

FemaleDecember 1889–March 1988 •LT1F-5QQ

Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Sung, Soon, Young, Jong, Jung, Song, Yong, Jin, Seung, Jae, Sun, Kyung. Korean Chong, Chang, Min, Seong, Chung, Moon, Chul, Byung, Dae, Myong, Sa, Jung Hee. Vietnamese Thanh, Cuong, Quang, Son, Hung, Binh, Mai, Vinh, Hoa, Long, Minh, Nhi.

Chinese: Mandarin and Cantonese form of the surname 洪, meaning ‘vast’ in Chinese: (i) adopted in place of another Chinese surname, 共 (Gong in Mandarin pinyin). In some families, this surname is traced back to Gong Gong (共工), an official during the reign of the legendary Huang Di, the ‘Yellow Emperor’ (c. 27th century BC ). In other families, it is borne by descendants of people from the state of Gong (共) (located in present-day Huixian in Henan province), which was granted to Ji He, known as Gong Bo (Earl Gong), a figure during the Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 BC ). For other families, it is borne by descendants of Shen Sheng, a prince in the state of Jin during the Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 BC ), who was given Gong as a posthumous title. His descendants inherited this title as their surname. Later, some of his descendants changed the surname to 洪 in order to escape persecution by their enemies. Thus, the surname 洪 shares some of the same ancestors with the surname 龔; compare Gong 1. (ii) adopted in place of another Chinese surname, 弘 (see 5 below), which originated in Yuzhang (present-day Nanchang in Jiangxi province) and Qu’e (present-day Danyang in Jiangsu province). 弘 was the personal name of crown prince Li Hong (李弘) (652–675 AD ) in the Tang Dynasty. In ancient China it was taboo to bear the same name as a member of the royal family, so in Yuzhang and Qu’e people with the surname 弘 changed it to 洪, which has the same pronunciation.

Chinese: Mandarin form of the surname 弘, meaning ‘great’ in Chinese: from the second element of the personal name Hong Yan (弘演 or 弘延), style name of an official in the state of Wey (衛) during the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC ).