The chang Surname
chang Name Meaning and History
- Chinese
: variant of Zhang 1. -
Chinese
: The emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 bc)
had two advisers whose names contained this character; descendants of
both of them are believed to have adopted Chang as their surname.
Additionally, in the state of Wei during the Zhou dynasty (1122–221
bc) there existed a fief named Chang, the name of which was
adopted by descendants of its ruling class. The Chinese character also
has the meanings ‘often’ and ‘ordinary’. - Chinese
: variant of Zhang 2. - Chinese
:
a rare name whose Chinese character also means ‘prosperous,
flourishing’. This name is said to have originated 4500 years ago with
Chang Yi, son of the legendary emperor Huang Di and father of emperor
Zhuan Xu. - Korean: there are 33 Chang clans in Korea, all but three of which use the same Chinese character for their surname. All of the Korean Chang clans had their origins in China, and, apart from the T{ou}ksu Chang clan and the Ch{ou}lgang Chang clan, they all originated from a single founding ancestor, Chang Ch{ou}n-p’il. He was born in China in 888 ad and fled to Korea with his father during a tumultuous period of Chinese history. The T{ou}ksu Chang clan’s founding ancestor, Chang Sul-long, stayed in Korea, having escorted Kory{ou} King Ch’ungy{ou}l’s queen-to-be from China to Korea in 1275. Most of the founding ancestors of the other Chang clans arrived in Korea from Y{uu}an China during the Kory{ou} period (ad 918–1392) or during the early Chos{ou}n period.
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