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Meng (surname)

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Mèng
Origin
MeaningFirst-born

Meng (Chinese: はじめ; pinyin: Mèng; Wade–Giles: Meng) is a Chinese surname. Meng is a shi surname or clan name (), as opposed to the xing (せい) category of surname, ancestral name. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage, the characters of meng (はじめ), zhong (なか), shu (叔) and ji () were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames. Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher Mencius. It is the 94th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]

Historical people

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  • Mencius (孟子もうし), Mencius; born Mèng Kē (はじめ軻); or Mengzi (372–289 BC or 385–303 or 302 BC) was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who has often been described as the "second Sage", that is, after only Confucius himself. Duke Huan of Lu's son through Qingfu (けいちち) was the ancestor of Mencius. He was descended from Duke Yang of the State of Lu (魯煬こう). Duke Yang was the son of Bo Qin, who was the son of the Duke of Zhou of the Zhou dynasty royal family.
  • Meng Haoran (はじめ浩然こうぜん), a Tang Dynasty poet listed in the Mencius family genealogy
  • Meng Zhixiang (はじめさち), a general of the Later Tang and founder of the Later Shu during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

People with the surname Meng

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  • Meng Fan-chao, acting Magistrate of Nantou County (1981)
  • Meng Hongwei, former president of Interpol
  • Meng Jia (はじめけい), a Chinese member of South Korean girl group Miss A
  • Meng Jiao (はじめ郊), a Tang Dynasty poet, grandson of Meng Haoran
  • Meng Ke (はじめ軻/はじめ轲), better known as Mencius (Meng Zi)
  • Emilie Meng (1998–2016), Danish teenager who was murdered
  • Ellis Meng, American engineer
  • Grace Meng, Chinese-American politician
  • Jimmy Meng, Chinese-American politician
  • Meng Suping (はじめ苏平), Chinese Olympic weightlifter
  • Meng Fei (host) (はじめ), host of popular Chinese TV show If You Are the One (game show)
  • Summer Meng (はじめ耿如), Taiwanese actress
  • Meng Meiqi (はじめ美岐みき), Chinese singer
  • Sinchang Maeng clan, Maeng is the Korean version of the Chinese last name Meng
  • Meng Wanzhou (はじめばんふね), CFO of telecom giant Huawei, China's largest private company
  • Heini Meng (born 1902, date of death unknown), Swiss ice hockey player

See also

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References

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  1. ^ K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.