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[ZhongHua]

how to know mine to? i don't have an idea.. i have a mandarin name but i don't know what's my surname in the 3k period..

[coykiesaol]

My surname is wang ,but i don't know whose surname is also wang in the Romance of three Kingdom.

[Xiuzhao]

My surname is wang ,but i don't know whose surname is also wang in the Romance of three Kingdom.

Wei officials
Wang Bi
Wang Can
Wang Chang
Wang Guan
Wang Hun
Wang Lang
Wang Ling
Wang Shen
Wang Shuang
Wang Xiu
Wang Zhong

Shu officials
Wang Fu
Wang Lian
Wang Mou
Wang Ping (pretty famous Shu general)
Wang Si

Wu officials
Wang Dun

Han officials
Wang Fu
Wang Hong
Wang Ji
Wang Rui
Wang Yun (famous for turning Lu Bu against Dong Zhuo)

Jin officials
Wang Rong
Wang Xiang
Wang Su

There are many many more people from this period with the surname Wang. This list is just a selection; some of them not so famous, but some, like Wang Ping and Wang Yun are very well known.

[ZhongHua]

what about mine? my surname is Gao in mandarin..

[Xiuzhao]

what about mine? my surname is Gao in mandarin..

Wei officials
Gao Gan (also served Yuan Shao)
Gao Lan (also served Yuan Shao)
Gao Rou (also served Yuan Shao)
Gao You
Gao Zuo

Shu officials
Gao Ding
Gao Xiang

Wu officials
Gao Cheng

Han officials
Gao Wang
Gao Yan

Jin officials
Gao Wan

Other officials
Gao Shi - served Guo Si
Gao Pei - served Liu Zhang
Gao Yi - served Liu Zhang
Gao Zhen - served Liu Zhang
Gao Shun - served Lu Bu; most famous and best war general of the era with the family name Gao
Gao Ya - served Lu Bu
Gao Fan - served Yuan Shao and Yuan Shang
Gao Dai - served Shang Xian

A lot of these men are extremely obscure and some could may well be fictional. But if you haven't already, do some reading on Gao Shun; he is a personal favourite of mine and is the only one that is really worth taking a look at from this (incomplete) list.

Edited by Xiuzhao, 30 December 2010 - 05:54 PM.

[bloodmerchant]

I won't give any definite clues but I think it's highly likely that my ancestral relatives fought for Dong Zhuo.

[BlackHumour]

My surname is Liang (梁）
According to wiki, i might be a descendant of a king/ruler..LOL

The first Liang was Liang Kang Hou who was the ruler of the State of Liang, in what is now Gansu Province in the northwestern part of China. The State of Liang existed during the Zhou Dynasty of 1027 BC to 221 BC. The descendants of Liang Kang Hou retained the name Liang as their surname in memory of the Liang state when it was annexed by the neighboring State of Qin in 641 BC.

During the Eastern Han period, a time when the Han Dynasty was in chaos and decline, a power struggle ensued between three rival groups, the powerful eunuchs, the cliques of officials and the consort families of which the Liang was one. This was largely due to the fact that starting in 88 AD, minors were placed on the throne and hence effective control of the Dynasty was in the hands of Regents. There were three successive empresses starting with Liang Na, Liang Ji and Liang Mengnu.

According to Witold Rodzinski's The Walled Kingdom (1984), "the Liang family, by providing three empresses, became the effective ruler of the country by the middle of the second century, and its members accumulated a vast number of key posts. However, its rivals, the eunuchs, were able, due to their influence on the new emperor, to bring about its downfall, and the whole Liang clan was reduced in 159AD."

In 159AD a eunuch gang in the service of Emperor Huan of Han slaughtered relatives of the Empress Dowager Liang, effectively bringing an end to the Imperial aspirations of the Liang family.

[bloodmerchant]

My surname is Liang (梁）
According to wiki, i might be a descendant of a king/ruler..LOL

It could also mean that you're also a patrilineal descendant of the commoners of Liang state. Rulers of Liang state were actually members of the Ying clan, the same clan as the rulers of Qin dynasty.

[Swordsman]

My surname is 郭。 Any general or military strategist with the surname of 郭 ?

[alantas]

My surname is the same as the lineage that ruled the Tang dynasty. lol, doesn't make me a descendent. Mine could have just been a simple merchant (lowest class) who happened to have the same surname as the Emperor at that time.

In the case of the Three Kingdoms, I had the same surname as Li Dian (李典), Li Yan (李严) or Li Jue (李傕). My maternal and spouse's surnames are akin to Huang Gai (黄盖), Huang Zhong (黄忠), Huang Quan (黄权)... or Huang Di (黄帝)

I have Royal surnames from both sides!

Edited by alantas, 20 November 2012 - 09:34 PM.

[Yimsi]

I think my surname didn't exist in 3k period, or maybe uncommon for every era.. its Ren 任

[shanessy]

My surname is 郭。 Any general or military strategist with the surname of 郭 ?

Guo Jia 

[shanessy]

I think my surname didn't exist in 3k period, or maybe uncommon for every era.. its Ren 任

 

Ren Jun is the only one I can think of.

[shanessy]

My Surname is Shi - 施.

 

I do not think there is any famous people with this surname during the Three Kingdoms period. The only very famous one I could think of is General Shi Lang during the Ching Dynasty.

[WenMinji]

My last name is Wu. o.o