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	Ouyang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ouyang, (also O'Young, Owyang, Au Yong, Auyong, Au Yeung, Au Ieong) (Simplified Chinese: 欧阳, Traditional Chinese: 歐陽) is one of the most common two-character Chinese surnames in the world, although for a surname, it falls out of the top two hundred as documented by the Language Publication Society, Beijing, in 1990.
		The Song Dynasty historian Ouyang Xiu traced the Ouyang surname to Di, a prince of Yue.
		In terms of distribution Ouyangs have mostly been confined to southern China, especially the areas of southern Jiangxi, central Hubei and eastern Henan, with smaller pockets in Guangdong, Sichuan, Hunan and Guangxi.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ouyang (309 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chinese surname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Ouyang, (also OYoung, Owyang, Au Yong, Auyong, Au Yeung, Au Ieong) (Simplified Chinese: æ¬§é˜³;, Traditional Chinese: æé™½;) is one of the most common two-character Chinese surnames in the world, although for a surname, it falls out of the top two hundred as documented by the Language Publication Society, Beijing, in...
		Surname identity and solidarity has declined markedly since the 1930s with the decline of Confucianism and later, the rise of Communism in Mainland China.
		During the Cultural Revolution, surname culture was actively persecuted by the government with the destruction of ancestral temples and genealogies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chinese-surname (4464 words)

	chinese family name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Within each surname there are Chinese clans, which are groups of people who share a given surname and come from the same ancestral village.
		The surname of the Han emperors was Liu, and that of the Ming emperors was Zhu.
		It is common for the same surname to be transliterated differently and for different family names with similar pronunciations to be transliterated identically.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Chinese_family_name.html (1119 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Yuan (family name)
		Chapter 35 of the text, 'Treatise of surnames and clan names' (志姓氏), notes that the Yuan clan were descendants of the royal family of the Spring and Autumn Period state of Chen and the legendary Emperor Shun.
		It traces the surname to Yuan Taotu, a 7th century BC Chen nobleman, who took a character in his grandfather Zhu's (諸) style name Boyuan (伯爰) to be his own family name.
		Those with the Yuan surname are concentrated in the Yangtze Delta region, in northwestern Jiangxi and in the border region between Shaanxi and Sichuan.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Yuan_%28family_name%29 (2060 words)

	Yuan (family name) - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Yuan (袁) is a Chinese surname, ranked 49th in the Baijiaxing.
		Chapter 35 of the text, 'Treatise of surnames and clan names' 志姓氏, notes that the Yuan clan were descendants of the royal family of the Spring and Autumn period state of Chen 陳 and the legendary Emperor Shun 舜.
		It is known that the surname Yuan could be written in at least five different ways in Han times (袁 and 爰 being the most common), and they may have been used interchangeably in pre-Han times.
	www.free-definition.com /Yuan-(family-name).html (1772 words)

	Chinese surname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		A Chinese surname, also called a clan name or family name (Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng or 氏; shì), is one of the over seven hundred family names used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups.
		The term "the hundred surnames" (百姓 bǎi xìng) is colloquially used in Chinese to mean "the people" or "commoners".
		They generally are composed of a nü (女, meaning "female") radical which suggests that they originated from matriarchal societies based on maternal lineages.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Chinese_family_name (2101 words)

	Chinese family name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Within each surname there are Chinese clans, which are groups of peoplewho share a given surname and come from the same ancestral village.
		The story is that the founder of the clan was adopted and so took the surname Liao, but in honor of hisancestors, he demanded that he be buried with the surname Chen.
		It is common for the same surname to be transliterated differently and for different familynames with similar pronunciations to be transliterated identically.
	www.therfcc.org /RFCC/chinese-family-name-36897.html (1058 words)

	Forest of Stone Steles Museum Xian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan,Zhu Suiliang, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan developed their own distinctive styles of regular script, while Ouyang Tong, Xu Hao, Shi Weize, Huai Su, Zhang Xu and Li Yangbing were celebrated calligraphers of different script forms.
		The inscription was composed by Li Yan and written by Ouyang Tong, son of the noted Tang calligrapher Ouyang Xun.
		Ouyang Tong, whose calligraphy is characterized by vigorous strokes and regular form, has been known with his father as " the senior and junior Ouyang".
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/xian/forest.htm (6537 words)

	Chinese compound surname - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese compound surname is an uncommon Chinese surname using more than one character.
		Many of these surnames originated from government official titles.
		A small minority of Koreans also have such surnames (see also Korean name).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_compound_surname (152 words)

	About China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Surnames are translated into one word and the given name into another.
		For instance, Wang is the surname for Wang Hanlin.
		In the case of Ouyang Qing,Ouyang is the surname.
	www.sofair.net /hanyu/info/ch8.htm (201 words)

	MHN Project - Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The full name of a Han Chinese is composed of two parts: the surname and the given name, the opposite of the arrangement of names in many other countries outside of Asia.
		The surname is generally composed of one word or syllable, such as Zhang, Wang or Zhao.
		A Chinese surname is often passed down through the father, but Chinese women always retain their family name even after marriage.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~mohammed-al-najjar/names.htm (260 words)

	Chinese family name : Chinese surname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		As a result, his descendants use the surname Liao while alive but once they die, their surname becomes Chen.
		This is in contrast to the "single Liao" surname which remains both before and after death.
		It is common for the same surname to be transliterated differently and for different family names with similar pronounciations to be transliterated identically.
	www.termsdefined.net /ch/chinese-surname.html (807 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''Ouyang''', (also '''O'Young''', '''Owyang''', '''Au Yong''', '''Auyong''', '''Au Yeung''') (Simplified Chinese: Wiktionary:欧欧Wiktionary:阳阳, Traditional Chinese: Wiktionary:歐歐Wiktionary:陽陽) is one of the most common two-character Chinese surnames in the world, although for a surname, it falls out of the top two hundred as documented by the Language Publication Society, Beijing, in 1990.
		The Song Dynasty historian Ouyang Xiu traced the Ouyang surname to Di, a prince of Yue (state) Yue.
		After his state was extinguished by the state of Chu (state) Chu, Di was given a feoff in what is now southern Jiangsu.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Ouyang.html (344 words)

	Chinese surname (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		After the states of China were unified by Qin Shi Huangdi, surnames gradually devolved to the lower cases and the difference between xing and shi blurred.
		The three most popular surnames in Mainland China are Li, Wang and Zhang, which make up 7.9%, 7.4% and 7.1% respectively.
		The reason for this is statistical-it is more likely that the father of a child will have a common family name than an uncommon name, so small differences are magnified over time.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/ch/Chinese%20surname.htm (2103 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Board > Chinese surname
		It was because it was the surname of the royal family.
		Apr 27 2004, 09:36 AM The most famous person with the surname Xiao in the history is Xiaohe 萧何, who was one of the most important idea man of Liubang, the first emperor of the Han Dynasty.
		Generally the surnames go back in history a long time (That's why there are so many with the same names)...The names are either the names of clans, or presenting a different ethnicity when they merged, or presenting a specific locality...
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t3696-150.html (4286 words)

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		Chinese surnames, like English ones, have meaning, but few people pay attention to them or even truly understand what the meaning has to do with the actual name.
		Ni [this is my Chinese surname, and also the surname of Taiwan's only famous SF author] 22.
		Ouyang [one of the few bisyllabic Chinese surnames] 23.
	www.jiawen.net /Chinesenamestext.txt (1375 words)

	Re: Is Duong a Chinese's surname? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		: Doung is the Vietnamese pronunciation for the Chinese surname Yang (willow)
		No: First, in the Chinese language there are only roughly 100 family names (in fact the idiom for civilians are literally translated to "old hundred family names"), but Duong isn't one of them, but the closest one is "dong".
		Second, all Chinese family names are of 1 syllable (except OuYang, a rare family name), which pronouncing Duong seems to resemble 2 sylables (Du-Ong).
	www.ziplink.net /~rey/ch/queries/messages/7140.html (144 words)

	Owyang couplet
		Bohai, the original source where we all began, and from which the Owyangs have spread far and wide across history, culture, and the world; and Luling, the home of the "eight generations of scholars" and most famous Owyang of all (with the possible exception of Norman Owyang, who had a try-out with the Warriors).
		Ouyang Xiu, a statesman, historian, epigrapher, essayist, and poet, was one of the leading cultural figures of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127).
		Ouyang Fei-Fei is a Chinese pop singer from Taiwan, who has continued to perform and record since debut in 1971.
	www.tonaidin.net /Owyang_couplet.htm (963 words)

	The Ouyang Family - History
		The surname of 'Ouyang' has a illustrious history.
		The southern part of the mountain was known as Yang, so his descendants accquired the surname of 'Ou' or 'Ouyang'.
		Since then there have been several great persons with the surname of 'Ouyang' over the course of China's history: Ouyang Xun, the great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, and Ouyang Xiu, a famous poet of the Song Dynasty; to name but a few.
	www.youyang.org /History.htm (309 words)

	ouyang email (spam-free!) and website community
		It can be used for anything: the ouyang surname, the ouyang family, the ouyang fan club, the ouyang alumni group, ouyang genealogy, or any other community or group about ouyang.
		This your chance to get a matching ouyang email address, matching ouyang website and matching ouyang single sign-on "passport" (once these are commonly accepted).
		If you were looking for a different ouyang, please do a ouyang search here.
	www.ouyang.pw (359 words)

	Chinese family name - InformationBlast
		The reason for this is statistical- it is more likely that the father of a child will have a common family name than an uncommon name, and this can be mathematically shown to crowd out uncommon names over time.
		This effect is more pronounced among Chinese than Europeans because Chinese surnames have existed for a much longer time.
		In writing Chinese names, Chinese family names are put before the given name, e.g.
	www.informationblast.com /Chinese_family_name.html (1000 words)

	China History Forum, online chinese history forum -> Two Syllable Surnames? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		I've heard that kings granted two syllable surnames as an honor in antiquity, though I don't know if this is accurate...
		When I was still going to elementary school in Taiwan, we had a student with the surname 歐陽 Ouyang.
		The surname Ouyang (欧阳) is pretty common in Taiwan.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=390 (1209 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Board > Anybody Seen A Chino Surname With 2 Characters?
		When I was in Taipei, I went to elementary school with a guy named 歐陽 Ouyang.
		Japanese surnames are made out of 2 characters.
		Two character surname with a two character given name.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t12907.html (1465 words)

	phorum - Our World Forum at Asiawind - The Japanese changed Chinese surnames
		Within a few days the surname Ouyang (¼Ú¶§) had been shortened to just Ou (¼Ú).
		The Japanese have double Chinese characters for their surnames and they forbade the Chinese in Taiwan to have double-character surnames like them.
		However, after the Japanese surrender in 1945, many Ous did not have their surnames reverted to Ou-Yang.
	www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=3&t=138374&a=1 (456 words)

	Transcription of Chinese Characters in Academic Writing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Most Chinese names have a one-character surname and a two-character personal name, many have a one-character surname and a one-character personal name, and a small minority have a two-character surname and a one- or two-character personal name.
		The most common two character surnames are Sima, Zhuge, Situ, and Ouyang; it is important not to write 司马迁 as *Si Maqian, but as Sima Qian.
		Some women in Taiwan and among overseas Chinese will place their husband's surname in front of their own, so the style is Liu Huang Haijuan (husband's surname, own surname, personal name).
	www.personal.leeds.ac.uk /~chifc/pinyin.html (3902 words)

	Ou Surnames (Last Names)
		This is a list of surnames (last names) that begin with the letters Ou.
		Members do so for a variety of purposes, including: discovering genealogy, building family trees, researching heritage and ancestry, meeting new people, and of course finding old friends.
		This static content lets you preview which surnames (last names) in particular are listed.
	static.namesdatabase.com /names2/O/Ou.html (141 words)

	Rachel's Pages \| Mandarin Chinese names for gamers
		It's like one of those "Three's Company" episodes where everybody was saying, "Does he know that I don't know he knows, or does he know that I know he knows that I don't know?" I knew a guy in grad school whose name was Wang Li.
		This is my Chinese surname and also the surname of one of Taiwan's most famous science fiction authors.
		There are several surname characters read Tan, but this is the most common.
	www.jiawen.net /Chinesenames.html (2825 words)

	Chinese Pronunciation
		Mao Zedong's surname was Mao; his father's name was Mao Shunshen, his son's name was Mao Anying, and so on.
		There is a scattering of two-syllable ones (and there were many more in ancient times), of which the only one you are likely to encounter is "Ouyang".
		The common Chinese surname "Cao", for example, is pronounced "ts-hhhow".
	www.olimu.com /Notes/ChinesePronunciation.htm (1937 words)

	Origin of the surname Ou, Au, Ou Yang, Au Yang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Use the search command on the upper left to find what you are looking for.
		The surname Ou came from the name of a place.
		Qin Chiu Dynasty, Gou Jian the king of Yue eliminated the Wu kingdom and became a superpower.
	www.yutopian.com /names/16/16ou298.html (434 words)

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