Lang, a surname fitting for royalty
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IT is estimated that there are about 340,000 people surnamed Lang in China, ranking the 231st in terms of population. The number of Lang accounts to about 0.024 percent of the Chinese population.
There are generally two major sources of Lang as a family name. A major branch is derived from the Jis a royal family in Lu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). A prince named Fei Bo was granted the city of Lang; some of his offspring took Fei as their surnames, while some others took Lang. Therefore, marriages between the Feis and Langs were once forbidden in the Chinese history.
There are also Langs in minorities like Buyi, Man, A-chang, Naxi, Hui and Mongolian groups.
The Lang’s family majorly originated in southwest Shandong Province, and started a big migration as the Lu Kingdom was conquered. The Langs majorly dwelled in Changle of Shandong Province, Dingzhou and Linzhang of Hebei Province by the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220). Their traces were found in lower reaches of the Yellow River as well as Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in Wei-Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (AD 220-589), and entered Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan provinces by the end of Tang Dynasty (AD 618-907). There were records of Langs in Beijing by the end of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
Lang kiln is a famous government kiln at Jingdezhen of Jiangxi Province in late reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). It was named after the Jiangxi governor Lang Tingji who supervised the porcelain manufacture.
The Lang porcelain is especially popular for some of outstanding glaze colors like ruby red, jewelry blue and turquoise. Plain tricolor porcelain featuring yellow, green and purple color without cover glaze was also invented at Lang kiln.
Other celebrities of the Lang family in China also includes pianist Lang Lang, volleyball coach Lang Ping and economist Lang Xianping.
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