Monday, October 6, 2008

Ding (surname)

Ding The earliest record of this surname in history was the duke of Ding during the Shang Dynasty.

2) Came from the last name of Jiang. The youngest son of Qi Tai Gong, Qi Ding Gong was a high-ranking judge during the reigns of Zhou Cheng Wang and Zhou Kang Wang. After his death, his descendents used his middle name as their last name to commemorate him.

3) During Chun Qiu period, the descendents of a judge called Song Ding Gong, also used Ding as their last name.

4) During the Three Kingdoms period, a general, Sun Kuang of the Wu kingdom, accidentally burnt the food supply and as a punishment, the king Sun Quan ordered this general to change his last name to Ding

Hometown: North west of Dingtao in the Shandong Province of eastern China.

http://www.yutopian.com/names/02/2ding46.html

Other variations


* Ting.
* ?inh, used in

Prominent people


*Diem Lien
*Ding Feng
*Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
*Ding Lei
*Ding Ling
*Ding Wei
*Ding Yuan
* Ding Zilin, Professor, currently the leader of the political pressure group Tiananmen Mothers.
*Shayla , Vietnamese American singer
*Dinh Bo Linh , considered the first king in the history of Vietnam
*Viet D. Dinh , from 2001 to 2003
*Samuel C. C. Ting, Nobel Prize laureates in Physics, 1976.

Fictional character


* Ding Hai, the central character of The Greed of Man, played by Adam Cheng.

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