Monday, October 6, 2008

Linghu

Linghu is a Chinese compound surname. During the Zhou Dynasty, a general, Wei Ke scored many victories for Zhou and was granted the city of Linghu. All his descendants took the compound surname Linghu.

A famous person with this surname is Linghu Chong, the protagonist in Louis Cha's ''wuxia'' novel ''The Smiling, Proud Wanderer''.

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