Wong/Wang family history in TaiShan

[Sau]

I just found out that my father's birth father was Wong/Wang from Taishan.

Do anyone know how to find out the family story of Wong/Wang in that region?

[Woodson]

There are two ways of writing the surname Wong/Wang. The general accepted practice is Wong or Huang for the character as the colour yellow. Wang is used for the character king. Do you know which one your father's bio-family uses?

In Taishan of the two Wong's the colour Wong is the more common one. There is a large contingent of them in the Baisha area which is close to Kaiping.

[twoupman]

First, you need to find your father's village. Check this out and see if you can find it: www.insearchofroots.org/villagedb/search.cgi

[XIE Shixi]

The Wong "colour" and the Wong "king" (Íõ) are two different clans right? Íõ (King) is the common one or in the statistics the two Wong's were mixed? In our country alone, the Wong "king" is more common than the Wong "colour".

Now I'm confused... lol.

[User55]

Agree with you that overall there are more Wang than Wong. And which country are you from?

[helen]

There are Toisan Wongs in New Zealand

[helen]

My husband is "yellow" ta Tu Wong - origin from Gualian Canton

[twoupman]

Do you mean Hualian? If so, it is now called Huadu which is just north of the new Guangzhou International Airport.

[helen]

Not sure, Gulian is in Jungseng Province, where the Wongs are from. Near Sun Tong. My children were there yesterday and managed to locate their Grandfather's house.

[twoupman]

Sorry, my map does not show Gualian, however, Sun Tong/Xintang (New Pool) is shown and is SW of Xinjie/San Gaai (New Street).

[helen]

It's near there - It is the home of the Wong Family. Here's my daughters feedback on the visit to their county "we had the best food right near our villages. I don't know if it's because that's what tastes we like by nurture, or if their food is just better! The area is known for a special kind of choi sum (Chinese flowering cabbage), and also for their special kind of lychee "

[David Wong]

Here's a good link to the origin of the clan "Wong" aka "Huang", "Ng", "Ooi", "Bong" "Ong", Oei", "Hwang" ... and a few other variations. The site is maintained by Erik Huang (Ng Poh Sing) out of Brunei. Erik, is very responsive, as he has always replied to my queries ... and is a good resource of fairly reliable information.

www.geocities.com/bx_huang/Huang_origin.html

[M H Yee]

At www.tsinfo.com (Taishan City Government) there is a "Local History" page. From there there is a link to "Taishan Surnames" (Taishan xing shi). From that list tap on the "Huang surname" (Huang shi). This article, in simplified Chinese, as is the site, by Huang Zhongji gives a comprehensive study of the Huang (Yellow) surname in Taishan, as well as its connection to the Wang (Prince) and Wu (Five) surnames. of particular interest to you (if your surname is the "Three Stroke Wong," is subheaded and which I have translated as "In Taishan the Wang and Huang are One Clan." It states that the Wangs in Chongliao, Doushan and Tuhu market regions belong the the Nancun (South Village) Wang Branch (pai). Their founding ancestor who settled at a place called Dongkou (Cave's Mouth) was (Wang) Yinlong. At Nancun there is a Wang Clan Ancestral Hall (Wang Shi Zongci) and that in 1984, Nancun xiang of Tuhu Market consisted of 12 Wang villages or 856 households or 3422 people. It explains how those having these two surnames believe that they are related and that the Nancun Wang's were allowed to enter their ancestral tablets in the Huang Clan Greater Ancestral Hall at Taicheng (Taicheng Huang Shi tazongci) partially because of the Wang connection overseas. I suspect that the Wang surname is relatively small in Taishan and that the relationship maybe based more on the fact that both surnames are pronounce the same, i.e. "Wong" than anything else. Furthermore, this article implies that intermarriage between these two surnames, at least in Taishan, was not encouraged, perhaps even prohibited.
M.H. Yee

[wonton916]

Actually I'm a Wong (Wang) as well with Shiqi, Zhongshan origin.

[helen]

Here's another message board for Overseas Chinese Forum at Asiawind.

<http://www.asiawind.com/forums/read.php?f=4&i=3756&t=1754>