Surname Long, dragon in Chinese, Malaysia

Hi alwinlong3,

Welcome to our Forum.

If you have the Chinese characters for the names of your grandfather & great grandfather - this would be a great start. Also, if you have the Chinese characters for the name of your ancestral village and its location, this is where you can try to acquire a copy of your family lineage. Since about the year 2000, there has been a lot of effort by villages to re-compile their lineages as part of the larger county and even provincial clan genealogies.

Also, if you can contact the Long clan association, they or one of its members may have the genealogy book that would document your lineage and also who your relatives are.

There is a thread on the Forum about Malaysian clan associations:

siyigenealogy.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=suggestion&action=display&thread=863

If you send a personal message to jefferyseow, a Forum member, he may be able to help you.

If you send me an email to "Tomclan@Gmail.com", I will be happy to provide you with some historical information on the origins of the Long surname.

Henry

Hi Henry-

I am extremely grateful for this resourceful site and also for Alwin for sending you this message.
My name is Lilly Long and our family resides in California, USA. I'm conducting research on the Long clan as well. 
In terms of the what Alvin mentioned below, that is exactly what my grandparents told me before they past.
I would like to learn more about he history of the Long clan and lineage as well. Would you be able to support me as well?

I'm excited to hear back from you. There's just so little informaton online.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Lilly

Hi Alwin,

It really nice to hear your journey in search of the Long.
My father migrated to Malaysia from Hainan in the 50's, unfortunately I don't have much information about the Long as he passed when I was 3 years old.

Learned some information from my mom but very limited, before my father passed he did have letters communication with his family or the Longs and he have my name enter/register in the lineage book at our ancestral house in Hainan.

That is the end of my information of my Long Clan.

I m really happy to read of your search and journey back to our ancestral home and I wish I could start my journey too with more information.

For a start, could you ask your cousin in Hainan if he could find out if my father and me was registered in the same ancestral home as yours. (Perhaps we are related LOL).

My father's name is Long Hock Lam (pronounced in Cantonese) 龍學林
and my name Long Puh Biew 龍浦彪.

Would really appreciate if you could point the way.

Dear Colleagues,

The following is some historical information on the origins of the Long clan by CHUNG Yoon-Ngan, a famous historian & author of The Origin of Chinese Surnames published in 2002.

Henry
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The 80th most common Chinese surname LONG (龍)

Long means: the dragon.
The surname Long is about 3,000 years old.

The surname Long originated in an area referred to during the Han Dynasty
(漢朝 206BC to 220AD) as the Wuling prefecture (武陵郡). The present day
location of Wuling prefecture is in the south of Xupu county (漵浦縣, 110.7
degree East and 27.9 degree North on the world map) of Henan province (河
南省).

According to the Chinese historical records Si Wenming (姒文命) founded
the Xia Dynasty (夏朝 2205BC to 1766BC); Si Qi (姒啟), his eldest son succeeded
him as the leader of the Xia people. According to tradition the leadership
was elected and not inherited from the father, so Si Qi changed the rules
of succession in order to allowed the title to be inheritable. Si Qi died
in 2188BC and his elder son Si Taikang (姒太康) succeeded him as the leader.

Si Taikang was a man obsessed with hunting. One day he led his army out
for hunting far and away from his domain, not realizing that he had ventured
into the land of the rival tribe Youqiong (有窮) (which is in the present
day Tonggu 通谷 village near the present day Luoyang 洛陽 city in Henan
province 河南省). Hou Yi (后羿) the leader of this tribe was incensed and
cut off the homeward bound road for Si Taikang, who was subsequently defeated
in a battle by Hou Yi. Si Taikang fled to Zhenxun (斟鄩) in present day Gong
county (鞏 縣) in Henan province.

Hou Yi led his army to occupy the Xia capital, Anyi (安邑 in the present
day Xia county (夏縣 in Shanxi province 山西省). Hou Yi installed Si Zhongkang
(姒仲康), the younger brother of Si Taikang as the puppet ruler of Xia.
Si Zhongkang died in 2146BC and his son Si Xiang (姒相) became the new ruler
of Xia; however, Hou Yi dethroned him and installed himself as the ruler
of Xia. Si Xiang fled to Zhenguan (斟灌 in present day Cao county 曹縣 in
Shandong province 山東省).

Hou Yi entrusted the military power to his army general Han Zhuo (寒浞)
who rebelled against him and then killed him. General Han Zhuo married Hou
Yi's wife and the couple had two sons.

In 2120BC, after the two sons had grown up, General Han Zhuo ordered them
to conquer the two territories of Zhenxun and Zhenguan, where the two dethroned
rulers were living. Si Taikang had already died of old age long before the
General Han Zhuo's sons arrived to conquer their land; however Si Xiang
was still alive and he was killed in the battle by the two Han brothers.

The brothers occupied the palace of Si Xiang; fortunately his pregnant wife
escaped death by crawling through a hole in the palace wall and hiding in
the village. After a few months she gave birth to a baby boy who was named
Si Shaokang (姒少康).

When Si Shaokang grew up he was aimlessly wondering around without a home
base of his own, finally settling down in Puban (蒲阪 in present day Yongji
county 永濟縣 of Shanxi province). Yao Si (姚思) the ruler of this place
married his two daughters to Si Shao Kang and gave him a large plot of land
to cultivate; Si Shaokang did not want to be a farmer for his whole life
and while he farmed the land and brought 2 sons into the world he secretly
congregated the remnants of his father's and grandfather's followers, planning
to restore his ancestors' kingdom.

In 2079BC, Si Shaokang led his followers to battle against Han Zhuo, which
resulted in the defeat and execution of Han Zhuo in a decisive battle at
Anyi. Si Shaokang restored the Xia Dynasty.

One of Si Shaokang's sons called Long (龍) remained in Puban. After Long's
death his children adopted LONG (龍) as their surname in remembrance of
Long

The couplet of surname Long:

源自上古,---Yuan2 zi4 shang4 gu3,
望出武陵.---Wang4 chu Wuling.

Surname LONG is an ancient Chinese surname,
It began to spread from Wuling Prefecture.
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The prominent persons produced by LONG clan:

(A) 龍啟瑞 (Long Qirui 1814AD to 1858 AD)

龍啟瑞是臨桂人﹐在清朝道光皇帝 (1821AD to 1850AD) 年間中進士﹐
督學湖北﹐後調江西﹐升為布政使﹐有廉明政聲。

他對經史頗有研究﹐尤其精通音韻學﹐著有 [古韻通說]﹐ 爾雅經注集證]﹐
[經的堂詩文集] 等書。
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(B) 龍雲 (Long Yun 1888AD to 1962AD)

反清革命軍士兵滇軍軍官云南都督侍衛隊長滇軍第五軍軍長云南省主席軍事 ... 除
了國民政府的任命，龍雲在主政雲南時也表現許多服從國民政府的作為，像是在中
原 ... 在其他軍閥來看滇軍裝備不良，但仍然在戰斗中以慘烈的傷亡完成任務..
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By CHUNG Yoon-Ngan (鄭永元)

Hi Jimmy,

Indeed there is another branch of Long’s linieage from the Canton area. That’s one of my desire is to find that link.

My genealogy in Hainan island is the 8th generation from the Long clan. Appreciate if you may update your findings after making Jit back to the new village. As for the Long village in Hainan island it is still very well preserved. Appreciate that they kept the history well.


Hi Henry aka “our Moderator,

Thanks for the info & the forum. The history differed in magnitude, details etc. I personally prefer the version I read in the ancestral “museum” in my village... will load it up later.


For all the Longs out there.... happy searching


Best Regards,

Long

Hi all brother & sister,

Seems not much activity in this forum for a while but I have not stop my search of my roots over the years. Recently, I was connected to a WeChat group of "The Long Brother and Sister" group chat (龙氏兄弟姐妹群) from around the world with majority members from Hainan and mostly using Chinese to communicate but there are also few from other parts of the world and the admin can communicate in English.

Through this group's help, I recently managed to find my roots and some relatives in Hainan.

They are very helpful and few other members too have successfully traced their roots and reconnected with their long lost family.

If anyone here would like to join the Long Brother and Sister Group Chat, (WeChat) please email me; daniellpp@gmail.com.

Would be glad to help.

Best regards
Daniel Long

I just came across this website and am also searching more about my long surname family history. I am from the canton area too and my relatives that I have met are in Guangdong. I heard there are many relatives in the GuangXi area as well. There is a lineage book there too... really amazing, and how each direct descendant from the Long clan should adopt a specific middle name so that we can find each other and recognise who are our relatives. It seems many of my relatives continued with the tradition and followed the lineage book on middle name conventions.

My father moved to the UK. Some extended members moved to California. I moved to Singapore 10years ago. My Chinese is not very good, however.

Nice to meet everyone here!

We went to the village last year to see my grandma and all the aunties and uncles for Qing Ming. There are more than 30 with our Long (dragon) surname in my known family circle. I am also trying to find out deeper about our history.