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11-604: Xiong may refer to: Name [ edit ] Xiong (surname) (熊), a Chinese surname Location [ edit ] Xiong County , in Hebei, China Language [ edit ] The pinyin romanization of several Chinese characters, including 兄 (elder brother), 胸 (chest), 雄 (heroic) and 熊 (bear) The Xong language and the Miao people who speak it Group [ edit ] Xong , or Limbu people A subdivision of

22-786: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Xiong (surname) 熊 is also romanized as Hsiung in Wade-Giles . It is Hung or Hong in Cantonese ; Him in Hokkien , Hong or Yoong in Hakka ; Hiōng in Gan ; Hùng in Vietnamese ; and Xyooj in Hmong . Note that "Hong" and "Hung" may also refer to the unrelated surname 洪 . 熊

33-513: Is the 71st most common surname in mainland China . Although Chinese make up the largest part of the United States' population of Asian Pacific Americans , none of the romanizations of 熊 appeared among the 1000 most common surnames during the 2000 United States census . Xiong's literal meaning is " bear ". In ancient China , it was used as a clan name by a branch of the Mi ( 芈 ),

44-745: The royal family of the state of Chu . As recorded by Sima Qian , they claimed descent from Zhuanxu , a son of the Yellow Emperor in Chinese mythology , and Yuxiong ( 鬻熊 ), a tutor of the King Wen of Zhou in the 11th century BC. After the victory of the King Wu of Zhou over the Shang dynasty at the Battle of Muye c.  1046 BC, Yuxiong's descendants supposedly remained prominent at

55-513: The Mongol armies: see Huns Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Xiong . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Xiong&oldid=986358748 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

66-459: The Zhou court and took the surname Xiong. The King Cheng of Zhou (r. 1042– 1021 BC) then appointed Xiong Yi , Yuxiong's great-grandson, viscount of the fief of Chu. More likely, the clan name is a calque of a non- Sinitic dynasty, with modern scholarship believing the character 芈 was used to transcribe a Kam–Tai word also meaning "bear". Eventually rising to the status of kings ,

77-473: The family retained control of Chu until its conquest by Qin during the Warring States period . Some regained control of later successor states and the surname remains prominent in the provinces formerly comprising the territory of Chu. King Wu of Zhou King Wu of Zhou ( Chinese : 周 武 王 ; pinyin : Zhōu Wǔ Wáng ; died c.  1043 BCE ), personal name Ji Fa ,

88-511: The last king of the Shang dynasty ; in the Book of Rites , however, it is assumed that his inheritance represented an older tradition among the Zhou of passing over the eldest son. (Fa's grandfather Jili had likewise inherited Zhou despite two older brothers.) Upon his succession, Fa worked with his father-in-law Jiang Ziya to accomplish an unfinished task: overthrowing the Shang dynasty. During

99-890: The ninth year of his reign, Fa marched down the Yellow River to the Mengjin ford and met with more than 800 dukes. He constructed an ancestral tablet with his father's posthumous name as King Wen and placed it on a chariot in the middle of the host; considering the timing unpropitious, though, he did not yet attack Shang. In 1046 BC, King Wu took advantage of Shang disunity to launch an attack along with many neighboring dukes. The Battle of Muye destroyed Shang's forces and King Zhou of Shang set his palace on fire, dying within. King Wu followed his victory by establishing many feudal states under his 16 younger brothers and clans allied by marriage, but his death three years later provoked several rebellions against his young heir King Cheng and

110-536: The regent Ji Dan , even from three of his brothers . A burial mound in Zhouling town, Xianyang, Shaanxi was once thought to be King Wu's tomb. It was fitted with a headstone bearing Wu's name in the Qing dynasty. Modern archeology has since concluded that the tomb is not old enough to be from the Zhou dynasty, and is more likely to be that of a Han dynasty royal. The true location of King Wu's tomb remains unknown, but

121-477: Was the founding king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty . The chronology of his reign is disputed but is generally thought to have begun around 1046 BCE and ended with his death three years later. King Wu was the second son of Ji Chang (posthumously King Wen) and Tai Si . In most accounts, his older brother Bo Yikao was said to have predeceased his father, typically at the hands of King Zhou of Shang ,

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