Dōng ( "

East East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that ea ...

") is a Chinese surname. Its Vietnamese form is Đồng, Đông. It is listed 360th on the ''

Hundred Family Surnames The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese language , Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book ...

'' poem. An origin of Dong is the simplification of the surname Dongfang, which originates from

Fu Xi Fuxi or Fu Hsi ( zh, c=伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music, hunting, fishing, domestication, and cooking, as well as the Cangjie system ...

. During the middle

Zhou dynasty The Zhou dynasty ( ) was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest span of any dynasty in Chinese history. During the Western Zhou period (771 BC), the royal house, surnamed Ji, had military ...

, Dongguan (東關) the Ji (姬) family reduce surname to Dong (東) in Jin (晉國).

Donghu people The Donghu (; ) were a tribal confederation of nomadic Hu (people), Hu people that were first recorded from the 7th century BCE and was taken over by the Xiongnu in 150 BCE. They lived in northern Hebei, southeastern Inner Mongolia and the western ...

(東胡) people get surname Dong (東) with tribe name.

Notable people

* Dong Feng (weightlifter) (东峰; born 1980), Chinese weightlifter * Dong Hang (东航; born 1993), Chinese footballer * Dong Mei (东梅; born 1967), Chinese architect

Notable people

See also