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Ding (Chinese: ; pinyin: Dīng) is the simplest written Chinese family name in existence (the only character that is simpler is "一" i. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use Chinese family name is one of the hundreds or thousands of Family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic e. "one"). It is written in two strokes and is first on the Chinese surname stroke order. The Surname Stroke Order ( Simplified Chinese:姓氏笔划排列 arose as an impartial method of categorization in the order on which names appear in official documentation or

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Ding is the 46th most common surname in China. There are four main sources of the Dings:

1) The earliest record of this surname in history was the duke of Ding during the Shang Dynasty.

2) Came from the last name of Jiang. The youngest son of Qi Tai Gong, Qi Ding Gong was a high-ranking judge during the reigns of Zhou Cheng Wang and Zhou Kang Wang. After his death, his descendents used his middle name as their last name to commemorate him.

3) During Chun Qiu period, the descendents of a judge called Song Ding Gong, also used Ding as their last name.

4) During the Three Kingdoms period, a general, Sun Kuang of the Wu kingdom, accidentally burnt the food supply and as a punishment, the king Sun Quan ordered this general to change his last name to Ding (the king did not want to bear the same last name as this guilty general. )

Hometown: North west of Dingtao in the Shandong Province of eastern China.

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