Meng (
Chinese: 孟;
pinyin: Mèng;
Wade–Giles: Meng) is a
Chinese surname. Meng is a
shi surname or clan name (氏), as opposed to the
xing (姓) category of surname, ancestral name. Meng is of the type of surname which was a member of the list of names denoting seniority within a certain family: in ancient usage, the characters of meng (孟), zhong (仲), shu (叔) and ji (季) were used to denote the first, second, third and fourth eldest sons in a family. These were sometimes adopted as surnames. Of these, Meng is the best known, being the surname of the philosopher
Mencius. It is the 94th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[1]
Historical people
Mencius (孟子), Mencius; born Mèng Kē (孟軻); or Mengzi (372–289 BC or 385–303 or 302 BC) was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who has often been described as the "second Sage", that is, after only Confucius himself. Duke Huan of Lu's son through Qingfu (慶父) was the ancestor of Mencius. He was descended from Duke Yang of the State of Lu (魯煬公). Duke Yang was the son of Bo Qin, who was the son of the Duke of Zhou of the Zhou dynasty royal family.
Meng Haoran (孟浩然), a Tang Dynasty poet listed in the Mencius family genealogy
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