Under Heaven There is Only One Zeng
The Zeng Clan 曾氏 is traced to the ancient Zeng State 鄫國 and to the figure Prince Wu of Zeng 太子巫, with all later Zengs are regarded as his single line of descendants. Prince Wu was a 54th descendent of Yu the Great 姒大禹, the mythical founder of the Xia Dynasty.
Because traditional genealogical accounts claim there were no cases of
non‑Zeng people adopting the surname, writers describe
曾 as one of the “purest” Han
Chinese surnames and summarize this with the saying
「天下一曾無二曾」—“Under heaven
there is only one Zeng, and no second Zeng.”
The document below traces the history of my family 曾氏 from to our forbearers in Chinese mythology to Prince Wu, his 2nd Great-grandson—the Confucian Sage Zengzi 曾子宗聖公, and his descendants who eventually migrated from Northern China to the Sheung Gok in Toisan County, Guangdong 廣東省台山縣上閣.
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