Dong is an ancient name, the origin of the dong, has two arguments: the origin of support early, according to legend has name of descendants of the yellow emperor has a call uncle Ann, blocked in Liao (and smartweed, in tanghe county, henan province today), called Liao uncle.Dong Fu Liao uncle's son, for emperor shun domesticating dragon, given by shun surname for dong, Huan as child, sealing to 鬷 chuan (now shandong the dingtao county), with dong for his offspring.

Dong of the other one is in Zhou Chaoshi, according to the western han dynasty Shi You supplications article and poets of the tang "book of ancient and modern surnames dialectical" records, in the spring and autumn, Zhou Dafu symplectic two sons to the state of jin, together with the citizen's director jin of books, because its role is to "dong du jin shi", so also known as wang.The capital of the state of jin during this period in the crimson (now southeast shanxi yicheng), therefore the wang from the shanxi yicheng today.

Some seed, hereditary state of jin seeks, to the spring and autumn, with the official dong fox, he not powerful, write down the truth, is known as "LiangShi".Sun dong dong fox origin ", at the end of the qin dynasty was dubbed ZhaiWang, xiang yu is high (in this eastern shaanxi yan yan), the children after the west gansu (county in gansu about today).When the western han dynasty dong for guang chuan (now east from zaoqiang in hebei province), the son of the guang chuan migration west gansu, African sun migration hedong (county in the northwest of the research today).In addition, in dong han dynasty distribution in shandong tao, step, in guangzhou, guangdong province, from ziyang, deyang of sichuan, guizhou huang ping, yuyao, zhejiang province, hubei xiangyang, ZhiJiang, fuzhou, fujian province, henan jin, core, nanyang, kaifeng, fu county, xinyang, spi, etc.To sui and tang dynasties, in addition to the above areas, anhui, hunan, jiangsu, jiangxi, and other parts of the province, also have dong to live.The "yuanhe surname code" tang wang has four counties at: namely, west gansu, reaches (now henan spi), hedong, a 22-year-old young man (now hebei zhu state).In addition to economic Yin (now shandong caoxian county).Tang, gushi (now in henan province), wang has king with WDG, you know the author.Before the Ming dynasty, wang had spread throughout south provinces.Since the qing emperor kangxi years, wang has people have moved to Taiwan, then some move house again southeast Asia and Europe and the United States some countries and regions.