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After 1, from the yellow emperor a xiong's for names.Water from the yellow emperor was born in longevity hill, longer than her, ju xuan yuan hillock, based in there are bears (now henan xinzheng county), also called xiong.Offspring have to name for the surname, xiong said.

2, according to the world the ", "ancient and modern surnames book dialectical" and "yuanhe surname code" and so on, the descendants of the yellow emperor has a call in at the jing bear, very learned, king wen of zhou teacher.The king of the text, his son things early.The son bear gets Wang Fu words as's, about.King cheng of zhou king herod, the weight, sealing the bear gets in jingchu, celebrates its Yu Danyang (now southeast hubei zigui), chu is established.The spring and autumn period and the warring states period, chu once strong, extended to the central plains, is one of the spring and autumn period and the five powers.In 223 BC, chu in qin dynasty.ChuJun later generations to bear the name, called xiong, shi xiong said authentic, namely, hubei xiong.