About gong, "book of ancient and modern surnames dialectical" and "million surname series spectrum", points out that gong from common surname first, in an attempt to seek asylum, plus dragon for gong, hence has gong."Yuanhe surname code" also has "gong gong after total, gong's two."The recorded.

Gong Shi surname source from the literature, for thousands of years, has been found that they have been foreign or physical join record, therefore, to say the Gong Shi is a simple family a direct line of succession, descent.So Chinese name is gong, regardless of all, is a source of the same family.

Gong Shi for more than 2000 years, has been in China's southern jiangsu, zhejiang, anhui, jiangxi area for breeding center, and long before sowing moved to fujian, guangdong.The family lives in wuling county.