Rong's surname comes from three sources:
1. According to the research of surname and Lu Chunqiu, there was a musician named Rong Yuan in the ancient Yellow Emperor's era, who was ordered by the Yellow Emperor to cast a 12 bronze bell with a spirit wheel to reconcile five tones. Rong Yuan is the ancestor of Rongxing. This noble family named Rong comes from Shanggu. Shanggu in ancient times refers to the central and western parts of Hebei Province today, and it is recorded in the textual research of surnames that "you can look out of Shanggu". So Shanggu is the birthplace of Rong.
2. Take the place name of Eleven as the surname. According to the Records of Famous Men's Words and Actions in the Tang Dynasty, in ancient times (about 3,000 years ago), there was a noble man named Rong Bo, whose descendants took the city as their surname and passed on Rong's surname. The doctors in the Zhou Dynasty respected Gong Yi, and the ancestors respected the city, respected the family as their surname, and respected the family for fun. According to the research of scholars all the time, this Rongshi Qingshi Rongbo from Zhou Chengwang first lived in Le 'an area, where Gule 'an County is now in Shandong Province, and then gradually propagated and migrated to all parts of the country.
3. Manchu flag bearer changed his surname in Qing Dynasty. After the Qing soldiers entered the customs, Manchu banners were proud of changing their surnames, which made the Rong family lineup even bigger. Among the proud Manchu people who changed their surnames, Rong Lu, the favorite concubine of Empress Dowager Cixi during Guangxu period, was the most famous. And the poet Rong Lian and the painter Rong Lin.
Ancestor: Rong Yuan (Rong Jiang). The ancestor of Rong surname is Rong Jiang, a minister before the throne of the Yellow Emperor, or Rong Grant, so Rong surname is an ancient surname with a history of at least 5,000 years. According to the textual research of surnames, it is recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals of Lushi that Rongshou was ordered by the Yellow Emperor to cast twelve bells with Linglun * * *, which was the ancestor of China national music and the ancestor of surnames respected by later generations.