Wen Tianxiang

文天祥 Wen Tianxiang (Lagging-Gilles: Wen You IEN-hsiang) (1236 - 1282), Duke of Xinguo, is a Chinese writer of the Dynastie of Song and a politician who resisted to the Mongols and refused to join with them in spite of three years of imprisonment. Its poems remained for their patriotism. He was the last first-minister of the Song Dynasty of the South, he was captured by Kubilai Khan, the grandson of Gengis Khan.

Wen Tianxiang was put in prison in a beautiful house at the west of Beijing with musicians and courtesans. Kubilai Khan required of him to become its Prime Minister under his Mongolian mode in China, so pacifying the Han Chinese under control of the Mongols. Wen Tianxiang refused this post of first-minister to the orders of the Mongolian emperor. Wen Tianxiang ordered from its three adoptive sons to resist against the Mongolian army in the south of the China.

Family name

These three adoptive wire (which were in truth the three wire natural of his/her younger brother) had descendants in the four branches different in the four provinces from China, in particular in the provinces of Hunan, Quandong, Fujiang, and Jiangxi.

The majority of the descendants of Wen Tianxiang reside in China, including New Territories in HongKong. One of the oldest stocks was established in 1000 apr J. - C. in the area of Hengyang/Hengshan in the province of Hunan. A branch of this Wen family was established in years 1940 in the United States and is allied to the three powerful families: Sun de Shouxian, Anhui, founders of the factory Insane Foong Flour Company in Shanghai 福豐麵粉廠, of the bank Chung Foo Union Bank and other companies; lilies of Hefei, Anhui, of which the Viceroy Li Hongzhang (Lagging-Gilles: Li Hung-chang); and Kongs de Qufu, Shandong, of which Confucius.

The descendants of Wen Tianxiang have as a family name Man (according to the Cantonese pronunciation), Boon (according to the Fujiang pronunciation), and Wen (according to the Mandarine pronunciation). Some of the descendants of the branch of the Wen family, in the province of Quandong, in particular that of the coast vis-a-vis Taiwan emigrated towards French Indo-China. Those adopted a new form of family name according to the pronunciation Vietnamese of the Chinese writing of the word Wen; thus they are called Van instead of Wen. All Vietnamese of the name of Van is not however descendants of the Wen Family of China.

In Korea

In Korea, one pronounces the Chinese word Wen like Moon, but that does not have any bond with the family Wen de Wen Tianxiang. In Korea there is a sect of the religion Moon, they are called themselves Moonies.

Zh-classical: 文天祥

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