Quote Originally Posted by ricecake View Post

Ancient Chinese surnames started out with 2 characters,several examples I have to retrieve from my copy of " Chinese common family names ".


Just an update,there are several known still in existent compound surnames of Han-Chinese origin.They are Wang-Pu,Dong-Fang,Si-Mong,Nan-Kong,and Seng-Kong plus some not listed here are dead but stay recorded in the book as reference.