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Monday, March 9, 2009 at 1:00 AM
After watching Red Cliff 2 @ uncle Brian's housewarming yesterday, I found the Takeshi Kaneshito and Zhao Wei actually look quite cute together...lol...I'm watching a historical movie with some minor mistakes and all yet I'm matchmaking the actors inside...Takeshi Kaneshito is so cute....If asked to categorize movies, I'll probably put Poseidon, Red Cliff, Curse of the Golden Flower etc etc together because of the graphic war scenes ( in Poseidon's case, ship sinking, fire, falling from a great height etc etc)-arrows going through heads, sliced off hands- brrrr. Creepy... Gugu told us that my family name is actually NOT called SEOW (XIAO). My great-great grandma actually married a Pan ( haha very funny, not that pan), had a son( my great granddad), her Pan husband died, so she remarried with her kid into a Xiao family. Sooo, I'm actually a Pan!....Family history time!!!!( Courtesy of Wiki) XIAO Teochew -yes, I'm a Teochew-"Seow" are mainly Changyangxiao from Chaoyang(潮阳), Kwangtung(广东省), China.The Xiao family originated from Xiaosien(萧县), in Anhui province(安徽省), China. It was from the kingdom of Xiao(萧国) in the ancient China. The first Xiao was an emperor, name Xiao Ta shing(萧大心) during Chow Dynasty. Later on, the descendants of Xiao He(蕭何)(the first prime minister of Han Dynasty)during the Han Wu Ti period(汉武帝时期); Xiao Biao(萧彪) and his family moved to Langling(兰陵), now Fungsien(峰县) of Shandong province(山东省) due to some political problem. Xiao people is also called themselves from Langling, sometime they are called Langling Xiao (“兰陵萧”). Then shift and shift and shift and shift. PAN A Chinese surname that is often romanized as Poon, Pun, or Pon.The surname is spelled as Ban (formerly, Pan) in South Korea and Phan in Vietnam. One source lists Ji Sun, a descendant of Zhou Wen Wang as to being the origin of this surname.With his descendants having taken up the name of the area he governed, situated north of Shaanxi. Another source Pan came from the last name Mi, a noble family of the Chu kingdom. Later, the Mis changed their name to Pan. Among their descendents, there was a noble named Pan Chong. Pan served as Regent (Kingmaker) and advisor in the Chu kingdom. When King Chu Cheng Wang decided to relinquish throne to his younger son instead, Pan Chong aided the elder prince Shang Chen instead. This led to the suicide of Zhou Cheng Wang. For Pan's contribution, King Shang Chen gave Pan the title of the "Royal Tutor" and gave him all the wealth that he had accumulated while he was a prince. The Pan family thus had a very high social status in the Chu kingdom. |
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