Yuxiong

Who is Yuxiong?

Yuxiong was an early ruler of the ancient Chinese state that was later known as Chu. He was an ally and teacher of King Wen of Zhou, the first king of the Zhou Dynasty of ancient China. In the Tsinghua Bamboo Slips his name was written as Xuexiong.

Yuxiong's ancestral surname was Mi, but his son and successor Xiong Li adopted the second character of his name – Xiong, literally "bear" – as the royal clan name of Chu, which is now the 72nd most common surname in China.