Bai Jia Xing compound surname #15
宗政
宗政 is read as Zōngzhèng. It is one of the 60 compound surnames in the expanded Bai Jia Xing sequence.
Zōngzhèng
Simplified and traditional 宗政
official-title surname from Zongzheng, administrator of the imperial clan
Metal
Time: Han dynasty, 202 BCE-220 CE
Place: Han imperial Liu clan and Zongzheng office
Origin
宗政 was originally connected with 宗正, an office responsible for royal or imperial clan affairs. Surname traditions trace it to Han Liu-line descendants who held the office; the written form shifted toward 宗政.
Name meaning
The surname sounds institutional and aristocratic: it means governing or regulating the ancestral clan. It has a Han-dynasty bureaucratic flavor.
Historical figures
刘德 Liu De
Liu De is a Han royal figure often associated with learned clan and court traditions.