The King Cheng of Zhou was surprised, and said, "We are just playing a game and I just made a joke." The chancellor replied: the King cannot make a joke, once the King speaks out, historians record his words, the loyal ceremony will be held, and the loyal music will be played." Thus Tang Shuyu was raised to the Marquis of Tang, and later became the first king of Jin. It's a famous historic event and the origin for the Chinese phrase Tongye Fenghou (Chinese: 桐叶封侯). His offspring continued using Tang as their surname. From South China's aboriginal tribes Many native tribes in southern China adopted this surname from Chinese immigrants from central China throughout the history. Chinese Muslims Unlike some other Hui people who claim foreign ancestry, Hui in Gansu with the surname "Tang" 唐, are descended from Han Chinese who converted to Islam and married Muslim Hui or Dongxiang people, switching their ethnicity and joining the Hui and Dongxiang ethnic groups, both of which are Muslim. A town called Tangwangchuan (唐汪川) in Gansu had a multi ethnic populace, the Tang 唐 and Wang (surname) 汪 families being the two major families. The Tang and Wang families were originally of non Muslim Han Chinese extraction, but by the 1910s some branches of the families became Muslim by "intermarriage or conversion" while other branches of the families remained non Muslim. Notable people Agnes Hsu-Tang, American archaeologist, art historian, and philanthropist Tang Jian (579–656), Chinese official Tang Yin (1470–1524), Chinese scholar, painter, calligrapher, and poet Tang Zhen (1630–1704), Chinese philosopher and educator Tang Tingshu (1832–1892), Chinese comprador, interpreter, and businessman Tang Jingsong (1841–1903), Chinese general and statesman Tang Shaoyi (1862–1938), Chinese politician, first Premier of the Republic of China, 1912 Tang Jiyao (1883–1927), Chinese general and warlord of Yunnan Tang Shengzhi (1889–1970): Chinese warlord and politician Tang Junyi (1909–1978), Chinese philosopher Tang Kesan (), Chinese Muslim Kuomintang politician and educator Tang Ti-sheng (1917–1959), Cantonese opera playwright, scriptwriter, and film director Tang Fei (born 1933), general and Premier of the Republic of China, 2000 Tang Jiaxuan (born 1938), foreign minister of the People's Republic of China, 1998–2003 Stephen Tong (; born 1940), Chinese-Indonesian Reformed pastor, teacher and musician Tang Shu Shuen (born 1941), former Hong Kong film director Henry Tang (born 1952), Hong Kong politician Tang Guoqiang (born 1952), Chinese actor Danson Tang (born 1984), Taiwanese model, actor and singer Oscar Tang,