Quach

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Quach (also spelled Quách) is a Vietnamese surname: Quách romanized in English: Quach. The name derives from the Chinese surname 郭, which is pronounced Guō in Mandarin and Kwok or Gwok in Cantonese. In Japanese, the surname Quach is: Kuoko, Kaku or Kuruwa (くるわ/ かく )^{[citation needed]} and in Korean: Gwak (곽).

History

General History behind the Surname

Quach came from the surname Guo^[1] which is believed to have originated from Shanxi^[2] province of China. Eventually it spread to Chaozhou, also known by its postal spelling of Teochew, a city in the eastern part of China's Guangdong province. 30 percent of Chinese in Vietnam speak the Teochew dialect. Guo was translated into Quach when it arrived to Vietnam.

General Quách Bốc

A subordinate of Bỉnh Di named Quách Bốc, just after being informed, led his army battering the Đại Thanh Gate of the citadel down to save his governor. Two brothers, Phạm Du and Phạm Kinh, killed both Bỉnh Di and his son and then escaped out of the citadel with Cao Tông.

Quách Bốc occupied the citadel and subsequently enthroned the young prince L‎ý Thầm. Cao Tông fled to Tam Nông, Phú Thọ and lodged at the residence of Hà Vạn, who was a minority leader holding a potential force. The Crown Prince Sảm, who later became the succeeding king Lý Huệ Tông, fled to Hải Ấp, Thái Bình with his mother, Noble Consort Đoàn and his two younger sisters. Sảm lodged at the residence of Trần L‎ý, who was also an indigenous squire. Sảm married Trần Thị Dung, who was Trần L‎ý's daughter. Then he conferred the title Minh Tự on Trần L‎ý and the title Commander of Anterior Citadel (a title also held by Lý Thái Tổ during the time he was an official of Anterior Le Dynasty) on the brother-in-law of Trần Lý named Tô Trung Từ. They recruited soldiers from the surrounding and managed to initiate a conflict against Quách Bốc. Informed that Lý Sảm had established his own court and arbitrarily conferred titles on various individuals, Cao Tông was annoyed and wanted to suppress his military power. He sent Phạm Du to associate with Đoàn Thượng, but Du intrigued with the Princess Thiên Cực and missed the meeting with Đoàn Thượng. When fulfilling another meeting, and crossing over Ma Lãng, he was killed by the army of the landlord of Bắc Giang.

Trần Lý and Tô Trung Tự led their army back to the capital to defeat Quách Bốc. At the end of 1209, the rebellion was suppressed, Trần Lý was killed in the battle, and Tô Trung Từ sent an army to bring Cao Tông back. Because Phạm Du died and Tô Trung Từ held almost total power over the court, Cao Tông had to lean toward him. Đàm Dĩ Mông although quisling with Quách Bốc when he occupied the citadel but eventually was accepted to be the Thái úy – a rather high official.

There are no documents indicating the endings of the lives of Quách Bốc and Lý Thầm.

There is a myth that Quach was a Mongolian warrior who took up an imperial position.

Quach is the descent of religious princess Quach A in Dao Phat.

Chinese

This surname is on the 146th place of the Baijiaxing. According to one myth, the people with the surname of the descendants of Xia Yu: Guo Ai /郭哀and Guo Zhi /郭支.

Middle names

Quach kept a book of middle names, spelling out the descendants of the next several dozen generations. The first born son would look up the name for his generation in the book and name his own first born son accordingly. The book is in its 26th generation, having been disrupted at least four times since the book's legend by the dislocation of the son who was supposed to continue the naming tradition.

There was a brief Vietnamese dynasty that carried the Quach name.

Notable individuals

• Quách Tuấn Khanh, Vietnamese speaker
• Sonija Kwok 郭羨妮 (Guō Xiànnī Mandarin)(Gwok3 Sin6 Nei4 Cantonese) Hong Kong Actress
• Roger Kwok 郭晉安 (Guo1 Jin4 An1 Mandarin) (Gwok3 Zeon3 On1 Cantonese) Hong Kong Singer
• Aaron Kwok 郭富城 (Guō Fùchéng Mandarim)(Gwok3 Fu3 Sing4 Cantonese) Hong Kong Singer, Actor
• Bao Quach, Vietnamese American mixed martial artist
• Danh Quach (Quách Nhứt Danh) Businessman and one of the Pioneers of Orange County's Little Saigon
• Quách Tĩnh son of Emperor Complaints Guo and Li Binh
• Quách Mạt Nhược 郭沫若 Poet
• Gwak Beop Gyeong 곽법경 郭法镜

References

1. ^ Guo
2. ^ http://www.yutopian.com/names/10/10guo18.html

External links

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