The origin and history of Tao surname

The origin of Tao surname is Yi surname, and its history is as follows:

Tao's family came from the pottery where Yaodi lived since ancient times and belongs to Juyi's family. According to the records in the historical books Yuan He Xing Bian and Xing Yuan, he was born in Iraq in ancient times and was later Yi, so he was called Yi. Emperor Yao first lived in Tao (Gu Yinji, now Dingtao, Shandong Province) and made pottery as his profession. His official name was "Zheng Tao" and his place was later called Tao Qiu.

Later, he was named Tang Hou, hence the name Tao Tang Shi. Among the descendants, there is Tao who takes his ancestral home as his surname. After the provincial language is simplified to a single surname, Tao and Tang are very old surnames. The pronunciation of Tao is táo, and most Taoists respect their surnames as ancestors.

Migration and communication

According to the record of surname test, Tao originated in Dingtao, Shandong Province. A few weeks ago, Tao's surname was invisible in history books. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the first person who went down in history appeared, that is, Ying Tao, a woman handed down from generation to generation with salvation. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Tao's surname gradually moved southward to the present Lankao area of Henan Province, and after reproduction and development, Jiyang County, the county with the largest Tao's surname in history, was formed.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Tao, as one of the surnames of the Ming Dynasty pagoda tree settlers in Hongdong, moved to Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing and other places. As another big immigrant gathering place in Jiangxi in the early Ming Dynasty, Taobei moved to Anhui, Hubei and other places. With the influx of immigrants from Huguang to Sichuan, Taoxing moved to Sichuan, and then moved to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. By the Qing Dynasty, Tao's surname had spread all over the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan Province and then emigrated overseas.

Today, the distribution of Tao surnames is mostly in Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei, forming a high-incidence distribution zone of Tao surnames in the Yangtze River basin. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of population migration of Tao surname are very different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and migration from the east and south to the middle has become the mainstream of migration of Tao surname.