The origin of Li surname

One; According to "Tang Shu, Prime Minister's Lineage Table", it comes from "Won" surname. After Hao Tao, the world was Dali (the first prison officer in charge of criminal law), and the official was the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi, the founder of Taoism, took Li as his surname and called him Li Er for ancestral reasons. Second; According to "History of the North", Zhao Junli was the first general to take the post. Third; According to Shu Wei, the surname of the northern Xianbei nationality was Chili, but in the late Wei Dynasty, it was changed to Li in Chinese characters. Fourth; In the Tang Dynasty, the surname of the royal family was "Li" and "Li" became the national surname. In the early Tang Dynasty, sixteen surnames (five of which are compound surnames) of Xu, Tai, An, Du, Hu, Hong, Guo, Ma, Xian Yu, Zhang, Abu, Sari, Dong, Luo and Zhu Xie were given to the country "Li". In addition, many families changed to Li, and Li's population increased greatly.

Get a surname ancestor

Loretta Lee (65438 BC+0069-992 BC), formerly known as the ancestor of Li and Lao Er. After Zhuan Xu, the ancient emperor, appointed Hao Tao as the agent, whose name was Deling, and he was named Zhong Wubo. He was an official in Yin. Because of the mountain of law enforcement, he was killed against the will of the bad king Shang Zhouwang. The family is in danger of collateral damage. His wife, Qi, fled with her young son, Li Zhen, and came to the market, hungry and cold. She only survived by picking fruits from trees on the roadside. Feeling the grace of Mei, he changed his surname to take refuge, so he changed his surname and moved to Longxi to settle down. Since then, Lee has continued from generation to generation and developed into the first surname in China.

Migration distribution

From the end of Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Li lived in eastern Henan for 200 years. In the Western Han Dynasty, Li's family moved to present-day Shandong Province. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, some Li clans have migrated to the southwest, distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, and some have merged into Bai, Miao, Zhuang, Yi, Man, Hui, Tujia and Naxi nationalities. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the whole country was dominated by Li, which was also known as the four famous families with Cui, Lu, Li and Zheng in the Central Plains, but it mainly developed in the north before the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China's feudal society, and Li, as the national surname, was the most prominent. In the Tang Dynasty, Li moved south three times: once, in the early Tang Dynasty, some Li people moved south, and some of them from Henan moved into Kaizhangzhou, Fujian. The second time was the "An Shi Rebellion", and many descendants of Li moved to the south. The third time was in the Five Dynasties. Due to the unrest, Li moved to Fujian, Putian and Jinjiang. From the late Ming Dynasty, people from Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province Province. Li's overseas immigration began in the early Ming Dynasty, and all the people who went to Ryukyu were from Fujian. Many people sent to Ryukyu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were surnamed Li, all from China who moved to Ryukyu from Fujian. In the history of China, there were more than 60 Li Di and Li Wang, who successively established Dacheng, Xiliang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang, Nantang, Dashu, Xixia and Dashun regimes.