Yao's life experience

The origin of Yao's surname (yāo was the same as Yao in ancient times, but had nothing to do with the simplified word "Yao"): Yao's surname was an earlier surname, which was recorded in Surname Garden in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Ranked 420th among the 500 most popular surnames in China.

Now it is distributed in guanxian, Tongzhou, Tangshan Hangu Management District, Fengnan District, daming county, Guantao County, Tangxian County, Nanjing Pukou, Xinjiang, Henan, Lingbi County, Anhui and other places.

According to Yao, "As far as written records are concerned, the ancestor named Yao in Shandong is still good." At the end of Yuan Dynasty, frequent wars, floods, droughts and locust plagues caused extremely serious famines. For a time, "there are countless flooded roads in the Central Plains, countless people died, and many villages and towns became wasteland", among which Shandong and Henan were the most seriously affected.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, in order to stabilize the situation and maintain the rule, the strategic decision of emigration and reclamation was put forward, and a large-scale emigration tide rare in the history of China began. "Good ancestors, ancestral home in hongdong, Shanxi. It was during this period that they moved from the crow nest of Sophora japonica in Hongtong County, Shanxi Province to Guantao Town at that time. It is estimated to have a history of more than 600 years. "