Hundreds of families are surnamed Zhao Shouxian. Please tell me the origin of Zhao.

The Hundred Family Names compiled in the Song Dynasty listed Zhao as the first surname in the country because Zhao was the national surname of the Song Dynasty. In fact, in terms of population and aristocratic families, this is not the case. According to experts' research, Zhao is the seventh surname in China today.

Zhao comes from the surname Li, and is the same clan as the surname Li of Qin State. Zhao's ancestor is Boyi, and the specific ancestor is Zhao Fu. Boyi is the leader of Dongyi nationality in Xia Dynasty and the direct ancestor of various branches of Li surname.

Zhao Fu, the ninth grandson of Boyi, was a famous expert in chariots and horses in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is said that he got eight good horses in Taolin area and gave them to Zhou Muwang after training. Zhou Muwang is equipped with a good carriage, which is driven by Zao Fu. He often goes out hunting and playing.

Once, I went west to Kunlun Mountain and met the Queen Mother of the West. I was so happy that I forgot to go home. At this moment, I heard the news that Guo Xu and Xu Yanwang rebelled, and Zhou Muwang was very anxious. At a critical moment, Zhao Fu took advantage of the situation to leap forward, so that Zhou Muwang quickly picked Beijing, sent troops in time, and put down the rebellion. Because of Zhao Fu's great contribution, Zhou Muwang named him Zhao Cheng (now North of Hongtong County, Shanxi Province). From then on, people in Zaofu were called Scott.

There is also a saying that Zhao's ancestor is Fei Lian, and he has two sons, one is E Lai and the other is Qin after E Lai. Followed by Ji Sheng, followed by Zhao. Ji Sheng's great-grandson is Zhao Fu. Zhao Fu VI said that he chose his father, the royal family of Zhou Xuanwang.

My father gave birth to my uncle. Because Zhou Youwang had no choice, he left the Zhou royal family to serve Jin Wengong in the State of Jin. In this way, Zhao Jin entered the state of Jin, and he was promoted to a doctor in his later years. When Zhou Weilie was king, he shared Jin with Han Wei and was listed as a vassal. Zhao Liehou (name), the founding monarch, is a descendant of Zhao Shuai, a doctor of Jin Dynasty, who established Jinyang as his capital and later moved to Handan. He is one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period. Zhao belongs to the category of taking the country name as the surname.

Zhao's early development was mainly in the north.

During the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, a native of Zhengding, Hebei Province, was appointed as the prefect of Longchuan County, Nanhai County, and later served as the prefect of Nanhai County. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Guilin, Nanhai and Xiang Jun merged to establish Nanyue State, and in the 11th year of Emperor Gaozu (196), he was made the king of Nanyue. Since then, Zhao Tuo's descendants have multiplied in Guangdong and Guangxi.

During Tang Gaozong's reign, Zhao Duan, a native of the Central Plains, entered Fujian and opened Zhangzhou with Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang. In the Five Dynasties, Liu Longtian, a native of Shangcai, Henan Province, established Nanhan in Guangzhou, while Zhao Guangyi, Guangfeng and Guangyin, a native of Luoyang, settled in the South China Sea.

After the Yuan soldiers captured Hangzhou, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty moved the capital to Yashan (in Nanhai, Xinhui County, Guangdong Province), and was soon defeated and buried in the sea. Zhao, the imperial clan in the Southern Song Dynasty, fled to Penghu and Chaoyang, and later developed and multiplied in Fujian and Guangdong.

Since Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, people from Fujian, Guangdong and other places have moved to Taiwan Province Province, and then many people have moved overseas, distributed in some countries and regions in Europe, America and Southeast Asia.

Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, especially after the Tang and Song Dynasties, the Zhao family has spread all over the south of the Yangtze River and Lingnan, and the Zhao regime ruled the Huaihe River and half of the south of the Qinling Mountains for more than 50 years. Therefore, at present, the proportion of southerners in Zhao family is very high.

Zhao is not only the most popular surname of the Han nationality, but also many people have been integrated into the Xiongnu in the north and some ethnic minorities in the south during the long and repeated ethnic integration.