What is the surname Li?

My surname is Li, which is rare. Now he is an economist, Li Yining, and there used to be Li Youwei, secretary of the Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee. Furthermore, there is an alternate member of the "Top Ten" and "Eleventh" Central Committee named Li Rinai. These are the only people who can see it in the national media. There is also the famous "Li Jiacai" in Beijing. Although the owner's surname is Li, he is a flag bearer. Flag bearer Li's name should not be his original surname.

My hometown is Yueping Village, Yueping Township, Hengyang City, Hunan Province. This month Yueping village used to be called Li Jiacun, where Li's family lived. There used to be a "Li Jia Ancestral Hall" in the village, which was requisitioned after liberation. During the Cultural Revolution, the "Four Old Houses" were destroyed, the ancestral temple was demolished and the place names of Li Jiacun were changed. However, Hengyang people in the old class still know Li Jiacun, especially on holidays, Li Jiacun's "Five Lights" is very famous in Hengyang. Li Jiazu's martial arts skills are high, and he created a set of "Li Jiaquan", which has now been lost. In the past, the Li family ancestral hall always prevailed in clan struggles.

Lijia village used to be located in the suburbs, and most villagers surnamed Li were vegetable farmers in the suburbs. If anything, before liberation, children surnamed Li gathered together in the name of ancestral halls. After liberation, in the name of the production brigade, the Li family can also be incorporated. However, with the expansion of the city, Li Jiacun has already become the center of the city, the production brigade has long ceased to exist, and the Li family has also become a resident of the city. Demolition has been scattered to every corner of the city, and there is basically no connection between them. With the continuous departure of the old people in the clan, things in the clan are neglected and the genealogy is lost. Unfortunately, the surname Li of Hengyang has not been recorded for many years. After liberation, when Li Jiacun still existed, the government did not advocate the revision of the music score, so it was not revised. After the reform and opening up, the political environment was relaxed, the government no longer intervened in the genealogy, Li Jiacun ceased to exist, and the Li family in Hengyang had long since separated.

Nowadays, many caste clans can re-compile genealogies, mainly because clans with the same surname still live in the villages where their ancestors lived, while clans living in other places have "hometown" to return to, recognize their ancestors and even return to their roots and bury their ashes on the mountains of their ancestors. Li in Hengyang has no such social place and no ancestral mountain. Li Zushan is now a university campus. Li's family has been scattered around, disappeared into the crowd, like a piece of salt, and thrown into the lake. Before being thrown into the lake, it was still a piece of salt, and the characteristics of salt can be seen. After it was thrown into the lake, the molecules of salt were still there, but the characteristics of salt could not be distinguished. It is very difficult for the Li clan in Hengyang to re-compile the genealogy, except for an influential and rich Li family member who took the lead in rebuilding the ancestral temple and genealogy, but there is no such person at present.

Although it is rare for the Li family in Hengyang to get together again, they sometimes meet like strangers and exchange names, which is very cordial. They have a sense of identity and feel that the other person is their own relative. They will also ask each other about their qualifications. Even people with the same surname, although young, have high qualifications and are still polite and dare not be conceited. In China, Li is a small surname, and it is very unlikely that friends with the same surname can meet. If they can meet, it is really fate, and there will be a sense of identity and intimacy between them. That year, I was on a business trip in Tangshan, Hebei Province. When I checked in at a hotel, I happened to meet a friend of Li in Rizhao, Shandong Province, who also checked in. We hit it off, chatted happily, had dinner together and left mailing addresses for each other. And those friends whose surnames are Wang, Zhang and Li. There is no such affinity and identity between people with the same surname because they have a large population and can be met everywhere, and they are married.

The Li family tree in Hengyang has been handed down from generation to generation. My uncle remembers "ten thousand articles, Shuo Yan is handsome" in the Eight Dynasties, and my father told me that "ten thousand articles, Shuo Yan will continue to prosper". I don't know who is right or wrong, because there is no written basis. After liberation, the ranking order of Li's surname was handed down from one family to another, and there were inevitably errors. Later generations even weakened the concept of clan, and many descendants of Li were not named according to their seniority. It will be difficult for them to find names according to their qualifications in the future. As a caste clan, Li surname in Hengyang has begun to decline, and the traditional clan culture inheritance chain has been out of touch. Clan culture is the product of farming civilization. With the development and progress of society, this clan culture will become weaker and weaker. However, people should not forget their ancestors and their roots.

I looked up information about the origin of Li. In fact, our surname Li is famous, and they are all descendants of princes and nobles. About the origin of Li's surname, there are roughly four theories.

First, it originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty and took posthumous title as the surname. When he was in power, Jiang Wuji, the monarch of Qi State, died, and posthumous title was called "Li", which was called Li Gong in history. Posthumous title is the illegitimate son of Lee in Qi Huangong, and his surname is Lee. This time after Jiang Taigong.

Second, take the country name as the surname. During the Zhou Dynasty, there was a vassal state, Li Guo (in Lishan, northwest of Sui County, Hubei Province), which was renamed Sui State in the Spring and Autumn Period. The descendants of former Li Guojun took the original country name as their surname and became a branch of Li's surname.

Third, the surname Sun was changed to Li. In the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Hao, the emperor of the State of Wu, changed the imperial clan Sun Xiu (who went to Wei because of Sun Hao's evil deeds) to Li. One of Sun Xiu's descendants who stayed in Jiangdong was Li.

Fourth, the surname Li was changed to the surname Li. Before Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty Li Longji proclaimed himself emperor, Li Jin, a new king of Emperor Taizong, conspired with Princess Taiping to rebel and was punished as a result. After Li Longji came to power, he changed Li Jin's clan to Li surname, and Li was not allowed to be restored.

Judging from the distribution of Li's surname, there are many in Shandong and Zhejiang, and there are also in Liaoning and Jiangsu. I don't know if there are any in Suizhou, Hubei. Our Li surname in Hengyang should belong to a scattered family like other Li surnames scattered all over the country.

Which of the four Li surnames does my ancestor belong to? When did he come to Hengyang? Historical materials have been lost and cannot be verified. Only when I was a child, I heard the legend of the elders in the clan, and my ancestors came to Hengyang to take refuge and eliminate disasters. My ancestors led his ten burly sons to Hengyang through hardships, took root in this place, multiplied the whole clan and established Li Jiacun.

According to the data, the surname Li in Hengyang should not belong to the surname Li in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, because the seniority ranking is wrong. The surname of Li in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, is ranked by 100-word poems.

There is a surname from the beginning, and the family has a sound of Jingyang.

Yizhou designated the upstream extension length of the Far Ningbo River.

Zhong You, the singing crane, wins the warbler's move to hide in the clouds.

First, honesty can be remembered, and heirs can benefit Yichang.

Farmland is diligent.

The Flattery of Dunrance's Hierarchical Narrative Newspaper

Glorious name, bamboo silk, friendship, Zhang Gui.

In order to protect the world, it is necessary to postpone the establishment of the birthplace.

Clouds are all brilliant in the pedigree.

There is no article named "Wan Shuai" in Hengyang, so it can be inferred that my ancestors should not come from this branch.

The first four sentences of Li's Hundred Words Poem in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province can be interpreted as follows: Li originated in Shandong, Qi, and Li is very famous in Jingyang. Li belongs to Yizhou (Jinhua) and Liu Yanchang (Ningbo), and this branch should be descended from Jiang Ziya.

Geographically, Hengyang is closest to Hubei, and the surname of Li in Hengyang may have started from the beginning, but I haven't found any historical records. The surname Li of Hengyang may also be a descendant of Sun Xiu of the Three Kingdoms or Li Jin, the new king of the Tang Dynasty. It is possible that these two families surnamed Li are rebellious, oppressed and discriminated against. Obviously, their fate is difficult.

Personally, I infer that our surname Hengyang Li should be a branch of Haiqu Li. According to the report, "Haiqu Li, the population of Rizhao in Shandong today is more than 200,000. After his ancestor moved south during the Northern Song Dynasty, he moved to Rizhao, Shandong Province during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. " My ancestors may have stayed when Li moved northward in Haiqu, or they may have been separated on the way northward. Moreover, I infer that "Haiqu Li surname" should be the descendant of Li Jin, the emerging Tang king who was forced to change his surname to Li by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. Because of discrimination, I bumped around and had measures to move. It can be inferred that Hengyang Li surname should be a branch of Haiqu Li surname and a descendant of Li Jin. No wonder the Li family I met on a business trip in Tangshan had such a sense of intimacy and identity. Maybe this is a kind of fate.

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