Where is the origin of the surname Li?

Li was born with the surname Yuan, and his blood ancestors were (one surnamed Yuan and the other surnamed Ji). He was appointed as Shun Dali (the official in charge of criminal law), so he took the official family as Li (Li and Li have the same ancient characters), first Li and then Li.

When he arrived in Shang Zhouwang, Li Zheng, a hereditary official, was killed because he told Zhou Wang and angered him. His son Li Zhen fled with his mother Qihe, and later settled in Lu Yi, eastern Henan. In order to survive by eating plums (the fruit of woody plants) along the way, to repay "Mu Zi" for saving his life, to avoid the pursuit, and to manage, He Zizhen began to change his surname to Li, and since then China has had Li's surname. The ancestor of this surname is Loretta Lee, and Li Er is the eleventh.

In the pre-Qin period, Li's activities began in Henan, and by the end of the Warring States period, Li's activities expanded to Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places. The Qin and Han Dynasties was an important stage of Li's migration. After Qin Shihuang pacified South Vietnam and Ou, Li began to enter Guangdong and Guangxi. Descendants of Li Er entered Gansu, developed into aristocrats named Li in Longxi, and those who lived in Hebei became famous families named Li in Zhao County.

East to Shandong, southeast to Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, south to the South China Sea and Beibu Gulf. The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of Li's surname, and Li's surname spread to Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty 19 in Longxi for 289 years. Li's surname is a national surname, and there are Li's relatives and relatives everywhere, and the population of Li's surname is expanding rapidly. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li began to enter Fujian and Hainan in large numbers. During the Ming Dynasty, Li entered Taiwan Province Province.

In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of Li's population movement were very different from those in Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially the migration from the east to Central China and North China was greater than that from the north to the southeast. At the same time, the migration to the southwest and northeast has become an important flow direction.

The Tang Dynasty was a period of rapid expansion of the Li nationality. Most of the descendants of Zhao, Li Jue and Tang imperial clan were dignitaries. Polygamy made Li's family prosperous and became the most popular surname in China at that time. However, with the change of state affairs, in the Tang Dynasty, many people surnamed Li were exiled to the south, and many people fled to the whole country to escape the scourge, making Li's surname spread all over the country.

Li surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced.

Li surname is the most common surname in southwest and north China. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Li's surname in the crowd shows that in Yunnan, southern Sichuan, most of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, central Gansu and most of Jilin and Heilongjiang, Li's surname generally accounts for more than 8.8% of the local population, covering about 18% of the national map area, and about 30% of Li's population lives here.

In most areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Mongolia, most areas of eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi and Guangdong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui, eastern Shandong, Liaoning and other places, the surname Li generally accounts for 6.6%-8.8% of the local population, accounting for about 36% of the national map area, with about 5 1% of the surname Li. In Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan Province, most of Jiangsu and Anhui, southwestern Guangxi, Hainan, eastern Guangdong, northwestern Xinjiang and western Gansu, the surname Li generally accounts for 2.2%-6.6% of the local population, accounting for about 2 1.6% of the land area, and about 19% of the population of Li lives here.