How did the surname Liu come into being?

1, Liu surname Source: from Qi surname, Emperor Houyao. According to legend, Qi is one of the common surnames of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor. Later, the surname Qi was sealed to Liu Guo, which is now Tangxian County in Dingzhou. His grandson took the country as his surname, and according to legend, his surname was Liu. Historically, Liu is authentic, and this is Liu in Shaanxi. Second, from the surname Ji, a descendant of the Zhou royal family.

2. According to legend, after his death, he succeeded to the throne and was named the son of Wang Ji. Later generations took the city as their surname, came from their own family, changed their surname or gave it to Liu. According to historical records, Liu Bang, the emperor gaozu of Han Dynasty, practiced the policy of affinity and married Yu Khan. According to the custom of Xiongnu, all nobles take their mother's surname, so the descendants of these imperial women take Liu's surname. So this surname Liu came into being.

According to historical records, Lou Jing, a Qi man, offered Liu Bang a plan to build a capital in Luoyang, which was reused by Liu Bang. After Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor, he was given the surname Liu, and then he kept it all the time. In order to thank Xiang Bo for saving his life at the Hongmen banquet, Liu Bang named him Liu.

4. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, Liu Lu, a descendant of Liu Meng, a handsome man in the central Xiongnu, led the Dugu Department to join the Xianbei people. After Emperor Xiaowen moved to Luoyang, the compound surname of Dugu was changed to Chinese character Liu, which became one of the eight surnames of big noble at that time. Other ethnic minorities who moved to the Central Plains also changed their surnames to Liu.

5. Celebrity Liu: Liu Bang: that is, Emperor Gaozu, a native of Pei County. At the end of Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng uprising, he gathered three thousand people in Pei County to respond. Later, Chu Huaiwang ordered him to split up with Xiang Yu. Xianyang was captured in 206 BC and was named Hanwang by Xiang Yu. After five years of Chu-Han War with Xiang Yu, he won. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he proclaimed himself emperor, with the title of Han, Luoyang as its capital and Chang 'an as its capital, which was called the Western Han Dynasty in history.

6. Liu Qi (BC 188 ~ BC 14 1) is the eldest son of Wendi. When he was in office, he was called Han Jingdi. He adopted Dou Taihou's Huang Lao rule, practiced inaction politics, and loved the people diligently. Later, due to the adoption of Chao Cuo's ideas, the feudal lords were separated, resulting in the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms. Fortunately, Qiu Zhou Yafu was pacified, and since then, the central power has been consolidated, and the king has no strength. Collapsed after 16 years in office.

7, Liu Che (before 156 before 87), namely the emperor. Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. The former 156 reigned for 87 years. Son of King Jing. Take "ousting a hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" and use spells to punish them; Promulgate the "favor decree" to cut off separatist forces; The government manages the salt and iron trade to stabilize prices; Harness the Yellow River, build water conservancy projects, emigrate to the frontier areas, and implement the "farming by substitution"; Zhang Qian and others were sent to the Western Regions, Wei Qing and Huo Qubing were ordered to defeat the Xiongnu, and Yungui set up a county to push the Han Dynasty to its peak. Can be good at poetry, the original set of two volumes, lost.

8. Liu Xiu: Caiyang, Nanyang, the founding monarch of the Eastern Han Dynasty, was known as Emperor Guangwu in history. In 22 AD, he rose up in Chunling and joined the outlaws. Under the call of restoring the system of the Han Dynasty, he joined forces with the nobles to defeat the red-eye rebels. In the first year of Jianwu, he proclaimed himself emperor and made Luoyang his capital. After that, the separatist forces in various places were eliminated and the whole country was unified.