1, from "Gui" (the name of Shun's wife), female+Gui = Yao. During the ancient tribal alliance, the ancestors of Yanhuang climbed Mount Tai to pray, and the drought lasted for ten days. According to God's will, China named five clans and cast ten Ding, which will always be called Tiande. Among them, the emperor marked "Gui".

2. From the Qiang people, from Yao, the leader of the Qiang department who was burned by the Western Qiang in the later Han Dynasty. According to the historical book "The Book of Jin", Yi Zhong, the leader of Qiang nationality in Chitingdi, Nan 'an County (now southeast of Longxi, Gansu Province), was originally a descendant of Shaodang, a western Qiang in Han Dynasty. He claimed to be a descendant of Shun Di, so he changed his surname to Yao. Among the descendants of Yao, the chief changed his surname and passed it down from generation to generation.

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According to the latest statistics of the Global Chinese Public Sacrifice Conference held in Lingling, Hunan Province in 2005, there are as many as 70 surnames derived from Yao's surname, such as Chen, wang xing, Hu, Sun, Yu, Tian, Yuan, Che and Lu, which are distributed in more than 50 countries and regions in the world. If the Yao family whose descendants changed their surnames is included, there are countless outstanding people in the Yao family.

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