Legend has it that Li's ancestor was an official in charge of justice under Yao. His official name is "Dali" His descendants inherited the post of Dali, and after three generations of Yu, Xia and Shang, they took the official position as their surname and called it "Li".

At the end of Shang Dynasty, Li Zheng, a descendant of Hao Tao, was put to death for his integrity in offending the tyrant Shang Zhouwang. Richard's wife, children and son began to flee. Because the plum trees along the way are full of big and red plums, the mother and son can only survive by picking plums to satisfy their hunger. In order to commemorate this difficult history, mother and son thanked Li Ziyi and changed their surname to Li. This is the origin of Li's surname. For a long time, Li was still a small surname.

However, in the Tang Dynasty, some subjects with other surnames were awarded Li by the Li royal family in recognition of their contribution to the establishment of Li Yuanhe. In this way, the Li family became huge and became the most popular surname in China. In ancient times, most of the Li family who established fame lived in Xilong (now working in Lanzhou and Qinchuan, Gansu), so Xilong became the source of the Li family's fame. Now many Hakkas surnamed Li in Gannan are proud of Xilong Mingmen.

Yellow?

According to legend, the surname Huang was after Boyi.

Boyi is highly valued by others. He helped Yu control water, and his name is very important. In the Zhou Dynasty, there was the Huang State (now west of Huangchuan County, Henan Province), which was the vassal state of Boyi's descendants.

It was destroyed by Chu in 648 BC, and its grandson took Guo as his surname and called Huang. According to textual research, there is an aristocratic family named Huang in Jiangxia County (now southeast of Yunmeng County, Hubei Province).

Huang moved south to Huangshi Tiankeng, Ningdu. Huang was also one of the 15 Kaiji surnames who moved to Shicheng in the Tang and Five Dynasties. Huang surname is the third largest surname in Ningdu, and it is also the surname of Hakka in southern Jiangxi.

Fu?

There are two versions about the origin of the surname Fu: one is that the descendants of the Yellow Emperor were sealed in Fuyi, and later generations took Fu as their surname, called Fu's.

Another way of saying it is that Wu Ding, the legendary Shang emperor, searched for a good minister in his dream. Fu Shuo was found in the place where Yan Fu lived. With the help of Fu Shuo, the world was ruled. The descendants of take the symbol as their surname. At present, most of the Fu surnames in Gannan moved in after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Fu is also a member of Gannan Hakka. ?

Deng?

There are three legends about the origin of Deng's surname: one is that the descendants of Emperor Zhong Kang in Xia Dynasty were sealed in Dengzhou (now Dengxian County, Henan Province), and the later grandson took the country name as Deng's surname; The other is that Emperor Gaozong of Shang Dynasty sealed his uncle in Dengzhou, and his grandson took Deng as his surname. Third, in the Five Dynasties, the eighth son of Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was named King Deng, and his descendants were also named Deng. Deng lived in Nanyang County (now Nanyang County, Henan Province). According to records, most of Deng's surnames migrated to Gannan during the Song and Ming Dynasties, and it was one of the larger Hakka surnames who moved to Gannan in the early days.

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Hundreds of Surnames is a book about China's surname, which was formed in wuyue in Song Dynasty. On April 2013 14, the research center of the origin of surnames in China, China Fuxi Cultural Research Association released the latest version list of "Hundred Surnames" in China today through comprehensive analysis. Wang, Li and Zhang, the top three names in the latest edition of Hundred Family Names, are the first surnames in China, with more than 95 million people, more than 93 million people and nearly 90 million people respectively. People with three surnames account for about 2 1% of the total population in China. About 20 ethnic minorities in China basically don't use their surnames, but only use their first names. Hundreds of surnames, together with San and Qian, are also called "three thousand", which is an enlightenment book for children in ancient China.