How did the surname Li come from?

The origin of the surname Li and the ancestors of the surname Li can be summarized as follows:

1, the origin of the surname win.

In other words, Li's surname is won, and his blood ancestor is the leader of Dongyi nationality.

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Yan's surname or Sheng's surname) was once appointed as Shun's Dali (the official in charge of criminal law), so the official family was named Li (the old saying "Li" and "Li" are interlinked), first Li and then Li. The ancestor of surname is Li Li, and Li Er is the first 1 1 world.

2. Li Shu's totem theory. In other words, Li's surname originated from totem worship and thought it was totem.

Li Yin became an official in Dali and got his surname Li. Later, he took refuge for food. Because they eat wild plums, they are cultivated as domestic plum trees, and plum trees are regarded as sacred trees, that is, totem trees. Therefore, all descendants of Li often plant Li as a symbol next to the house, and this habit has been preserved to this day. Li Baijia had a peach and plum garden, and many plum trees were planted in the palace garden of the Tang Dynasty.

3, the source of Ji surname (tiger totem) said.

In Shang Dynasty, there was a descendant of Zhou surnamed Ba, who lived in Zhong Lishan (now northwest of Changyang, Hubei). After the destruction of commerce, Ba people were named Ba Zi State (now Banan District, Chongqing). In 306 AD, Ba people established a great country in Sichuan, which was called Cheng Han in history. This was the first dynasty established by Li in China.

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There is a view that Li's totem is not a plum tree but a tiger. The totem of Laozi's birthplace in Li Er, Chen Chu is a tiger, and "Li Er" means "tiger" in Chu language. Ba people regard the tiger as a totem, and Ba people read the tiger as Li. When the tiger totem evolved into a surname, the Ba people respected the surname of the Han people, so they used Li according to the sound.

It originated from giving surname and restoring Li.

During the Shu and Han Dynasties, Zhuge Liang gave local ethnic minorities surnames such as Zhao, Zhang, Yang and Li.

During the Han and Jin dynasties, nomadic minorities in the north attached themselves to it, and some Xiongnu and Xianbei people were given surnames such as Liu and Li.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, after Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, he implemented a comprehensive sinicization policy in culture, and Xianbei people had a compound surname, Shili, named Shili. Xianbei Tuoba, a royal family in the Northern Wei Dynasty, is actually a descendant of Li Ling, a general of the Han nationality.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Tuoba, the royal family of Xixia in Li, was given the surname Li, nominally, but actually restored the surname Li, because Tuoba, the royal family of Xixia, was a Han Chinese.

The Origin and Migration of Li (Lecture Room)

Descendants of Li Ling.

In the Tang Dynasty, the royal family gave ministers or military commanders family names, including Xu, Tai, An, Du, Hu, Hong, Guo, Ma, Xian Yu, Zhang, Abu, Sha Li, Zhu Xie, Dong and Luo. They were named Li by the royal family in recognition of their achievements in founding the country. Later, they were Li Hume, Li Yansheng and Persian generals.

Migration distribution

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.

After the Tang Dynasty, due to various reasons, Li migrated more frequently and distributed more widely. Among them, there were a large number of immigrants when the "Jingkang Change" moved south in the Song Dynasty.

The regime change at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, as well as the "Battle of Jingnan" in Ming Dynasty, the main battlefields were arranged in parts of western Shandong, Hebei and northern Henan, which lasted for decades, causing people to make ends meet and flee everywhere, resulting in ten rooms and nine empty rooms.

After the political power was stabilized in the Ming Dynasty, people migrated from Pingyang, Taiyuan and other places in Shanxi (the genealogy of the Li family courtyard, the richest man in Shanxi, can prove the local prosperity and stability) to poor areas in North China (the records of scholars in the Ming Dynasty and the genealogy of the Li family in Yangquan can prove it).

Li's emigration began in the early Ming Dynasty. All the people who went to Ryukyu were from Fujian. They settled in Kumei Village, a suburb of Naha, Okinawa. According to the History of Ming Dynasty, in the twenty-five years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty gave Ryukyu "thirty-six Fujian people who were good at rowing, and made them pay tribute to each other", including Li. Many people sent to Ryukyu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were surnamed Li, all from China who moved to Ryukyu from Fujian.

In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Sichuan was at war for years, and in the seventh year of Kangxi (1668), Zhang De, the governor of Sichuan, wrote to the imperial court, requesting the imperial court to mobilize people from all over the country to migrate to Sichuan. Most of Li's surnames in Sichuan moved in from Huguangfu and other places, thus forming "Huguang filling Sichuan".

During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, more Li people moved overseas.