Ask the source of Gao's surname
Today, the surname Gao is the 15th largest surname in China, with a total population of over 1%, ranking 29th in Taiwan Province. Gao's surname comes from Jiang's surname, after Emperor Yan, and is a descendant of Qi Taigong and Jiang Ziya in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Jiang Ziya's sixth Sun Qi Wen Gong Chi had a son who was sealed in Gao, called Gongzi Gao. Sun Zixi, whose son is high, is an important minister of Qi. Because he put down the civil strife with Guan Zhong, Xiao Bai, the son of Ying Li, made contributions to Qi Huangong, and was allowed by Qi Huangong to use his grandfather's word as his surname, hence his surname Gao.
Many of the high surnames came from ethnic minorities. For example, during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Murong of Xianbei nationality changed his surname to Gao; The Lou family of Xianbei Tuoba Department, and some people changed their surnames to Gao; Yu Zhen's family of the Koryo nationality, and some people changed their surnames to Gao. According to textual research, Gao's surname first came from Henan, and it developed greatly in Shandong after the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Tang Dynasty, Gao entered Fujian twice and migrated to Taiwan Province during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. The main settlements of Gao surname are: Bohai, Liaodong, Guangling, Henan, Yuyang, Youji, Jingzhao, Jinling and Anping.
Gao Shi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Dezhou (now Jingxian County, Hebei Province). When he was young, he was poor and poor, and later he joined the army and became an official in his later years. Because he is familiar with military life, his poems mostly reflect the situation in the frontier and the sufferings of soldiers at that time, and he is a famous frontier poet with Cen Can. Yan Ge Xing is his masterpiece.
The second reference to the origin of the surname Gao
The surname Gao first appeared in the period of the ancient Yellow Emperor. According to Shiben, the earliest book in China that systematically records the origin of surnames, "Gao Yuan, the minister of the Yellow Emperor, served as an official office." Annals of Bamboo Books: The Yellow Emperor "lived with a bear". There is a bear, which is now Xinzheng, Henan. This shows that there was a high surname in Henan in ancient times. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Chi, the sixth grandson of Qi Taigong Lu Shang (that is, Jiang Ziya), had a son named Gongzi Gao who was sealed in Gao (now southwest of Yuzhou City, Henan Province). The grandson of Gongzi Gao is named Gao, taking his grandfather's fief as his surname, and his descendants are named Gao. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Shu's "Searching for the Origin of Surnames" says: General Wei Longxiang and Yingzhou secretariat Gao Zhen wrote an inscription saying: They first covered the descendants of Emperor Yan, who used to be in Huangtang for the four mountains. He arrested Boyi, was ordered by Yu Shun, and was appointed by Lu Shangzuo and Zhou Keyin. Give Hou Qi the country, and never forget it in the world. If there is a noble son in his family, that is, his surname is Yan. "
Some of the high surnames belong to other surnames. "The Book of Northern Qi Dynasty" records: "Wen Xuandi in Northern Qi Dynasty was named Gao Mingyang. At that time, Yuan Jing 'an and Yuan Wenyao were Xianbei people, who changed their Han surname to Yuan. Because of their meritorious service in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Yang gave them a high surname, and later they became high surnames. " "The Book of Wei" also says: "The Emperor Murong Zhi of Houyan, a native of Xianbei, claimed to be a descendant of Levin, so he changed his surname to Gao Yun (also in Henan)." According to relevant records, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty changed the compound surname of Xianbei people from Lou to Gao after he moved to Luoyang. Also, in the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Longzhi, an important official, was originally from the Xu family. Because his father was raised by Gao and made friends with Gao Huan, he changed his name to Gao, and later became a noble family (see Origin of China's Surname).
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Gao Hong, the prefect of Bohai Sea, lived in Xiuxian County of Bohai Sea (Jingxian County of Hebei Province), and was a noble family at that time. He had many legends in Sun, so Gao took Bohai Sea as the county name. Gao Hong's fourth grandson Gao Gao praised him as a Prince Taifu. Gao Gao's grandson, Gao Cheng, offered wine to the nation. Therefore, the Gaos in Bohai Sea have been a big family for quite a long time. Later, some descendants of Gao Hong moved to Fujian. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Gao Shoujue, a physician from Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, moved to Nagasaki, Japan. In 1643, Shoujue's son, Gao Chaofang, was appointed as a Tang Datong official in Japan. Because he was a noble scholar in Bohai, he changed his Japanese name to Bohai Kyubee and became a Japanese Bohai. Gao Xuandai, the second son of Gao Chaofang, is known as a "Japanese genius". (See History of the Origin of Yanhuang)
The third surname of Guangling County in Yangzhou is Gao (and later the eleventh surname also has Gao), which is a branch of Gao Rui, the satrap of Wu Danyang, and his fourth disciple is Moling. During the Warring States Period, Chu Weiwang built Wuyangcheng (Guangzhou) in Xianggao, calling himself Qiyuan Gaoshi, and then developed and multiplied in Guangdong.
In the early Tang Dynasty, Zheng Chen and Chen Yuanguang, from Gushi, Henan Province, led a military academy to Fujian to open Zhangzhou County, in which Gao's family from Henan participated. When Tang Xizong was in China, Gao entered Fujian, spread the story of the sixth generation to Gao Yi, Gao Yi and moved to Anping (Anhai Town, Jinjiang, Fujian), and his descendants moved to Nan 'an Chengbian and Anxi Taiping. This branch of Gao's ancestral root is also in Henan.
There is also a branch of Gao's family, which moved from west Gansu to central Yunnan as early as the end of the Han Dynasty and became the most popular surname of Bai Man. In the first year of Song Shaosheng, Gao Shengtai seized Duan's regime in Dali and became king on his own, which was called Great China. It was spread in Gao Taiming, and in the third year of Yu Shaosheng, he returned the throne to Duan. He was still named the Duke of China, and he was the prime minister of Dali, controlling the regime of Dali, and was called the Lord of the High Kingdom. Their descendants were Yunnan Tusi in Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. "The Book of Local Officials" records that the local magistrate in Chuxiong was a high official and passed on his wife and daughter Gao Dongmei. There is also Gao Long, the military and civilian magistrate of Heqing.
In the fifteenth year of Ming Hongwu, he joined the army, and passed on his son Gao Zhong and Sun (Gao) Xing. Xing Di Bao Jie, Bao Jie Zi (Gao Lun). There is also the Heqing House, where thousands of soldiers are long and the sea is high, and its ancestors gave it high, and it was a Hijikata Chizuru household in Yuan Dynasty. Gao Hai was attached in the early Ming Dynasty, and was the head of a thousand households. Nine of them were passed on to (Gao) Yu, who was a vassal and hereditary director of the affairs. Then spread to high Ying Xing, that is, abolished. There is also a judge of Beisheng Prefecture, Gao Liang, and Ming Hongwu served for sixteen years. Chuan Zilin, Sun Ying, Zeng Sunqing, Guang, Guang Zizhen.
in the "Origin of Hakka Surnames" in Meizhou, Guangdong Province, it is recorded that: "In the Han Dynasty, Gao Hong was appointed as the prefect of Bohai Sea, and his eleventh descendant, Sun Gaochai, was given to * * * Bo in Tang Dynasty, and was named as the Duke of the city in Song Dynasty. This is the reason for Gao's' Gonghoutang'. Its temple couplet is: for Hou Shide, the voice of Bohai family. Gao's family in Fujian took Gao Chai as the great ancestor. Sun Gaokuang, a descendant of Chai, lived in the tenth year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1183), gave lectures at Wuyi Jingshe in Fujian with Huian (Zhu Xi), and then settled in Shaowu. Tan, the son of Kuang, gave birth to three children: Yi, Yi and Qi, who lived in Longxi, Fujian; Living in Shaowu, he gave birth to three children: Wen Zhao, Wen Hui and Wen Jian. Wenhui moved to Shibi Village, Ninghua County, and gave birth to a son: (name) Shiro ... Yuan Zhen moved to Shengyun Lane in Shanghang in the second year, and gave birth to four sons: Shiro, Shiro, Shiro and Shiro. The descendants of Bai Yilang and Bai Erlang moved to Hui, Chao and Jia in Guangdong; The descendants of Bai Saburo and Bai Shiro mostly moved to four or four places in Jiangxi. "
from the above, we can see that Gao's family name is rooted in Henan, and he hopes to be located in Bohai, Yuyang, Liaodong and Guangling. With the change of dynasties. Gao's surname is not only spread all over the country, but also many people have emigrated overseas.
in the history of China, there were 14 people who claimed the title of emperor and king by the name of Gao, who had established the regimes of Beiqi, Yan and Jingnan. Among them, the Northern Qi Dynasty, built by Gao Yang on behalf of Wei Zili in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, lasted for 28 years; At the end of the peasant uprising army, Gao Kaidao called Yan Wang for 4 years; In the Five Dynasties, Gao Jixing founded Jingnanguo in Jiangling, which lasted for 19 years.
there are some famous people in Gao's family. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Gao Chai was a disciple of Confucius, benevolent and filial, and was sheltered by others during the chaos. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous scholar Gao Yin. In the Eastern Wei Dynasty, there was Gao Huan, the prime minister who monopolized state affairs. There were ministers in the Northern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty. At the end of Sui Dynasty, there was Gao Shida, the leader of peasant uprising army. Gao Lishi, a eunuch in the Tang Dynasty, defended the Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty by dozens. There are poets Gao Shi, generals Gao Chongwen, Gao Xianzhi, Gao Pian, etc.
According to the data of population sampling survey, Gao is the 15th most popular surname in China. In the long history of development, the surname Gao began in the north, mainly Han nationality. Later, in many great ethnic integrations, many people with the surname Gao merged into ethnic minorities, that is, there are more than 1 ethnic minorities with the surname Gao, especially Bai and Tujia. At the same time, among those who migrated from north to south, they went to Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Province, and then some people moved to Japan, Southeast Asia and some countries and regions in Europe and America.