What should I read with the word "Tuo" as my surname?

Tuoba family. In the Song Dynasty, it ranked 454th among hundreds of surnames. Xianbei people call "Tu" Tuo and "Hou" Postscript, so they take "Tuoba" as their surname. Xianbei nationality is a nationality named after mountains. It first lived in the north of Daxian Mountain at the northern foot of Daxinganling, and lived a nomadic life.

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Origin of the surname: According to Guan Shi, "Chang Yi, the son of the Yellow Emperor, had few descendants and was sealed in the north. The Yellow Emperor takes soil as king, and the north is commonly called soil as extension, which is called postscript, so it takes Tuoba's family.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, there was civil strife in the Central Plains, and Xianbei people moved to the Central Plains. In 386 AD, Tuoba GUI established the Northern Wei Dynasty with Pingcheng as its capital (now Datong, Shanxi). In 494 AD, Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang to carry out reforms. Emperor Xiaowen changed the royal family to Yuan's surname, and the Tuoba family outside the royal family became an ordinary surname, still belonging to Tuoba family, which has nothing to do with the royal family.

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