pre-Qin period
Li Er in the Spring and Autumn Period was the first person surnamed Li in the official history. Li Er, a native of Qurenli, Li Xiang Township, Guxian County, Chu State, was a thinker and founder of Taoism in the Spring and Autumn Period. He is the author of Laozi and a historian in charge of book collection in Zhou Dynasty. Some ancient books say that he was born in Zhou Pingwang (early Spring and Autumn Period). At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius once asked him questions, so he said that he lived 160 or 200 years old because he cultivated himself. Laozi, also known as Tao Te Ching and Laozi's Five Thousand Articles, is the main classic of Taoism. It uses Tao to explain the evolution of all things in the universe, which contains some simple dialectical factors and has a great influence on the development of China's philosophy. Later, both materialists and idealists absorbed Laozi's thoughts from different angles.
According to the New Tang Book, the ancestor of Li also married the daughter of Chen and his family and gave birth to a son named Li Changzu. Later, he practiced medicine and lived in Guxian County. Li Changzu's son is called Li Tongde. Tongde's great-grandson named Li Shuozong was a fief given to him by Zhou Kangwang (fief, also called food city, land acquisition or fief, was the land given to Qing and doctors by emperors or governors during the slave society, together with slaves working on the land). ) In Bitter County. The name of Li Shuozong's fifth grandson is Guo. He served as an ancient consultant in the Western Zhou Dynasty and married a precious daughter who lived a long life. These are Li Er's father and mother. Li Er's descendants, whose real name is Zunzu, worked as an official in Wei and were appointed as dry surgeons in Du 'an. Li Tong, the son of Li Zong, was a general of Zhao, Sun Lidui was, and Li Ji, his great grandson, was Zhao's. Li Ji has two sons: Li Yun and Li Ke. Li Ke's son Li Hong is the king of Qin (in today's Gansu and Shaanxi), and his grandson Li Xing is the general of Qin. Li Xing's son Li Tan is a noble man. He was an official in Zhao State and was appointed as Bairen (now Tangshan, Hebei Province). Later, he entered the Qin dynasty and served as the suggestion. Li Tan has four sons: Chong, Bian, Zhao and Yuan. They and their descendants were divided into two branches because they were officials and settled in other places respectively: Li Chong, the eldest son, was appointed as the guardian of Longxi (now Lintao County, Gansu Province), and Gongzheng, the south, was appointed as the government of Longxi; The fourth son, Li Gui, was a teacher of Qin at the end of the Warring States Period. Gui Li's second son, Li Mu, was an official in Zhao State and settled in Zhao County (now southwest of Handan City, Hebei Province). Later, Longxi House was divided into 39 rooms, and Zhaojun House was divided into three groups: East, South and West.
After Li Er, Li's population gradually increased. Li, a prison official in the Spring and Autumn Period (whose capital is in the southeast of Yicheng, Shanxi Province), and Li Kui, a prison official in the Warring States Period (whose capital is in the northwest of Xiaxian County, Shanxi Province), are all Li people who moved to Shanxi in the early days. During the Warring States Period, Li Bing, appointed by King Zhao of Qin as the commander of Shu County (now Chengdu, Sichuan), was the first person named Li to move to Sichuan. Thomas lee, Li Er's grandson, went to Zhao (whose capital is now Handan, Hebei) to be an official, and was the first person surnamed Li to move to Hebei. Li Hong, the son of Li Ke, the grandson of Li Jue, went to the State of Qin (the capital is in the northeast of Xianyang, Shaanxi) to be an official.