Gao in Qi State, Shandong Province, and it is an ancient surname that originated in Shandong.
Anyone familiar with history knows that the State of Qi in the Zhou Dynasty had a state and a senior official, and all generations were the highest-ranking ministers in the State of Qi. Their appointments were directly awarded by the Zhou Emperor, and all matters of Qi, big or small, had to be decided by them. This is what the annotation of Zuo Zhuan said: "Guo Zi, Gao Zi, ordered by the son of heaven, are all ministers for Qi Shouchen."
where did this surname, which was famous two or three thousand years ago, come from? It's a long story to discuss the origin of Gao's surname, because in the past five thousand years, there have been at least four or five molecules that make up this big family, which can be called "the origin of surname is diverse and its ethnic groups are numerous".
Let's talk about the Gao family who was very proud in the State of Qi in the Zhou Dynasty. As for the origin of their surnames, it is recorded in Guang Yun: "After Qi Taigong, the food was taken from Gao, and they thought it was their surname"; And detailed in the "Tongzhi Clan": "The son of Huigong, Gongzi Qi, has a high word, and later it is Gao."
Other members of Gao's big family have authentic documents and materials to record, including the book of Northern Qi: "Wen Xuandi gave Yuan an emergency, and Yuan Wenyao were both Gao's; Gao Longzhi's real surname is Xu, and his father is raised by Gao's family. Because of his surname and "the ancestor and harmony of Hou Yan Murong Yun, after Yun Levin's family, Gao is the surname".
In addition, among countless surnames, there are many compound surnames with the word "Gao", such as Gao Che's, Gao Tang's, Levin's and Gao Ling's. According to the textual research of later generations, Gao Che's family is "nine Uighur species who entered China, and later Wei had Gao Che or Ru"; Gao Tang's family is "Qi Qing Gao Jingzhong ate in Gao Tang, because of his family's ignorance"; Everyone is familiar with Levin's surname, which is the surname of Emperor Zhuan Xu in ancient times. Later, there were also people who took the word Levin as their surname. There was an ancient debater Levin in Lv Chunqiu. Gaoling's surname is "Qin Zhao Wang Di named Gaoling Jun, and later he thought it was his surname". These compound surnames have long been very rare.
For a long time, the academic and literary world, which is full of flowers and fragrant gardens, is the best explanation of outstanding wisdom. Among them, the gardener named Gao has worked hard and sweated a lot. For example, in the Han Dynasty, Gao Jia, Gao Rong and Gao Xu's grandparents and grandchildren were handed down from generation to generation. The Biography of Seventeen Letters of Rites was passed down to Dade and Dai Sheng, which made Gao Tangsheng, a scholar who wrote The Interpretation of Filial Piety, and noted ancient books such as Warring States Policy, Lu Chunqiu and Huainanzi, etc.
In addition, Gao Shi, like the Tang Dynasty, not only served as our ambassadors in Huainan, Jiannan and Xichuan successively, but also showed his extraordinary ability, and his poetry was old and his thinking was strange. Gao Qi, one of the famous "Ten Friends of Northern Guo" at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, once participated in the compilation of the History of Yuan Dynasty, and was famous for his bold poem title. During Jiajing period, Gao Wu enjoyed a long reputation in traditional medicine, and the acupuncture techniques he taught have become an extremely important department in medicine. Gao Qipei in the Qing Dynasty was well-known in traditional painting circles.
From a series of shining lists above, anyone can see at a glance how famous Gao has been in the past thousands of years!
origin and migration
Gao has a long history. In ancient times, there was "Levin's stomach, Bohai's family voice". Gao Yuan, the Huang Di-chen who started the house, was the earliest figure with the surname of Gao in ancient books. The surname Gao was originally named Jiang. Emperor Yan was born in Jiang Shui, a tributary of the Weihe River in southern Shaanxi, hence his surname Jiang. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu named Jiang Shang (Zi Ziya) the Duke of Qi, with the title of Tai Gong. Grandfather VI Sun Qi Wen Gong Jiang Chi, he had a son who was sealed in Gaoyi (now Yucheng, Shandong Province) and took the fief as his surname. The grandson of Gao, the son of Gao, was appointed as the minister of Qi by the Emperor of Zhou, who took charge of the army and cooperated with Guan Zhong to dominate the Central Plains, making great contributions. After Gao Xi's death, his descendants were hereditary nobles of the State of Qi, and they were both prominent nobles with Tian. During the Warring States Period, when the Tian Dynasty was Qi, the Gao people mostly moved to Shandong and Yan to develop. Sun Gaohong, the 26th generation of Gao Xi, was the prefect of Bohai County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his descendants were very prosperous, so Gao's county was regarded as Bohai County (now Bazhou City, Hebei Province). Gao Huan and Gao Cheng, who were successively prime ministers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, controlled the military and political power of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and Gao Yang, the brother of Gao Cheng, accepted the Zen position of Wei Emperor as the king of Qi, becoming the monarch of the Northern Qi Dynasty, thus Gao entered its heyday. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty defeated the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao's family weakened. Since then, the mainstream of high surname in Bohai Sea is Gao Huan's cousin Gao Yue. Before the Tang Dynasty, the high surname generally developed in the north. After the Huang Chao Uprising at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Gang, a native of Gushi, Gwangju, Huainan West Road, moved to Futang County (Huai 'an County, Fuzhou) in the south of the Yangtze River. In the Five Dynasties, Wang Shenzhi, the king of Fujian Province, awarded him a political post. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Gao Yizhong, a descendant of Gaogang in Ningde, Fuzhou, was a scholar and served as a magistrate in Dongan, Yongzhou. His son Gao Kuang settled in Shaowu and gave lectures in Wuyi Jingshe with Zhu Xi, a Dali scholar in the Song Dynasty. Gao Kuangzi Gao Tan gave birth to three sons: Yi, Yi and Qi. Gao Ben moved to Zhangzhou. Gao Yizhong was a scholar who lived in Shaowu and gave birth to three sons: Wen Zhao, Wen Hui and Wen Jian. Gao Wenhui moved to Qianjiawei, Shibi Village, Ninghua, because of the chaos of soldiers in the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty. He had a son, Shiro, and his name was different. He was the 67th generation of Gao. Shiro Gao Zuoqi moved to Kaiji (now Caotian Village, Lanxi) in Caotian Township, Shengyunli, Hangzhou County in 1296. Shiro is the ancestor of Gaos in Shanghang. Tracing back, Shanghang Gaos is a descendant of Gaogang in the late Tang Dynasty. Another Gao Qiong ethnic group who fought with Song Taizu and Song Zhenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was appointed by the official to check the school, Qiu Zhong and Wu Jun, moved to Zhangpu from Shanyin for escaping the "young crop debt".