Yao surname has nine sources:
Origin one
Originated from the "Genealogy" records: "Shun has two surnames, Yao is Gui. Because he was born in the ruins of Yao, his surname was Yao, and because he lived in Guishui, his surname was Gui. " For generations, history has said that Yao is authentic.
Liu Yuan 2
From "Gui" (the name of Shun's wife), female+Gui = Yao.
During the ancient tribal alliance, the ancestors of Yanhuang climbed Mount Tai to pray, and the drought lasted for ten days. According to God's will, China named five clans and cast ten Ding, which will always be called Tiande. Among them, the emperor marked "Gui".
God (decyl). The son of the royal family, Wu, is the emperor and the Lord of the royal family. I married Ding and had a son, Wu, and a daughter. When a prince marries a decyl, he produces an emperor's family. The word "emperor" (Xi and Shun) is a combination of five and decyl. Deck+e = emperor (or "Xi" or "Shun"). Wu holds an axe, and Wuwei is everywhere. Gui, Gui also, Gui holds an open compass. Wu tribe is very interesting. Wu people call themselves "I" (e variant) and "I" (e homonym). Their leader calls himself "Xi", "Shun" or "Emperor", and the word "Shun" is also a combination of decyl and Gynostemma pentaphyllum. The descendants of Gui who sacrificed to Gui's daughter never forgot, and gave birth to an important surname-Jiang. Ginger = decyl+female. The descendants of the virgin call themselves ginger. Because Shun married a pair of sisters (Er Yao) and two decyl girls (He), one of them added "female" to his mother's "decyl" to form the Chiang family, and the other added "female" to his left to form the Yao family. So Jiang and Yao are descendants of two emperors who are half-brothers. They are all descendants of the emperor, and their surnames are different because of their different mothers. Both Yao and Jiang were born after their mother's surname. Yao Shi is the queen of Shun and Gui. Yao's pronunciation is the same as Yao's and he is the father of virgins.
Liu Yuan 3
Historical records show that in the early Spring and Autumn Period, there were descendants of Yu Shun who took the country as their surname and called it Yao.
Origin four
Yao, the leader of Qiang nationality, was originally from Qiang nationality, and was burned by Xiqiang at the end of Han Dynasty. According to the historical book "The Book of Jin", Yi Zhong, the leader of Qiang nationality in Chitingdi, Nan 'an County (now southeast of Longxi, Gansu Province), was originally a descendant of Shaodang, a western Qiang in Han Dynasty. He claimed to be a descendant of Shun Di, so he changed his surname to Yao. Among the descendants of Yao, the chief changed his surname and passed it down from generation to generation.
Origin five
Originated from Mongolians, it came from Mongolian Imperial Department in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. According to "Qing Dynasty Tongzhi Imperial Clan Jane Mongolian Eight Banners Surnames", in the Ming Dynasty, there were Mongols who spared fifty and gave Yao's surname as "Yao" because of their meritorious service to the imperial court, and later generations took Yao's surname.
Liu Yuan
From Manchu, from the Nuzhen Family Department of Jin Dynasty. According to the historical records "A Brief History of Tongzhi Imperial Clan in Qing Dynasty Manchu Eight Banners Surname", Yao Jiashi, Manchu, was born in Yuejiabu, a Nuzhen in Jin Dynasty, and was born in Han nationality. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was captured by the Wuhuan Department of Xianbei in Liaodong, and then gradually evolved into the Jurchen of Liaodong, living in Yehe (now Yehe Township, Lishu, Jilin), and later the official Han surname was Yao.
Origin seven
Originated from De 'ang nationality, from the Ming Dynasty De 'ang nationality Ran Naishi. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, when the central government vigorously promoted the movement of changing land into streams, Yao Yingbing, a deputy general of Yunnan Province, was placed in Yao 'an, so the Han surname was Yao's.
Yuanliuba
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to Chinese culture and changed its surname to surname. Today, Yao people are distributed among Miao, Shui, Qiang, Lahu, Yi, Tujia, Zhuang, Bai and Russian. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, when the central dynasty carried out the reform movement to return to the countryside in central south, southwest, northwest and other places, the Han surname was given by the local governor of the Han nationality, and some Han surnames were brought in by the Han soldiers stationed in the frontier after marriage.
other
In the Wild South Classic, there is a saying that "the emperor's wife was born in this three-body country, surnamed Yao, eating millet and making four birds". Shan Hai Jing, an overseas western classic: "Three-body country originated in Xia Hou, and one is three-body." Three-body countries should be in the southwest today, that is, Sichuan and Guizhou.