[Li] The earliest Chinese surname used by the Manchu people. It was given by the governor of Heishui Mohe in the Tang Dynasty, and was used by the Bohai and Wuji people. Tao Zongyi of the Yuan Dynasty recorded in "Nancun Stopping Farming Records" that the Jin people's surname was Pucha and Li. The Jurchen leaders of Jianzhou in the Ming Dynasty, Ahachu and Li Manzhu, gave the surname to their families. Tieling Jurchens were scattered among thousands of households, Li Yilibuhua, and took this as their surname.
Old surnames include: Fucha, Guarjia, Lijia, Lierjia, Sakda, Ila, Hanchu, Xilinjueluo, Eji, and Wuku The Li family, as well as the Talabaqik family (Mongolian), Li family (Han, Korean), etc. who joined the Manchu people.
Famous people with this surname include:
Li Zhaolin (1910-1946) was a native of Liaoyang, Liaoning Province. In his early years, he participated in the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese National Salvation Association and served successively as political commissar of the Hadong Detachment, commander-in-chief of the Third Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, deputy governor of the Binjiang Provincial Government and president of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association. He was assassinated by a Kuomintang agent.
Li Baokun (1927-1988) was from Beijing. Famous actor, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and first vice-chairman of the Beijing Catholic Patriotic Association.