origin: Liu is the surname of the descendants of Gu Diyao. Yao's surname is Qi, and it is said that the descendant of Yao, Qi Liu Lei, was a Xia Yanglong. Because of poor breeding, a female dragon died. He was afraid of Xia Emperor's punishment and secretly fled to Henan. His descendants took Wei Liu's surname, which was the earliest Liu surname in China. One of Liu Lei's descendants was named Du Bo by Zhou Chengwang, and the great-grandson of Du Bo's son fled to Qin State because of domestic unrest, and later returned to China, but his son stayed in Qin State, and the descendants who stayed in Qin State restored Liu's surname and lived in Shaanxi Province today. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Bangci married some ethnic minorities and Xiang Bo clans. Later, Liu Bang married the Huns and married the royal clan daughter to Huns Khan. Because of the habit of the Huns sharing their mother's surname, many Huns were surnamed Liu. Due to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, the population of Liu surname also developed greatly. In the early days, Liu surname mainly developed and multiplied in the north. In the Jin Dynasty, Liu surname moved to Fujian, and in the Tang Dynasty, it moved to Guangdong and Guangxi. In the history of China, there were as many as 66 people named Liu as the king and the emperor, and successively established dynasties or regimes such as the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Shu Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Qianzhao Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty, the Southern Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty, the Northern Han Dynasty and the Daqi Dynasty. * * * lasted for more than 65 years, and it was the surname with the longest feudal dynasty in China. Liu has been in power for a long time and enjoys privileges, which is an important reason for the great development of the population. There are also many talented people named Liu. In the Western Han Dynasty, Liu An, the king of Huainan, organized thousands of guests to write Huainanzi. Liu Xiang, Liu Xin and his son, scholars, bibliographers and writers, were the fathers of China's bibliography, and Liu Xi, an exegetist. Liu Desheng, a calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty; In the Three Kingdoms, Wei had a philosopher Liu Shao; There was a mathematician Liu Hui in Wei and Jin Dynasties; Liu Kun, a general and poet, and Liu Ling, one of the "Seven Sages of Bamboo Forest" in the Western Jin Dynasty; Liu Laozhi, a brave general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liu was a scholar and critic of literary theory. His book was Wen Xin Diao Long, and Liu Jun was a scholar and writer. In the Sui Dynasty, there were Confucian classics Liu Xuan and Liu Zhuo, and peasant uprising leader Liu Yuanjin; Liu Yan, a financial planner in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Zhiji, a historian, Liu Yuxi, a writer and philosopher, Liu Changqing, a poet, and Liu Pi, an essayist; Liu Shu, a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty; In the Southern Song Dynasty, there were poets Liu Guo and painters Liu Songnian. Liu Ying, a state-owned writer in Jin Dynasty; Liu Yin, a scholar in Yuan Dynasty, and Liu Futong, the leader of the Red Scarf Army; In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many people named Liu rose up against feudal oppression, such as Liu Tong, Liu Liu, Liu Qi, etc. In addition, painter Liu Yu, poet Liu Tiren and novelist Liu E; Modern poets include Liu Dabai, Liu Bannong, a writer and linguist, Liu Zhidan, a proletarian revolutionary in China, Liu Hulan, party member and so on. Liu is the fourth surname in China, accounting for about 5.4% of the Han population, exceeding 6 million.