Yao, explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi as "Yu Shun lived in Yao Ruins because he thought his surname. ..... enchanting. "
[ Relics]
The full name of Yao Xizhi's epitaph is "The epitaph of Yao Gong, who joined the army in Ruyin County in the Tang Dynasty". The calligraphy of the inscription is dignified and elegant, and it is now in Qiantang Zhizhai Museum, tiemen town, Xin 'an County, Henan Province.
The inscribed stone of fengxue temple's poems written by Yao Lun exists in fengxue temple, Ruzhou City, Henan Province.
Yao Shu's tomb is located 1km north of Huixian City, Henan Province.
[ Origin of Yao's surname]
Yao's surname has a long history, and many celebrities have appeared in successive dynasties. It is one of the famous surnames in China. According to statistics, Yao's surname should rank 64th in mainland China and 68th in Taiwan Province.
There are three main sources of Yao's surname:
1. He is a descendant of Shun, one of the five emperors, and comes from Gui's surname. Shun belonged to a clan that lived in a dangerous place, so he was called Yu Shun in history. Later, Yao accepted the recommendation of Siyue and decided that Shun would succeed him as the leader and give him his two daughters as wives. According to Yao Dian, during Shun's reign, he ordered Hou Ji to sow Zhong Zhi Bai Gu according to the envoys. Digging ditches and canals to build water conservancy projects; Dredge rivers and control floods; Announce the five punishments and eliminate the four fierce families. Shun knows that people are good at their duties. According to their different talents, he lets them hold different official positions, such as appointing Yu as Sikong, who is in charge of water and soil; Appointed and abandoned as Hou Ji, in charge of agriculture; Appoint the deed as Stuart, in charge of the five religions; Hao Tao was appointed to administer the five punishments and so on. Therefore, during the reign of Shun, there was a good situation of political integrity and harmony in ancient times. The Historical Records commented on this: "The world is famous, all from the beginning of Emperor Yu."
According to legend, Shun was born in Yao Ruins, and his descendants took the land as their surname, which was called Yao's, Zheng Qiao's "Tongzhi?" "The Clan Brief" records: "Yao's surname is also Yu's surname, and Yu Di was born in Yao Ruins, so he thought it was his surname by birth". As for the exact location of Yao Ruins, there are two opinions at present. One is that it is located in the south of Fan County, Henan Province, and Zhang Shoujie's "Historical Records Justice" in the Tang Dynasty quoted the record of "Kuozhizhi": "Yao Ruins are in the east of Leize County, pu zhou." Another way of saying it is located in the northeast of Heze County, Shandong Province.
In addition, according to Zheng Qiao, Shun's surname is Gui because he lives in Guishui, so it can be inferred that Shun's surname is Gui, so Yao's surname also comes from Gui's surname.
2, from the son's surname. According to History of the Road, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Yao was a descendant of the Shang family (the surname of the Shang family was Zi), so they took the country as their surname and called it Yao.
3. Other ethnic groups were changed to Yao surname. According to relevant historical records, Yao Yizhong, the leader of Qiang nationality in the Western Jin Dynasty, was originally a descendant of the Shaodang family of Western Qiang in the Han Dynasty. They claimed to be descendants of Emperor Shun, so they changed their surname to Yao. The Book of Jin records: "Yao Yizhong Nan 'an (where he is now in the southeast of Longxi County, Gansu Province) and Chiting (in the west of Longxi County) are Qiang people. First, there was a descendant of Yu, and Yu named Shun's youngest son in Xirong, and the world was a Qiang chieftain. After that, it burned between Taohan and Taohan. "
from its birth to the Spring and Autumn Period, Yao's surname mainly developed in Henan. Before the Jin Dynasty, Yao's surname had developed to Shanxi, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places. In 384 A.D., the surname Yao established the post-Qin regime, and Yao grew stronger with the addition of this surname Yao from Longxi, Gansu. After the demise of the post-Qin regime, according to the Book of Jin, Emperor Wu of Song moved Yao's surname "Yu Zong to the south of the Yangtze River." Therefore, many Yao surnames in Jiangnan are descendants of this Yao surname. After that, Yao's surname multiplied faster and spread more widely. Before the Tang Dynasty, it had become a prominent family in Zhejiang, Xing Wu and Longzhou, Gansu. Later, a Yao family in Xing Wu moved to Shaanxi County. After the Tang Dynasty, Yao's reproduction was more extensive and spread all over the country. In the Tang Dynasty, Yao entered Fujian for the first time. According to historical records, when Chen Yuanguang entered Fujian to open Zhangzhou, Yao was among his entourage. Among them, in the fourth year of Tang Wude (AD 621), Yao Zhou was specially established because of the largest number of Yao surnames in Yao 'an and Dayao counties in Yunnan. In the Song Dynasty, Yao's surname developed to Guangdong. In the early Ming Dynasty, Yao Wuding, Yao Wukuan and Yao Wu Guan, from Putian, Fujian Province, originally from Guangxi, entered Hainan and became the ancestor of Yao's surname in Qiong. One of the Yao surnames from Jiangxi moved to Menghua, Yunnan Province (now Weishan County, Yunnan Province) during this period. In 21, in Weishan Yi and Hui Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, a genealogy of Yao's family, which was inscribed by Ouyang Xiu, a famous writer and historian in the Northern Song Dynasty, was signed as "The Year of Xinhai, the fourth year of Xining, and now the bachelor of literature has specially entered the book of Prince Shao Shi of Shangzhu State and Ouyang Xiu, a layman of June 1". The square figure of seal characters of "Liuyi Jushi" is stamped on the back of the calligraphy. As can be seen from the genealogy and preface, the Yao surname of Weishan was originally from Jiangxi, and their ancestors became prominent families in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The twenty-fourth ancestors of this Yao surname, Ke Ming and Ke Cheng, entered Yunnan with the Ming army and became naturalized (now Weishan County). Ouyang Xiu's original work should have been brought to Yunnan in the early Ming Dynasty and become an ancestral treasure of the Yao surname family of Weishan. In Qing Dynasty, Yao entered Taiwan Province and began to spread abroad.
Yao's surname developed southward and northward to Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and other places. In the long river of historical development, Yao's people are famous in large numbers and have made indelible contributions to the development of the Chinese nation. This can be seen from the couplets of people with Guan Yao's surname in past dynasties. For example, "The father and son became twin brothers, and the number was two Yao". The first part of the report said that Yao Cha, a regular attendant in the Sui Dynasty, was ordered to compile two history books, Chen and Liang, which were not completed until his death. His son inherited his father's wishes and completed the second history. The second couplet refers to Lin Yao, the commander of the Song Dynasty, whose word is Jun Rui, who built a strong army and set up a military force. He does not boast of his meritorious service, runs the army strictly, and his subordinate soldiers are willing to work for him. Both brothers later made great contributions and were called "Er Yao". "Jue Feng Liang Guowen attaches great importance to Tongcheng", the first part of which refers to Yao Chong, a famous politician in the Tang Dynasty. He and his family have made great achievements in politics. Yao Chong was the official prime minister, and served as the prime minister of Wu Zetian and Xuanzong Dynasty. He was clean and won great popularity. In the early years of Kaiyuan, he was named Liang Guo. The second couplet refers to Yao Nai, an essayist in Qing Dynasty, whose name is Ji Chuan, a native of Tongcheng. Jinshi in Qianlong period. Participated in the compilation of Sikuquanshu. He has presided over academies in Jiangning and Yangzhou for forty years. Yao Nai's ancient prose and Fang Bao are the representatives of Tongcheng School. He is the author of A Compilation of Ancient Literary Words, A Collection of Collected Works of Xi Bao Xuan, Zhu Ji, etc. In addition, when it comes to Yao's surname, wintersweet and Yao Huang peony can't be ignored. Chimonanthus praecox in Yanling County is the most famous in China. Every family in Yaojia Village in the west of the county has planted Chimonanthus praecox everywhere, and has always enjoyed the reputation of "Yaojia Huangmei is the best in the world". Yao Huang, a famous peony flower, is an ancient variety. It is said that it originated from the courtyard of Yao in the Song Dynasty and is known as the King of Flowers.
[ ancestral land today]
[ Fanxian] Fanxian is located on the north bank of the lower reaches of the Yellow River, at the junction of northern Henan and western Shandong, facing the Yellow River in the south and Juancheng in Shandong, bordering on Jindi and shenxian county in the north, bordering Taiqian County in the east and yanggu county in the west. It has a total area of 61 square kilometers, 34, hectares of cultivated land, a population of 48, and an agricultural population of 397,. Fan County is a part of the North China Plain, and the Yellow River flows through the county, with a length of 42.5 kilometers. Fan County is located in the alluvial plain of the Yellow River, with flat terrain, deep soil layer, fertile soil, criss-crossing Yellow River diversion projects and unique water conservancy conditions, and won the provincial "Hongqi Canal Spirit Cup" for four consecutive times. In 1997, it was designated by the State Council as one of the key counties for saving water and increasing production. The main food crops are wheat, corn, rice, soybeans, millet, etc., and the cash crops are cotton, peanuts, sesame seeds, rape, etc. Among them, high-quality rice is well known. In addition, the rich forage resources have also enabled the rapid development of animal husbandry in Fan County, which was designated as "Qingshan Sheep Base County" by the state in 1978. In 1997, it was designated as "Beef Cattle Breeding Base in North Henan". Fanxian is rich in oil and natural gas resources, with proven oil reserves of 2 million tons, natural gas reserves of 8.8 billion cubic meters and an annual output of 2.8 million tons of crude oil. It is one of the dense development zones and major production bases of Zhongyuan Oilfield.