Is it Xiao or Xiao?

As said on the first floor, Chinese characters have a profound cultural background and a long history, but they cannot be confused as surnames. Let me talk about the origin of Xiao and Xiao's family: the origin of Xiao's family: in the northwest of Xiao County in Anhui Province today, there was a son of Song Dynasty named Daxin. Daxin won a prize for meritorious service in a rebellion. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked him to establish it in Xiao, a small country ruled by the Song State at that time-Xiao Shu. In 597 BC, Xiao was destroyed by Chu, and his descendants took the country as their surname, which is the origin of Xiao's family. During the Warring States period, the descendants of Daxin were not simple, living in Feng and Pei (now Feng and Pei counties). At the end of Qin Dynasty, Xiao He, a native of Pei County, helped Liu Bang to establish the Western Han Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Xiao family was prosperous and talented. In the Southern Dynasties, there was a general named Xiao Daocheng, whose ancestors were from Zaozhuang, Shandong Province today, and later moved to Nanlanling (now northwest Changzhou). He took advantage of the internal chaos of the royal family in the Song Dynasty, seized the military and political power, killed the queen and abolished the emperor, and became emperor in 479. The country name is Qi, its capital is Jiankang (now Nanjing, Jiangsu), and its history is Nanqi or Jiankang. In 502, another member of the Xiao family in Nanlanling proclaimed himself emperor, called Liang, and built its capital as Jiankang, which was known in history. During the Qi and Liang Dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, there were many descendants of the Xiao royal family, and the Xiao people developed greatly during this period. At the same time, the Xiao family in Northern Wei Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty and Northern Zhou Dynasty was also a relatively prosperous family. In addition to the Xiao's family of Han nationality, the Xiao's family of Qidan nationality living in the north and northeast of China is a rich and huge family. The celebrities of the Xiao family in the Southern Dynasties were all from the Xiao family in Nanlanling, and the second son of Emperor Wu of Qi was the King of Jingling at that time. The Book of Jin by Xiao Ziyun, a master of literature and history (1 10). Xiao Zixian, grandson of Emperor Gao of Qi Dynasty, historian of Southern Dynasties, and Liang people. He is good at literature, music and calligraphy. Xiao Yan's younger brother Xiao Hong is a millionaire, and Xiao Yan's eldest son Xiao Tong is a writer. At the end of Sui Dynasty, Xuan Di's great-grandson Hsiao-hsien proclaimed himself emperor in 6 18, built a city in Jiangling, and divided his troops to occupy the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and other places. There was an essayist Xiao in the Tang Dynasty, a painter and poet Xiao Dezao in the Southern Song Dynasty. There were Jing Zong and Xiao Taihou in Liao country, Xiao Guanyin, a poetess, and Xiao Dexiang, a dramatist, in Yuan dynasty. Xiao Congyun, painter of Qing Dynasty, one of the leaders of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Xiao Chaogui. In modern times, there were famous Peking Opera actors and music educators. Among the 65,438+000 surnames in China today, Xiao ranks 30th. Origin of Xiao surname: in ancient times, Xiao surname was extremely rare, and it was rarely seen in historical books of past dynasties. Even among the hundreds of surnames in the Song Dynasty and thousands of surnames in the Ming Dynasty, Xiao's surname has never been seen. It was only in Ling Dizhi's Genealogy of Ancient and Modern Surnames that Xiao appeared for the first time, including Xiao Anguo and Xiao Shao in Han Dynasty. Xiao Jing in Ming Dynasty, Xie Yuan in Chongde period, and so on. Among the twenty-four histories, only the Liao and Yuan histories mentioned Xiao people, all of whom were ethnic minorities. As for the origin of the surname "Xiao", there is no textual research. A piece of information provided by netizen Yan Huang is very valuable. Chen Jian mentioned "Twenty-seven years of Liang" in "Two Bronzes of Warring States" and carved a line of twenty crosses: "In twenty or seven years of Liang, Liang Xiao (Zhao) died (without wisdom), which was half capacity. Shimonoseki As a country name and surname,' Zhao' is often written as' Xiao' in ancient materials in China (learning from Xiao Desheng). ......)。 In addition, it is speculated that some Xiao's families came from Xiao's family, but they were later demoted for committing crimes. It is also possible. In ancient China, there was a practice of taking off the original surname and belittling it to punish sinners. Xiao himself gave an example in this regard. One is Xiao Ji of Nanliang. After being defeated, he thought he didn't deserve the surname Xiao, so he was named a gourmet. The other is Xiao of Nanqi, who was killed for rebellion and was given the name of Octopus (South). Xiao and Xiao were later confused, mainly because of the simplification trend of modern Chinese characters. In fact, the word Xiao itself is a simplified word. "Xiao" was originally written as much as 16. No wonder more and more people plan to simplify the complex and turn it into Xiao. (Part of the data comes from Xiao's "China Surname Spectrum")