Hundred Family Names was compiled in the early Song Dynasty and was founded by Song Taizu and Zhao Kuangyin. Since "the land is on the coast, not a king", it is natural that Zhao's surname ranks first among hundreds of surnames.
Zhao surname totem
Zhao is the name of a branch of Dongyi nationality. It consists of the human figure of a tall giant and the human figure dedicated to Xiao in the confession. Xiao is a kind of hieroglyphics of mysterious birds and swallows (Yanheying), Zhao is the traditional Chinese character of Xiao, and Xiao is the simplified Chinese character of Zhao, which can also be used as "Yu". Because the ancestor of Qin (Ying) was sealed in his hometown, he made meritorious service for driving, and the fief was in Zhao, so "Zhao", "Xiao" and "Yu" are the same word. Zhao Fu's ancestor took the mysterious bird as the totem, while Zhao's father followed the "small" totem.
Seek the roots and ask the ancestors
There are two branches of Zhao surname in Han nationality: the surname won and the surname changed by foreigners.
The first one is from Han surname. The distant ancestor can be traced back to Shao Hao, a Jintian family in the era of "Five Emperors" more than 4,000 years ago. Shao Hao's family is a branch of Dongyi nationality, with the phoenix as its totem, and its descendant Hao Tao was in charge of criminal law and justice during the Yao and Shun period. Boyi, the son of Hao Tao, was in charge of kindling and domesticating birds and animals. He was named for helping Dayu control water. A descendant of Boyi, a driving doctor in Zhou Muwang. Because of his neutrality in quelling the rebellion in Xu Yanwang, Zhou Muwang sealed off his wealth in Zhao Cheng (now 30 miles north of Hongtong County, Shaanxi Province). Zhao Fu's descendants took feudal cities as their surnames. Since then, the surname Zhao has appeared in China, and Zhao Fu is the ancestor of Zhao in the world, with a history of 3000 years.
The second expenditure comes from the change of foreign surname. After entering the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the war in the north, a large number of ethnic minorities entered the Central Plains, and Zhao followed the residents of northern China to migrate to the south and southeast. Song Dynasty is an important and special period for the development of Zhao surname. After the war in the northern region of the Eastern Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the population of China moved from the north to the south for the first time. Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chen Qiaoyi and established the Song Dynasty for more than 300 years. Since then, Zhao has spread all over the country and Lingnan, becoming the main surname of China. After the Tang Dynasty, there were incidents of intermarriage between Zhao and other nationalities in the north, mainly Tangut people, Jin people and Jews in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Eight Banners in the Qing Dynasty were changed to Zhao. The integration of foreign genes of the southern Zhao surname occurred in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the important ethnic groups were Miao, Yao, Zhuang and Yunnan aborigines. After living together with the Han nationality for a long time, these foreigners gradually assimilated into the Han nationality surnamed Zhao in the north and south, especially in the north of the Yangtze River, earlier than in the south.
Few foreigners finally retained Zhao's surname, and Zhao Fu is the ancestor of 90% Zhao's surname today.
"Emperor's surname" in its heyday
Hundreds of surnames begin with Zhao, not because Zhao is the first surname in the world, but because it was written by Qiantang Confucian scholars in the early Northern Song Dynasty. The emperor of the Song Dynasty was surnamed Zhao, and Zhao naturally became the "first surname in the world" at that time. If you don't rank first, you will be guilty of "bullying the monarch" and will lead to disaster. The descendants of Yue in Song Dynasty lived in Zhejiang, so the surname of Qian was the second, the concubine of Qian was the grandson, and the grandson was the third. The surname "Li" ranks fourth, probably because the royal family in the Southern Tang Dynasty is Li. Of course, the reasons for the ranking of the last three surnames are just speculation, but there is no doubt that Zhao ranked first because the emperor of the Song Dynasty surnamed Zhao.
Family style and family instruction
In the Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Fu sealed Zhao Cheng, and later generations made a fortune in Tianshui County.
Jianzi Xuanzhu Dingfa, and Zhao Wuling built cavalry.
Zhao Tuo South Vietnam belongs to the Han Dynasty, and the country is full of the northwest gate.
Zhao Yun is brave and has both. The name of Zhao Pu and Kuang Yin bring out the best in each other.
When you first traveled around the world, Meng Yi's calligraphy was integrated.
Zhao Yi's famous works, polysemy and protecting Chinese roots.
collar
"Thousands of Sun Zhaoli ..." Everyone is familiar with the opening sequence of hundreds of surnames. Song Taizu was born in Jiamaying, Luoyang, so Zhao also thought it was the Tang number.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's military career has left countless legends and traditional typesetting for a generation. The word generation, that is, the word representing the family generation, is also the rule that people name according to ethics. It is recorded in Genealogy that 13 is a model character, and the word "Kuang" is added in front of it to form the word 14-"Kuang Dewei follows the world, Bo and Meng Youyi", which is the generation of Zhao.