Rao surname is one of many surnames in China, and it is also included in hundreds of surnames. Rao originated in northern China and appeared in the Warring States Period. It has a history of more than 2200 years, and then developed from north to south, multiplying and expanding in Jiangxi. Besides, Rao is also distributed in Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan Province.
The origin of surnames
There are different opinions about the origin of Rao's family, and four opinions are listed:
From the surname Jiang, taking the city name as the surname. According to dialectical surnames, during the Warring States period, the hometown was sealed to Chang 'an in Rao (now Raoyang, Hebei), and the descendants of Chang 'an took the ancestral fief as their surname, which was called Rao's.
Also named after Jiang, also named after the city. According to the dialectics of ancient and modern surnames, during the Warring States period, a doctor in Qi was appointed to Rao (now Qingzhou City, Shandong Province). His descendants then took the feudal city as their surname and called it Rao's. Noble families come from Pingyang and Linchuan.
From the descendant Gui, taking the country name as the surname. Formerly known as Yao, it was named after living in Guangxi. The surnames of the main branches of Shun Di have undergone many changes. Shang Jun and Sui Yu are the new surnames in Xia and Shang Dynasties. According to the Origin of Surnames: "After Yao and Shun. The descendants of Shun took Rao as their family name, and later they took the surname. " According to the research of hundreds of surnames, the Shang Dynasty was sealed in Rao, and later generations took the country as their surname, also known as Rao.
Starting from the surname of Yao, the descendants of Emperor Yao, in BC 1045, destroyed the Shang Dynasty and enfeoffed the princes. Zhou Wuwang gave the fief to the descendants of Emperor Yao, the 23rd "Beijing", in the concubine (now near Beijing). His son "Li" moved to Pingyang, Shanxi Province, and later generations took his ancestor posthumous title as his surname and called him Pingyang Yao. By the time Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, the Yao family had fled the disaster of war, and their descendants had been scattered all over the world since then. In the 54th century, Yao Xuan moved from Pingyang to Poyang (ancient Raozhou, now Jiangxi) and then to Linchuan (now Fuzhou). In the 56th century, Meng Yao was the Western Han Dynasty, and Liu Xun and Emperor Gaozu Xuan Di ascended the throne. Liu Xun's real name was Liu Bingyi. After he ascended the throne, he changed his surname to Xun, and the whole country should avoid the taboo of the emperor's name, such as changing his surname from Xun to Sun. Yao Ming was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Jingzhao, and Wei Xiang, an ancient imperial historian, said that Yao Ming was a direct descendant of ancient times, but Emperor Yao was one of the five ancient emperors and should be taboo, so Emperor Hanzhao added a word "food" to the left of "Yao", which became "Rao" (simplified later).