The ancestor of the surname Li Lizhen
When talking about the surname Li, it is naturally one of the best surnames in China.
was the second largest surname in , and in , the third largest surname in , the Yuan Dynasty, and , the Ming Dynasty, the third largest surname.
By 2019, the population of the surname Li in China reached 100.9 million, making it the second largest surname in the country, second only to the surname Wang, which has 101.5 million people.
is the same as Wang surname, and the origin of the surname Li surname is quite complicated.
The origin of the surname Li can be summarized into the following statements:
One of them is the same as the surname Wang, and it also originates from the surname Ji, which comes from in the Shang and Zhou period .
Ba was called "Bafang" during the Xia Dynasty, and "Batian" during the Shang Dynasty. In the 11th century BC, the Ba people participated in the attack on Zhou King Wu of and made contributions. In the early days of the Western Zhou Dynasty, 71 vassal states were enfeoffed, of which Ba was granted the son state, and the leader was the clan of the Ji surname and the viscount.
In ancient times, the Ba people were distributed in Chongqing, western Hunan and eastern Hubei. They respected Linjun as their ancestor. After Linjun died, the soul turned into a tiger. Therefore, the Ba people regarded tiger as the totem, and the ancient dialect of Ba was pronounced as "Li", and Lin was also the pronunciation of "Li". Therefore, by the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Linjun admired the surname of the Han people, and also used the surname Li according to the pronunciation.
In 303 AD, the Li surname of Ba people established the Dacheng Kingdom in Sichuan, which was known in history as Cheng Han, and several Emperors of Cheng Han were produced, Li Te and Li Xiong. This is the first dynasty built by the Li surname in China. The Li family established the most regimes in Chinese history, with more than 60 people proclaiming emperors and kings, and successively established regimes such as Dacheng, Xiliang, Liang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang , Southern Tang , Dashu , Xixia and Dashun. (This article is original by "Coffee Essay". Please respect intellectual property rights. Violations of the law will be prosecuted, and piracy will be prosecuted)
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The second originates from the rewarded surname. During the Shu Han
Shu Han period, after Zhuge Liang pacified Ailaoyi, he gave the local ethnic minorities Zhao, Zhang, Yang, Li and other surnames.
During the Han and Jin Dynasties, nomadic ethnic minorities in the north were attached to it, and some of the Huns and Xianbei were given the surnames of Liu, Li and other people.
During the Northern Wei Dynasty, after Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, he implemented a comprehensive cultural sinicization policy. Xianbei people had a compound surname Chi Li and was named Li.
During the Tang Dynasty period, the royal family gave the surname Li the most.
For example, Xu, Bing, An, Du, Hu, Hong, Guo, Ma, Xianyu , Zhang, Abu, Adu, Sharic, Zhu Xie, Dong, Luo and others, who were named Li Tang royal family for their contributions to the founding of the country.
Later, General Li Hemo, Li Yansheng, and Persians Li Xuan and Li Xun were given surnames by the king and prince.
Later, Shatuo , Di, Uighur , Khitan, Gaoche , Tubo, as well as Jewish, Anxi, Goguryeo , Dangxiang and other foreign minorities were mostly awarded the surname Li because of their merits or attachments.
The third originates from the Chineseization of ethnic minorities to change their surnames.
For example, Mongolian , Manchu, Xibe , many people changed their surname to Li in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. This should be a way of ethnic integration in the historical process.
Khitan Tang general Li Guangbi
The four origins are from the Ying surname, and the blood ancestor of this origin sect is Gao Yao . This system, as the origin recognized by the Li Tang Dynasty, has become the mainstream view of the origin of the Li family. In the "New Book of Tang Dynasty: List of Genealogies of the Clans", Zhuanxu , Gao Yao, Li Zhen, and Laozi are characters in the same lineage.
Speaking of Gao Yao, he was a famous figure. He was the leader of the Ying surname of the Chinese tribe in ancient times. He is said to be the grandson of Huangdi Zhuanxu (Distant Ancestor of Li’s Family) . He was a great politician, thinker, and educator. He was one of the "Four Ancient Saints" (Yao, Shun, Yu, and Gao Yao). Later generations honored as the "Prison God" and the "First Ancestor of China's Judicial".
In the era of Shun, Gao Yao was appointed as Dali, the official in charge of criminal law, and later he appointed the official clan as the Li family.
In the Yu era, Gao Yao still held the position of Dali, so he was chosen as the successor by Yu. Unfortunately, he died in front of Dayu .
Dayu had to hand over the position of Dali to Daye, who was also the Ying surname (some people say that Daye is Gao Yao), and changed his successor to the relatively young Daye son Boyi , and Boyi was the 17th generation ancestor of Ying Fei, the founding monarch of Qin State, and the 25th generation ancestor of Zhao State, Zhao Chengzi ( Zhao Shuai ).
Shang dynasties, Gao Yao's descendant Li family was hereditary to the official.
to When King Zhou of Shang , the Shang Dynasty Li Zheng angered King Zhou of for direct advice. The whole clan was killed. Only Li Zheng's wife Qihe and her youngest son Li Lizhen were able to escape and finally escaped to Gu County (now east of Luyi County, Henan Province) in the eastern Henan region.
It is said that the mother and son fled to the "Yihou Ruins". Fortunately, the plum on the way was able to survive. In order to repay the favor of "Muzi" for saving his life and escape from King Zhou's pursuit, Li Lizhen began to change "Li" to "Li". From then on, China had the surname Li.
Li Lizhen is the recognized ancestor of the surname Li.
Li Lizhen got Li
The most famous descendant after Li Lizhen was Laozi Li Er . Laozi was born in Luyi , so Luyi became one of the ancestral places of the surname Li.
How many generations of Li Er are Li Lizhen? The records are quite contradictory, and there are mostly two types, one is the 11th generation grandson and the other is the 17th generation grandson.
It seems that the latter is more credible. Li Lizhen's father Li Zheng lived during the reign of King Zhou of Shang and was sentenced to death by King Zhou, about 1010-950 BC. Li Er lived in in the Spring and Autumn Period, about 550-450 BC, with a time span of about 400 years. Based on an average of 25 years, there should be about 17 generations.
Li Er is the recognized cultural ancestor of the Li surname.
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And the founding ancestor of the Li surname is Li Tan.
Li Tan was the eighth-generation grandson of Li Er. During the Warring States Period, he was named Marquis of Bairen for his repeated achievements. Later, he entered Qin and became the Censorate.
Li Tan has four sons, namely Li Chong, Li Bian, Li Zhao and Li Ji.
Li Tan's eldest son Li Chong lives in Longxi and became the ancestor of the Li family in Longxi.
Li Chong was appointed as the magistrate of Longxi County in Qin and was granted the title of Duke of the Southern Kingdom. Because Li Chong lives in Huaili, Lintao, Gansu, Huaili has also become one of the famous ancestral places of the Li family.
Li Chong's grandson is Li Xin. Li Xin was a famous general of Qin during the Warring States Period and was quite conceited.
When Li Xin was young, Qin Shihuang valued him very much. When attacking , Chu State , Qin Shihuang handed over 200,000 troops to him. Li Xin has always been smooth sailing in attacking Chu State, but later he met the famous Chu State general , Xiang Yan , and was defeated by Xiang Yan.
After this battle, Qin Shihuang no longer trusted Li Xin, and the history books of Li Xin's ending did not accurately record it.
Li Xin's fifth generation grandson is The famous flying general Li Guang of the Western Han Dynasty . Li Guang's 16th-generation grandson Li Yang established the Kingdom of Xiliang, one of the sixteen kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in 400 years.
Li Qing is King Wu Zhao of Xiliang. In 421, Western Liang was destroyed by Northern Liang, and he had been in the third throne for 22 years. However, Li Yuan, the seventh-generation grandson of Li Yang, established the Tang Dynasty in 618.
According to the records of the "New Book of Tang", Li Bai came from the Li family in Longxi and was the ninth generation grandson of Li Yang, the King of Zhao of Liangwu. Li Sheng, Li Feng , Li He, and Li Shangyin all come from the Li family in Longxi.
Since the Tang Dynasty, the Li family in Longxi has reached its peak.
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The fourth son of Li Tan Li Ji lived in Zhao County and became the ancestor of the Li family of Zhao County.
Li Ji's second son is Li Mu . Li Mu was the prime minister of Zhao at that time and was named Wu'an Jun .
Li Mu was the god of war in the late Warring States Period. Classic battles commanded by him are such as the Battle of Zhao defeating the Huns and the Battle of Fei. The former is a typical example of the infantry corps being used to annihilate the cavalry corps in the history of Chinese wars, while the latter is an example of the encirclement and annihilation war.
In 229 BC, Zhao Wangqian was attacked by Qin's plan, believed in slander and seized Li Mu's military power, and soon killed Li Mu.
Li Mu's grandson was Li Zuoche, a famous strategist during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and he wrote a military book "Guangwu Jun". At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Li Zuoche assisted King Xie of Zhao and was named Guangwu Jun. After Zhao was destroyed, Han Xin asked him for advice, and Li Zuoche proposed the good strategy of "a thousand battles to win" that enabled Han Xin to recover the territory of Yan and Qi. "A wise man will have a mistake if he thinks a thousand times, and a fool will have a mistake if he thinks a thousand times," is his famous saying.
, Li Kai, the seventeenth generation grandson of Li Zuoche, was the first ancestor of the Li family in Zhaojun. He served as the Chief of the Siyuan and the Censor of the Secretary in the Western Jin Dynasty. Later, when the Eight Kings Rebellion occurred, Li Kai led his family to move to the south of Pingji County, Zhao State, where the "Three Ancestors' Lane" of the Li family in Zhao County was here.
After that, the Li family of Zhao County gradually developed into a famous family from the Wei, Jin and Sui and Tang dynasties. Li Baiyao, Li Mi, Li Jifu, Li Jiao, Li Deyu , Li Yangbing, Li Guinian, Li Duan and others were all famous people of the Li family of Zhao County in the Tang Dynasty.
The two county leaders of Longxi and Zhaojun are the earliest and most famous county leaders of the Li surname. Since then, the Li surnames in the world have all been derived from this.
Among them, there are more than 14 branches from the Wangli branch of Longxi County. For example, the Li family in Guanghan, the founder of the Jiji family was Li Shang, the father of Li Guang; the Li family in Dunqiu, the founder of the Jiji family was Li Zhong, the grandson of Li Guang; it is worth mentioning that the Li family in Shanghang, Fujian, was the 73rd generation grandson of Li Lizhen and the descendant of Li Yuan's son Li Yuanxiang, and is respected as the "First ancestor of the Li family entering Fujian". Li Guangdi, Li Zongren, Li Kuan Yew , Lee Teng-hui, and Li Ka-shing are all descendants of their descendants.
comes from more than 11 branches of Wangli branch in Zhaojun County. For example, the Li family in Zhongshan, whose founding was Li Qi, the third son of Li Ji; the Li family in Yingchuan, whose founding was Li Bing, who was the fifth generation grandson of Li Mu; the Li family in Xiangcheng, whose founding was Li Ying, who was the eighth generation grandson of Li Bing.
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The propagation of the surname Li began in the pre-Qin period. From Henan to the end of the Warring States Period, the activity areas of the surname Li had expanded to Shanxi, Hebei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Li surname first entered Guangdong and Guangxi, and Li Er's descendants entered Gansu and developed into a prominent family with the Li surname in Longxi. Those who lived in Hebei became famous masters with the Li surname in Zhaojun.
The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the surname Li. The population of the surname Li expanded rapidly and began to enter Fujian and Hainan in large numbers.
After the Ming Dynasty, the surname Li entered Taiwan and overseas, and mostly lived in Southeast Asia.
At the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, " Huguang fills Sichuan ", and most of the surname Li in Sichuan moved from Baoqing Prefecture and other places in Huguang.
Shanghang Li Family Ancestral Hall
To sum up, the mainstream Li family has seven ancestors, three ancestral places, and two major tribes.
Seven great ancestors are Zhuanxu, the distant ancestor of the Li family, Gao Yao, the blood-related ancestor, Li Lizhen, the first ancestor of the family, Li Er, the first ancestor of the culture, Li Tan, the founder of the foundation, Li Chong, the first ancestor of Longxi, and Li Ji, the ancestor of Zhaojun.
The three ancestral places are Luyi, Henan, Huaili, Lintao, Gansu, and Pingji, Hebei.
two major tribes are the Li clan of Longxi and Li clan of Zhaojun. What is discussed above in
are all Li's County. What is the "county look"? "County" is an administrative division, and "Wang" is a prominent family. "County" is used in conjunction, which means a famous family in a certain region or scope.
And each county has its own hall number. The original meaning of the hall number is a plaque hanging on the hall, which is used to show identity and wealth during festivals. Over time, many people usually use hall names when talking about a prominent family.
"House Name" mostly comes from the classic stories or interesting stories of a historical celebrity from the ancestor. It often has three distinct characteristics: admonishing future generations to carry forward their ancestral property; highlight the characteristics of family and relatives; and promote the great achievements of their ancestors.
Such as Wang's " Sanhuaitang ", Zhao's "Banbu Hall", Li's family includes Longxi Hall, Qinglian Hall, Taibai Hall, Yanping Hall, Xiping Hall, Zhaojun Hall, Pingji Hall, Yushu Hall, Shulun Hall, Zhongmin Hall, etc. I will not tell them one by one. (This article is original by "Coffee Essay". Please respect intellectual property rights. Violations of the law will be prosecuted, and piracy will be prosecuted )
Homemade Li's traceability map
