Mao's surname, from the Surname Ji, was first used as a surname in guo. After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, he enfeoffed his younger brother Zheng (the eighth son of King Wen) to the state of Mao (in present-day Qishan, Shaanxi, around Fufeng), and was known as "Duke Mao". The bronzes of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, such as Ban Yin, Mao Bodun and Mao Gongding, excavated in Qishan, Shaanxi during the Light Years of the Qing Dynasty, are all relics of the Mao State. Among them, "Mao Gongding" is the longest surviving bronze vessel with a total of 497 words, which records the admonition and praise of King Xuan of Zhou and his subordinate Mao Gongcuo. This shows that the Mao state of Shaanxi still existed in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. Mao Gongzisun was a hereditary secretary in the Zhou Dynasty, known as the "Mao Clan". After the fall of the Mao state, the whole clan took refuge in the Xingyang region of Henan. Among the descendants of Mao Bozheng, there are all those with the surname of the ancestor and the name of the feudal state, and the history is called "Mao Zhengzong". Most of the Han Mao clan also revere Uncle Mao Zheng as the ancestor of the surname.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the fiefdom of Mao was located
There is also a Han Mao surname, also from the Ji surname, with the name of Fengyi. King Wen of Zhou's ninth son, Bo Nian,000, was enfeoffed at Maoyi (毛邑, in present-day northeastern Yiyang County, Henan), known as Mao Bo (毛伯聃), one of the six secretaries of King Cheng of Zhou, and served as Sikong. In the Tongzhi Clan Sketch, it is recorded that the Mao clan was "the son of King Wen of Zhou, Mao Boming, who was born as a Zhou Qingshi, who ate from Mao, and his descendants thought it was a clan" because of it.
In the early days, the Mao surname developed and multiplied mainly in northern China, but also began to develop to the south. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, due to civil unrest, the Mao family had migrated to Jiangnan. During the Jin Dynasty (307-313), the main line of the Mao clan in Jiangbei, headed by Mao Bao, moved south with the imperial family. From Mao Bao to Mao Xuan, the three generations of the Mao clan were important generals of the Jin Dynasty, which can be called the home of generals. Mao Bao's eldest son, Mao Muzhi, inherited his father's title and initially joined the army, becoming an aide to the Anxi general Gengyi. In the first year of the Eastern Ascension (357), Mao Muzhi was given the title of Marquis of Jian'an (建安侯), and Heyi Xin'an (世邑信安). However, he lived in Jian'an and Xin'an all his life, and later died of illness in Padang. Mao Mu had six sons, the second son, Mao Xuan, the most famous. Mao Xuan (毛璩), courtesy name Shulian , was initially an aide to the famous minister Xie An , and was later promoted to the generals of Yizhou Andishi and Zhengxi , who died in Sichuan and was buried in Maojia Tianpu, Wuhu Village, Wangcun Township, Kecheng District. Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty posthumously named him the "Duke of Guixiang", and his brother and descendants took Quzhou as their home, and Mao Xuan as their ancestor, and was known as the "Three Qu Mao Clan". Since then, the Mao clan has bred offspring in Quzhou and become a Wang clan. Mao Xuan had four sons, of which the eldest son, Hongzhi, and the third son, Minzhi, moved to Rotten Keshan to live, so it is commonly known as Quzhou "Keshan Mao".
Quzhou Qingyang Mao clan genealogy
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Mao Rang, the twelfth grandson of the Mao clan of Sanqu, served as an official in the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the official was Shangshu of the Ministry of Works. His eldest son, Mao Xiu, was the same as Shi Nan Tang, and the official was The Grand Master of Yinqing Guanglu, the Guozi Supervisor of The Sacrifice and the Imperial Attendant of the Palace. In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, Mao Xiu became the governor of Jizhou, Jiangxi, and raised his parents in Jizhou, and soon became a naturalized citizen of Jizhou Longcheng. Mao Rang thus became the ancestor of the Mao clan of Jishui, Jiangxi.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Mao Taihua, a descendant of the Mao clan of Jishui, avoided military disasters and moved to Lancangwei, Yunnan (present-day Yongsheng County, Lijiang, Yunnan). The "Genealogy of the Mao Clan of Shaoshan" clearly records: "The first ancestor Taihua was written under the throne, and during the Yuan to Zheng years, he avoided chaos from Longcheng in Jizhou, Jiangxi to Lancangwei in Yunnan. Married to eight children. In the thirteenth year of Ming Hongwu,300, Gengshen and his eldest sons, Qing Yi and fourth sons, Qing Siguan Chu, lived in the Crimson Purple Bridge outside the north gate of Xiangxiang Township. More than ten years later, the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty and the Four Fu Bu lived in the Thirty-nine Capitals of Xiangtan, now the Seven Capitals of Qijia Shaoshan, and opened tiepi, Wuyuan, Dongyuan and other places, with a total of more than 400 acres of land, compiled as a civil register. That is to say, Lancangwei in Yunnan is the place where Mao Taihua, the ancestor of the Mao clan of Shaoshan, lived and left his descendants. In March of the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming army of The Dian Dynasty entered Beisheng, and Gao Shi was attached, turning Gange into a jade warrior, recruiting him to join the army on the spot, and became one of the soldiers who remained in Beisheng after the main force of the Ming army withdrew. Subsequently, he was promoted to 100 households and participated in the construction of Beishengzhou City. In the nineteenth year of Hongwu, Mao Taihua led the hundred household soldiers to reclaim the foothills of Fengyu Mountain in the south of Cheng Hai to open up the first village of Yongsheng Biantun Culture, which was named Maojiawan after mao and became the birthplace of The Mao clan of Yongsheng. Later, Mao Taihua led a hundred households to participate in the Zhulan Cang Acropolis and made military merits.
In the thirty-third year of Hongwu (1400), Mao Taihua and his wife and eldest son and fourth son were transferred inland, leaving the second son Qing second and third sons Qing San to inherit the military household in Lancangwei and become the ancestor of the Yongsheng Mao clan. Mao Taihua returned to the interior and sought an official position in Hunan, living in the Crimson Bridge outside the north gate of Xiangxiang County. More than ten years later, the four brothers of Qing Yi and Qing moved to the Thirty-Ninth Capital of Xiangtan and were compiled as civil registers. Later, Qing yi settled in Shaoshan, and Qing Si settled in Tiepi. Mao Taihua was enshrined as the ancestor of the Mao clan of Shaoshan.
The Mao family of Shaoshan revised the family tree during the seventh generation of Mao Taihua's grandson, and set the faction as: "Li Xianrong Dynasty Soldier, Wen Fang Yuanji Xiang." Zu En Yi Ze is far away, and the generations will always inherit Chang. "After Mao Taihua had bred in Shaoshan for eighteen generations, it was passed down to Mao Enpu, who gave birth to a son, Mao Yichang, and Mao Yichang, Mao Zedong, Mao Zeming (Zemin), and Mao Zeqin.
It can be seen from the above that today's Shaoshan Mao clan mainly developed from the Mao clan in Quzhou, and together with the Mao clan, constitute the main line of today's Jiangnan Mao clan.
Former residence of Mao Zedong in Shaoshan