The origin and history of the Lee surname, and what are the historical celebrities of the Lee surname? How does a baby with the surname Lee get a first name?
——Famous Chinese naming master, Teacher Xie Yong, Chinese name surname culture research, about the origin and history of The Li surname, and what are the historical celebrities of the Li surname, and how do the Li family name babies take their names?
According to the data of the sixth national census in 2010, the population of the Chinese mainland Li surname is as many as more than 95 million, accounting for about 7.9% of the han population in the country, which is the largest surname in China today and the most populous surname in the world.
There are about 200-300 million people surnamed Li in the world, in South Korea, Vietnam and North Korea, the Surname Li is a big surname, second only to the Surname Of Jin and the Ruan Surname; in the United States, where the Chinese account for ethnic minorities, the Surname Li ranks to 22, so regardless of the number of people, the eminence of the family and the contribution and impact on society, the Surname Li can be called the world's "first" surname; in Chinese history, there are more than 60 people with the surname Of Li, who have established regimes such as Dacheng, Xiliang, Liang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Houtang, Southern Tang, Dashu, Xixia, and Dashun.
[1] Teacher Xie Yong: Information about Li's surname
(1) Li family name - traditional characters are [Li]
(2) Li family name - its five acts [fire]
(3) Li family name - the number of strokes, the simplified character is the number of [07], the traditional character is the number of [07];
(4) Li family name - its pronunciation is [li];
[2] Teacher Xie Yong: The origin and history of Li's surname
As the largest surname in China today, the surname Li has a variety of origins, and various theories coexist, and combining various previous theories, the following seven can be obtained:
First, he came from the surname of Ying, after the Gaoyang clan of emperor Gao Yang. Gao Tao (a descendant of The Emperor), Gao Tao (一作咎繇), who served as the dali of Yao and Shun (the official in charge of criminal law), took the official clan as the Li clan ("Li" and "Li" in ancient texts). His son Boyi was given the surname of Ying, and his descendants inherited the position of Dali for three generations, and his descendants took the official as their clan and called it Li according to the custom at that time. During the Shang Dynasty, Li Zheng, a descendant of Gao Tao, was an official in the dynasty, and was executed because he offended the King of Shang with his direct advice, and when his wife Qi He fled with his son Li Zhen, he ate plums and was hungry, so he was able to survive, because he did not dare to be reasonable, and he was grateful for Li Shu's grace to live, so he changed his surname to Li Shi.
Second, according to the appendix "Surname Examination Strategy" of the "Great Dictionary of Chinese Names" edited by Zang Lihe in the tenth year of the Republic of China: There was no Li clan before the Zhou Dynasty, and since there was a Laozi surname Li, the name er, because the ancestors were the officials of the past generation, and the ancient sounds of the words Li and Li were common, they also took Li as the clan. It is believed that the Li clan began with Li Er's surname.
Third, the ancient Ba people were distributed in present-day Chongqing, Xiangxi, and Eastern Hubei, honoring Liu Jun as the ancestor, and after the death of Liu Jun, the soul of the Emperor became a tiger, so the Ba people took the tiger as a totem, and the ancient dialect of Ba read the tiger as "Li", and The hu was also the transliteration of "Li", so in the last year of the Western Jin Dynasty, after the Emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, he admired the surname of the Han people, so he used the surname of Li according to the sound. In 303 AD, the Ba people surnamed Li established the State of Dacheng in Sichuan, known in history as Chenghan, and produced several Chenghan emperors, Li Te and Li Xiong. This was the first dynasty established by the Surname Li in China, which was later destroyed in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. (Jin Shu Li Te Zai)
Fourth, the surname was changed from his clan. During the Three Kingdoms period, after Zhuge Liang pacified the mourning prison, he gave the local ethnic minorities zhao, zhang, yang, and li surnames. (A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Records of the White Man)
Fifth, it was changed by the Northern Wei Dynasty Northern Fu surname. In the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were Daibeifu surnames Li and Gao Hushi, and after Emperor Xiaowen entered the Central Plains, they changed to the Chinese character single surname Li, which was for the Luoyang Li clan. See Book of Wei and Book of Officials.
Sixth, it comes from his surname changed to Li. The Tang Dynasty often gave the surname Li to meritorious ministers. The Tang dynasty warriors had 16 clans, including Xu, Bing, An, Du, Hu, Hong, Guo, Ma, Xianyu, Zhang, Abu, Achu, Sheli, Zhu Xie, Dong, and Luo, who were given the Li clan for their meritorious service from the Tang dynasty. ("Tongzhi Clan Omittedo"
Seventh, some people believe that the surname Li originated from the totem worship of the ancient clan, and the plum tree was worshipped as a clan totem, because the totem was used as the surname. The surname "Li" originally referred to a plant, the plum tree. As the "Sayings" says: "Li, Guoye." "Plum tree, belonging to the rosaceae family, is a deciduous sub-tree, tall and tall. Plum, is its fruit, spherical, ripe in summer, red shiny, sweet and sour taste, for consumption, a Jiaqingzi. Some people have classified thousands of surnames in our country, among which plants are surnamed, such as flowers, grasses, trees, seedlings, forests, woods,
[3] Teacher Xie Yong: A representative celebrity in the history of Li surname
● Li Shimin, the most outstanding politician of the landlord class surnamed Li. The emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who appointed the virtuous, humbly accepted advice, and implemented the policy of "lightly dispensing with thin endowments" to stabilize society and develop production, which is known in history as the "rule of Zhenguan".
● Li Wu, author of the earliest Chinese legal code, the Book of Laws. A famous politician in the early Warring States period.
● Li Shizhen is the greatest figure in the history of Chinese medicine. Famous medical scientist of the Ming Dynasty. Author of the well-known Chinese and foreign pharmacological masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica".
● Li Jifu, the author of the earliest geographical chronicle in China, that is, the first national geography general chronicle "Yuanhe County Atlas". Tang Xianzong yuan and the famous prime minister during the years.
● Li Qingzhao, the most famous female lyricist surnamed Li in Chinese history. Southern Song Dynasty people. He has achieved great achievements in poetry, words and prose, and can be called the first word word of Chinese women.
● Li Jie, author of the earliest scientific and technological book in the history of Chinese architecture and the first informative architectural technology monograph "Construction French". The most outstanding architectural expert of the Northern Song Dynasty.
● Li Shanlan, the earliest professor of natural sciences in China. He was a famous mathematician in modern China, and in 1886 he was appointed by the Qing government as the chief teacher of arithmetic in Tongwenguan.
● Li Baojia, the first person in Chinese history to found tabloids. A famous novelist at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he created the famous condemnation novel "The Appearance of Officialdom". In 1897, he founded the first tabloid in Chinese history, "Game Newspaper", in Shanghai, to achieve the serious purpose of "Jueshi" with funny game texts.
● Li Bai, the first great poet of the Tang Dynasty with the surname Li.
● Li Candle Dust, a celebrity with a backbone surname Li. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, xiucai, he later engaged in national industry and commerce.
● Li Hongzhang, in 1870, succeeded Zeng Guofan as the governor of Directly Subordinate and the Minister of Beiyang Trade and Commerce, and was in charge of the diplomatic, military, and economic power of the Qing court.
● Li Er, also known as Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching and the ancestor of Taoist doctrine
● Li Bing, builder of Dujiangyan in the Warring States period
● Li Mu, a general of the State of Zhao during the Warring States period.
● Li Si, a famous politician of the Qin State.
● Li Yuan, Tang Gaozu, founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty
● Li Shimin, Tang Taizong