"The grandson of Wei Zi, Daxin Pingnan GongChang, has all the merits, and is sealed by Xiao, and the descendants think that they are clans." In this sentence, Nangong Changwan was originally a fierce general of infinite strength in the Song Kingdom, but he was taken prisoner under the hands of Duke Lu Zhuang. Song Mingong once went hunting with him, and the two had a dispute over the matter of competing for prey, and Song Mingong made fun of Nangong Changwan as a prisoner.
At a banquet in 682 BC, Nangong Changwan deliberately praised The Marquis of Lu in front of Song Mingong, reporting the hatred that was ridiculed last time, Song Mingong was very humiliated in front of everyone, he had never been so faceless as a monarch, and even said a few words that Nangong Changwan was a prisoner, and Nangong Changwan was angry and killed Song Mingong. Nangong Changwan could not collect the mess and broke the jar, and drove the other princes of the Song Kingdom to extinction, and the Princes and nobles of the Song Dynasty had to flee to Xiaoyi.
Xiao Yi's grand master Daxin formed these princes and nobles into an army to help kill Nangong Changwan, and Song Huangong's younger brother Song Huangong succeeded to the throne, and Song Huangong, in order to thank Daxin, made Daxin the monarch of Xiao Kingdom, and future generations took Xiao as their surname, and the surname "Xiao" came from this.
After the implementation of the second character in 1977, "Xiao" was simplified to "Xiao", and many people with the surname "Xiao" changed their hukou and documents to "Xiao" for the convenience of writing, and the number of people with the surname "Xiao" soared. In 1986, as people's cultural level became higher and higher, the second character was abolished, and some people who changed their "Xiao" surname did not want to spend a lot of material and financial resources to change back to their original surname, so they kept "Xiao".
According to 2019 data, the number of people with the surname "Xiao" has reached 7.4 million, and many celebrities are with this surname. Since "Xiao" and "Xiao" are one family, the "Hundred Family Names" only records "Xiao", not "Xiao", "Xiao" ranks 30th in the "Hundred Family Names", and the Han people with this surname are about 0.7%.
"Xiao" as a surname example in ancient times is not completely absent, but very few, ming "Ten Thousand Surnames Genealogy" records the celebrities of each surname, which mentions that "Xiao" names include Xiao Shi, Xiao Yu, etc., the Ming Dynasty has a Xie Yuan called Xiao Jing, and the Yuan Dynasty has a Ten Thousand Households called Xiao Naitai.
In fact, there are many examples similar to "Xiao" and "Xiao", "Fu" is simplified from "Fu", "Fu" originates from the Yin Shang Dynasty Sage Fu Said (yuè), he was originally a slave, the Shang King Wuding was impressed by his talent when he lived in the folk life, and asked him to be the prime minister to assist him in governing state affairs.
Fu Shanxiang, the first female champion in Chinese history, was still a member of the Fu family, she was originally the child daughter-in-law of someone else's family, because her husband died early and her in-laws did not want her, she just read a few years of books to participate in the imperial examination, in 1853 the imperial examination allowed women to participate, Fu Shanxiang won the title under the double blessing of strength and luck. "Fu" ranks 53rd in "Hundred Family Names", mostly in Zhejiang, Gansu, Fujian, Luxiang, these 5 places, 10% of the people in Hunan are surnamed "Fu", and there are 4.5 million people surnamed "Fu" in the country, accounting for 0.36% of the total population in the country.
Whether you are now surnamed "Xiao" or "Xiao", we are all descendants of Yanhuang, the word can be simplified but the feelings between compatriots can not be simplified, if the surname "Xiao" next time people meet this surname "Xiao" people can completely call each other "relatives", because you are originally a family.