Downstairs, Xiaomei asked me: "The surname Zhang is a large surname with a population of nearly 100 million." Zhang surname has not produced an emperor, why is the population so large? ”
As the third largest surname in the mainland, the data of the sixth census is 7.07% of the total number of people in the country, while the surnames Of Li and Wang account for 7.94% and 7.65% respectively.
As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhou Tianzi successively divided many small countries. Among them were the Mao Kingdom, the Chiang Kai-shek State, the Deng Kingdom, and even the British and Fat Kingdoms, which sounded very interesting. In this long history, it is true that there has been a Zhang state.
In 822 BC, the Foxes invaded the northern frontier. King Xuan of Zhou's Taishi led an army on a northern expedition against the Foxes north of Taiyuan. As for June, the war was on the sidelines, and it was difficult for Wang Shi to win. Therefore, King Xuan of Zhou ordered Zhang Guojun zhong to lead a division on the expedition. Due to the addition of Zhang Houzhong, Wang Shida broke through the fox and returned triumphantly. History does not record the earliest monarch who was enfeoffed in Zhangdi, but it can be seen that Zhang Guojun was a marquis at that time. It should also have originated from the Zhou royal family at the earliest. The idiom "Zhang Zhongxiaoyou" is also derived from this.
After the Battle of Taiyuan, Zhang Zhong served as a secretary of King Xuan of Zhou, that is, transferred to the central government. He assisted Taishi Yin Jifu in governing the country and made a significant contribution to "Xuanwang Zhongxing". The Fiefdom of Zhang Guo should be located in the territory of present-day Xingtai, Hebei Province.
Around 660 BC, the Rongdi people invaded the south twice, the state of Xing and the state of Wei were destroyed, and many small princely states in Xingtai were also destroyed. Zhang Guo also disappeared from history after this war.
The first celebrity surnamed Zhang was Zhang Liang. The historical record of Zhang Liang, surnamed Ji, also confirms that he is a descendant of Zhang Guo, he can be regarded as a representative of the Taoist school, his deeds and legends are known to everyone. They are all Taoist styles, so I won't say more.
To Zhang Liang's eighth grandson, a man named Zhang Ling, that is, Zhang Daoling. Some people here suspect that this is the relationship between the two people is a descendant, in fact, it should be more credible, first, the difference between the two is about 260 years, the ancients, especially the males of the large family, will have descendants at the age of fifty or sixty. The difference between the two is eight generations is in line with the facts. Second, reproductive rights in ancient times were almost all concentrated in the hands of large families, and many people who we think of as pretending to recognize ancestors may not actually lie. It should be known that in the more than 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, zhu Yuanzhang's direct descendants alone reached a million, and most of them became commoners. Since in the last years of the Western Han Dynasty, the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu became a farmer. Then at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei sold straw shoes.
Zhang Daoling founded the Wudou Rice Sect in Sichuan, and legend has it that this old man lived for 123 years. Believers revered Zhang Daoling as a celestial master, and later derivative factions revered him as the founder of Taoism. Before him, he could only be counted as a Taoist school, for example, Lao Tzu could only be counted as the founder of the Taoist school. Zhang Daoling's grandson Zhang Lu was the third generation of Heavenly Masters. Zhang Lu, the character of the Three Kingdoms, is well known to everyone!
After Cao Cao pacified Hanzhong, the Wudou rice cult was not only not suppressed by Cao Wei, but after the Zhang Lu family and a large number of its followers moved north to chang'an, Luoyang, and Yicheng, it was no longer confined to Yizhou but spread throughout the country.
There are many believers in the various gate valve families. During the Two Jin Dynasties, many people's names had the word "Zhi", such as Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Gu Kaizhi, Zu Chongzhi, etc., which were also related to the Wudou Rice Sect and the Tianshi Dao. The upper-class noble clan also worshiped the Heavenly Master Dao, and many Taoist families appeared, such as the Langya Wang clan, the Sun clan, the Chen Junxi clan, the Yin clan, the Gaoping Xi clan, the Huiji Kong clan and so on.
Langya Wang clan, Chen Jun xie clan these are our top family hao clan, their every move is concerned, slowly the name with the word "zigzag" popular in the upper class, and later gradually became a kind of custom blossoming everywhere, even ordinary people have followed suit.
Later, the Sun En Rebellion in the Two Jin Dynasties spread further to the eastern coast and the Lingnan region. At the same time, different factions were derived. The Celestial Master implemented the hereditary system, and the heirs must also be the descendants of their own Zhang clan.
Zhang Daoling is the "ancestral master" of Taoism, and if there is inheritance, there must be hereditary inheritance, and if there is faith, it will be passed on, so as to continuously carry forward the Taoist culture. The Surname Zhang was naturally carried forward. For example, Zhang Sanfeng of Wudang Mountain, Zhang Shi of Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi.
Some friends said that Zhang surname did not produce an emperor. Nor is it completely accurate, at least there was a pseudo-Chu emperor Zhang Bangchang. Of course, historiography does not recognize it. During the Period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, the Han Chinese Zhang Rail once established the "Former Liang" state and passed on the throne to the Ninth Dynasty. Of course, because the place was too small, he did not dare to call himself emperor, but only called himself king. Zhang Xianzhong, who had a very bad reputation, was once called emperor.
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