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[Global Network Comprehensive Report Reporter Zhao Youping] "Zhao and Ma were originally family. "I hope that in the future, ma and Zhao can continue to cooperate." According to Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud", ma Ying-jeou, a former leader of the Taiwan region, revealed on April 10 that he was a descendant of the famous Warring States general Zhao Hao, because Zhao Hao had been awarded the title of Ma Fujun, so the clan changed his surname to Ma. Ma Ying-jeou also mentioned that when he went to the United States with Zhao Shaokang, chairman of "Zhongguang", many years ago, he also invited Zhao Shaokang to worship the ancestors of the Ma clan association, and Zhao Shaokang understood that Ma's surname was originally Zhao's surname.
Screenshot of Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" report
Screenshot of a report by Taiwan's Liberty Times
According to Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" and "Liberty Times", the "China Zhao Clan Clan Relatives Association" held the "Second Outstanding Clan Award Ceremony of the Tianshui Award" on the morning of the 10th, and Ma Ying-jeou, who was invited to participate, laughed in his speech, "You will definitely ask when you see me, why are you not surnamed Zhao? Ma Yingjiu explained that he was indeed not surnamed Zhao, and that he had nothing to do with the surname Zhao except that he had a brother-in-law surnamed Zhao, but he had a deep relationship with the Zhao surname.
Ma Ying-jeou attended the "Tianshui Awards 2nd Outstanding Ancestor Award Ceremony" on April 10
Ma Yingjiu said that the surname Ma was zhao in ancient times, and also surnamed Zhao in the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. During the Warring States period, after the famous general Zhao Hao defeated the Qin state, he was named "Ma Fujun" by the King of Zhao, and the clans at that time felt very honored, so they changed their surnames to Ma, "Almost all the Han people with the surname Ma were originally surnamed Zhao". It is worth mentioning that the son of Zhao Hao is zhao kuo who talks about soldiers on paper, and the world also calls him "Ma Fuzi".
Ma Ying-jeou said that ma surname moved to Jiangxi during the Wuhu Chaohua period, and his family moved back to Hunan and Taiwan.
As for the surname of Ma in Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou said that the generally recognized ancestor is the famous Eastern Han Dynasty general Ma Yuan, who, during his tenure as "Minister of Justice," once visited the ancestral hall of Majiazhuang in Tongxiao Town, Miaoli, and was shocked to see that the hall number read "Fufeng" because the ancestral tablet in the family was written "Fufeng MaShi," and Fufeng was Ma Yuan's hometown, and Ma Yuan's ancestor was surnamed Zhao.
Zhao Hao (left) and Ma Yingjiu are pictured from Taiwan media
Ma Ying-jeou also mentioned that in the early years, when he was serving in the "Central Party Department" of the Kuomintang, he once went to the United States with the delegation to participate in a prayer breakfast meeting, and Zhao Shaokang, then chairman of the "Zhongguang" chairman of the Taipei City Council, also accompanied him, and he invited Zhao Shaokang to go to the Ma clan ancestral association in Los Angeles to worship his ancestors.
Zhao Shaokang (infographic)
Ma Yingjiu said that Ma and Zhao were a family before 2300 and 2400 years ago, and he has not forgotten it so far, hoping that the ma and Zhao surnames will continue to cooperate in the future, "like my third brother-in-law is surnamed Zhao, which is a concrete manifestation of our cooperation."