The surname Cao is the thirtieth largest surname with the largest number of Chinese, and the Central Plains and Sulu regions are the areas where the Cao surname is more prosperous. Today, the Cao surname accounts for about 0.6% of the country's population, and the total population is about 7.91 million.
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The plaintiffs and defendants in ancient lawsuits were called liang cao, and one of the parties who took to court was the original meaning of cao. In the oracle bone, the character 曹 is like two parties, the plaintiff and the defendant, and the lower part is 曰, indicating the meaning of verbal argument. The ancients defined Cao as a literal prison also. The extension of Cao has the meaning of class, group, and group, and the official office or department that was divided into disciplines in ancient times was naturally called Cao.
The Cao character of Jin Wen also has a glyph of female part jiazhuo, which clearly indicates that it is related to jujube. The oldest Cao di must be a place rich in wild dates, and the primitive group that uses jujube picking as an important food source naturally attaches great importance to the harvest of dates and regards dates as the totem of the clan. The original Cao character is made up of a dendritic shape with fruit on the top, and the word "mouth" on the bottom indicates that people wait for the dates on the jujube tree to ripen before they can be eaten. There are also japanese characters under the added day, indicating that the dates need to be sunburned after they are knocked off the tree, and after the dates become dark red, the party becomes sweet and sweet. The place where the Cao people lived was called Cao Di, and the castle was built called Cao Yi, which eventually developed into a state and a surname.
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The ancestor of the Cao clan - Cao Shu Zhenduo
There are two main origins and evolutions of the Cao surname:
1. After Gao Yang, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor
Wu Hui of the Zhu Rong clan, a descendant of Wu Hui, was the fifth son of Lu Hui, and surnamed Cao. The Cao tribe began to live in CaoDi in the ZhouZhi of Shaanxi Province, because CaoDi was rich in jujubes, and the tribe used jujube as an important source of food, so the jujube was the totem of the clan, and the jujube was the emblem of the original clan of Cao, which later became a surname, and the Cao tribe eventually developed into a state. Later, the Cao people moved east to Cao Yang in Lingbaodong, Henan, And at the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, the Cao people had been living in Cao Yang, and Cao and Xia were of the same ethnic group, and after the Shang destroyed Xia, Cao and Shang confronted each other and became the State of Fang, called Cao Fang. At the beginning of the Shang Dynasty, Cao Fang was conquered by the Shang, and the Cao people moved east to Caoyi in the east of Hua County, Henan. The Shang king Pan Geng moved the capital to Yin, known in history as Yin Shang, and Yin was now Anyang, Henan. Due to the capital of Caoyi near the Shang, the Cao people were forced to move east to Dingtao, Shandong. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, the kingdom was destroyed, and the descendants took the kingdom as their clan. The history of the Cao clan of Lu's descendants is at least 3100 years old.
It is said that after the Shang annihilated Cao, a group of Cao people went south, crossed the Taiwan Strait, entered Taiwan, and became the ancestors of the Cao tribe in the mountain tribe of present-day Taiwan. After the Shang Dynasty attacked the Cao people, who lived in Lingbao in western Henan, one of them moved west through the Hexi Corridor to Xinjiang and established the State of Cao, one of the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu" during the Warring States period, north of the Qilian Mountains in Gansu. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, due to the oppression of the Xiongnu, he was forced to move west to Central Asia, and then established the Cao State along the Amu Darya River, mixed with the Central Asians, forming one of the famous Nine Surnames of Zhaowu in the Western Regions during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
2. From the surname Ji
After King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, he enfeoffed his younger brother Zhenduo (振铎) as Cao (曹), the count of Cao (曹), the capital of Taoqiu , which is now north of Dingtao County, Shandong. In the late Warring States period, in 487 BC, Song Jinggong destroyed the State of Cao, surnamed Ji, and his descendants took the state as their surname. The history of the Ji surname Cao is also more than 3,000 years. The common use of the Surname Cao was after the fall of the Cao Kingdom, which also has a history of more than 2400 years.
Foreign genetic integration
After the Warring States, the Peng people scattered, and the immigrants mixed with the Southern Natives such as the Shanyue people in the southeast and the Ba people in the west of Exiang, and the Peng people first integrated into the local ethnic groups and became one of the indigenous surnames. The Peng surname of the ethnic minorities in the southwest is also mostly integrated by the peng people's tribes, and later assimilated into the local Han people, so the Duo Peng surname of the Han nationality in the four provinces of Sichuan, Hubei, Xianggan and Gansu in the middle and lower reaches of the contemporary Yangtze River is related to the migration and integration of the Peng surname. Therefore, China's Peng surname, like other surnames, constantly communicates with other ethnic groups and has the flow of genes.
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Frequency plot of the Cao surname distribution
The distribution of contemporary Cao surnames in the country is mainly concentrated in henan, Jiangsu, Shandong and Hunan provinces, accounting for about 34.1% of the total population of Cao surnames in the country. It is secondly distributed in Hebei, Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei and Shaanxi, and the five provinces concentrate 27.7% of the population of Cao. Henan is the largest province with the surname Cao, accounting for about 9.5% of the total population of the country, followed by Jiangsu with 9.4%. The whole country has re-formed three high-density concentration areas of Cao surname, Named Yuluji, Anhui Su and Xiang'echuan.
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The blood group distribution of the Cao surname population is generally:
Type O accounted for 32.1%, Type A accounted for 28.3%, Type B accounted for 30.2%, and Type AB accounted for 9.4%.
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Cao Cao
Cao Cao (155–220), courtesy name Mengde (孟德), courtesy name Ah Qi, was a famous politician, military figure, writer and poet of the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the founder of the Cao Wei regime. He suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebellion, rebelled against Dong Zhuo, blackmailed tianzi to order the princes, and basically unified northern China, successively serving as officials to Taishou of Dong Commandery, Mu of Yanzhou, Xiang Xiang, and Jue to the King of Wei. On March 15, 220, Cao Cao died of illness in Luoyang, with the posthumous title of Wu (武), and was posthumously honored as Emperor Wu (武帝) and Taizu (太祖).
Cao Zhi
Cao Zhi (192-232), also known as Zijian, was the third son born to Cao Cao and Empress WuXuanbian, a famous writer of the Three Kingdoms period, one of the representative figures of Jian'an literature and a master of the collection. Cao Zhi was inferior to Cao Pi in the Battle of shizi, so he could not be reused by Cao Cao, but he achieved outstanding achievements in poetry and prose, and wrote "LuoshenFu" and "White Horse Chapter", which were jointly known as "Three Caos" with Cao Cao and Cao Pi. The literary critic Zhong Rong also listed him as the highest poet in "Poetry".
Cao Xueqin
Cao Xueqin (名沾, c. 1715 – c. 1763), courtesy name Mengruan, Xueqin, also known as Qinxi and Qinpu, was the author of the classical Chinese work Dream of the Red Chamber. In his early years, he lived a rich and prosperous life in Jiangning Weaving House in Nanjing. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), the Cao family was robbed of their home because of the crime of deficit, and moved back to Beijing with their family, making a living by selling calligraphy and paintings and providing relief from friends. Cao Xueqin is temperamental, has a wide range of hobbies, and with perseverance, has created a great work of great thought and artistry - "Dream of the Red Chamber".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > traditional culture of Cao surname</h1>
Junwang and Tang number: The county wang of the Cao surname mainly includes Yuguo, Pengcheng, Gaoping, Juye, Jinxiang, Tingshan, Donghai, Chenliu, Qinghe, Julu, Wuwei, Xiping, Tianshui, Feng Yi, Huayin, Jiyin and so on. The hall names of the Cao surname are Yu Guo, Qing Shen, Qing Jing, Wu Wei, Shu Shu, Huan Mu, Yu Qing, Ning Shou, Xiao You, Ji Qing, etc. The "Qingjing" hall name is also called "Wuwei", which is a canon of Cao San of the Western Han Dynasty, Cao San, after Xiao He's death, inherited the position of prime minister, and he did things according to Xiao He's rules, and the history was called "Xiao Zhi Cao Sui". During Cao's reign, the provincial criminal law, the thin tax, and the rule of inaction. The people sang his praises for "carrying with peace and tranquility, and the people with tranquility."
There are five important couplets with the surname Cao:
It is known as the embroidered tiger; it is self-congratulatory to receive the luan.
Embroidered Tiger Wenzong; name Lin Shunyan.
The three will be on the stage; the eight immortals will be listed.
The country is far away; Lei Yang Shize is long.
Only seven steps high, Chen Si Wang Zao Li Yinghua; Three Chapters of Law Shou, Marquis of Pingyang loyal and simple.
Family motto: Cao Cao, a famous politician, military expert, and writer during the Three Kingdoms period, not only was he known for his good power, but he was also a strict father who valued virtue and talent. He often taught his sons to have a benevolent heart and filial piety, and often demanded them in the ethical principles of fathers and sons and kings, believing that "the family is the father and the son, the subject is the king, and the king's law is moved." The sons are admonished to celebrate their own strengths and not to indulge their shortcomings and mistakes, such as in the "Testament": "I hold the law in the army, as for small anger, great negligence, improper effect", and so on, and advocate funerals. Under Cao Cao's words and deeds, all the sons had talents, such as the eldest son Cao Pi was known for his benevolence, and the second son Cao Zhi was known for his literature, all of which are recorded in the annals of history.