1, which originated from the surname change, comes from the Liu family of Wu Yueguo in the Five Dynasties and belongs to the surname change. From the end of the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, Qian Liu, a great man in wuyue, established Wu Yueguo, and he became the first monarch of this country. Because Qian Liu's "New Moon" and "Liao" are homonyms, in order to avoid his anonymity, Qian Liu issued a decree to change all the Liu people in Wu Yueguo to Liao, which was passed down from generation to generation.

2. It originated from Mongols, came from the Mongolian royal family in Yuan Dynasty, and belonged to the surname given by the emperor. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Judy, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, led 200,000 troops to attack Mobei. The descendants of Kublai Khan, Yuan Shizu and the Mongolian prince, also led his wife and all his tribes to mutiny. Ming Chengzu was overjoyed and gave him China's surname Liao.

? Liao Changyong

Extended data:

Migration distribution

In the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the net population growth rate was 20% in about 600 years, and the population growth in Liao was slower than that in the whole country. At that time, Jiangxi was the largest province in Liao, accounting for 43.4% of the total population of Liao.

At that time, the distribution of Liao surname in China was mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan and Guangdong provinces, accounting for about 81%of the total population of Liao surname; Followed by Hubei and Sichuan provinces, accounting for 13% of the total population.

The population of modern Liao surname is nearly 4.9 million, ranking 60th in China, accounting for about 0.37% of the national population. Over the past 600 years in the Ming Dynasty, the population of Liao surname surged from 230,000 to 4.9 million, an increase of 18 times, and the population growth rate of Liao surname was higher than that of the whole country.

In Hainan Province, western Guizhou Province, northeastern and northwestern Yunnan Province, western Hubei Province, southern Shaanxi Province, southern Gansu Province, southeastern Qinghai Province, southern Hebei Province, southeastern Henan Province and other regions; The distribution ratio of Liao surname in the local population is between 0.23% and 0.69%, and its coverage area accounts for about 16% of the total area of the country, and about 26% of Liao surnames live here.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Liao surname