First, the official name is the surname.
After Hao Tao, the world was Dali (the first prison officer in charge of criminal law), and the official was the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Laozi, the founder of Taoism, took Li Li as his surname and called him Li Er for ancestral reasons.
Secondly, according to Northern History, Li of Zhao Jun was the first person after Zhao Jiang, Wu Anjun and Li Zuoche.
It is said that the surname of the northern Xianbei nationality was scolded by Li at the end of Wei Dynasty, and later changed to the Chinese character Li.
Fourth, the surname of the Tang Dynasty royal family was Li, and Li Sui was the national surname.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the founding fathers Xu, Tai, An, Du, Hu, Hong, Guo, Ma, Xian Ji, Zhang, Abu, Sari, Dong, Luo and Zhu Xie had sixteen surnames (five of which were compound surnames). In addition, many families changed to Li, and Li's population increased greatly.
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I. Migration and distribution
From the end of Shang Dynasty to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Li lived in eastern Henan for 200 years.
In the Western Han Dynasty, Li's family moved to present-day Shandong Province. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, some Li clans have migrated to the southwest, distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan and other places, and some of them have merged into Bai, Miao, Zhuang, Yi, Man, Hui, Tujia and Naxi nationalities. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the whole country was dominated by Li, which was also known as the four famous families with Cui, Lu, Li and Zheng in the Central Plains, but it mainly developed in the north before the Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China's feudal society, and Li, as the national surname, was the most prominent.
In the Tang Dynasty, Li moved south three times: once, in the early Tang Dynasty, some Li people moved south, and some of them from Henan moved into Kaizhangzhou, Fujian.
The second time was the "An Shi Rebellion", and many descendants of Li moved to the south. The third time was in the Five Dynasties. Due to the unrest, Li moved to Fujian, Putian and Jinjiang.
From the late Ming Dynasty, people from Fujian and Guangdong moved to Taiwan Province Province. Li's overseas immigration began in the early Ming Dynasty, and all the people who went to Ryukyu were from Fujian. Many people sent to Ryukyu in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were surnamed Li, all from China who moved to Ryukyu from Fujian.
In the history of China, there were more than 60 Li Di and Li Wang, who successively established Dacheng, Xiliang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang, Nantang, Dashu, Xixia and Dashun regimes.
Second, family celebrities.
1, Li Er (Laozi)
An important philosopher at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, he advocated nature and put forward the ideas of man, earth, heaven, Tao and nature. He is the founder of China's important philosophical thought Taoism.
2. Li Bai: China's greatest romantic poet, whose ancestral home is Qin 'an, Gansu, is famous as a poet.
3. Li Guang: a native of the Western Han Dynasty, who experienced the official, the king and the Emperor Wu.
He participated in many wars against Huns, and participated in more than 70 wars, and was famous for his bravery and good fighting skills. When the right Beiping was the satrap, the Xiongnu dared not attack for several years and called him "General Fei".
4. Li Qingzhao, a poetess in Southern Song Dynasty. In his lyrics, he wrote about his leisure life in the early stage, lamented his life experience in the later stage, and was deeply touched. Some of them also showed nostalgia for the Central Plains. On the theory of ci, he emphasized harmony, advocated elegance and affection, put forward the theory that ci is different from one family, and opposed the method of writing poetry.
5. Li Ling: Li Ling, a half-life hero who made history helpless, was born in Longxi, Han Dynasty. Li Guang's grandson.
Li Ling went deep alone, won the battle, and temporarily surrendered to the Huns under the condition of exhaustion. But after all, he surrendered to the enemy behind his back and became the black sheep of Naizu and the sinner of the nation, which is not enough to hide. It is even more unforgivable to try to surrender to Su Wu in the future.
6. Li Zicheng: Wang Chuang, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, was from Mizhi, Shaanxi.
7. Li Hongzhang (1823~ 190 1), born in Hefei, Anhui Province, was a politician in the Qing Dynasty. He has made great contributions to the suppression of bandits and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and has served as the governor of Zhili, Huguang and Guangdong. He is especially good at diplomacy and has signed treaties with foreign countries on behalf of the Qing court many times. Later, he died of hematemesis from overwork, was promoted to serve for a period of time, and died as Wenzhong.
8. Li Ka-shing (1928~)
Li Ka-shing 1928 was born in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, and became the richest man in China with a net worth of 22 billion US dollars in 2007. One of the people who love China.
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