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Surname Gao

The surname Gao first appeared in the period of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times. Shiben, the earliest ancient book in China to systematically record the origin of the surname, recorded that "Gao Yuan, a minister of the Yellow Emperor, made a palace." "Bamboo annals" says that the Yellow Emperor "lived with bears". There are bears in Xinzheng County, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. In the spring and Autumn period, Lu Chi, the sixth grandson of Lu Shang (Jiang Ziya), the Duke of Qi, had a descendant named Gao after his ancestors.

Gao is a multi-ethnic, multi-source ancient surname group, with many origins and 153rd ranks in the Hundred Surnames. It ranks nineteenth in the Chinese mainland's surname list, ranking thirtieth in Taiwan Province, with a population of about one thousand, and has a total of about one thousand Chinese people. It accounts for about 0.92% of the total population in China, and most of them are Yuyang, Liaodong, Guangling and Henan. Gao's mainstream originated in Henan Province, but after the spring and Autumn period, it was mainly distributed in Qilu.

Historical development

Origin of surname

1. It comes from Gao, the son of Lu Chi in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The surname Jiang was originally a descendant of Emperor Yan, while the surname Gao was a descendant of Emperor Yan. The first ancestor of the surname Gao was Emperor Yan and the first ancestor was Gao Yi. Because Emperor Yan Shennong was born in Jiangshui, he took Jiang as his surname. Sun Boyi, the 17th sun of Emperor Yan, helped Dayu in flood control and was granted the title of marquis Lu. Therefore, his descendants took Lu as their surname. The 37th generation of sun jiangshang, also known as jiangtaigong, also known as lvshang and lvwang, assisted King Wen and King Wu of Zhou Dynasty to destroy Shang and establish Zhou Dynasty, and was granted the title of Qi. The state of Qi was handed down to Jiang Chi, the eighth grandson of Taigong. The second son of Wengong was granted the title of Gaoyi, which was called Gongzi Gao. According to the etiquette of the nobility in the Zhou Dynasty, his grandson took his ancestor's name as his surname, which was Gaohe. When Gao Yu was the Prime Minister of Qi, he was the Duke of Huan. Gao he became the ancestor of the famous Gao family in Bohai Sea. Gaozhi, the seventh grandson of Gaohe, was excluded by gongsunzao and gongsunpu in the state of Qi, leaving Qi to run to Yan. Gaozhi 9's sun Gaoliang was the situ of Song state, and Gaoliang 10's sun Gaohong was the governor of Bohai in Eastern Han Dynasty. One of Gao Hong's descendants, Gao Yin and Gao Zhan, founded the GAOs in Yuyang and Liaodong, and another, Gao Zhen, founded the GAOs in Guangling. Gao Boxiang, a descendant of Gao family in Bohai, founded Jingzhao Gao family. Most of the people of the Gao family with the Jiang family name revered Gao Yu as the ancestor of the de family name, while others revered Gao Qumi (Jiang Qumi) and Gao Ke as the ancestor of the de family name.

2. It comes from Qi, the son of Duke Hui of Qi in the spring and Autumn period. It takes the ancestor's name as a surname. Take Wang Fu as a surname. Qihuiad was the son of Xiaobai, Duke of Huan, and shaoweiji, concubine of Ji. He was the king of Qi for 10 years. Qi Huigong's son is called childe Qi, whose name is Zi Gao. His descendants also take Gao as their surname, which is Gao's surname in Shandong Province. In the 17th-20th year of Taihe reign (493-496 of Xiyuan reign), tuobahong (Yuanhong), Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, vigorously carried out political reform and carried out the policy of cultural Sinicization. In this process, he changed the polysyllabic compound surname of the northern Hu people to the single surname of Chinese characters, changed the Shilou tribe of tuobahu tribe of Xianbei nationality to the Gao clan, and later integrated into the Han nationality. He is one of the Gao clan in Henan Province, and is located in the west of Fengxian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province There are dangaolou village and shuanggaolou village, which are supposed to be the lineage of Lou family of Xianbei nationality, and there are Gao ancestral halls in dangaolou village. < / Li > < li > at the end of the Eastern Wei regime in the northern and Southern Dynasties, Yuan Jing'an, a member of the Xianbei nationality, was awarded the title of Duxiang man of Xihua county by Gao Huan, the Prime Minister of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, for his meritorious service in the battle of Mangshan. After his son Gao Yang deposed emperor Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the eighth year of yuanshanjian Wuding (AD 550), the emperor of Xiaojing of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and established the regime of the Northern Qi Dynasty, he was granted the title in the same year, that is, the first year of Gaoyang Tianbao (AD 550), the emperor of Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty The noble surname is Gao. In addition, yuan Wenyao, a member of the Xianbei people, was also highly valued by the king Gao Yang and Gao Yan in the Northern Qi Dynasty. He was granted the surname Gao in the imperial edict issued by Gao Wei after the second year of Tiantong in the Northern Qi Dynasty (566 AD). Their descendants took Gao as their surname, which is also one of the Gao families in Henan Province. < li > < li > during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Murong Yun, a member of Xianbei tribe, the king of Yan, was renamed as the descendant of Gaoyang family, so he changed his surname to Gao. Under this historical background, most of his descendants changed their multiple surnames from Murong family to Gao family, which was the mainstream of Gao family in Hebei Province. His descendants have changed their multiple surnames to single surnames, called Gao. In the northern and Southern Dynasties, the surnames of yuan and Xu of Xianbei were changed to Gao. Emperor Wenxuan of the Northern Qi Dynasty was named Gao Mingxiang. At that time, there were Xianbei people of Yuan Jingan and Yuan Wenyao, who changed their surname to yuan. Gao Yang gave them the surname "Gao" because of their contributions to the Northern Qi Dynasty. Gao Longzhi, an important official of the Northern Qi Dynasty, changed his surname to Xu because his father had a good relationship with Gao Huan. After the establishment of the Northern Qi regime, Gao's surname was the national surname of the Northern Qi regime, so the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty gave him his surname as Gao's to show his favor. Xu Ziyuan changed his surname to Gao's from then on. His descendants later developed in Qi County, Henan Province, and became a local famous family. He was one of the Gao's in the south of the river. Gao Lishi, the eunuch of the Tang Dynasty, was the great grandson of Feng ang. His surname was Feng. Later he was adopted by Gao Yanfu, so he changed his name to Gao. The compound surname of the two characters beginning with the word "Gao" was changed to the single surname "Gao" later. For example: Gao Che, Gao Tang, Gao Yang, Gao Ling and so on. After the establishment of the Northern Qi regime, the surname Gao became the national surname of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so the emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty gave him the surname Gao to show his favor.

It belongs to Chinese surname.

From the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, a large number of Manchu surnames changed to Han surnames. Some of them transliterated from the prefix of Manchu surname to Han surname, and Gaojia surname was changed to Gao surname. In Manchu, it is dolohala, which means "Nei" in Chinese. It lived in Yehe (today's Lishu in Jilin Province) and Donghai (today's coastal area in Russia). Later, it was named Gao and Zhao. < / Li > < li > the Gaojia family of the Manchu nationality, whose Manchu language is gaogiyahala, originated from the Han nationality. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was captured by the Wuhuan tribe of Xianbei in Eastern Liaoning and integrated into Xianbei. Later, it gradually evolved into Jurchen in Eastern Liaoning and lived in Gaizhou (now Gaizhou in Liaoning). Later, Xibo people took it as their surname. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, most of the Han surnames were named Gao. < / Li > < li > the Golgi family of the Manchu nationality, also known as the gerqi family, is gercihala in the Manchu language, and lives in nimacha (now in the area of ussurisk, Russia, on the other side of the Muling Xingkai Lake in Heilongjiang Province). Later, the Han surname is the Gao family. < li > < li > the sakda family of the Manchu nationality was originally the bayala family, then the di family, and the Manchu language was sakda Hala, which means "long and old" in Chinese and has lived in sakda (today's Fushun gorge river valley in Liaoning Province). After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, most of the Chinese surnames were Gao, Cang, Cang, Ma, Luo, Li, Zu, Hai, SA, Li, Chen, Luo, Lao, Ying and Yin They are the surnames of Li, Tong, Tuo, Weng, etc. < li > < li > the guoluoluo family of the Manchu nationality, also known as the guoerluo, guoluoluo and guoboluo families, is called gorolo Hala in Manchu, and has lived in nyin (now the upper reaches of Songhua River in Fusong, Jilin Province) and other places for a long time. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, most of the Han surnames were Gao, Guo and Guo. < li > < li > the guoerjia family of the Manchu nationality, also known as guoluojia and gurjia, is called gorgiya Hala in the Manchu language. It was born in badputebu Zhantai and other places. Later, it was introduced as a surname by Xibo nationality. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, most of the Han surnames were Gao, Guo and Gu.

From the Liao and Korean Peninsula in the Han and Tang Dynasties

Gaogouli

State, belongs to the name of the country for the surname

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Yuzhen clan was originally an ancient tribe in Hunjiang River Valley of Northeast China. It was a branch of Fuyu clan in ancient Yan state. Its original name was Fuyu clan. It was under the jurisdiction of xuantu Prefecture in Western Han Dynasty. In the second year of Jianzhao (37bc), the Yuan emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, Gao zhumeng (Gao zoumu), the leader of the Yuzhen clan, took the opportunity to establish the Gaogouli state in heshenggu city (now Huanren, Liaoning Province). Zhu Meng claimed to be a Miao descendant of Gaoyang family, so he changed his name to Gao family. The rule of Gao family in Gaogouli state lasted for more than 600 years. In this historical period, it was called "Fuyu family" in Han history. In the third year of Yuanshi of Pingdi Liu of the Western Han Dynasty (the 23rd year of gaolei, the king of Guangli Ming of Gaogouli, ad 3), Guangli Ming of Gaogouli moved the capital city to Ji'an of Jilin Province. In the eighth year of Jianhong of the Western Qin Dynasty (the 14th year of Gaoju chain, A.D. 427), the longevity king of Koguryo moved the capital city to Wangxian city (today's Pyongyang, Korea). Because the king of Koguryo was the Gao family, the Gao family had a high political status during the existence of the ancient Koguryo states in Liaodong Peninsula and Korean Peninsula. During the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Gao Lin, a general who was once granted the title of Marquis of Juye County, was handed down to the Northern Wei Dynasty from generation to generation. Gao Liyu's real family was changed to Gao's later. In the first year of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty (26th year of gaogoulibao Zang Wang gaobaozang, ad 668), the state of Gaogouli was destroyed by Xu Shiji (Li Ji), the commander-in-chief of the Tang Dynasty, and Xue Rengui, the commander-in-chief of Anton capital. The Tang army captured the king of Gaogouli and his Prime Minister alive, slaughtered tens of thousands of people and took in 690000 households. After that, the Tang Dynasty set up Anton capital in wangxiancheng. Since then, a considerable number of the GAOs have moved to the interior of the Central Plains.

From the eunuch of the middle Tang Dynasty

Hercules

(his real name is Feng Yuanyi), belonging to the surname of Mao.

Because Gao Lishi was a eunuch and had no children, he adopted a large number of adopted sons who flattered him to be officials and nobles. They all gave him the surname Gao in private and passed on from generation to generation. < ol > < li > from the Han Dynasty officials Gaomiao Ling, belongs to the official title for the surname. Among the descendants of gaomiaoling, when the world was in chaos during the Three Kingdoms period, some of them used the title of ancestor's official position

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