The twelve surnames of the Yao family are all born from Panwang.
The Yao and She people in southern my country believe that the dragon dog Panhu is their ancestor. "Book of the Later Han? 6? 1 Biography of the Southern Barbarians and the Southwest Yi" records that in ancient times, the Gaoxin clan (Emperor Ku) was in danger of being invaded by dogs and Rong, and was invincible in repeated battles. So he announced to the world that whoever can kill General Wu, the general of the Dog Rong, and offer his head, will be rewarded with thousands of gold, and be granted the title of ten thousand households, and will be willing to marry him as a little princess. At that time, Emperor Ku kept a five-colored dragon dog named Panhu. After the notice was posted, Panhu titled Yi Yi to His Highness. The ministers looked at it and found that it was the head of the enemy General Wu. The emperor was overjoyed and planned to reward Panhu, but Panhu was a dog. How could he marry his daughter to it, and he couldn't be ennobled? He didn't know what to do. When the princess heard about it, she believed that the emperor had ordered that he should not break his promise, and she was willing to marry Panhu. The emperor had no choice but to marry the princess to Panhu. Panhu got the little princess as his wife, carried her to Nanshan and lived in a stone room. The mountains are steep and inaccessible to humans. Three years later, the princess and Panhu gave birth to 6 boys and 6 girls. After Panhu died, their children married each other. Later, the princess returned to the palace with her children, and the emperor gave each of them a surname: Pan, Bao (one said Lan), Fang, Li, Deng, Zhou, Zhao, Hu, Tang, Lei, Feng, and Shen. Later generations called them "Panyao" Twelve surnames”. The princess and her children did not want to live in the palace and decided to return to the mountains and forests. The emperor obeyed his wishes and issued an ultimatum: "Any mountainous area where Panhu's children and grandchildren live will be allowed to be cultivated and planted, and all grain, taxes, and labor will be exempted." This is a legend passed down from generation to generation by the Yao people. The hidden family heirloom "Mountain Crossing List". They opened mountains and ridges, hunted, cultivated and weaved, gradually forming a prosperous Yao people. Later, the government ignored the provisions of the "Guo Shan List" and occupied the Yao family's mountain and farm houses and sent troops to attack the Yao village. The Yao people were outnumbered. Under the leadership of their leader Pan Weng, they crossed the sea by boat and took refuge in a foreign land. After wandering for 49 days and nights, we finally crossed the sea and landed. Pan Weng smashed the golden incense burner dedicated to King Panhu into 12 pieces, sawed the horn of the ox that gave orders into twelve pieces, and drank chicken blood wine and swore: "The copper incense burner is three and a half pounds, and the gold is four liang and five qian. , each member of the Yao family took a piece and fled across the sea. The horn was cut into twelve pieces, and each piece flew separately. The horns of the incense burner were closed together. The next day, Sun came back and divided into several groups to enter Hunan, Guangxi, and Guangxi. In Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong and other places, they opened up wasteland and rebuilt their homes.
Although the above legend has a mythological flavor, both She and Yao have Chinese documents recording the legend of Panhu. The She people call it "Kaishan Gongzhi", and the Yao people call it "Guoshan Bang". The content is similar, and both ethnic groups have it. There are three major surnames, Panlanlei and Panhu, the dragon and dog, as their totems. Their historical origins are very close. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in accordance with the wishes of the She people, the state recognized the She ethnic group as a single ethnic minority on November 8, 1956, collectively known as the "She ethnic group". I can only say that it may be so