The origin of the surname Gao
1. There are two sources.
1. Originated from the surname Ji.
The twelfth son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty was granted the title of Gao. His hometown was southeast of today's Wucheng in Shandong Province. He was called a lord of the tribe. In the Spring and Autumn Period, he was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, and his descendants took the country as their surname. Gao is divided into north and south. Both places are located southeast of Chengwu in present-day Shandong Province, with a difference of two miles. North Gao was the fiefdom of Prince Wen of Zhou Dynasty, that is, Gao Kingdom, which was later destroyed by the Song Dynasty. South Gao was the city of Song Dynasty. The Ji surname Gao has a history of about 2,700 years.
2. Influx of foreign genes:
The Gao surname has been passed down from generation to generation for more than 2,700 years since its creation. There are no records of other surnames or the integration of other ethnic groups in history. Today, the surname Gao has been found among ethnic minorities such as Manchu and Mongolian.
2. Migration distribution and gathering places
The surname Gao is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan. The surname Gao comes from the surname Ji. In ancient times, King Wu of Zhou defeated King Zhou and established the Zhou Dynasty, and then divided the princes into feudal states. He sealed the eleventh son of King Wen of Zhou, his younger brother, in Gao (southeast of today's Chengwu County, Shandong Province). Later, the descendants of the Duke of Gao took their fiefdom as their surname and were called the Gao family, which became the earliest origin of today's Gao surname. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Gao was later destroyed by the State of Qi, but its people still retained the surname Gao.
In the Spring and Autumn Period, Qi and Jin also had Gaocheng. One was in Changqing County, Shandong, and the other was in the southwest of Fushan County, Shanxi. This was probably where the Gao people moved after their country fell.
After acquiring the surname Gao, they first developed in the place where they received the surname, and later formed famous families in Jingzhao, Anding and other places. There were famous officials such as Gao Yannian, a senior official in the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Gao Dajing, a political official in Shanxi during the Ming Dynasty. figure. Today, the surname Gao is still a widely distributed surname, mainly distributed in Hubei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces. The population of Hubei and Henan provinces accounts for 2/3 of the total population of the surname Gao in the country. Descendants of the Gao surname who immigrated from Dahuaishu, Hongdong County, Shanxi Province are distributed in Su, Shandong, Henan, Anhui and other places.
Today, the first group of Gao family living in Shanghai fled from Fanchuan Town, Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province in the mid-19th century to Shanghai, Songjiang, Yangsi and other places, and worked as cobblers, which has been passed down to this day. The fifth generation; when the second group was dredging Yangsigang in the early years of the Republic of China, several Gao families came here in small boats; the third group moved to Shanghai and settled in Shanghai during the Battle of Songhu (1932 AD). Three batches came from the same place, all working as cobblers.
3. County Wangtang No.
① Jingzhao County: the Capital Territory. In the area from Xi'an City to Huaxian County in Shaanxi Province today.
②Anding County: Set up in the Han Dynasty, the administrative seat is Gaoping (now Guyuan, Ningxia), with jurisdiction over Jingtai, Jingyuan, Huining, Pingliang, Jingchuan, Zhenyuan, Ningxia, Zhongwei, Zhongning, Ningxia Tongxin, Guyuan and other places.
Hall name
Jigutang: originated from the "Spring and Autumn" study of Gao Tanzhi in the Qing Dynasty, mainly based on "Zuo Shi's Spring and Autumn Annals", and widely adopted from Du Yu and various schools in the Song and Yuan Dynasties He is the author of the book "Annotations to the Spring and Autumn Collection".
4. Blood type of people with the surname Gao:
The total blood type distribution of people with the surname Gao is: type O accounts for 33%, type A accounts for 29.1%, type B accounts for 28.9%, and type AB accounts for 9%.
5. Distribution of the contemporary Gao surname
There are about 170,000 people with the contemporary Gao surname, making it the 289th most common surname, accounting for approximately 0.013% of the national population. . The distribution across the country is currently mainly concentrated in Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Hubei, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and regions. Henan is home to 38% of the total population with the surname Gao, making it the largest province with the surname Gao.
People with the surname Gao are distributed in most of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, Henan, Shanxi and Hubei, most of Hebei, Jining and Shandong, central Inner Mongolia, most of Shaanxi and Gansu, eastern Qinghai, the eastern end of Sichuan, most of Chongqing and Hunan, In the northern section of Guizhou, northwest Jiangxi, eastern Fujian, and most of Jiangsu and Anhui, the proportion of the local population surnamed Gao is generally more than 0.04%, with more than 0.2% in the central area. The area covered by the above areas accounts for about 27.7% of the total land area. About 79% of the people with the surname Gao.