The ancestor of the He family is Ji Yu.
There are several theories about the origin of the surname:
1. It comes from the surname Ji.
The son of King Wu of Zhou was granted a title to Han and destroyed the country. His descendant Han Wuzi (another theory is that Han Wuzi is a descendant of Uncle Qu Wohuan, a member of the Jin Dynasty, that is, after Ji Tang Shu Yu, the younger brother of King Zhou Cheng) became an official in the Jin Dynasty and was granted the title of Han Yuan, taking the land as his surname. Later, he was divided into the Jin Dynasty and the three families of Zhao and Wei, and became princes. Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, and the Han family fled between the Jianghuai River and Huaihe River, so they changed their surname to He.
2. Give a surname.
After Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, he promoted Hanization and changed the Xianbei surname Heba to the Han surname He. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Tubo Xuanfu envoy Suonan's son Ming surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. He was hereditary commander of the Hezhou Guard and was given the surname He.
3. Take the name of the country as your surname.
During the Tang Dynasty, there were nine small Turkic countries in Central Asia, which were historically known as the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu". Later, they moved inland to the Central Plains, and each of them took his country's surname.
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The surname He among the ethnic minorities is added:
The surname He among the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu". What surnames did the ethnic minority areas in my country have during the Han and Tang Dynasties? In the Western Region of my country during the Han and Tang Dynasties, there was the Kangju regime established by the Yuezhi people. They originally lived in Zhaowu City in the north of the Qilian Mountains. They were later defeated by the Huns. They crossed to the west of Congling and established the Kang State, which became increasingly powerful.
The Mi, Shi, Cao, He, An, Xiao'an, Nasebo, Unachang, Mu and other regimes in the Western Regions successively surrendered to Kang State, and all took Zhaowu as their surname to show that they did not forget their roots. Historically known as the "Nine Zhaowu Surnames", "He" is one of them.
There were several ancestors of the He surname from the Western Regions in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties and the later Sui Dynasty: One was He Xihu, a native of the Western Regions in the Liang Dynasty, who entered Shu as a merchant and settled in Pixian County (today's Pixian County, Sichuan Province). County), served as the king of Wuling, and was the master of gold and silk. Because he became extremely rich, he was named "Sichuan Dajia". The other one is He Tuo, a native of the Sui Dynasty.
It is said that he is the son of He Xihu, whose courtesy name is Qifeng. He is young and alert, and has a talented reputation. In the early Sui Dynasty, he was the official official and the son of the state offered wine. He wrote "Book of Changes" , "The Classic of Filial Piety" and other anthologies. The third person is He Chou, who was born in the Sui Dynasty and He Tuo's nephew. He was born in Guilin. He is well-read in classics, knows a lot about old things, and is extremely skillful in making.
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