The famous Gao family in the county lives in Jingzhao. Jingzhao: the Capital Territory. In the area from Xi'an City to Huaxian County in Shaanxi Province today.
The origin of "Gao"
The surname Gao is very pure, derived from the surname Ji, from the eleventh surname of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty The son's fiefdom belongs to the surname named after the country, and he is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. "Tongzhi Clan Brief" points out: Prince Wen of Zhou was granted the title of Gao, and his descendants regarded him as his clan. ?"Shiben" records: ?After Prince Wen and Marquis Gao. "Surname Jie Sanyi", "General Chronicles No. 26: Taking the Country as a Family Name", "Surname Dialectical No. 37", and "Surname Jijupian Chapter 2" all have the same records: Gao: Prince Zhou Wen Uncle Gao is ninth. Jin has Gaochang Chang Gao Jiu. "Ji Family Chronicles" from Wenshang County, Shandong Province introduces: "The surname Gao comes from Jingzhao County. The eleventh son of Jichang, King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, was granted the title of Gao Kingdom in Jingzhao County, and later took the country as his surname."
The ancestor of the surname Gao
Gao Hou. The surname Gao comes from King Wen of Zhou. According to "Tongzhi? Clan Briefing", the son of King Wen of Zhou was granted the title of Gao, and his descendants took this as their surname. According to the "Shiben", the surname Gao is the descendant of Gao Hou, the son of King Wen of Zhou. The "Manuscript of the Words and Deeds of Famous Clan" records that the eleventh son of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty was granted the title of Gao, and his location was Jiyin in ancient times. Later, the country was subjugated and he took the country as his surname. There was Gaochang Chang Gaozhen in Jin Dynasty. The original Gao Kingdom included two parts, Southern Gao and Northern Gao. The north is southeast of today's Chengwu County, Shandong Province, and the south is Erli south of the north. After Liu Bang unified the world, it was placed as Gaocheng County. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was merged into Chengwu County until today. The birthplace of the Chinese people with the surname Gao is in Chengwu County. The famous family lived in Jingzhao County, which is now east of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. Therefore, the descendants of the Gao family regard Gao Hou as the ancestor of the Gao surname.
Hall name
"Jigutang": Gao Tanzhi of the Qing Dynasty "Spring and Autumn" studies, with "Zuo Shi's Chunqiu Biography" "Mainly", he widely adopted the theories of Du Yu and other scholars in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and wrote the book "Annotations to the Spring and Autumn Collection".
Migration distribution
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, during the "Hundred Family Surnames" period, 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. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there were also Gaocheng cities in the Qi and Jin states. One was in Changqing County, Shandong Province, and the other was in the southwest of Fushan County, Shanxi Province. This was probably where the Gao people moved after their country fell. After the people with the surname Gao got their surname, they first developed in the place where they received the surname. Later, they formed famous families in Jingzhao, Anding and other places, and famous figures such as Gao Yannian, a senior official in the Song Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Gao Dajing, who participated in politics in Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty, appeared. 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 and migrated to Shanghai, Songjiang, Yangsi and other places. They have been working as cobblers for five generations; When Yangsigang was dredged in the early years of the Republic of China, several more families of the Gao family 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.