The origin of "Tao" is
The first origin: it comes from the surname Qi, and it comes from the pottery which was propagated by Emperor Yao, and belongs to the surname of Juyi. In ancient times, Emperor Yao first lived in pottery (now Mengnan, Henan Province or southwest Dingtao, Shandong Province), and made pottery as his profession. What was his official name? Tao Zheng? . Later sealed in the Tang Dynasty, it was named Tang Hou, so it was called Tao Tangshi. Some of his descendants took their place of residence as their surname, and according to legend, their surname was Tao.
The second origin: it comes from the surname Ji, and after Tang Yao, it belongs to the surname of professional skills. According to the historical records Yuan He Xing Bian and Xing Yuan, before Yao became a tribal leader, he once lived in the northwest of Dingtao County, Shandong Province, and made pottery in the market as his profession, and his place was called Tao Qiu. Some of Yao's descendants were named after their ancestors' occupation, thus forming Tao's surname.
The third origin: from the surname of Qi, from the seven clans of Shang Dynasty, the Tao family belongs to the surname of professional skills. According to the historical records "Yuan He surname usurps" and "Customs Tong", there are Taos among the seven clans in Shang Dynasty, all of whom are edifying professionals. Molding is heat, which refers to potters and casters. Originally, he was a junior aristocrat who mastered this professional technology and enslaved slaves. After the Spring and Autumn Period, the common people engaged in the pottery industry also had? Tao? Technology is the surname, known as Dow.
The fourth origin: it comes from the surname Yu, and it comes from Sun Yuchuang, a descendant of Shun, who takes the official name as his surname. According to the historical record Yuan He's surname usurped, according to legend, after Shun gave Yu the Zen position of the tribal leader, Yu's son Qi founded the Xia Dynasty and sealed Yu's descendants in Yu, so Shun was named Yu after him. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Yu Huang, a descendant of Shun. His father's name was Yu Si, and he was an official in Tao Zheng, that is, an official in charge of the production of pottery utensils. Yu Huang inherited his father's post and remained Tao Zheng, and his descendants were named after their official positions, known as Dow.
The fifth origin: it originated from surnamed tang, and it came from the Tang Valley in Song Dynasty, where the surname was changed because the emperor was taboo. According to the historical records "Biography of Song History" and "A Brief Introduction to the East Capital"? Tao Gu Chuan "and other records, Song Youtao Gu, the word Xiushi, was from Xinping, Zhangzhou (now Binxian, Shaanxi). The original surname was Tang, and he changed his surname to Tao in order to avoid the anonymity of Jin Zu (Shi Jingtang). His descendants passed down the surname Tao, forming a branch of Tao.
The sixth origin: it originated from Mongolians, and it came from Hunshi, a Mongolian pottery country in Bahu Banner, and it belonged to the sinicization and changed its surname to surname. The Hun family of Mongolian pottery country in Baerhuqi originally lived in Kaerka, Inner Mongolia. Because it was unbearable to be persecuted by Gerdan tribe, it led more than 1, Baerhu people to the south and nomadic in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province today. In the thirty-first year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (AD 1692), the whole family moved to Shengjing (now Shenyang, Liaoning Province), and some of them were stationed in Phoenix City, Xiuyan and other places and set up a single flag, which was called Mongolian Nine Flags. After that, take the homophonic Chinese character of the original surname? Tao? Wei Shi.
the seventh origin: it comes from the change of surnames of all ethnic groups, belonging to the sinicization and changing surnames into surnames. Tao Jia's surname of Manchu, Tuohe Roche's surname, Tuqin's surname of Daur, Gulong's surname, and Tokur's surname of Xiber were all changed to Tao's. Today, the Bai, Dai, Jing, Miao, Yao, Yi, Bulang, Hui and other ethnic groups all have Tao surnames.
The surname is ancestor
Tang Yao. Ancient holy emperor. Before he became a tribal leader, he once lived in the northwest of Dingtao, Shandong Province, and made pottery as his profession. His place was called Tao Qiu. In addition, Yao Di's youth wisdom helped his brother Zhi Di to govern the world at the age of thirteen. Because of his work, he was sealed in Tao Qiu, and at the age of fifteen, he was sealed in the Tang Dynasty, so he was called Tao Downs in history. Yao initiated the abdication system, and after his death, he abdicated the throne to Shun, who had no blood relationship. Yao Xianming is democratic and respected by the world. Later generations took the skill as their surname, or the fief as their surname, which was called Tao surname. They respect Tang Yao as the ancestor of Tao's surname. 2. The ancestor of each branch: Tao Heqing: word ripple,no. Jingshan. When Song Kaibao was granted a patrol in Yingtian, he made meritorious service in breaking the thief from Cao Bin to the secretariat of Yunnan State. He was born on the fifteenth day of August in Gengshen in the first year of Song Jianlong, and on the ninth day of July in Renshen in the first year of Song Ming Dow. He was buried in the tomb of Zishan on the other side of Luoxi Temple in the seventh district of Ningyi at noon. Match: Chen, born at the end of the first day of February in the eighth year of Song Kaibao, and at noon on December 2 in the third year of Song Tiansheng, was buried at Bingyin Mountain in the back mountain of Luoxi Temple in the fifth district of Qidu, Ningyi.
Migration and distribution
Tao's surname has a history of more than 4,3 years. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Tao's surname gradually moved southward to the present Lankao area in Henan Province, and after its reproduction and development, it became the largest county in the history of Tao's surname. Jiyang county. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were Taoshe and Tao Qing who went to Chang 'an as officials, while Taoqinggong opened the seal and sealed the Hou, and their descendants inherited their duties and lived in the local area. During the Han Dynasty, people surnamed Tao gradually moved south to Jiangsu and Anhui, and settled in the south of the Yangtze River. For example, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhou Mu in Xuzhou and Hou Taoqian in Liyang were Danyang people (now Xuancheng, Anhui). During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the gentry of the Central Plains moved southward, and Tao surnames from Henan and Shandong began to move southward to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, while Tao surnames from northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui also crossed the river into Zhejiang and Jiangxi. During this period, many famous Taoists emerged in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Taiwei, a Shi Zhong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Tao Kan, a native of Poyang (now Jiangxi Boyang). Later, he moved to Xunyang Chaisang (now Jiangxi Jiujiang), and the famous poet Tao Yuanming was his great-grandson. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiaochang Xiang Tao Zhenbao and Jin 'an Hou Taolong were both Moling people (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). After continuous reproduction, Tao's surname formed a situation in which the family was large and the descendants were prosperous. Therefore, later generations of Tao's surname took Danyang and Xunyang as their county names. Before the Song Dynasty, the development of Tao surname was still based on the above two places, which spread slowly throughout the south of the Yangtze River, and a branch of Tao surname entered Hunan. In the Song Dynasty, the Tao surname developed in the north, and there were Tao surnames in Shaanxi, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi and Hebei. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were a lot of smoke in the south of the Yangtze River, and Tao's surname was spread to Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. In the early Ming Dynasty, Tao surname, as one of the surnames of the Ming Dynasty's Sophora japonica in Hongdong, was moved to Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing and other places, while the Tao surnames of the two lakes filled the wave of migration in Sichuan with Huguang, entered Sichuan, and then moved to Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. During the Qing Dynasty, Tao's surname had spread all over the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan and then moved overseas. Therefore, most of the Taos in Taiwan Province migrated from Fujian in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Tao Zonghan, Chairman of Taiwan Province Dow Publishing House: It's a great pleasure to come back to our birthplace of Dow this time. The distribution of Taos in Taiwan Province is fairly average. According to the current statistics, there are about 1, people in Taiwan Province. ? Today, most of the Taos in Taiwan Province live in Taibei, Hsinchu and Changhua. Today, the distribution of Tao surnames is mostly in Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang provinces, which account for about 23% of the total population of Han Tao surnames in China. Tao is the 16th surname in China, with a population of about 2.56 million, accounting for .16% of the national population.
Tao Kan (259 ~ 334), a famous minister in the Jin Dynasty, was born in Xunyang (now north of Huangmei County, Hubei Province). He was a scholar, and when he was in Ming Di, he worshipped the general of the West, served as the commander-in-chief of Jing Xiang's military, put down the rebellion of Su Jun, and joined the army for more than 4 years. When I was in Guangzhou, I was transported in the morning outside and in the evening to inspire and work hard. Bamboo sawdust, all stored in reserve. Overflow constant; At first, I was the secretariat of Guangzhou. I moved bricks every day to exercise my physical strength. I was loyal and hardworking, and I was smarter than others.
Tao Hongjing (452 ~ 536) was born in Moling in the Southern Dynasties, and his handwriting was bright. Working in the grass, good Taoism; When Emperor Gao of Qi was in charge of reading for the kings, Liang was hidden in Qushan, and he lived in seclusion as Huayang. When Emperor Wu was emperor, he could not be hired by courtesy, but he was always consulted on important court matters, so he was called "Prime Minister in the Mountain". He died as a gift to Dr. Dazhong and Mr. Zhen Bai. There are many works, and the book of notes on materia medica is a rearrangement of materia medica according to its medicinal properties and species.
Tao Qian (365 ~ 427) was born in Chaisang, Xunyang, Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was a great-grandson of Tao Kan. He was a master of recluse poets in ancient and modern times.
Tao Xingzhi? (1891-1946) was originally named Wenjun. She county, Anhui province, is a famous educator. He studied in the United States in his early years, and after returning to China, he engaged in education, promoted the mass education movement and published it. Chinese education has improved and transformed the national rural education declaration, founded Xiaozhuang School, Life Education Society, Shanhai Engineering Group, Yucai School and Social University, and trained many revolutionary talents. And help some progressive young people go to revolutionary base areas. In 35 years (1946), he died in Shanghai. At the age of 55. He is the author of Education Reform in China, Bell-ringing in Ancient Temple, Free Talk by Zhai Fu, Letters of Xingzhi, Poems and Songs of Xingzhi, etc.