It is believed that Li's surname is a won surname, and his blood ancestor is the leader of Dongyi nationality (blaming, suppressing or winning surname). He was once appointed as Shun's Dali (the official in charge of criminal law), so the official surname is Li (the ancient "Li" and "Li" are interlinked), first Li, then Li. The ancestor of surname is Li Li, and Li Er is the first 1 1 world.
2. Li Shu totem theory
Li Yin became an official in Dali and got his surname Li. Later, he took refuge for food. Because they eat wild plums, they are cultivated as domestic plum trees, and plum trees are regarded as sacred trees, that is, totem trees. Therefore, all descendants of Li often plant Li as a symbol next to the house, and this habit has been preserved to this day. Li Baijia had a peach and plum garden, and many plum trees were planted in the palace garden of the Tang Dynasty.
3. The source of Ji's surname
In Shang Dynasty, there was a descendant of Zhou surnamed Ba, who lived in Zhong Lishan (now northwest of Changyang, Hubei). After the destruction of commerce, Ba people were named Ba Zi State (now Banan District, Chongqing). In 306 AD, Ba people established a great country in Sichuan, which was called Cheng Han in history. This was the first dynasty established by Li in China.
4. Originated from giving surname and restoring Li.
During the Shu and Han Dynasties, Zhuge Liang gave local ethnic minorities surnames such as Zhao, Zhang, Yang and Li. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, after Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, he implemented a comprehensive sinicization policy in culture, and Xianbei people had a compound surname, Shili, named Shili? . Xianbei Tuoba, a royal family in the Northern Wei Dynasty, is actually a descendant of Li Ling, a general of the Han nationality.
Extended data:
Li surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced. Li surname is the most common surname in southwest and north China. The schematic diagram of the distribution frequency of Li's surname in the crowd shows that in Yunnan, southern Sichuan, most of Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, central Gansu and most of Jilin and Heilongjiang, Li's surname generally accounts for more than 8.8% of the local population, covering about 18% of the national map area, and about 30% of Li's population lives here.
In most areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Mongolia, eastern Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi and Guangdong, northern Jiangsu and Anhui, eastern Shandong, Liaoning and other places, the proportion of Li's surname is generally 6.6%-8.8%, accounting for about 36% of the national map area, with about 5 1% of Li's surname.
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