1. Shangdang County was established in the Qin Dynasty and was governed in Huguan (now north of Changzhi, Shanxi). The Western Han Dynasty moved it to the west of Changzi, present-day Shanxi; 2. Jiyin County, which was called Dingtao Kingdom in the Han Dynasty and later The county was established, and the administrative seat is now Dingtao, Shandong; 3. Dongyang County was established by Wu in the Three Kingdoms, and the administrative seat was Changshan (now Jinhua, Zhejiang). In the Southern Dynasties, Chen changed its name to Jinhua.
The origin of "Miao"
There are three sources of the surname Miao: 1. It comes from the surname Mi. According to "Tongzhi? Clan Briefing", "Yuanhe Surnames Compilation" and "Customs", etc., in the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu Ruao'o's grandson and Chu doctor Bofen was executed for crimes, and his son Benhuang went to Jin Dynasty and collected food from Miao (the old city is in the west of Jiyuan, Henan), and later took Yi as his surname. 2. According to the "Notes on Five Books on Surnames", it is said that there was a famous doctor in ancient times named Miao Fu, and the Miao surname should have originated from this. 3. Coming from another clan or changing the surname from another clan. Common surnames in Baekje (ancient Korea) include the Miao surname; the surname of Manchus in the Qing Dynasty who lived in Shenyang for generations; the Ashapu surname of the black Kucong people of the Lahu ethnic group, and the Han surname is Miao; today's Manchu, Yi, She, Mongolian, Uyghur, Dongxiang, Hui, etc. All ethnic groups have this surname.
The ancestor of the surname: Miao Benhuang.
A Duke of Chu State, son of Bo Fen (also known as Dou Yue Jiao). Bo Fen was a senior official of the Chu State and had always been disloyal. He later took advantage of the opportunity of King Zhuang of Chu to aspire to the Central Plains and launched a mutiny, but was soon executed. Emperor Ben was afraid of harming himself, so he fled to Jin. Jin treated him with great courtesy and ordered him to gather food in the seedling fields. Later, Jin and Chu were at odds with each other, and there was a battle at Yanling. At that time, the Chu army was powerful, and the Jin army officers and soldiers were all fearful. Emperor Ben's envoy offered a plan to the king of Jin, telling him that all the best troops of Chu were in the center. He could attack the left and right armies first, and then take advantage of them. If we win together and attack the Chinese army, we will definitely defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop. The king of Jin accepted it and defeated the Chu army. This is a good story about the use of materials from Chu to Jin in ancient history. Because Emperor Ben picked food from the Miao, his descendants took the city as their surname and called it the Miao surname, and respected Emperor Ben as the ancestor of the surname.
Migration distribution
According to research, Miao Yi, the Miao city of Emperor Miao Ben, is located in the west of Jiyuan, Henan Province. There is also a place named Miao Pavilion, which is said to be the site of Miao Yi more than 2,600 years ago. Of course, the original birthplace of the Miao surname should be in this place. After the three families were divided into the Jin Dynasty, the Miao surname settled in Shanxi, Hebei and other places due to officials and other reasons. In the late Warring States period, Jiyuan, the ancestral home of the Miao surname, was also deeply affected by the war. Therefore, a large number of Miao surnames either moved north to what is now Changzhi, Shanxi, or east to what is now Dingtao, Shandong. After multiplication and development, the Miao surname became Shangdang County Wang and Jiyin. County Wang. During the Han Dynasty, the Miao surnames mentioned in the annals include the military master Miaozi, Wang Mang's imperial advisor Miao?, Chang Miaomeng in Liu Xiu's father city (today's Baofeng, Henan Province), Youzhou Miao Zeng, and Miao sacrificers in the late Han Dynasty, especially It is worth mentioning that Miao Guang, the Marquis of Dong'a during the Eastern Han Dynasty, is said in history books to have preserved the fiefdom, which means that Miao Guang's descendants settled in Dong'a, present-day Shandong. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Miao surname, like other Central Plains gentry, took the south route, crossed the Yangtze River, and entered Jiangdong in order to avoid war. One of the Miao surnames spread around Jinhua, Zhejiang, and later multiplied to form Dongyang County, the third largest county in the history of Miao surnames. Of course, from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Miao surname mainly flourished in Shangdang and Jiyin counties. In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, some Miao people from Shaanxi moved to the area of ??present-day Gansu and Ningxia to avoid the constant wars near the capital. During the Song and Song Dynasties, the Miao surname was mainly derived from the above three major counties, and was spread over a wider area. Especially after the Zhao royal family of the Song Dynasty settled in the south of the Yangtze River, people with the Miao surname lived in today's southern provinces, such as Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Jiangxi. Settlement somewhere else. It should be pointed out that the Miao surname, which thrived in the Changzhi area of ??present-day Shanxi Province, is still famous and appears in history. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Miao surname was one of the surnames of the people who migrated to Hongdong's large locust tree, and was moved to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Gansu, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other places. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Miao surname has been distributed in most places across the country, and some people have crossed the sea to Taiwan. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, following the trend of invading Guandong, Miao surnames from Hebei, Shandong and Yu moved to the three eastern provinces. Today, the Miao surname is widely distributed across the country, especially in Shandong, Gansu, Henan and other provinces. The Miao surname in the above three provinces accounts for about 52% of the country's Han population with the Miao surname.
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Professor Miao: A native of Shangdang in Luzhou (now Changzhi, Shanxi), a general in the Northern Song Dynasty. He used Yin to supplement his official position, and made many military exploits in the battles against Qiang and Xixia. He was later moved to Luzhou as the military governor of the Wutai Army and the deputy commander of the palace. His son Miao Lu was also a general of the Song Dynasty, and went to Tianwu Capital to command envoys.
Miao Zhong: A native of Dingyuan, Fengyang Prefecture (now part of Anhui), a minister of the Ming Dynasty. Jinshi during the Yongle period. Official to the Ministry of War. There are "Shi Ge Ji Wen", "Gui Hui Lu" and "Xuewo Manuscript".