Yanmen County: During the Warring States Period, King Wuling of Zhao established Yanmen County, and the Qin and Han Dynasties followed it. It is equivalent to the current Dai County area in Shanxi Province. Qiaojun: During the Jian'an period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, part of Peijun was separated and Qiaojun was established, and its governance was in Qiao County (today's Bozhou, Anhui Province). It is equivalent to the area between Anhui and Henan provinces today.
The surname Bo (B?) comes from
1. It comes from the surname Jiang, taking the name of the country. According to "Qianfu Lun", the surname Bo is a descendant of the surname Jiang. In ancient times, there was the country of Bo (in the southeast of Cao County, Shandong Province, also known as Hao). It is said that it was a feudal state of the descendants of Emperor Yan. The descendants of the country of Bo took the name of the country. As a surname, it is called Bo. 2. It comes from the surname Zi, named after the town. According to "Zuo Zhuan? Du Yu's Notes", during the Spring and Autumn Period, a senior official of the Song Dynasty was granted a title in Bo City (today's north of Shangqiu, Henan Province), and his descendants took their surname from the title of the city and called it Bo. 3. Originating from the surname Zi, coming from the feudal state of the descendants of Shang Tang, it is a surname named after the country. 4. Originated from the Xianbei ethnic group, from the Boxi tribe of the Wuhuan tribe of Xianbei during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was a sinicized surname. 5. It originated from the Manchu people and was changed into a surname as a surname in Sinicization. 6. Historically, the surnames of the Qiang people also included the surname Bo. 7. Changes from other surnames: ① According to the "Tonggu Genealogy of Ten Thousand Surnames", the surname Bo is the descendant of Bo Gu, a prince of the Shang Dynasty, and was later simplified to the single surname Bo. ② According to the "Book of Wei", during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Lubei people in the Northern Wei Dynasty had the compound surname Bo Xi in the northern region. After entering the Central Plains, they changed to the single surname Bo in Chinese characters.
The ancestors were given the surname
Shang Tang and Bo Gong. The ancestor of the Bo family was a senior official in the Song Dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period. According to scholars' research, he was a descendant of Shang Tang. According to the "Tongpu of Wanxing", the Bo family was a descendant of Shang Tang. In ancient times, Bo was also called Bo City. It was located in the southeastern area of ??Cao County, Shandong Province today. It was also called Bo. According to legend, it was a feudal state of the descendants of Emperor Yan. The famous family lived in Yanmen County, which is now northwest of Dai County, Shanxi Province. Therefore, descendants of the Bo family respect Shang Tang as the ancestor of the Bo family.
Migration distribution
The Bo family has many origins. In the pre-Qin period, it was already in Shangqiu and Qixian County (Weizhi County) in present-day Henan Province. Distributed around the capital). According to research by ancient scholars, Bo and Bo are both place names. Bo is located in Bozhou, more than a hundred miles away from Shangqiu. In the pre-Qin period, Bo included these two adjacent places. In this way, Bo can also be regarded as the birthplace of the Bo family. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Bo became the administrative seat of Qiaojun, so Qiaojun became the No. 1 prefecture of the Bo family.
In the middle and late Warring States period, both the Song and Wei states were destroyed. Due to refuge and other reasons, a branch of the Bo family moved to the area between Jiangsu and Zhejiang today. The wife of Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the early Han Dynasty, Bo Ji was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu today. During the Qin Dynasty, her father had an affair with Wei Wei, the eldest daughter of the late King of Wei, and they gave birth to Bo Ji. Empress Bo Ji was honored as the empress dowager by Emperor Wen, and her younger brother Bo Zhao was also granted the title of Empress Dowager for his meritorious service in welcoming Emperor Wen to the throne. As the Marquis of Zhen, his sons Bo Rongnu and Sun Bo Liang were both hereditary. This can be said to be the first climax in the development history of the Bo family. During the Han and Wei dynasties, a branch of the Bo family migrated to the central area of ??present-day northwest Shanxi. Later, it merged with the Bo family that was changed from the Boxi family of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and gradually prospered as a major family in the county. This place belonged to Yanmen County in ancient times, so later generations of the Bo family There is a family that uses Yanmen as the name of its county Wangtang. From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Bo family not only flourished in Qiao County and Yanmen County, but also spread to Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi in the north, and Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other provinces in the south. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Bo family was distributed in Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia in the northwest and Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, and Hunan in the south. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Bo family was one of the surnames of the immigrants from the Hongdong Locust Tree, and was relocated to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Shandong and other places. After the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Bo's was seen in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi in the southwest and Guangdong in southern China. During the Kangxi and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty and after that, Bo family members from Shandong and other places gradually moved into the three northeastern provinces along with the trend of invading Guandong. After the sixth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, some Bo family members from northwestern and central Shanxi came to the west entrance and moved to the present-day Hetao area to make a living.
In the mid-20th century, the Bo family who followed the Kuomintang to Taiwan also settled down and started families in Taiwan.
Today, the Bo family is widely distributed across the country, especially in Shandong and other places. The surname Bo is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan.
Hall name
Gewutang: "Ge" means being able to understand the principles of things. It originated from Bo Yu of the Ming Dynasty who invented cannons, telescopes, carts, muskets, mines, crossbows, etc., and wrote "The Theory of Geodemetry". Later generations used the first two characters of his book title as their title. [2]
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