Zhao
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Origin of the Surname:
From the surname Ying, which was formed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, with the ancestor of Bo Yi, and the specific ancestor of Zao Fu. Bo Yi was the grandson of Emperor Zhuan Xu and was given the surname Ying by Shun. The 9th grandson of Bo Yi, Zuofu was a famous carriage driver during the Western Zhou Dynasty. He got 8 horses in the Taolin area and offered them to King Mu of the Zhou Dynasty after they were trained. King Mu of Zhou equipped with a good carriage, let make father for him to drive, often go out hunting, play, once westbound to the Kunlun Mountains, see the Queen Mother of the West, happy and forget to return, and is at this time to hear the news of Xu Yan King of Xu rebel, King Mu of Zhou is very anxious, at this critical moment, make father drive day speed thousands of miles, so that the King Mu of Zhou quickly returned to the pickaxe Beijing, in time to send troops to defeat the King of Xu Yan King, pacify the rebel. Because of his great achievement, King Mu of Zhou gave him the city of Zhao, and from then on, the Zao clan was called the Zhao clan. When King Mu of Zhou passed on to King Yu of Zhou, due to King Yu's impiety, the 7th grandson of Zaofu, Shudai, left Zhou to serve Jin, and from then on, the descendants of the Zhao clan had been the grandmasters of Jin for many generations. At the beginning of the Warring States period, Zhao Xiang, the 12th grandson of Shubai, founded the state of Zhao by joining the Wei and Han clans to divide Jin. By the time his grandson, Zhao Ji, was officially recognized by King Lie of Zhou, he was listed as a vassal along with the Han and Wei clans. In 222 B.C., the state of Zhao was destroyed by the state of Qin, and its royal nobles and commoners took the name of the state as their family name and called themselves the Zhao clan.
The Zhao family name is derived from other families. For example, during the Han Dynasty, there was Zhao Anji, a native of Xiongnu; during the Tang Dynasty, there was Zhao Hitian, a native of southern barbarians; during the Five Dynasties, there was Zhao Guozhen, a native of barbarians in the place name (present-day Guangxi and Guizhou).
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During the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Tuo, a native of Zhending (present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province), served as the magistrate of Longchuan County in Nanhai County, and later became the Nanhai Lieutenant, and annexed the three counties of Guilin, Nanhai, and Xiang at the end of the Qin Dynasty, establishing the state of South Vietnam, which he was named the King of South Vietnam at the time of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. Thereafter, Zhao Tuo's descendants prospered in the area of present-day Guangdong and Guangxi. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the capital city was subjected to the rebellion of Dong Zhuo, Zhao Da, a native of Luoyang, took refuge and moved to Jiangdong. During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Duan, a native of the Central Plains, accompanied the father and son of Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang to enter Fujian to open up Zhangzhou. During the Five Dynasties, Liu Nano established the Southern Han regime in Guangzhou, and three brothers, Zhao Guangxu, Guangfeng and Guangyin, from Luoyang settled in Nanhai; Zhao Tingyin and Zhao Chongtao, father and son from Kaifeng, settled in Chengdu, Sichuan because of their service in the latter part of Shu. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Yuxian, a native of Kaifeng, fled southward with Song Gaozong Zhao Ju and moved to Changshu, Jiangsu Province, and Zhao Fan, a native of Zhengzhou, moved to Shangrao, Jiangxi Province. After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Zhao clan scattered and fled to Penghu, Chaoyang and other places, and later developed and multiplied in the area of Fujian and Guangdong.
Zhao is a big surname in China. It is also found in Taiwan, where it is ranked as the forty-seventh most popular surname in Taiwan. The Zhao family name migrated to Taiwan in the 22nd year of the Kangxi reign (1682 AD) of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, Zheng Jing, the son of Zheng Chenggong, settled five surnames, including Zhao, Huang, Dong, Ke, and Li, and the number of Zhao surnames increased throughout Taiwan later. In the 60th year of the Kangxi reign (1721 AD), Zhu Yigui revolted, and there was a nominal Zhao and in the lower Danshui harbor; in the early years of the Yongzheng reign, there was a Zhao who recruited tenants from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in Fujian, and in the Qianlong reign, there were two people from Quanzhou, Zhao Pu and Zhao Jin. At present, people with the surname Zhao in various parts of the province are most numerous in Taichung, Tainan and Keelung. Later on, a number of people migrated overseas and distributed in Europe, America and some countries and regions in Southeast Asia.
Tang name
"Half Hall": During the Zhou Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, Zhao Pu helped Zhao Kuangyin to establish the Song Dynasty by launching the "Chenqiao Mutiny". Zhao Kuangyin, the founder of the Song Dynasty, made Zhao Pu the prime minister. He also proposed the method of "releasing military power by cups of wine" to cut down the local armed forces, consolidate the centralized power, and find ways to govern the world very well. Song Taizu asked: "Aiqing! How did you manage the country so well?" Zhao Pu replied, "I just relied on half of the Analects of Confucius!" After Zhao Pu's death, his family organized his bookcase, and there was really no treasure at all, only a copy of The Analects of Confucius, which he used to read when he was alive.
"QinHe Tang": Zhao Sun, a royal official in the palace during the Song Dynasty, was a clean and honest official who loved the people, and was known as the "Iron-faced Royal Historian". When he was a governor, he was as clean as water. When he saw the people living in peace and happiness, he was happy to play the qin for fun. He kept a crane and used the white color of its feathers to encourage himself not to be corrupt, and the red color of its head to encourage himself to serve the country with all his heart. He was so poor that he had nothing but a qin and a crane.
The Zhao clan also used "Tianshui", "Xiaosi", "Guji" and "Zuilu" as their names.
Historical figures:
Zhao Kuangyin: originally a general of the latter Zhou, "Chenqiao mutiny", on behalf of the Zhou as the emperor, the establishment of the Song Dynasty, the establishment of the country for 320 years, so that the prestige of the Zhao family name has reached the most brilliant period.
Zhao Wenyuan: a famous calligrapher of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, specializing in regular and official script. At that time, most of the inscriptions were written by his hand, and he was also ordered to compile a dictionary of six styles of calligraphy in the Western Wei Dynasty.
Zhao Sheng (赵勝): The Prince of Ping Yuan (平原君), famous for his "thousands of diners", was the most famous figure of the Zhao family ever.
Zhao Yong: King Wuling of Zhao, who advocated "riding and archery" and created the cavalry, which was a major advance in Chinese military history.
Zhao Zhi-OCT: One of the "Eight China Masters of Xiling" in the Qing Dynasty.
Zhao Zhilian: An outstanding calligrapher, painter and seal carver of the Qing Dynasty. His calligraphy, painting and seal carving have had a certain influence on later generations, and he is known as one of the "Three Great Painters of the late Qing Dynasty" together with Ren Bonian and Wu Changshuo.
Zhao Zhi (赵翼): a historian and writer of the Ming Dynasty. Long in history, the evidence is concise, his poetry and Yuan Mei, Jiang Shiquan, known as the "right three" or "Qianlong three".
Zhao Mengfu: An outstanding calligrapher and painter of the Yuan Dynasty. He was a master of formal and running script as well as small regular script, and his brushwork was so brilliant that it was known as the "Zhao Style".
Zhao Yun: a general of the State of Shu during the Three Kingdoms, one of the "Five Tiger Generals".
Zhao Gongming: According to legend, Zhao Gongming attained his enlightenment at Zhongnan Mountain during the Qin Dynasty. He was called "Zhao Gongyuan Shuai" and was worshipped as the "God of Wealth".