There are four sources:
1, from the descendants of Jiuli. According to "Customs and Righteousness" and other records, Jiuli was one of the huge ethnic groups born and raised in southern China in ancient times, and it was said that it was a vassal state of Jinshi (the legendary leader of ancient Dongyi). Li was once appointed as the official of Beizheng (the first official to talk about fire), in charge of civil affairs, and some of his descendants took the word as their surname and called Li.
2. Descendants from Lebanon. According to Yuan He's surname code, there were vassal states and Li Guo in Shang Dynasty, one of which was in the southwest of Changzhi County, Shanxi Province, and was destroyed by Zhou Wenwang at the end of Shang Dynasty. The other is in the west of Yuncheng County, Shandong Province. The descendants of Lebanon and China later took the country as their surname and surnamed Li. According to "Customs and Significance", the two countries belong to the ancient tribe after the Nine Li Dynasty.
3, from the descendants of Emperor Yao. According to the Records of Yuanhe's Canon, the founding country destroyed in the last years of Shang Dynasty was named Hou by the descendants of Emperor Yao when it was enfeoffed as a vassal, and it still uses the name of founding the country. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Li moved his capital to Lihou City in the northeast of Licheng County, Shanxi Province, and was later destroyed by the State of Jin (now southwest of Shanxi Province). After that, his descendants took the country as their surname and Li as their surname. According to the records in the History of Taoism, the ancient state of Li was razed. After the King of Wu negotiated with the Shang Dynasty, Shang Tang was named as a descendant of Li, followed by Fengshu, and his descendants were Li and Li. There is a Li family from the descendants of Emperor Yao, which was called authentic in history and later became the most important part of the whole Li family.
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4. Ethnic minorities changed their surnames to Li. According to the Records of Guan's Family, in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the surname of the northern Xianbei nationality, Wei Xiaowen, moved to Luoyang, and the Chinese character was changed to Li, that is, Li in Luoyang, Henan.
Distribution of Li surname
The surname Li first spread in the land of ancient Li, that is, in Licheng County, Shanxi Province today. As early as the Warring States period, Li had emigrated to other countries. According to "Li Family Tree", during the Warring States Period, "Li family moved to Liang (now Shaanxi) and Iraq (now Jinning County, Yunnan) in the west, Qing and Xu (now Shandong and Jiangsu) in the east, Jiaoguang in the south (now Guangxi, Guangdong and northern Vietnam) and Yan and Ji in the north. In the Han Dynasty, Li moved to Jiangxi and Hunan. In the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, due to the war in the north, the Li family moved south again, and in the later period, it mainly propagated and migrated to the south, and Li also moved to Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. After the Song and Ming Dynasties, the surname Li gradually spread all over the country, but it was still distributed most in the south. In other words, in history, Li is a typical southern surname of China.
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Hall number:
Li's hall number mainly includes "wine hall". In the Song Dynasty, Li Ziyun's brothers were poor and studious. Su Dongpo once visited their brother. Ziyun and his brother often visited Su Shi with wine and asked him for advice. Su Shi wrote a plaque on their brother's gate, named "Wine Hall".
There are also hall numbers such as Jingzhao, Jiuzhen and Song Cheng.
Hope county:
Jingzhao County: In the first year of Han Dynasty (BC 104), it was changed to Jing Zhao Yin, and its position was equivalent to that of the county prefect, making it one of the three auxiliary offices. It was ruled in Chang 'an (now northwest of xi 'an), which is equivalent to the land north of Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi, east of Xi 'an and south of Weihe River. In the Three Kingdoms, the Wei jurisdiction was renamed Jing and the official name was changed to Taishou. The ancestor of this Li family is Tang Jingzhao Yin Ligang.
Jiuzhen County: At the end of 3rd century BC, Zhao Tuo, South Vietnam became a county. In BC 1 1 1 year, it entered China, which was equivalent to the provinces of Qinghua and Hejing and the eastern part of Ngai An.
Songcheng County: Laiyang was here in the Sui Dynasty, and it was the seat of the Song Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, it was changed to Song Cheng, which is now the south of Shangqiu County.
Lijiapu
Jiangsu: Jurong Li's genealogy and Jiangdu Li's genealogy in two volumes.
Zhejiang: seven volumes of Li genealogy in Lanxi and one volume of Li genealogy in Shipu, Xiangshan.
Jiangxi: Li Baxiu's genealogy in Bancheng, Qingjiang is not divided into volumes.
Anhui: Guangde Li Family Tree Eight Volumes
Hubei: genealogy of Li in Xinzhou, Volume XVIII, Volume I II.
Hunan: Changsha Lee's genealogy has 10 volumes, Ningxiang Datianfang Lee's genealogy has 13 volumes, Ningxiang Datianfang Lee's genealogy has 17 volumes, Ningxiang Yutan Lee's genealogy has five revisions (numerous volumes), Xiangtan Lee's genealogy has four revisions (volumes I and II), Xiangtan Lee's genealogy has six volumes on Friday, and Hanshou Longyang Lee's genealogy has been completed.
Guangdong: Li's genealogy in Zhongshan (numerous volumes), Li's genealogy in Nanhai, Li's genealogy in Zetang, Shunde, and Li's genealogy in Dongfang, Dongguan and Meixian in Shunde are not divided.
Guizhou: The genealogy of Li family in Zunyi Beach is not divided into volumes, and the genealogy of Li family in Zunyi Beach is one volume, and Li Ruqian's family biography in Zunyi is numerous.
Others: Li's Genealogy, Volume 1, 30 volumes, Li's Genealogy 13 volumes, Li's Genealogy (the number of volumes is unknown).
Historical celebrities (before 1840)
Li Shuchang, a native of Zunyi, Guizhou, was an essayist in the late Qing Dynasty. He is a member of Zeng Guofan's family, together with Zhang Yuzhao, Wu Rulun and Xue Fucheng, he is called "the four sons of Zeng Men". He served as a counsellor in Britain, France, Germany and Japan, and was also an envoy to Japan. The thesis deduces Zeng Guofan's theory and praises Tongcheng School, and has a series of manuscripts of Zhuozunyuan and a glossary of reading ancient Chinese.
Li Xun: a native of Zunyi, Guizhou, a writer in Qing Dynasty, indifferent to Li Rong, devoted himself to research, especially good at poetry.
Li Minhuai: Conghua (now Guangdong) was a painter and calligrapher in the Ming Dynasty. His poems, books and paintings are called "three musts".
Li Gongzhen: In the Yuan Dynasty, Ganquan was benevolent, and people painted it as a school house to show their yearning.
Li Tou: A native of Guang 'an (present-day Sichuan), Song Yingzong, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, was called "benevolence and righteousness, rigidity but not kindness" by Su Shi.
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