Zhao's ancestor is Boyi, and his ancestor is Zhao Fu. Boyi is a descendant of Emperor Zhuan Xu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and Shun gave him a surname to win. Zhao Fu is Boyi's ninth grandson.
In the seventeenth year of King Mu (960 BC), he visited the Queen Mother in Kunlun Mountain. Xu became strong and led the September 1 attack to the river. Mu saved Zhou, joined forces with Chu to attack Xu, and drove him to the north of Pengcheng. The father of jujube is Mu Wang. Because of his work, Zhou Muwang named him Zhao Cheng (now Zhaocheng Town, Hongdong, Shanxi), taking the city as his surname.
As a driver, Zhao Fu made great contributions to pacify Xu and was sent to Zhao Cheng, hence the name Zhao.
In other words, Zhao's ancestor was Bo Yi, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and his ancestor was Zhao Fu, the driver. All Zhao surnames in the world originated in Shaanxi.
Second, loose leaves: from Shanxi to the northeast and south.
During the Warring States Period, Zhao's surname expanded from Shanxi to Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other provinces. After Qin Shihuang destroyed Zhao, Wang Jia moved to Tianshui, Gansu, and moved to Fangxian, Hubei. Today, Zhao surnames in Gansu and Hubei are also from Shanxi, and Zhao surnames who moved to Hubei were also the first Zhao surnames from the north to the south. Up to now, there are still Zhao genealogy compiled in Hubei during the Republic of China.
During the Western Han Dynasty, after Zhao's death, his people moved to Liaoxi County, which was the beginning of Zhao's activities in Northeast China.
Zhao's large-scale migration from north to south was after the establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC) in Song Dynasty, and the capital moved to Hangzhou. Zhao officially entered the Jiangnan area, which is a big step for Zhao to develop from north to south.
Thirdly, Zhao Guangyi flooded Jinyang, destroying the prosperous place of Zhao.
But strangely, as the second emperor of the Song Dynasty, it destroyed Zhao's birthplace.
Zhao Guangyi
According to the record of "Continuing the History as a Mirror", in May, 979, after Song Jun of the Northern Han Dynasty captured Jinyang (Taiyuan), Zhao Guangyi "Fortunately, the Shahe Gate House is located in the north of Taiyuan. Send a team to move residents to Bingxin and burn their houses. "
At that time, "the fire was raised, and the official temple private house was exhausted in one day." The people, old and young, are not as good as the city gate, which burns the dead. "
1April, 980, ordered Fenhe River and Jinci River to fill Taiyuan and fall into its old city.
After water and fire irrigation, Jinyang City (Taiyuan) was completely destroyed and turned into ruins.
This is a great loss for the whole Chinese civilization. In the past 1476, the local architectural cultural relics in Shanxi were destroyed by fire, especially during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the Buddha statues in palaces and temples were destroyed without a trace.
Fourth, the demise of the Song Dynasty: From north to south, people changed their surnames to avoid disasters.
After the demise of the Song Dynasty, Zhao was unlucky.
In the 600 years of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the national population growth rate was 20%, while the total population of Zhao decreased by 64%, mainly because after the destruction of Song Dynasty in Yuan Dynasty, Zhao's royal family was massacred and Zhao changed his surname to avoid disaster.
At the same time, Zhao moved from the north to the southeast and northwest, re-forming two major areas where Zhao lived: Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Sulu, Shanxi and Shaanxi.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) develops steadily: growth resumes from south to north.
Since the Ming Dynasty, the number of Zhao surnames has surged from the initial 1.6 million to nearly 27 million, mainly in Shandong, Henan and Hebei provinces, accounting for about 36% of the total population of Zhao surnames in China, ranking eighth.