Is the origin of the name "Yao" related to the matriarchal society? Thank you.

I. Origin of the surname

There are three sources of the surname Yao (Yáo):

1. According to the "New Tang Book - Prime Minister's Lineage Table" and "Yuanhe Surname Compilation", it is said that Shun, one of the five ancient emperors, was a descendant of Emperor Zhuanxu, and because he was born in the Yao Hui (south of Fanxian County in present-day Henan Province, and northeast of Heze County in present-day Shandong Province, it is said that the descendants of the descendants will be called by the place of their residence. It is also rumored that before Shun became the emperor, Siyue recommended the Tao Tang clan to Emperor Yao, and Shun married his two daughters to him after he succeeded to the throne, allowing them to live by the River Kwai. Some of their descendants stayed by the River Kwai and took the name of Kwai as their surname. After King Wu destroyed the Shang Dynasty, he found Gui Man, a descendant of Emperor Shun, and King Wu married his eldest daughter to Gui Man, who was granted the title of Chen. When Nian Zhongjing lived in Wu County to escape the chaos of Wang Mang, he changed his surname to Gui. After five generations, the family name was changed to Yao.

2, from the Zi surname. According to the History of the Road, during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a state of Yao, which was descended from the Shang tribe and was surnamed Zi, and its descendants took the state as their family name.

3, other people changed their surnames. According to the book of jin, nanan chiting (now west of longxi in gansu province) yao surname, this is qiang people, their ancestors for qiang chief; Jin female zhenren have changed yao surname; Ming gave yuans rao fifty surnamed yao name wisdom; De'ang lanai clan, han surname for yao; today's miao, water, qiang, lahu, man, yi, mongolian, tujia, zhuang, white, russian and other nationalities have this surname.

The first ancestor: Yu Shun. Shun was one of the five emperors of the ancient times, and was the leader of the tribal alliance in the late patriarchal clan society. Shun's father was a goze (瞽瞍), who gave birth to Shun in Yao Hui (姚墟), so Shun was also known as Yao Shun (姚舜), and Yu Shun (虞舜), because he was from the Yu Clan. Shun was so famous before he became the son of heaven that Emperor Yao had married his two daughters to him. After Yao's death, Shun took the throne. He advised farmers to cultivate the land and ruled the country well. Shun's descendants were named after Shun's birthplace, which became the surname Yao, and they honored Shun as the founder of the surname Yao.

Two, migration distribution

Early Yao family name because of the lack of family power, so the reproduction is relatively slow, before the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yao family name has been migrated to today's Henan, Shanxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Zhejiang and other places. After Wang Mang usurped power, the son of Tian Feng of the Mutou Hou Tian to avoid the chaos of Wang Mang moved to live in Wu County, changed to Gui family name, and then passed on to the fifth grandson of Shixi, Yao family name, living in Wuxing Wukang (today's Deqing County, Zhejiang Province), the descendants of the inheritance of the unaltered. During the Yongjia period of the Jin Dynasty, the Qiang tribe of Nan'an Chiting moved to Yumei (present-day Chanyang, Shaanxi Province) from Chiting under the leadership of Yao Yizhong, who was migrated to Guanzhong during the Later Zhao Dynasty, and Yao Yizhong was appointed as the governor of the Western Qiang Dynasty, and he led tens of thousands of Qiangs to reside in the namesake of the Qinghe River (present-day northeast of Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province). Twenty years later, Yao Xiang, his fifth son, returned to Guanzhong with his troops and was killed in Sanyuan. Yao Jan, his younger brother, surrendered to the former Qin Dynasty and soon attacked Chang'an. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Western Wei Dynasty had Yao Shengqian, a native of Wukang, Wuxing, and his second son, Yao Most, enter Chang'an, while Yao Shengqian's eldest son, Yao Cha, served in Chen as the Minister of the Ministry of Justice. After the death of Chen, Yao Cha and his son, Yao Silien, were settled in Wannian County of Yongzhou (northwest of present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), and formed a large and prestigious family in the area by the time of the Sui Dynasty. Most of the Yao surnames in China today come from the above two branches of the Yao family name, and before the Tang Dynasty, they had already become a prestigious family in the area of Wuxing, Zhejiang Province and Longxi, Gansu Province. At the beginning of Tang Dynasty, Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang entered Fujian Province to open Zhangjiagang, and Yao Lianjie, a native of Gushi, Guangzhou, who served as the head of the government troops, entered Fujian Province with them. Shortly after this period, the Tang family name reproduction is very extensive, in addition to all over the north and south of the Yangtze River, there are Yao family name to Liaoning, and there are Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Yao family name people into the relocation of Yunnan, Sichuan. Among them, yao an in yunnan, dayao and other counties of yao surname most, so the tang wude four years, so more yao surname and set yao state. During the Song Dynasty, the Yao surname was distributed in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Liaoning and other places. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Yao surname, as one of the surnames of the migrants from Hongdong Dahuishu, was relocated to Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Northeast China and other places. After Zhang Xianzhong massacred Sichuan at the end of Ming Dynasty, the Yao surname filled Sichuan with Hunan and Guangdong. At this time, the Yao surname has been widely spread north and south of the Yangtze River, especially in Jiangsu, Zhejiang for the most concentrated. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, some Yao surnames went to Taiwan and then moved overseas. Nowadays, the Yao surname is widely distributed, especially in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. The Yao surname in the above four provinces accounts for about thirty-five percent of the Chinese Yao population. Yao is the sixty-fourth largest surname in China today, with a large population, accounting for about 0.35 percent of the national Han Chinese population.

Three, historical celebrities

Yao Hop: Yao Chong great-grandson, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, Yuanhe, awarded the Wugong book, the world known as Yao Wugong, its poetry is also known as the Wugong body, the poems are mostly written about the daily life of the individual and the natural scenery, like for the pentameter, deliberately seeking to work, quite similar to the Jiajia Island, Yao Jia, so the poem for the Sung River Lake Poetry School of the teacher, there are Yao Shaozou Poetry Collection, Extreme Xuan Collection.

Yao Chong: A famous politician in the early Tang Dynasty, Yao Chong and his family were very successful in politics. Yao Chong was a prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and served as prime minister of the Wu Zetian and Xuanzong Dynasties. His clean and honest administration won him popularity, and he was later succeeded by Song Jing, who was known as Yao Song. Yao Song's great-grandson, Yao He, was a graduate of Yuanhe and an official of the Secretarial Supervisory Commission. Because he was once authorized to be the chief bookkeeper of Wugong, he was known as Yao Wugong. The style of poetry he created is also called Wugong style. Yao Chong's grandson, Yao Mao, was a scholar of Changqing, and an assassin of Hunan and Changzhou.

Yao Lin: a native of Wuyuan (northwest of Baotou City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), Yao Lin was a commander in chief in the Song Dynasty, and was in charge of the Jianxiong and Dingwu armies, and he used his troops with calmness and perseverance and had a lot of strange strategies. He was not boastful of his achievements, and he ruled the army strictly, which made him famous for a long time.

Yao Fu: Henan (present-day Luoyang, Henan Province), Yuan Dynasty scholars, his poems and writings have the style of the Western Han Dynasty, famous for a while, there is the Mu'an Collection. He was also known for his "Muoan ji" (Collection of Muoan).

Yao Fan: a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, a famous literati in the Qing Dynasty, a Qianlong scholar, whose study was y into the legacy of the scriptures, summarizing the essence of his work, and who had "Notes on the Hall of the Aid Quail" and a collection of poems and writings.

Yao Nai: nephew of Yao Fan, a famous literary scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Yao Nai: nephew of Yao Fan, a famous literary scholar of the Qing Dynasty. He founded the Tongcheng School, an important school of prose in the Qing Dynasty, together with Fang Zhao and Liu Dahuai, and took part in the compilation of the Siku Quanshu of the Qing Dynasty. He is the author of Compilation of Ancient Writings and Rhetoric, Collection of Writings by Shihuoxuan, and Collection of Poems.

Yao Ying: Yao Nai's grandson, a scholar and a first degree holder, fought against the British in the Opium War, and was appointed as a governor of Guangxi.

Yaosu: his name was Meibe, Fuzhuang, and Dameishanmin, and he was a native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province. In the fourteenth year of the Daoguang period (1834), he was a graduate, but failed in three examinations. He was multi-talented, poetry, lyrics, music, ekphrasis, painting, the greatest achievement is poetry. He had experienced the battle of Yongdong in the Opium War, and the poems he wrote have the significance of poetic history. He inherited the spirit of realism from the Lefu poems, and adopted a more popular and easy-to-understand language. Many of his poems were in the form of ballads, with a strong narrative and rich in imagery. He is the author of a collection of poems called "Fuzhan Poetry Questions" and "Sparse Shadow House Lyrics".

Yao Gezhong: A native of the Western Jin Dynasty during the reign of Yongjia, the leader of a Qiang tribe, he led his tribe from Chiting to Yumei, and was migrated to Guanzhong during the Later Zhao Dynasty. In 323 A.D., he was appointed as the governor of the Western Qiang, and led tens of thousands of Qiang people to live in Qinghe. In 352 A.D., his fifth son Yao Xiang returned to Guanzhong with his troops and was killed in Sanyuan. Yao Xiang's younger brother took advantage of the Interstate Rebellion to attack Chang'an and established the mighty Later Qin. The capital was built in the northwest of Xi'an in present-day Shaanxi Province.

Yao Tandu: a native of Wucheng, a famous painter of Qi in the Southern Dynasties, specializing in the work of the Cherry Screen, whose paintings of gods and ghosts were especially wonderful at that time.

Yao Shengqi, Yao Zha, Yao Most: Wukang people in Wuxing County, the father Yao Shengqi is a famous medical doctor in Northern Zhou Dynasty, there are "set of test prescriptions", "line of records" line of the world; the eldest son Yao Zha has served in the three dynasties of Liang, Chen, Sui, and served as a high-level administrative officials, and is known for his incorruptibility. The second son Yao most, following Xie He completed the "renewal of the book", all the assertions, out of the Lisi, gas Yabo.

Yao Silien: early Tang Dynasty historian, a native of Wuxing, Jiangsu Province, later moved into Guanzhong, for today's Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. He compiled 50 volumes of the Book of Liang and 30 volumes of the Book of Chen. His grandson, Yao Shou, who was knowledgeable in history and economics, and educated and defended, he served as the Shangshu of the Di Guan at the time of Empress Wu, and Yao Ban, the younger brother of Yao Shou, who was smart and studious since his childhood, and served as the Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue, was also good at history and economics and compiled 40 volumes of the Book of Han, Shao Shou.

Yao Tianfu: Yuan Jiangzhou Jishan people (now belongs to Shanxi Province), the beginning of the material to open up for the Wyoming Prime Minister, moved to the supervision of the history. Loyalty and outspoken, had court reprimanded Ahema, Kublai Lie gave the name "Bars" (Tiger) successive Hedong, Huaxi, Hubei, Liaodong Road inspection history, Ministry of Justice, by the Councillor Governor, Metropolis Road, and Daxing Prefectural Yin.

Yao Changzi (姚长子): a native of Huiji, Zhejiang Province, in the Ming Dynasty. In the 34th year of the Jiajing period, Japanese invaders entered the county and forced him to act as a guide. He led the enemy to the Huren Tan, which was surrounded by water, and secretly instructed the townspeople to remove the bridge and cut off their way. The Japanese fell into the trap and were surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army. Yao Changzi was martyred as a result. Afterwards, he was honored as a hero by the villagers.

Yao Guangxiao: A native of Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, he was a monk of the Ming Dynasty, a scholar of Confucianism and an expert in poetry and painting. Because of his participation in the revolt instigated by Zhu Di, King of Yan, Emperor Chengzu was granted the honor of restoring his family name to Yao and giving him the name Guangxiao.

Yao Wentian: Qing scholar. Word qiu nong, zhejiang province return to an (now huzhou city) people, jiaqing jinshi, official rites department. The Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, but also take the length of the Han Dynasty, the Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, authors of the original "Yi", "Saying the sound of the Department", "Profound elegance of the Hall set" and so on.

Four, county hall

1, county

Wuxing County: the first year of the Three Kingdoms, Wu Baoding County, the county was established, the seat in Wucheng. It is equivalent to the northwest of Lin'an, Yuhang, and Deqing in today's Zhejiang Province, and Yixing in Jiangsu Province.

Nan'an County: the Eastern Han Dynasty in five years of Hanyang County, the seat in today's Gansu Longxi Weishui East Bank, equivalent to today's Gansu Longxi County, Gansu, the eastern part of the county, as well as Dingxi, Wushan and other counties. Sui early abolished.

2, hall

The main halls of the Yao family name are: "Ren Sheng Tang", "Kengli Tang", "Cunren Tang", " Nan'an Hall", "Shide Hall", "Wu Xing Hall", "Zaoyi Hall", "Harmonious Filial Piety Hall ", "Kengshan Hall", "Chengde Hall", "Chonghua Hall", "Shangxian Hall " and so on.

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General Couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

〖Yao Ancestral Hall Four-character General Couplet〗

Calligraphy of Wei and Jin;

History of Liang and Chen.

--Anonymous Composition Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The above couplet alludes to the painter Yao Shou of the Ming Dynasty, whose name was Gongshou (公绶), and who was also known as Mr. Dancu (丹丘先生), and who was a native of Jiashan. Tianshun years into the bachelor's degree, the official supervision of the imperial censor, Jiangxi Yongning governor. He was good at painting landscapes, following the method of Wu Zhen and Wang Meng, and he was good at making the scenery of sandy depression and water curves, with pale and moist ink; he also wrote bamboo and stone; he was good at cursive writing, following the method of the Wei and Jin dynasties; he was also good at poems, and he had a collection of Cerulean. The next couplet alludes to Yao Silien, a historian of the early Tang Dynasty, with the character Jianzhi, who was originally from Wuxing and later moved to Guanzhong as a native of Wannian. His father, Yao Zha, was the minister of the Ministry of Revenue in Chen in the Southern Dynasty, and he entered the Sui Dynasty to write the two histories of Liang and Chen, but he died before completing them. He studied Han history with his father from a young age and acquired the family's knowledge. In Sui, he served as a reader for Yang Yu, the king of the Dai Dynasty, and in Tang, he served as a bachelor in the Qin King's Hall of Literature, and in the Zhenguan period, he became a standing minister of the Sangzhi Riding Department. He wrote 50 volumes of the Book of Liang and 30 volumes of the Book of Chen, based on the manuscripts passed down from his family and other books.

The title was Liang;

Wen Chong Tongcheng.

--Anonymous Composer Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The above couplet refers to Yao Chong, a minister of the Tang Dynasty, whose original name was Yuan Chong, changed to Yuan Zhi, and then changed to Chong to avoid the name of Kaiyuan, a native of Kipsi in Shanzhou. He was the prime minister of Wu Zetian, Ruizong and Xuanzong dynasties. Ruizong, because of the Princess Taiping out of the East to weaken its power, was demoted; Kaiyuan the early years of the prime minister again, sealed Liang Guo Gong, has been asked to prohibit eunuchs, relatives intervene in government, prohibit the construction of Buddhist temples and Taoist temples, rewarding the group of ministers to advise and other ten things, and to correct the locusts at that time do not dare to hunt and kill the bad habits of the implementation of the method of burning and burying, alleviate the plague. The next couplet alludes to Yao Nai, a Qing Dynasty essayist, known as Ji Chuan, also known as Mr. Shihou, and a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province. Yao Nai was a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province. He received his bachelor's degree in the Qianlong period, and was a member of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and an official of the Imperial Household. He has been the master of Jiangning, Yangzhou and other places of the dean of the book for forty years, the treatment of the main scriptures, and also the son of history, poetry and literature, for the "Tongcheng School," the main writers. He was a major writer of the "Tongcheng School". He published the complete works of "Shihuoxuan".

The title of Liang;

Tongcheng School.

-Anonymous writer of Yao Ancestral Hall

Ibid.

Learn about the two Han dynasties;

Scribe about Liang and Chen.

--Anonymous Composition Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The above couplet alludes to Yao Su, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy in the Yuan Dynasty, who was a native of Liucheng, with the word "Duanfu." He traveled from Xu Heng to the West, where he had a good reputation. He traveled from Xu Heng, and had the wind of the Western Han Dynasty. He had "The Table of Clutching of State System" and "Mu'an Collection". The next couplet alludes to Yao Zha, a permanent attendant in the Sui Dynasty, who was a scholar of the Sui Dynasty and was authorized to be a secretary of the Ministry of Education and Science, and was appointed to write the two histories of Chen and Liang, which were not yet completed.

Civilization of the world;

Yuande family sound.

--Anonymous Composer Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The above couplet refers to the fact that Shun was born in Yao Market, so he was given the family name. The era of Yu and Shun was the beginning of Chinese civilization. The next couplet refers to the fact that Shun's abdication to Yu was a period of Yuan (great) virtue.

Hong Literature Bachelor;

Lu Tomb Family Tradition.

--Anonymous Composer Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The first couplet alludes to Tang Yao Silien, who was a bachelor of Hongwenkan. The next couplet alludes to Song - Yao Qiyun and his son, grandson, great-grandson, the fourth filial piety, hut tomb final funeral.

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[Yao Ancestral Hall Five-character Couplet]

Far away from the mountains, LanYiYi is close;

Slant sun shade.

--Yao Lun compiled a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a couplet of verses of the poet Yao Lun's poem "Passing by Zhang Xucai's guest house in Luoyang" in the Tang Dynasty. Yao Lun was the Counselor of Yangzhou Dudu Fu in the Tang Dynasty.

The Great Code of Conduct is a bright light in Huaxia;

The articles are dazzling in Tongcheng.

--Anonymous Composer Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The above couplet refers to Yao Guangxiao, a poet and painter of the Ming Dynasty, who was a native of Changzhou. Fourteen degrees as a monk, work poems and paintings, knowledge of yin and yang mathematics, for the king of yan heart of the strategist. When King Yan was established, Yao Guangxiao was the first to record his achievements, and he was the master of the Crown Prince. He supervised the revision of the Record of the Real Records of King Tai Zu, and compiled the Yongle Grand Dictionary. The next couplet alludes to Yao Nai (1731-1815), a prose writer of the Qing Dynasty, who was a native of Tongcheng. Yao Nai (1731-1815), a native of Tongcheng, was a Qianlong scholar and a concubine of the Hanlin Academy. Yao Nai participated in the compilation of the Siku Quanshu. After resigning from the government, he presided over the Ziyang and Zhongshan Academies in Jiangnan. He and Fang Zhao were representatives of the "Tongcheng School", which advocated the tradition of Tang and Song dynasty ancient literature and had a great influence on Qing dynasty Confucianism and literature. He wrote articles on landscapes, such as "A Record of Mountaineering on Mount Tai", which were praised by later generations. He also wrote "Compilation of Ancient Writings and Rhetoric", "Collection of Writings by Shihuo-Xuan", and "Collection of Zhu".

Father and son became two histories;

Brothers numbered two Yao.

--Anonymous Composition of Yao Ancestral Halls

The first line refers to Yao Cha, a permanent attendant in the Sui Dynasty. The next couplet alludes to the Song Dynasty commander Yao Lin, word Junrui, section of Jianxiong Dingwu army, military calm and resolute more strange strategy. He did not boast of his achievements, but governed the army with strictness, which he was happy to use. Brothers have made great achievements, the reputation of the time, Wuzhong number "two Yao".

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[Yao Ancestral Hall Six-character Couplet]

Jiande has been a long time in the world;

Shrimp Lake has been a great success for the family.

--Yao Wenran writes a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall in Guiqi City, Anhui Province. The first couplet is based on the fact that this branch of the Yao Clan was moved from Jiande County. The next couplet is a reference to the former location of the ancestral temple at Shrimp Lake (named after the production of large white shrimp).

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The Yao Ancestral Hall Seven-character Couplet

But the business is full of business in front of us;

We know that there are many bitter people in the world.

--Yao Wenran writes a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a self-titled couplet by Yao Wenran, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. Yao Wenran was a native of Tongcheng. In the Qing Dynasty, Yao Wenran was awarded the title of "Conciliator of the State Historical Institute", and became the official of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs. Yao Wenran knew everything about the interests of the country, the gains and losses of officials, and the livelihood of the people. His writings and poems were all solid and mellow, with an ancient style, and he died posthumously.

Standing on one's heels and erecting one's spine;

Expanding one's eyes and calming one's heart.

--Yao Yuanzhi writes a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a self-titled couplet by Yao Wenzhi, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty and a collector of laws. Yao Yuanzhi, with the character of Bo'ang, was a native of Tongcheng. Yao Yuanzhi was a native of Tongcheng. Yao Yuanzhi was a scholar of the Qing Dynasty and a collector of calligraphic works. He has a manuscript of miscellaneous poems of Bamboo Leaf Pavilion.

The sky opens up to a beautiful scenery and the wind and clouds are quiet;

Spring arrives on earth and the weather is new.

--Yao Chen wrote a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a spring couplet written by Yao Chen, a general judge of the Ming Dynasty. Yao Chen, the character of string bik, was a native of Chaoyang. By the Fuzhou pass judge moved to Shun Tianzhong, the official three days, that is, begging to return to raise, in order to filial piety heard. The townspeople are much sensitized.

The son of the lord of the walled city will eventually harmonize with the noblewoman;

The woman of the assassin's history will be able to get even with the husband.

--Anonymous writer Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The first couplet refers to the story of Yao Xiong in Song Dynasty.

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[Yao Ancestral Hall General Couplet]

Resisting to the heart of the ancient, let it be what it is;

Containing a millimetre of life, the movement must be in accordance with the truth.

--Yao Cha compiled a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a couplet of Yao Cha, a permanent minister of the Sui Dynasty, in the "Record of Famous Paintings".

Both warn and caution, favoring this China;

Lai Xun Lai Xuan, Yu Yu in Taiyuan.

--Jiang Bishan wrote a general couplet of Yao Ancestral Hall

This couplet is a gift from Jiang Bishan to Yao Liangfu.