Traditional Culture of Li Surname

County Preferences

Longxi County: set up in the 27th year of King Zhaoxiang of Qin (280 BC) during the Warring States period, it was named after the west of Longshan Mountain. It corresponds to the area east of Dongxiang and Longxi in present-day Gansu Province.

Zhao County: In the fourth year of Emperor Gao Di of the Han Dynasty (203 B.C.), the original Handan of the Qin Dynasty was changed into the State of Zhao, with its seat in Handan (present-day central Hebei Province). During the Jian'an years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (late 2nd century AD), it was changed to Zhao County. It corresponded to the area around Zhao County and Handan in central Hebei Province.

Dunqiu County: the county was established in the Western Jin Dynasty. This branch of Li's Longxi branch of the Li family, its founding ancestor of the famous general Li Guang 1 grandson Li Zhong in the Western Han Dynasty.

Zhongshan County: county of Han Gao Di. This branch of the Li's for the Zhao County Li's branch, its founding ancestor for Li Gui third word Li Qi.　　Guanghan County: the Han Dynasty county. This branch of the Li Clan is a descendant of the Longxi Li Clan, whose founder was Li Shang (father of Li Guang).

In addition, there are Bohai County, Xiangcheng County, Jiangxia County, Zitong County, Fanyang County, Nanyang County and so on. The name of the hall is 陇西堂: it is named because the Li Clan is known as Longxi County.

Qinglian Hall: Li Bai, a great poet in Tang Dynasty, was called Qinglian Jushi. In order to commemorate this great poet, the descendants of the Li family name will use "Qinglian" as the hall name to show their memory forever.

There is also the Zhaoxian Hall and the Pingxitang Hall. The first couplet is "Morality passes on to the family", and the second couplet is "Tai Bai's legacy"

-Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet is "Morality passes on to the family", and the second couplet is "Tai Bai's legacy", and the second couplet is "Poetry and wine". The first couplet is based on the story of Li Jing, who was appointed as the Duke of Wei during the Tang Dynasty. The next couplet is based on Li Ying (李膺) from the Eastern Han Dynasty, whose character Yuanli (元礼), was known for his fame and reputation, and was considered to have "ascended to the Dragon Gate" by all those who came after him.

Longxi Famous Clan, Beihai Famous Scholars

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The whole couplet refers to Li Yong, a calligrapher during the Tang Dynasty, who was a native of Yangzhou and a good annotator of Selected Writings. When Emperor Xuanzong, he was the governor of Beihai, known as "Li Beihai", who was famous for his writings and authored "Li Beihai Collection".

Longxi Shize, Fengnan family sound

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The whole couplet is from the Han Dynasty, Li Guang, a native of Longxi, Chengji, and the Tang Dynasty, Gaozu Li Yuan, whose ancestor, Li Yuan, was a member of the Tang Dynasty. As well as Tang Gaozu Li Yuan, ancestry Longxi Chengji. "Feng", that is, Feng Yi, an ancient place name, now Dali County, Shaanxi Province.

Yehou Shize, Model Family Reputation

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet is a reference to the Tang Dynasty's Li Ch'u, a feudal lord of Yehou. The next couplet is based on Li Ying (李膺), who was a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty (东漢朝), and was called "the model of the world" by the students of the Imperial College (太生).

The scripture has passed on the morality, the name is important to the banished immortals

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet is a reference to the Spring and Autumn Period's Laozi (老子), named Li Dan (李聃), who authored Tao Te Ching (道道德經), the book of morality. The next couplet is based on Li Bai (李白), who was called by He Zhizhang (贺之章) as "the man who banished the immortals" during the Tang Dynasty (唐朝).

Suyuyu Lyrics are Beautiful, Niangcun Xing

-Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet is a reference to Li Qingzhao (李清照) from the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋), who was known as Yi'an Jushi (易安居士), and who authored the "Suyu Lyrics" (漱玉词).

The next couplet is a reference to Princess Pingyang, the daughter of Li Yuan, the founder of the Tang Dynasty, whose husband, Chai Shao, rose up against the Sui Dynasty, and who recruited an army of more than 70,000 men in Shaanxi Province, known as the "Niangcun" (Lady's Army). The Iron Shoulder Carries the Righteousness of the Way, and the Wonderful Hand Writes Articles

--Li Dazhao, one of the earliest Marxists in China, wrote this couplet. The first couplet is "The Dragon Gate is Driving the Seeds to Push Yuanli, and the Wind Pavilion is Sounding Highly in Honor of Yehou"

--The gate couplet of the Li Ancestral Hall at the Bada Gate in Hangu City

The first couplet is "The Dragon Gate is Driving the Seeds to Push Yuanli". Yuan Hao is a great warrior, familiar with military books, know the law, know Buddhism, Tomato and Chinese characters, called the emperor to build the country, the number of Daxia.

The next line is "Wind Pavilion" (风阁鳴高仰邺侯), which means "Yé" (邺), an ancient name for a place to the west of Linzhang County in Hebei Province. Marquis, refers to the second of the five ancient Chinese titles. Presumably, the ancestors of the Li family name in ancient times in the area of Yeh for the world to admire the high ranking family.

The Sage of Zoulu once asked about rituals, and the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty also asked for poems

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet alludes to the incident of Confucius asking about the rituals of Li Dan. The next couplet is about Emperor Li Longji of Tang Xuanzong, who asked Li Bai for a poem.

Minjiang water conservancy is celebrated for a thousand years, and Taibai's poetic style is fragrant for ten thousand miles

--Anonymous Li Ancestral Hall Couplet

The first couplet is based on the story of Li Bing, a hydraulic engineer of the Warring States period, who excavated Dujiangyan.

The next couplet refers to Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, whose poems are famous for ten thousand miles.

The first line is about Li Bing, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, who was famous for his poem Wanli.

This couplet was adopted from the Li Ancestral Hall of the Caofushan Clan in Jiashan County, Anhui Province.

The first couplet alludes to the fact that the Li Clan's county and its history are full of talented people, many of whom were "generals and ministers"; the second couplet alludes to the fact that the Li Clan settled on the west bank of the Huaihe River, and that they have taken "loyalty, goodness, filial piety and friendliness" as their family custom.

Since the Tang and Zhou dynasties, the Li Guan Zhu Shi has left a long legacy;

From Guangdong to Shu, the Zu De Zong Gong Pei Ze has a long history.

This couplet is from the Li Ancestral Hall on Taiping Lane in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. In the first couplet, "Liguan" means that the Li Clan originated from the Da Liguan; and "Zhu Shi" means that Laozi (Li Dan) was a member of the Zhou Dynasty's Zhu Shi. The next couplet alludes to the migration of the Li Clan in Chengdu. According to the Genealogy of the Li Clan of the Republic of China, Li Guangbi, a general of the Tang Dynasty, was originally a member of the Khitan tribe in Liu Cheng, Yingzhou, and returned to the Tang Dynasty with the family name of Li, and was awarded the title of King of Linhuai County for his repeated successes. After the Yuan and Ming dynasties, some of them moved westward from the south, and one of them, the Guangdong Li Clan, moved to Shu in the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty and settled in Chengdu.

The fields can be plowed, the mulberry can be silkworm, the book can be read, attacked the reputation of the family treasure;

The war is won, the attack is taken, the code is solid, the Wenzhong founding of the country Xuexun.　　 The next couplet is about Li Wenzhong, the left governor of the Ming Dynasty. Li family Dragon Palace was built in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Palace seat north to south, east-west length of 600 meters, north-south width of 440 meters, building area of 25,000 square meters. Since ancient times, people with the surname Li have been worshipping their ancestors in the Li Family Dragon Palace. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, social unrest, national integration, Longxi Li's southward migration across the river in large numbers, all over the world, Li's Dragon Palace has been destroyed several times, turned into a ruin.

Qing Shunzhi five years (A.D. 1648), part of the building was destroyed in the MiLa India fire. Kangxi first year of reconstruction. Tongzhi five years (A.D. 1866), the Dragon Palace was destroyed in a military disaster.

Ming Wanli five years (A.D. 1577), Li's descendants of the then-Longxi county governor of Shandong Linyi Li Ruxiang advocated the collection of funds to rebuild the Li family Longguan, in the original Li family Longgong the former site of the North restored the Dragon Palace part of the building - also known as the "Palace of the North Pole". The building is also known as the "North Pole Palace". Qing Shunzhi, Kangxi, Tongzhi years, repeatedly built and destroyed, the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China and successive additions - new.

Dragon Palace in front of the stage and five buildings, the rear of the Dragon Palace complex and five rockeries, said the former five buildings after five mountains, were destroyed for the military disaster, now five buildings and three rockeries razed to the ground, there are only eleven Dragon Palace complex, a floor area of about 800 square meters, two rockeries. Today, only the existing pagoda, called the first heavenly gate. Li's people also draw and save a picture of the Li family Dragon Palace, ancient buildings to be rebuilt. 1958 reconstruction of Longxi four ancient buildings in all the simple refurbishment. 1993 September on the Li family Dragon Palace west main hall, the first door of the north day to restore the original appearance of the maintenance.