How did Gao's surname come from?

Gongzi Gao was the son of Lu Zhishen, Duke Wen of Qi in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Jiang was originally a descendant of Emperor Yan, and Gao was a descendant of Emperor Yan. Gao's blood ancestors were Emperor Yan and Gao Yi.

From the Spring and Autumn Period, Gong Hui, the son of Qi State, and Gong Hui, the son of Qi State, were named after their ancestors. Take Wang Fu as the surname.

2. Originated from Xianbei nationality.

? Tuoba Hong (Justin), Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, vigorously promoted political reform and the policy of cultural sinicization in the seventeenth to twentieth years of Taihe (AD 493-496). In this process, he changed the multi-syllable compound surname of the northern Hu people to the single surname of Chinese characters, and changed the Balou department of the Tuoba department of Xianbei people to Gao's, and then merged with the Han people, so he was one of the Gao's in Henan. There is a place called Dan in the west of Fengxian County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. 3. From Manchu.

Belong to Chinese culture, change the surname to surname. From the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, there were many cases in which the Manchu surname was changed to the Han surname, and some of them were transliterated from the Manchu surname to the Han surname, and the Gao family was changed to the Gao family.

4. Originated in Shi Yuzhen.

It comes from the Koguryo State of Liao and the Korean Peninsula of Han and Tang Dynasties, and belongs to the country name.

5. Take the surname from

Gao Lishi (real name Feng) was a eunuch in the middle of the Tang Dynasty. Because Gao Lishi was a eunuch and had no children, he adopted a large number of sons of bureaucrats and nobles who fawned on him as adopted sons, all of whom were privately given high surnames and passed down from generation to generation.

6. From an official standpoint,

It comes from the official temple order of the Han Dynasty and belongs to the official title. Among the descendants of Gao Miaoling, when the world was in chaos during the Three Kingdoms period, some people took the official title of their ancestors as their surnames, which was called Gao Lingshi. Later, the provincial language was simplified to Gao's Miao's single surname, which was passed down from generation to generation.

Since the Jin Dynasty, the official position Gao Li belongs to the official title. Among the descendants of Governor Koryo, there are those who take their ancestors' official titles as surnames, which are called Koryo's. The post-provincial language was simplified to a single surname of Gao, Li and Du, which was passed down from generation to generation.

7. Other source theory

Hun sentence in Han dynasty (phonetic hook): Wang and Hou Gao don't know their descendants; Jin's Jurchen changed her surname to Gao's Lie's and Nalan's; Many clans in the Eight Banners of Manchu in the Qing Dynasty, such as Gao Jiashi, Hese Rihara, Tong Jiashi and Guoluo Roche, all had high surnames.

Among the Hui people, some Muslims in the western regions changed their surnames to Gao after entering the customs. For example, scholars in the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, were born in the Western Regions, entered the customs with Mongolian conquerors, and settled in Shanxi, taking Gao as their surname.

These foreigners have lived with the Han nationality for a long time and gradually assimilated into the high surname in the north.