The surname cao
It was inherited from Lu Zhong and King Wen, and its founding ancestors were Cao An and Cao Zhenduo. It is the 32nd of the hundred major surnames in contemporary China. The contemporary population surnamed Cao is approximately seven million, accounting for about 0.57 percent of the total national population. The founding ancestors of the Cao family, who immigrated to the Great Locust Tree in Hongtong during the Ming Dynasty, were from the two prefectures of Pingyang and Taiyuan, the five prefectures of Ze, Lu, Liao, Fen and Qin, and the two counties of Hongtong and Quwo. In the early Ming Dynasty, the great locust trees in Hongtong were moved to other places in a concentrated manner. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shanxi and other places.
The earliest record of the Cao surname can be found in the "Shiben" of the Zhou Dynasty.
There are three sources of his surname:
① After the ancient tribal chief 颛顼. According to the Guangyun and Yuanhe Xingzuan, it is said that Changyi, the son of the Yellow Emperor, married Changpu, the daughter of the Shushan clan, and they had the Gaoyang clan of Zhuanxu. Youdaoplaceholder0 The emperor had a grandson named Wu Hui, and Lu Zhong, the son of Wu Hui, married Nu 𫝬, the daughter of the Guifang clan, and they had six sons. The eldest son was named Fan, who was given the surname Ji and enfeoffed in Kun The second son was named Huilian and was granted the surname Zhen. He was enfeoffed in the State of Canhu. The three sons were given the name 篯, styled Keng, and were enfeoffed in Dapeng, taking the surname Peng. The four sons were given the surname 妘 and were enfeoffed in the state of Guai. The five sons were named An, of the Cao surname, and were enfeoffed in the State of Cao. The sixth son was named Li Lian, of the Mi surname, and was an ancestor of the State of Chu. Therefore, Cao An is the progenitor of the Cao surname. During the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu reenfeoffed Cao Xia, a descendant of Cao An, to the State of Zhu. Later, the State of Zhu was conquered by the State of Chu. Some of the people of Zhu continued to use the surname Cao, while others took the name of their state as their surname and changed it to Zhu. From this, it can be seen that over two thousand years ago, the Cao and Zhu surnames were originally one family of the same origin and ancestor. It is the Cao surname from Shandong.
② It originated from the Ji surname. According to the "General Annals: Genealogy" and "Yuanhe Xingzuan", during the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu reenfeoffed the descendants of Cao An and enfeoffed the Cao territory to the thirteenth son of King Wen of Zhou, Zhen Duo, who established the capital at Taoqiu. The former site of Taoqiu is located in the southwest of Dingtao County, Shandong Province today. The State of Cao was conquered by the State of Song in 487 BC. The descendants of the king of Cao then named the state Cao
The surname is. It is the Cao surname from Shandong.
③ Incorporation from other ethnic groups or surnames. According to the "History of the Sui Dynasty", people from the Cao State in the Western Regions who moved to China in ancient times took the name of their state, Cao, as their surname. According to the "History of the Later Han Dynasty", there was a man named Cao Song in the Later Han Dynasty, originally surnamed Xiahou, but later changed his surname to Cao.
It is the Cao surname of Anwei. According to the "History of the Sui Dynasty", during the Sui Dynasty, the Turkic tribe in the northwest region established the State of Kang, and its branch and vassal Kings had the State of Cao. Some people took Cao as their surname, such as Cao Miaoda in the Northern Qi Dynasty. During the Tang Dynasty, the various ethnic groups in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya River basins were called the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu", among which there was the Cao surname.
The main ancestral homes of the Cao surname include Qiao Commandery, Pengcheng Commandery, Gaoping Commandery, Juye County, etc. Qiao Commandery: At the end of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, a part of Pei Commandery was separated to establish Qiao Commandery, with its administrative center in Qiao County (now Bo County, Anhui Province). During the Wei Dynasty of The Three Kingdoms period, its jurisdiction was located between present-day Anhui and Henan provinces.
The Cao family took Qiao Guo, Qing Jing, Wu Wei and others as their ancestral hall names. Qingjing Hall, also known as Wuwei Hall: Cao Can of the Western Han Dynasty
After Xiao He's death, he succeeded Xiao He as the prime minister. He follows Xiao Shi's approach, which is often referred to as "following Xiao's rules and regulations". Provincial criminal law, light taxation, and governance through non-action. The common people praised him, saying, "He was carried with purity and peace, and the people were peaceful and harmonious." "Qingjing", also written as "pure", means to rest with the people and achieve self-transformation through non-action. "Min Yi Ning Yi" means that the common people can live and work in peace and contentment.