The surname "Tai" is Han, why is it still Mongolian?

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Tai The surname is a relatively pure Han surname, but in the process of its reproduction and development, some ethnic minorities also changed it to this surname. Please read for details -

1. Origin of the surname Tai

The surname Tai (Tái) has two origins:

1. Originated from the surname Jiang. They are the descendants of the ancestor of the Zhou clan, named after the country. The Tai surname began in the Yao and Shun periods. The ancestor of the Tai family was Hou Ji, a sage who made great contributions to the evolution of the nation in ancient times. He was an agricultural official of Emperor Yao. Because of his merits in managing agriculture, Yao named him the king of Tai. From then on, there have been Taken the surname Tai. According to "Shuowen", Hou Ji was the great agricultural minister of Yao and was granted the title of Tai due to his merits. His descendants took Tai as their surname. The location of Taidi at that time, according to research, was within the current Wugong County of Shaanxi Province. Our country's Tai family originated from this place. After the Tang Dynasty, the Tai family mainly thrived in a place called Pinglu in the northern part of the Shandong Peninsula.

2. Modified by Daliji. According to "Book of Zhou", during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Xianbei clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty had the Daliji clan. After entering the Central Plains, it was changed to the Tai clan. According to "Tongzhi Clan Briefing", "Daliji (three-character surname) was named Tai." A prominent family with the surname Tai lived in Pinglu (now Yidu, Shandong Province).

The ancestor who got the surname: Houji. The ancestor of the Zhou tribe was named Hou Ji, with the surname Ji and the given name Qi. He was born to Jiang Yuan. Jiang Yuan, whose surname is Tai, was born after Emperor Yan and married Emperor Ku. According to legend, there was a Tai girl Jiang Yuan who lived in the Tai tribe (in today's Wugong territory of Shaanxi Province) before she got married. One day, she and her companions went to play in the wild and saw a huge footprint on the field. Out of curiosity, Jiang Yuan stepped on it to compare its size. Unexpectedly, she stepped on it and her heart moved. After returning home, she became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. The child was born without a father. She was afraid of being laughed at, so she abandoned him in an alley. Surprisingly, when the animals saw this child, they all took great care of him and took a detour. Jiang Yuan threw him onto the frozen river. Flocks of birds gathered around the child and used their feathers to keep him warm. Seeing that the child survived the disaster, Jiang Yuan realized that he would definitely be promising in the future, so she changed her mind and took him home to raise him. Because I abandoned him from the beginning, I gave him the name Abandoned. Qi has liked planting various plants since he was a child, and when he grew up, he became an expert at growing crops. Later Emperor Yao appointed him as the agricultural officer Houji. Under his management, the world's agriculture has had bumper harvests year after year. Emperor Yao was very happy and made him a king with the Tai family. Tai was the descendant of Qi. According to legend and convention, people regard Qi as the God of Kitchen God (the God of crops). The descendants who abandoned the country used the country's name Tai as their surname. Therefore, the descendants of the Tai family regarded Houji as the ancestor of the surname Tai.

2. Migration Distribution

(Missing) The surname Tai is not among the top 100 surnames in both mainland China and Taiwan. The surname Tai comes from the surname Ji. During the time of the ancient Emperor Yao, there was a man named Qi, who was a descendant of Emperor Yan. Emperor Yan's tribe was the most adept at farming, and Qi was also very good at farming. The censor was appointed by Yao as the agricultural officer Houji to manage the world's agriculture. After he took office, he made great achievements in managing the country's agriculture, with good harvests year after year. In order to commend Qi's contribution, Yao made Qi the leader of the Tai clan and established the Tai Kingdom (in the area of ??today's Wugong County, Shaanxi Province). Qi's descendants took the fiefdom as their surname and were called the Tai clan. There are many interesting legends about this person. The abandoned mother's name was Jiang Yuan. She said that when she was a girl, she once saw a huge footprint on the ground while playing in the wild. She stepped on it out of curiosity. After returning, she became pregnant and gave birth to a boy. Jiang Yuan was very shy and abandoned him several times, but failed. As a result, Jiang Yuan realized that he might be a child of God, so he raised him and named him Qi. There is also a saying that during a god-sacrifice event during the time of the Yellow Emperor, Di Ku, a clan leader of the Yellow Emperor clan, fell in love with Jiang Yuan. The two fell in love and Jiang Yuan became pregnant with Qi. Jiang was originally a descendant of the Yan Emperor clan. This story is a record of the union of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. According to reports, the Yandi tribe worships the phoenix totem, and the Huangdi tribe worships the dragon totem. They are considered to be the origin of the Chinese nation.

In the Tang Dynasty, Duke Zhongcui moved from Shandong to Linqing to Kaifeng. In the reign of Emperor Jingkang of the Song Dynasty, Duke Tai Maogong was appointed as the Tongzhi of Chengdu. He could not return due to the fall of the north, so his three sons lived in Guizhou and Hunan. His Excellency Zhongshan (Zhongtai Gong) in Hunan and Hubei was the great-grandson of Maogong in Yicheng. He was later appointed as a Jinshi After the defeat of the army, he lived in Changshan, Lishui, now Lishui, Jiangsu, Dangtu, Anhui, and Shanghai. After his grandson Wanwu Gong, Siyuantang of the Tai family, Deyuantang was transformed into Shide Gong, his adopted son. , Xinghua, Jiangsu, the Tai family in Baoying area was transformed by Zhonghe Gong, the brother of Zhongtai Gong (Zhonghe Gong was a wealthy man in Yicheng, Xiangyang was broken, and the descendants of Zhongtai Gong wanted to vote for Zhongtai Gong. At the time of the Liangjiang Festival, Wang, the envoy of the Liangjiang Festival, surrendered to the enemy, Zhongtai The duke was trapped before and after, and wanted to ride to Lin'an with light cavalry. He was defeated in Lishui, but Zhonghe's descendants failed to defect and settled in Yangzhou)... (Yu Luo).

3. Historical celebrities

Tai Maozhi: a famous filial son and philanthropic person in the Ming Dynasty. His mother was afraid of thunder, so during thunderstorms, Maozhi would protect her with his body. After his mother passed away, whenever there was a thunderstorm, he would go to her mother's tomb to protect her. Only after Lei Zhicai returned home, Maozhi heard the thunder and protected his mother, and later became one of the "Twenty-Four Filial Piety".

Taigong Taizhong: Song Dynasty's envoy to Jianghuai, he was defeated at Changshan, Lishui, and was seriously injured. He was rescued by the prime minister's son who lived in Lishan Academy, Gaochun. After recovering, he contacted Wen Tianxiang to fight against the Yuan Dynasty, but failed.

Tai Ren Wu Gong: After becoming the Duke of Zhongtai, General Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Quzhou and Jiujiang, was granted the title of garrison of the imperial mausoleum, and was appointed envoy to Longzhong.

Tai Gezhi: a Mohist in the Ming Dynasty. A native of Xiuning, Anhui Province, he was born as an ink worker. He is the founder of the Xiuning School and the founder of the complete set of Cong Mo - Ji Jin Mo. There are now "Wenwan", "Shibao", "Panchi" and other styles of ink.

Tai Shuangqiu: (1896-1976) a modern Chinese educator, native of Dongtai, Jiangsu Province. He studied at the Fifth Normal School of Yangzhou Province and Nanjing Higher Normal School (Southeast University). In 1923, he studied in the United States and studied at the University of Chicago and Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in education. After returning to China in 1927, he successively served as professor at Nanjing Fourth Sun Yat-sen University (formerly known as Southeast University, later changed to Central University), Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen University, and Henan University, director of the Education Department of Jinan University, dean of the School of Education of Soybean University, and director of the China People's Livelihood Education Society Chairman, President of the China People's Livelihood Construction Experimental Institute, member of the Wartime Education Committee of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, etc. After the liberation of the country, he served as professor at Fu Jen University and Beijing Normal University. In the 1930s and 1940s, Tai Shuangqiu tried his best to advocate people's livelihood-oriented education, and carried out experiments in people's livelihood-oriented education in rural areas such as Shanghai and Chongqing for more than ten years, which had a great social impact. He worked closely with Yan Yangchu, Liang Shuming, and Tao Xing Known and known as "the four eccentrics in China's education circle".

4. Junwang Hall No.

1. Junwang

Pinglu County: The administrative seat is today’s Dongyidu County, Shandong Province.

2. Tang number

Yiqintang: Yiqin means protecting the mother like wings. In the Ming Dynasty, Tai Mao was extremely filial to his relatives. His mother was afraid of thunder. Whenever there was a thunder, Moozhi would protect her mother with his body like outstretched wings. After his mother died, every time there was a thunderstorm, Moozhi used a big umbrella to cover his mother's grave.

Siyuan Hall: Siyuan means that one cannot return to his hometown in Linqing, and his parents in Qingshan, Yicheng, are not allowed to pay homage. Therefore, the ancestral hall faces northwest.

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Universal couplets for the ancestral hall of the surname Tai

〖Universal couplets for the ancestral hall of the surname Tai in four words〗

Lianzhou Songde;

Changyang Engraved Inscription.

——An anonymous couplet for the ancestral hall of the surname Tai

The upper couplet refers to Tai Jing, a native of the Song Dynasty. He was an official and magistrate of the state. He benefited the people and the people praised his virtues. The second line of the couplet points out that Tai Ding, a contemporary man, was talented and upright, a high-ranking official, had outstanding political achievements, and won the hearts of the people. The people erected monuments in his honor.

The scholar's best choice;

I hope you will have a good talent.

——The general couplet of the ancestral hall of the surname Tai written by an anonymous person

The first couplet refers to the Tai Ruishidian of the Song Dynasty. Xialiandian refers to the Wu Taimeng Shidian of the Five Dynasties.