How did Zou Li come into being?

Li nationality accounts for 7.9% of the Han population, or more than 87 million people. Li is widely distributed in China, mostly in the north, and almost all over the world overseas. According to ancient data, Li is a descendant of Ying, and Li is the first.

At the end of Shang Dynasty, he settled in Luyi County, Henan Province because he could not escape from Henan. In order to appreciate (the fruit of a woody plant) being there when he escaped and avoid Yin's pursuit, he changed his surname Li.

Li lived in Henan for more than 200 years from the end of Shang Dynasty to the beginning of Eastern Zhou Dynasty. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Li's surname developed to Gansu and Hebei. During the Western Han Dynasty, one of Li's surnames moved to today's Shandong. From about the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li moved to the southwest, distributed in Sichuan and Guangxi. Before the Tang Dynasty, the surname Li mainly developed in the north and only distributed in some areas south of the Yangtze River.

The Tang Dynasty was the heyday of China's feudal society, which ruled for nearly 300 years. As a "national surname", Li is the most prominent. There were many descendants of the Li family in the Tang Dynasty. In addition, all those who made meritorious deeds in the Tang Dynasty were given the surname Li, which greatly expanded the population of Li. After the great development of the Tang Dynasty, Li began to move south, mainly for three times. The first time was when Henan Li entered Fujian and opened Zhangzhou; The second time was the Anshi Rebellion, and many people surnamed Li moved south to escape the war. The third time from the Huang Chao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, due to the long-term turmoil in the Central Plains, Li directly entered Fujian and Guangdong from Chang 'an and Henan.

In the history of China, more than 60 people took Li as the king and emperor, and successively established the regimes of Dacheng, Xiliang, Wu, Wei, Tang, Chu, Later Tang, Nantang, Dashu, Dashun and so on.