Similarities in the clan chronicles of the early Tang Dynasty

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, the gate lord clan entered the last glorious period, and the people of the time thought that the "five surnames and seven hopes" were the most noble, of which the "five surnames" referred to the five surnames of "Cui Lu Li Zheng Wang", and the "seven hopes" referred to the names of the counties where the "Longxi, Zhaojun, Boling, Fanyang, Taiyuan, Qinghe, Xingyang" and other great scholars arose, specifically the Longxi Li family, the Zhao County Li family, the Qinghe Cui family, the Boling Cui family, the Xingyang Zheng family, the Taiyuan Wang family, and the Fanyang Lu family.

The Tang Dynasty had five powerful surnames and seven clans, and five prominent surnames of Li, Cui, Lu, Zheng, and Wang.

The criterion for judging the family level is not the blood lineage, but the existing ** title level as the standard. After the awarding of the cherry blossoms, the gate valves of the Shi clan in Shandong and Jiangnan suffered heavy losses, and the Guan Long Shi clan also relied on the officials.

Tang Taizong compiled the material, and the lecture on the stool later described the rise of the Three Kingdoms in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and dominated the society of the scholar clan, from prosperity to decay of the process, is the decline of the scholar Li Cheng monument.

Mainly let Ran write the standard of family rank, which is no longer blood, but the existing title hierarchy system to divide the balance, which has a great impact on the monopoly of power.

<>1, from the surname Qi and Ji, for the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.

Later, he was also Di Yao.

Afterwards. Di Yao is the great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, surnamed Yiqi, named Fangyun, and Yao is his nickname. He was originally sealed in Tao, and later moved to Tang, so he was called Tao Tang.

After Yao became the Son of Heaven, he began to take "Tang" as the national name, so he was also called Tang Yao, and the world was called "Tang Fangxun" ("Fang" is extremely big, "Xun" is meritorious), praising his meritorious service and the rule of virtue. The descendants of Di Yao were moved to the state of Du and called Tang Du. The descendants of the Tang Du clan have a country as their clan, called the Tang clan.

2, from Tang Shuyu, after the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan.

After Yao's death, Shun named his son Danzhu the Marquis of Tang (now Tang County, Hebei Province). to King Wu of Zhou.

When the rebellion of Tang Hou was destroyed by King Cheng, the land of Tang was renamed to Tang Shuyu, the brother of King Cheng. There is a famous allusion to the "Tongye Fenghou", "Historical Records of the Jin Family": "Chengwang and Shu Yu play, cut the Tong leaf for the Tung Leaf to and Shu Yu, said:

This is how to seal it. 'Shi Yiyin, please choose Ritachi Shuyu. King Cheng said:

I'm playing with it. Shi Yi said: "The Son of Heaven has no jokes."

Words are the history books, the rites are completed, and the music is sung.

It. So he named Uncle Yu in Tang. (Western Zhou.)

When King Cheng was playing with his younger brother Shu Yu, he cut a paulownia leaf into the shape of Gui, handed it to Shu Yu, and said: "As a witness, I will make you a marquis", and the historian (one said "Duke of Zhou.

So he asked King Cheng to choose a day to seal Shuyu. When King Cheng grew up, he said: "This is me joking with him", and the historian said: "The Son of Heaven has no jokes", so the thoughtful Feng Shu Yu Yu Tang. Tang Shuyu's descendants also took the country as their name, and later took the surname Tang.

How did the surname Tang come about The origin and origin of the surname Tang.

3. After Danzhu, after Di Yao, and after the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. When King Zhao of Zhou, he was the Marquis of Tang in Lu County after he was named Danzhu, and after being destroyed by Chu, his descendants were also surnamed Tang.

4. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was another Tang vassal state surnamed Ji, which was destroyed by King Chu Zhao, and its descendants were also called Tang. The above 4 Tang clans are all derived from the Xuanyuan clan; Among them, it is also from Di Yao and also from the Zhou Dynasty.

Imperial clan. 5. Ethnic minorities use the surname Tang or change the surname to Tang. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the surname Tang began to be joined by other ethnic groups. For example, there is a surname Tang in the white wolf king in the south; Longxi (now part of Gansu) Qiang also has the surname Tang.

The second branch is surnamed Ji, after Tang Shuyu. In addition to the Han Chinese, other ethnic minorities also have Tang surnames, including the Nanban people of the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people of the Three Kingdoms period, the Western Regions of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Tatara clan of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the Qing Dynasty, the Tang Gu clan, the Tang Ni clan, and the Tang Jia clan. The counties with the surname Tang mainly include Jinyang, Luguo, Beihai, Jinchang and so on.

In addition to the same name as the name of the county, the important hall names are Chanrang Hall and Shengren Hall.

Tang is from the surname Qi. According to the Book of Tang? According to the Prime Minister's Lineage Table, Danzhu, the son of Emperor Yao, was named the Marquis of Tang by Shun, and then his country was destroyed by King Cheng of Zhou.

When the king of Zhou Zhao was in order, in order to worship Tang Yao, the descendants of Feng Dan Zhu were Tang Hou in Lu County (now Lushan County, Henan), and then they were destroyed by Chu, and the descendants took Tang as their clan, which was the Tang surname of Yulu (now belonging to Henan and Shandong).

In fact, there are many kinds of Tang surnames, but there are three main branches, the first one is from the surname Qi, which originated from the emperor of the five emperors in ancient times. The second branch is surnamed Ji. The third branch also comes from the surname Ji, which originated from the princely states surnamed Ji with the name of Tang during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The Chronicles of the Clans is a book compiled during the reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, which classifies the imperial family as the first class and the relatives as the second class.

There are various theories about who the first started and the second person was:

1.One view is that the Shandong Cui clan and other Dashi clans are the third class, but it is not clear who the first and second places are.

2.Another view is that Tang Taizong ordered the editors to rearrange their filial piety names, and finally ranked Li and his cousin Changsun in the top two.

However, it is certain that the purpose of Tang Taizong's revision of the "Chronicles of the Clans" was to emphasize imperial power, and to rank and restrict the annual rent of different surnames and old families.

During the period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the "Chronicles of the Clans" was compiled, and the imperial family was designated as the first class, the relatives were the second class, and the Shandong Cui family and other Dashi families were the third class.

Originated from the surname Ji and the surname Qi.

The sixth grandson of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, surnamed Yiqi, was originally sealed in Tao, and later moved to Tang, to the time of King Wu of Zhou, Tang Hou was destroyed by King Cheng, and the descendants of the original Emperor Yao moved to the Du State, called Tang Du. After the Tang Hou was destroyed, the land of the Tang Kingdom was renamed to Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Cheng, and the descendants of Tang Shuyu also changed their Tang surname.

The prestige of these four families has been accumulated over hundreds of years, although it should not be underestimated, but it is still subject to the constraints of the emperor, the emperor is a symbol of supremacy, but there are many capable people in their family, and they have given the emperor a lot of help.

After several generations of accumulation, the prestige and connections of these families should not be underestimated, and the royal family also needs to rely on their prestige to help maintain stability, but no matter how high the status is, it is still not comparable to the members of the royal family.

In fact, it cannot be said that the status of those surnamed families is higher than that of the imperial family, in that case, the emperor would have taken action a long time ago. It's just that in the eyes of the world, the status of those families is really high, whether in terms of economy or politics, but later because of the war, these families also declined.

Many big families have gone through several dynasties, and the children of some families have talents in all aspects, which is one of the reasons why they have been prosperous for a long time, and the new emperor ascended the throne, everything had to start from scratch, he needed these families to help him stabilize social relations, and the major families generally carried out marriages, which penetrated and influenced various power structures very deeply.