In the early qin period

Li from formation, the race today already, henan area, through Li Er during the spring and autumn period, was the first official biography of li.Dan Li Er, word "Yang, outside word, Lao tze, born in chu county and complete in the remote village benevolence, worked in the zhou dynasty's history of" keep hidden room "(the official management books), is the spring and autumn when the thinker and the founder of Taoism, as the author of the book of Lao zi.Ancient books from said he was his drought-striken fields king (early in the spring and autumn), said the end of the spring and autumn of Confucius has asked to him, so he said he lived more than 160 years old or more than 200 years, because order to raise life of living so big age."Lao zi" also known as the daodejing, the Lao tze five thousand wen, is the main classics of Taoism, "dao" is used to illustrate the evolution of the universe, contains some simple dialectics factors, has a great influence on the development of Chinese philosophy, then both materialism and idealism sent absorbs the thoughts of Lao tzu from different angles.

According to the new tang book "records: li ancestor Li Lizhen is also home to marry Chen qi and's daughter,sonCall Li Changzu, Chen Guoren doctor, after living in the county.The son call Li Tongde Li Changzu.Tong, the son call Li Shuozong by chow hong gave fiefdoms (fief also called food city, manor or fief, emperor's slave society period or governors letter to qing, the doctor, together with the labor of slaves, land to the land.)In the county.Li Shuozong v sun dried plum, fruit characters, in term of the western zhou dynasty, marry life's baby girl apply, this is my father and mother Li Er.Ancestors Li Er s.j., the offspring of the word, in him, wei was in period, the doctor of dry.Li Zongzhi son lee as zhao general, Sun Lidui as zhao phase, the son of li jointed to Zhao Guoyang AnJun.Li shall have two sons: liu yun, Li Ke.

Li Ke Li Hong, the son of former qin (now in gansu, shaanxi area) prince who, its Sun Lixing race for qin general.Your far Li Xingzu lee haze, the son of the word, the high rank of zhao, cypress people (now the hebei tangshan), and then into the qin dynasty, the ancient.Lee haze has four sons: worship, bian, zhao, ji.They and their descendants were settled in foreign officer, and to separate the two: the eldest son Li Chong, President of west gansu (cure today lintao county in gansu province), sealing Zheng Gong south, west gansu room;Four son li ji, at the end of the warring states period as a teacher of qin li ji's second son Li Mu in zhao high rank, settled in Zhao Jun (now hebei handan city southwest), for Zhao Jun room.Later, about room is divided into 39 room, Zhao Jun room is divided into east, south, west three groups.

After Li Er, li population increase gradually.In the spring and autumn when the state (capital city in southeast of shanxi yicheng today) of governor li, from the warring states period when the marquess wen of wei (capital city in the northwest of the research today) Li Kui, are early move in the same region as today's shanxi li;The warring states period were Qin Zhaowang shu as county (now sichuan chengdu) where cure of bing, li was the first to move in this sichuan people;Li Er Sun Li with, to zhao (capital city in hebei handan today) high rank, were the first to move now hebei li;Lee with Li Hong Sun Like son, to the state of qin (capital city in the northeast now shaanxi xianyang) high rank, is among the first to move in today the li people of shaanxi;Li Hong descent Sun Li haze in Qin Guoren suggestion and doctor, the eldest son Li Chong create a room of west gansu, four son, second son of lee ji Li Mu pioneered Zhao Jun room, form the li clan of the tribe of the children of the most important and the most fundamental.

Han, The Three Kingdoms period

Han, The Three Kingdoms period, li people and open up a new settlements in many places.When the western han dynasty, li has move house shandong, Jiang Xizhe now, such as Li Er Sun Li solution, because in the western countries a few glue, commute density (now shandong gaomi county southwest);DE novo strategist to be appointed general Li Shu for yu zhang (now nanchang of jiangxi province) people.To the eastern han dynasty, three kingdoms, li more people towards all directions, the northeast has developed so far in liaoning area, such as the eastern han dynasty rate XiangYong li against pirates to liaodong (now liaoning liaoyang);Northwest has developed so far in ningxia area, some like the motor general lee urged for north (now southwest of ningxia hui);To the southeast and the development of jiangsu, such as the eastern han dynasty li nan wind Angle of waiting for the good of jurong (now jiangsu);Has developed so far south guangdong, hunan, hubei, for example, when the eastern han dynasty in secretariat of li jin for high (now guangdong), when the three Wu Danyang satrap Li Heng to xiangyang (now hubei);To southwest has been the development of yunnan, such as The Three Kingdoms shu han xing pavilion Hou Lihui for yu yuan (in yunnan chengjiang XianJing today) people.

In The Three Kingdoms, Wei Wen emperor "do officer person method", the state set big Chiang kai-shek, set chung cheng county, in charge of human-rights, form the system of holding power of minority.In an era of "family" oriented, "showed" no li in the ranks.Eastern jin and southern dynasties period, the arrangement of cremation of surnames, the northern shandong, xiaohan or region east of the huashan mountain in one county's most popular surname family called county, Kings, cui, Lou, lee, Zheng Wei most popular.Because the cremation family usually consists of ancestors have prestige, passed on keep the riches and honour, is often credited with celebrities, a male and female, different from ordinary people familiar with moral codes and performance in the form of the fashion, to talk about, read a paper consisting of various factors, such as the li has rise.However, the most popular herein is limited to "shandong" areas, shows that li is not the country's most popular at that time.The sixteen, successively appeared two li regime - dacheng cool countries and west countries, thus improving the li popularity.

Sui and tang dynasties

West gansu li wei, their to sui dynasty, generations of royalty, official positions, to sui end, both inside and outside the court already has the quite solid strength, so for the unprecedented development of the tang dynasty, li laid a solid foundation.In addition, this period of history, li except in areas like the one described above, and today the li of Inner Mongolia, zhejiang, anhui and other provinces and regions people go down in history, but in general, li is still developing mainly in the north.Li from the formation, race today already, henan area, through the hundreds of years' time, though others at the king's high rank, but because of the popularity is not high, therefore, was almost unknown.

Along with the aging father and son in fujian in the early tang dynasty, imperial court sent Chen, President of lingnan marching main army to the south of fujian province crackdown "pretty loud Lao chaos", after his son Chen yuanguang, put down the situation.Gushi county cadastral will assist Li Boyao with Chen and his son into the fujian zhangzhou development, achievements, local residents, their children are scattered in stream, ZhangPu in the counties.

Wu Zhou fled south tang avoided when the emperor queen wu zetian, 690 waste ZongLiDan, claim to be emperor of the holy spirit, and change the title for weeks, says Wu Zhou.Her appointment of judges, xing DaYu repeatedly, make the imperial clan, courtiers, many people are under discretion.In order to avoid disaster, imperial clan li people from chang 'an, luoyang, settle down to a more quiet jiangnan.From the "rebellion" migrating south tang dynasty tianbao fourteen years (755) winter, ping lu, a 22-year-old young man, three towns of hedong our troops stationed and its department of tubo, to whole guo-zhong Yang, arise and insurgency, eight years be pacified.The war, to the central plains people suffered an unprecedented disaster, large Numbers of people were forced to flee to jiangnan refuge, one batch of li people.Li Guangbi move house jinling tang dynasty general, state: the qidan ethnic Li Guangbi, tianbao dynasty hedong our time, with prince zhongwu of fenyang pacify "rebellion", in the work on a seal of king huai county.Out of the town of xuzhou in 762, into the sealing face of king huai, move house jinling (now nanjing, jiangsu province), from the sons of sweet, jinling lee, after yan in jiangxi, sichuan, yunnan, guizhou and other places.

Li Deyu fall dead cliff state began when emperor muzong of tang monk Confucian to cattle, headed by Li Zongmin and headed by Li Deyu between cronies for nearly 40 years of struggle, history says "NiuLi party".Tang acceded to the throne after Li Deyu for phase, Li Zongmin were dead, also by ding monk Confucian cattle.To tang passed, bulls, Li Pa is get rid of all, by Li Pa leader had been exiled for Li Deyu cliff state (now QiongShan county southeast of hainan province) where cure division, and death in 850, the sons of some local residents, to become the first move house li people in hainan.

The author believes that with the wang brothers from tang five dynasties, because of the central plains region long-term unrest, henan people WDG, king whose brother leads the uprising, finally created in fujian fujian China.Henan some li people along with the wang brothers in fujian, settled in putian, jinjiang, then branch including, shanghang, shaowu, desire, and then again to the west development, the distribution of guangdong and guangxi in some places.

Two song period

After the tang dynasty, for a variety of reasons, li from more frequently, a wider distribution.Among them, the number of migration is more when the song dynasty "getting" a warmth-loving creature.Northern song dynasty (1126) of the first year of getting your winter, 8 jin j Tokyo (now in henan kaifeng).In April the following year, xu jin guo noble captured bei song, the other is song qinzong and imperial clan, empresses, such as thousands of people, and treasures plundered large quantities of objects and the royal collection, northern song dynasty perish, history says "getting".In May 1127, the extract epurated from Zhao Gou in nanjing (now in henan shangqiu) proclaimed himself (namely meidefang), said the southern song dynasty.In October the same year, the government of the southern song dynasty yangzhou a warmth-loving creature, and then fled to zhenjiang, fled to hangzhou again.Many times during this period, the central plains people enough mass migration of a warmth-loving creature some follow meidefang Zhao Gou footprint, others are asking for, the total flow to the south of the Yangtze river region, many of them are li officials and sergeants.In addition, there is resistance to gold in the rebel li man passed a warmth-loving creature.Such as wangwu (now in henan jiyuan) li xing, leading a gold rebel resistance in the Yellow River on both sides of combat, led by li xing and his problems than people, southern cross joins the southern song dynasty.Li people migrating south to multiple inhabit, zhejiang, jiangsu, and moved to Shanghai, jiangxi, hubei, hunan, fujian, guangdong, guangxi and other places., for example, QinHuai Li Zengbo (now henan Wu Zhi) people, after the family across the river in jiaxing (now zhejiang), the Confucian ZongBaoYou years jinshi, tired after GuanZhi position makes the sea;Lee Fei move house from kaifeng hengchow (now hunan hengyang), ready and at the beginning of emperor DE - you know tam states;Kaifeng catering is famous for cooking mutton cook "mutton seven son li", to be good at with meat and all kinds of food, is famous for its soups such as "miscellaneous vegetables soup lee mother-in-law" migrating south in hangzhou after planting.

Much of Ming and qing dynasties, li had spread throughout the country.

Moved to Taiwan

In the Ming dynasty, li has basically all over the mainland provinces, starting from the late Ming dynasty, fujian, guangdong lee continuously someone dongdu Taiwan strait, to the island strives for the survival and development.In the Ming dynasty revealed years, pedro China and fujian people ikkan set village in Taiwan port (now the north port), ikkan has repeatedly called migration in fujian quanzhou and zhangzhou coastal reclamation of han Chinese to Taiwan.Kept for ikkan Li Kuiqi village at that time, this is the earliest li people.

In 1661, the son of ikkan zheng chenggong led soldiers tens of thousands of people into the Dutch occupied Taiwan, after eight months of fighting, driving out the Dutch invaders, on February 1, 1662 Taiwan.Since then, set up administrative institutions in Taiwan, zheng chenggong wasteland;After he went to the soldiers, were left there, joint development of Taiwan.In Taiwan by zheng chenggong for five months after death, his son zheng SiWei, holed up to Taiwan in 1680.Zheng and his son into the platform, platform period, there are many li people around to follow, in Taiwan and the development of Taiwan's career, make outstanding achievements.Only income "tainan zhijun, characters of the li people have: yeonpyeong ghost I do all the things, zalman year Li Jing, right XianFeng Town Li Mao, guard penghu right XianFeng Town deputy company commanders yi seok, led the troops for right town Leon, as by standing in a home si-zhong li, zheng caught two town lieutenant Li Fu pioneer battalion, prime minister officer fiere, prefect the lieutenant fang, lower division Dr GuoYiZhong town, swam a garrison troops in the town of camp sasihorfswe, swim a garrison town barrel gun by people such as li.Such as the history of Taiwan literature there are many pages about li zheng period of activities in Taiwan, such as: permanent calendar (Ming GuiWang by zhu Lang nianhao, began in 1647, and the son, zheng chenggong southeast block used to 1683) for eighteen years, the Ming dynasty heritage minister mao-chun li zheng via into Taiwan, settled in the tianfu yongkang;Forever through 22 years, gentle man li da into Ken bran Lang west fort pool;Calendar thirty-seventh year for ever, freshwater sense have allowed into low south (now taitung) gold mining.

After the qing government licensed Taiwan Yu Kangxi twenty-three years (1684), Taiwan province, soon, fujian, guangdong li heels immigrants have to central Taiwan;Yongzheng and qianlong, when the number of units is various, ever expanding.To the late qing dynasty, Taiwan's plain and basin has been to develop, develop into the stage of the li people have to XiangShan District.To this, such as "Taiwan post" literature has the detailed account, such as: kangxi twenty-four years, fort Li Ying into the middle of grass land reclamation;Kangxi twenty-nine years, min li Yang, into the fort fog in his hometown village;The thirty-second year of kangxi yun-long li min people, into the reclamation learn a fort (now learn a town in tainan county);Sixty years, kangxi YueJi righteous nation Li Huanting, at the next port of fresh water, pacify Zhu Yigui disorderly active;Kangxi dynasty, cantonese Li Zhengao, into Ken fort duo Hui swallow before Po zhuang;Kangxi years, yuan stream businessman, into the Taiwan province (now tainan) open gallery, sugar, "Li Shengxing";Kangxi years, nanan Li Bi, and Huang Fang Ken bran Lang west fort port tail Lao zhuang;Yongzheng nine years, YueJi righteous nation Li Boshou, o in changhua beam near zhuang, big unfortunately died when a west club's change;Yongzheng dynasty, li, Chen guo, CAI, especially, the surname, and reclamation in miaoli two fort garden;In early jiaqing, three surname, xie, li Lin into Ken east screw west fort Po dou zhuang;Jiaqing seventeen years and enjoy and others into the lee Ken chiara waste Po (now Hualien county);In the twenty-third year of jiaqing, li, wang and zhang SAN is 140 people, together opened up the foot well of new salt;Light seven years, li ji, food shortages and others into the settlers Po...All in all, more than three hundred years, fujian, guangdong li an endless stream in the Taiwan strait, after they settled in Taiwan, way, hill monarch field, made due contribution to development and construction of Taiwan.

Li to the overseas development, early immigrants to Taiwan, in addition to due to special historical reasons already formed li li and north Korea, Vietnam early years of the Ming dynasty is the earliest of emigration from fujian move house li people of Japan.These people familiar with the water, is good at sailing, go after ryukyu kingdom (southwest Japan's ryukyu islands), li, li jie, li jingyi, li jin, li long, li lu, Li Zhen, li hua, Li Mi, li yan, who is sent by the ryukyu kingdom, as a sense to the Ming dynasty, the qing dynasty.Ming will "records of the Ming dynasty hongwu 25 years (1392) give the ryukyu kingdom" min 36 surname good boat, make contacts tribute ", some of them are li people.The li people, settled in this village of Okinawa naha city suburb of long rice.Since the qing dynasty, especially the opiumThe warLater, some southern coast residents started across the sea far migration, the nanyang (southeast Asia region, namely "southeast Asia") to make a living, many of them are li people.According to relevant historical materials, the early next nanyang people, mainly in fujian zhangzhou, quanzhou, fuzhou, guangzhou, huizhou, chaozhou, guangdong history, qiongzhou (now hainan island), the male youths, they through Hong Kong, Macao, xiamen, shantou and other ports of exit, south by ship, experienced the tortuous, arrived in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and other countries.Due to their inability to afford the trip, the vast majority are "helpers" identity, be turned to nanyang dealers through intermediaries.At the time of Hong Kong, Singapore guang fu tai stack Ann, etc., is specialized is engaged in the abduction and trafficking of south China university of technology.After they got to the southeast Asian countries, is essentially a drudge, after some hard work, some slight savings in terms of economy, then do some small business, to have some money, business, not can succeed in nanyang.Go to nanyang people, though, is an endless stream, so that the waves.In southeast Asian countries have more people li Chinese, is to move in this period.

Li travelled to the west coast of the Atlantic European and American countries, also has a history of more than one hundred years.In 1848, the United States in the discovery of gold in California due to a lack of mining work, in the southeast China coastal recruitment of south China university of technology, including fujian, guangdong and other places of some li youths, the south China university of technology for the early development in the western United States has made a great contribution.Since their development in the United States, the population continues to increase, so that the United States as America li Chinese main settlements.The first world war, England and France in order to solve logistics labor shortage, by the Chinese government to allow, and in Shanghai, China, tianjin, Qingdao, henan and other recruitment of south China university of technology, 250000, there are a lot of li people.When the Soviet union was also in henan city always, Xia Yi county recruit workers, some of them are li people.

Vietnam, li nationality has a long history, from ancient times, there is a close relationship with China.Called/toe area south of the five ridges in China, in ancient times, the emperor YaoNa caresses, had to pay the toe.

At the beginning of the 2nd century BC, south yue emperor ling/toe, governs the present north Vietnam.13, when the emperor, in one of the secretariat of the ministry of, and in the present of guangdong, guangxi and Vietnam's northern, central, northwest place today in Hanoi, the eastern han dynasty moved cure dragon knitting (in Hanoi today east, river north shore), until the sui dynasty, once said state, long-term in county.The tang dynasty, toe to annan guard house.(the five dynasties in the 930 s when the rising) independent, starting form the feudal state.Northern song dynasty for its king in king county, the southern song dynasty to annan's king, then according to their countries to kofi annan, until 1802 of name change to Vietnam.Is due to the close relationship between China and Vietnam, starting from qin and han dynasties, the central plains region continuously moved to there a lot of people, including li people.The middle of the tang dynasty, emperor taizong of seed Li Xiang the ancient kingdom of li Ming, as kofi annan is to protect, sons who kofi annan.When the northern song dynasty, Li Xiang Sun Ligong aggregates in the li dynasty of ancient origin Ren Dian command before, live in annan beijiang comfort, there is a kapok tree was struck by lightning, near traces of stains, hence he caused to a paragraph of text, there are 18 children into ", "world peace", the language of use of people's psychology of superstition FuRui, lee should be the king's opinion.In 1009, li lie towards the emperor died, Li Gong aggregates were put for emperor, yi dynasty establish Vietnam, celebrates its pick city, change a city called dragon Hanoi (today).The more Li Chaoli 8 main 216, applies a system of politics, economy and culture of generally modeled on China.Among them, had long used the means to strengthen the rule of surname, to give active civil officials of the military commanders li, so that li population has expanded, developed into Vietnam's most popular.

Li north Korea, north Korea has a long history and culture, since ancient times have friendly exchanges with China.The middle of the 7th century, woosong unified Korea, is closely related to the tang dynasty.According to the Korean famous geologist li activism "choose" in: "since ghost through China and at the end of the last name, but only about the cremation of slightly, ordinary people are all too."Established in 936, after the koryo dynasty, "imitation of the Chinese nation, surname in the eight-way, and all men have a name."In the visible, the ancient north Korea's last name, is follow the surname of the tang dynasty.Because the neighbors China and Korea was as close as lips and teeth, close relationship, many Chinese people moved to north Korea for a long time, some of them are li.Lee is said to be the founder of north Korea's general yi sung gae, one of their progenitor was a liaodong lee, fled after the war and moved to the north.General yi sung gae is a man of noble birth, this is the wang Korean generals, involved in the military center, a military coup in 1388, the old king, lixin lueck, waste chang stand ready and make the following year, the return to power.In 1392, by ready and let the king, acceded to the throne, change title of Korea, Seoul.Lee's north Korea through the king in 519, in 1897 changed the title to Korea, to 1910, the Japanese occupation of Korea lee's demise of north Korea.Lee in the rule of north Korea's 500 years, had ordered the wang Korea gave wang shall restore its original name, at the same time take "given name" way to strengthen the rule, give a lot of people surnamed li, li population so that north Korea has increased dramatically.

Of the sons of late Ming dynasty, Ming will ru-song li and hence sea-faring heritage minister lee and so on one batch of li people refuge in north Korea.Nowadays, commonly used in north Korea's 143 surnames, li as the second most popular.