Xiao first originated in shandong province.

The pre-qin period, xiao race because the country was destroyed and diaspora, family small in number and weak in strength.In the qin and han dynasties, social unrest, force of 12 xiao, migrating into the first development period.Xiao after long-term move, from the original settlement around a large number of breeding, and celebrities, han played havoc is the typical representative, his early assisted liu bang uprising, after the invasion of xianyang, pay attention to the collection of the qin dynasty law books, county registered permanent residence, social information such as a large number of materials, a armband to western han dynasty, and help eliminate recruited liu c, his sons also respectively as officials in the han, are official, made great contribution to the prosperity of the han dynasty, so prosperous family, looked at the big county formed in this period.

In The Three Kingdoms period of wei and jin dynasty, the war is frequent, and jin dynasties period of the "chaos" of always fine, cremation of migrating south, and the migration of ethnic xiao, moved to southern provinces, enabled the family to grow further, northern and southern dynasties, xiao dignitaries in the world, established the qi and liang dynasties, thriving, talented people, make xiao development has entered a peak.

Tang and song dynasty years, the society is relatively stable, economic prosperity, xiao people scattered on the letters on the one hand, on the other hand, due to the emergence of new components, i.e. living in north China and northeast of the qidan nationality of jin xiao to join, thus become a dignitaries, the large family.During this time xiao also have moved in fujian and guangdong settlers, at this point, before the tang and song dynasty, xiao has been widespread in China's shandong, henan, hebei, anhui, Beijing, fujian, guangdong and other regions.

Yuan Ming period, xiao move house in southern sichuan, hunan, jiangxi, hubei and other provinces, celebrity constantly make xiao house, since the last years of the reign of emperor kangxi, xiao people move into the Taiwan many times, some still far abroad, xiao really over in China around the north and the south.