MAO early, mainly in the northern development.As early as the spring and autumn period, MAO family due to civil unrest, has move house in south China.Tang five dynasties later, MAO except in henan, hebei, Beijing, shandong, shanxi, gansu, mainly according to fill in the south.Therefore, since the northern song dynasty, one thousand years, MAO's most famous people in the south.Its distribution for: this quxian, huangyan, zhejiang, hangzhou, yuyao, jiangshan, wenzhou, zhuji, hence, SongYang, ningbo, xiaoshan, Wu Xing, local, wujin, kunshan, changshu, jiangsu province, yixing, wuxian, jiading, Yang lake, taicang, Shanghai, anhui, hefei, nanchang, in jiangxi province xinchang, fengcheng city, water, province Yang, hunan changsha, at pingkiang, xiangtan, fujian changtai, sussing out, public security, macheng, hubei, guangxi fuchuan, yunnan kunming, chengdu, sichuan province, hoanya, branching channel, the garden.empress, almost in jiangnan.

Taiwan's MAO, ranked ninety-eighth, are most popular, many live in tainan, followed by hsinchu, nantou, changhua, etc.MAO in Taiwan during the five dynasties, from shanxi, kosi first moved south, migration into the fujian again, then again in the qing yongzheng years over the sea, into the in Taiwan.According to the literature of Taiwan, tea into the table as follows, the qing dynasty yongzheng dynasty (AD 1735), hairy, guo, CAI, especially six surname, li, Chen, and Ken today estates in miaoli county town;Light years (AD 1723), a fellow villager zhangzhou stream county the field Mao Shijian, filial piety friend si Taiwan FuXue Confucian temple, its seed is still rife in liujia township in tainan county.