The birthplace of the Bao surname, Qi, is in present-day Shandong Province. Bao Yi, on the other hand, is the area of Bingcheng County in Shandong Province. The Bao surname later moved to Shandong, Shanxi and Jiangsu.
The Bao surname has a small number of historical celebrities, typically represented by the Spring and Autumn Period Qi state doctor Bao Shuya, Western Han Dynasty counselor Bao Xuan, Eastern Han Dynasty hydrologist, lieutenant Bao Yu, the Southern Song Dynasty literati Baozhao, Bao Linghui, the Yuan Dynasty medical doctor Bao Tongji, the Qing Dynasty poet Bao Gaogao.
Bao names
1. Bao Shujia of the righteousness
Bao Shujia was a great physician of Qi in the Spring and Autumn period, known for his knowledge of people. He was the master of Duke Xiang's concubine brother, Gongzi Xiaobai. When he was young, he used to do business with Guan Zhong, and often took care of Guan Zhong, who loved to play smart, for the sake of friendship. Guan Zhong later became the teacher of Duke Xiang's other brother, Gongzi Gao. Duke Xiang of Qi was tyrannical and capricious. Guan Zhong fled to Lu with Duke Xiang, while Bao Shuya fled to Ju (present-day Ju County, Shandong Province) with Duke Xiaobai. After Duke Xiang of Qi was killed, the two dukes seized the throne. Duke Xiaobai tricked Guan Zhong and the others, and returned to his country ahead of Duke Kao, and was established as the ruler of Qi, known as Duke Huan.
In 685 BC, a war broke out between Qi and Lu, and Lu was defeated. Duke Bao Shuya of Qi led an army and traveled to Lu on behalf of Duke Huan of Qi to express the will of Qi. Duke Gao and Duke Huan of Qi were siblings, so Qi could not kill Duke Gao in person, so it asked Lu to do it on its behalf. The Duke's ministers, Guan Zhong and Zhaohu, were the enemies of Duke Huan, so they had to be brought back to Qi to be disposed of. Lu then did what Qi wanted, killed Duke Tang, and handed over Guan Zhong and Zhaohu to Bao Shuya. He was unwilling to return to Qi to be punished, and committed suicide. The two of them were sent back to Qi with Bao Shuya as prisoners.
When he arrived at the border of Qi and Lu, Bao Shuya released Kuanzhong. After returning to Qi, Bao Shuya said to Duke Huan of Qi, "Guanzhong is a world of talent, you must not, I can help you to govern Qi, but Guanzhong can help you to dominate the world." Duke Huan of Qi, regardless of the former hatred, personally went out of the city to meet Guan Zhong, appointed him as a prime minister, and from then on Qi embarked on the road of hegemony.
Kuan Zhong once said with emotion, "I was born by my parents, and I was known by Bao Shuya." The friendship between the two was celebrated throughout the ages, and it was inseparable from Bao Shuya's generosity and good advice.
Bao Shuya's descendants were hereditary ministers in Qi, and only fled to other places when Tian usurped power in the early Warring States period.
2. Bao Zhao, Song writer of the Southern Dynasty
Bao Zhao (about 414-466 AD), the word Mingyuan, Donghai (county rule of present-day Cangshan South, Shandong Province) people. He was a literary scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the 16th year of Yuanjia (439 AD), he visited Liu Yiqing, the king of Linchuan, with his poems, and was appointed as a retainer of Linchuan State, and then served as a minister of the Zhongshu (middle secretary) and a magistrate of Moling in the time of Emperor Xiaowu of the Song Dynasty. In the fifth year of Da Ming of Emperor Xiaowu (461 A.D.), Liu Zixu, the king of Linhai, was appointed as the former military counselor, so he was called Bao Counselor.
Bao Zhao's literary achievements are manifold, poetry, fugue, ekphrasis, and there is no lack of masterpieces, but the main achievements in poetry. Bao Zhao's poems are mostly musical poems, and mainly seven-character poems. Some of the poems express his sadness and indignation because of the division of the country and the power of the traitors, which makes it difficult for him to realize his ambition and unrecognized talents; some of the poems reflect his stubbornness and arrogance in the face of the dark reality; some of the poems directly reflect the suffering of the people in the midst of war and turmoil. In addition, Bao's poems such as Dai Dongwu Yin and Dai Bitter Heat Line depicted the hardships of military life and expressed the ambition of the strong soldiers to serve the country, which had a profound influence on the border poems of the Tang Dynasty. Bao Zhao's poems are mainly in five-character and seven-character lines, in which the seven-character lines are rhymed in intervals, a change from the previous weakness of rhyming lines, which laid down the basic form of the seven-character poems for the later generations, and the famous poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Li Bai and Cen Sen, were y influenced by it. His ekphrasis and lefu poems were also unique and elegant. There is Bao Senjun Collection, which has high literary value.
After the death of Emperor Xiaowu, Liu killed the former emperor Ziye and set up his own army, and Liu Zixun rose up to kill Liu, and Baozhao died in 466 AD amidst the chaos.