Historical Sources
"Zuo" origin:
1. Clan by official name. Zuo Shi, originally a Zhou Dynasty historian. When King Mu of Zhou Dynasty, there was Zuo Shi Rongfu, and during the Spring and Autumn Period, King Ling of Chu had Zuo Shi Yixiang, and there were Zuo clans thereafter.
2, according to the "Surname Examination" and "Lvwan", there was a left country in ancient times, with the country for the clan, the Yellow Emperor's minister Zuocher for the next. It is said that Zuocher is the beginning of the surname Zuo.
3, from the Jiang surname, for the Spring and Autumn period, after the Qi state public. According to "Guangyun", in the Spring and Autumn period, Qi's male family had the left and right dukes, and the descendants of the left dukes took the word "left" as their family name, forming the Zuo family name.
4. Surname by official name. According to the "Yuan and the compilation of surnames", in the Spring and Autumn period, most of the vassal states had a left historian, and the descendants took the name of left as their family name. King Wei of Chu had a left historian Yixiang, King Mu of Zhou had a left historian Rongfu, a left historian old, all for the left historian, after the official for the clan. They are the ancestors of the Zuo clan.
5. In the Spring and Autumn period, there was the surname Zuo in the princely state of Song.
6. In the Spring and Autumn period, there was a Zuo family name in the princely state of Wei.
7, from other tribes or other tribes to change the surname. Ming and Qing Yunnan Yongchang Province Tengchong Ting (now Tengchong), Menghua Province (seat in today's Weishan), etc. Tusi have a left family name, is the Yi ethnic group; Qing Manchuria eight banners surnamed Hashu's, later changed to the left family name; Yuguru Choros family, the Chinese family name for the left; Northern Song Dynasty Jews stayed in China (mainly in today's Kaifeng, Henan Province) who have a left family name in the descendants of the present Weishan Yi people in Yunnan Province, more than the family name.
The founder of the family name
Zuo Che. Zuo Che was an official at the time of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times. It is said that he helped the Yellow Emperor to cast three tripods in the sun of Jing Mountain, but regrettably, the Yellow Emperor passed away on the day of the tripod's completion. Zuo Che grief, tears like rain, so he brought the yellow emperor's crown, a few staff for sacrifice, to comfort the spirit of the yellow emperor in heaven. Zuocher's action, undoubtedly for people of nature, is to gain the respect of the world. It is said that Zuocher is the direct descendant of the ancient Zuo country, because the Zuo country people have no transmission, so the Zuo family name is Zuocher as the originator of the family name.
Migration and distribution
Zuo surname in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there is Zuo Ru, Zuo Yan father Serving Zhou as a doctor, the Spring and Autumn Period Lu has Zuo Ren Ying, Zuo Quming, Zuo Shi Zhan, Jin has Zuo Shi, the Warring States period Yan has Zuo Bo Tao. It can be seen in the pre-Qin period, the left has been active in the Western Zhou capital - Haojing (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) and Lu (today's southwest of Shandong Province), Jin (today's Shanxi Province), Yan (today's northern Hebei Province) and other places. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were four people with the name of Zuo Xian ("Dictionary of Chinese Personal Names of All Ages" combines the four, which is wrong), one of them was appointed as the county governor of the nine ministers of Luangya (today's Linyi, Shandong Province) Zuo Xian, another Zuo Xian, who was later given the title of Marquis of Guan'nei, and his children and grandchildren inherited the title to stay in Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province), and the remaining two people only have the words, regardless of the words. In addition, because of the King of Huainan's external family name of Zuo, there were Zuo Wu, Zuo Xiu ministry King of Huainan, and his relatives in the history of this time there is also a woman - the widow Zuo Ajun. This shows that the Zuo family name had already settled in the area of present-day southern Anhui at this time. East Han Dynasty in the history of the left more and more, Zuo Sheng, Zuo Xiong uncle and nephew for the South County Nieyang (now Zhenping, Henan Province), Zuo Yuan for Chenliu (now Kaifeng, Henan Province), Zuo Bo for the East Lai (now Yecheon, Shandong Province), Zuo Ci for the Lujiang (now belongs to the Anhui Province), Zuo Chuan for the Qu'a, Wu County (today's Danyang, Jiangsu Province) people. Another two branches of the left family is worth attention, one for the Qinghe country (now belongs to Hebei Province) Wangfei, after the noble Han An Di mother of Gandan (now belongs to Sichuan Province), Zuo Xiao'e family (its half-brother Zuo second, Zuo Dasheng in the Qinghe country as a Langzhong). Another for Henan Pingyin (now Henan Province, Mengjin) people Zuo Li family (his brother Zuo said, Zuo Sheng were appointed to the South Township Marquis, his brother Zuo Min, Zuo Jue also served in the dynasty), these two families are prominent, making the Zuo family name to become one of the famous surnames in the north at that time. In addition, it also shows that the south of Anhui, Sichuan, Jiangsu and other places have been settled by people with the surname Zuo. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Zuo family name flourished rapidly in present-day Shandong and Henan, and later prospered as the Zuo family name of Jiyang County. North and South Dynasty to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Zuo family name due to avoiding chaos, career, livelihood and other reasons, and gradually sowed in the Jiangdong all over the world. After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Zuo family name is more widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, the two lakes, the two GuangZhou and other places have the Zuo family name people into the migration. At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Zuo surname as one of the Ming Dynasty Hongdong Dahuishu migrant surnames, was relocated in Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Northeast provinces and other places. After that, there were people with the surname Zuo living in Yunnan, Guizhou and Taiwan. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Zuo surname of the two lakes moved to Sichuan along with the trend of filling Sichuan with Hunan and Guangdong. Nowadays, the Zuo family name is widely distributed in the country, especially in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Sichuan, more than this family name, the above four provinces of the Zuo family name accounted for about fifty-nine percent of the national Han Chinese Zuo family name population. The Zuo family name is the 142nd Chinese family name in the ranking, with a large population, accounting for about 0.086% of the national Han population.
Family celebrities
Zuo Qingyan: Yongxin people in the Song Dynasty, seventeen years old, Qin Hui wanted to wife, Qingyan solid resignation, so ten years do not give promotion. He was a doctoral candidate in the Imperial College of Science and Technology.
Zuo Xiong: South County Nieyang (now Zhenping, Henan Province) people, the Eastern Han Dynasty scholars, ministers. He was a scholar and minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was promoted to the rank of filial piety scholar and moved to the rank of assassin of Jizhou. He dared to expose and report the "greedy and cunning" people of the rich. Later, he served as a counselor, a minister, and moved to the position of minister of the state (the same position as the prime minister). He revered the scriptures and arts, repair the Imperial College, so that the Imperial College flourished for a while.
Zuo Biao: Pingyin people in Henan Province, the Eastern Han Dynasty, a prominent eunuch. At the beginning, he was a small yellow door history, and later, because he conspired with Shan Chao and other five people to eliminate the foreign relatives, he moved to become a permanent retainer, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Shangcai. After gaining power, he became more and more arrogant, and his brothers and relatives became officials of counties and states, and they invaded and suppressed the people's properties. He was also the first person to commit suicide after being denounced.
Zuo Ci: Lujiang people, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was rumored to have a divine way and performed in front of Cao Cao. Ge Hong claimed that he was the master of his grandfather Ge Xuan.
Zuo Si: the word Taichong, Linzi (now northeast of Zibo, Shandong Province), the Western Jin Dynasty literary scholar. His talent is not met, only to the Secretary Lang. The poems made by the ancient lyricism, more indignation and injustice. Ten years of conceptualization Fang wrote "San Du Fu", the scholar even pass on the writing, a moment actually made Luoyang paper expensive. The collection of Zuo Taichong set.
Zuo Ding: Jiangxi Province, Yongxin, Ming Dynasty Minister. Scholar. Authorized royal historian, governor of Shanxi. The official Qingqin compassionate people, outstanding reputation. Known for his good writing, has the reputation of the left tripod hand. Officials to Guangdong right Counselor, the left legitimate imperial historian.
Zuo Quan: Hunan Liling people, senior generals in the ****. He graduated from the Huangpu Military Academy and stayed in the Soviet Union to study military affairs. After returning to China, he served as an instructor at the Central Red Army Military School, an operational staff at the headquarters of the First Army, and chief of staff of the First Army Corps. After the Long March to Shaanbei, he became the acting head of the First Red Army Corps. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan, he served as deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, and was killed in action in 1942 at the age of 36 in Liao County, Shanxi Province (now Zuoquan County).
Zuo Qiu Ming: A native of the state of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, he was called Blind Zuo by the later generation because of his blindness. According to legend, he served as Lu's chief historian and wrote a biography for the Spring and Autumn Annals, which became the Spring and Autumn Annals Zuo's Biography, or Zuo Zhuan for short; he also wrote the Guoyu (The Language of the Country). Confucianism thought that Zuo Qiu Ming good and bad with the saints, so Confucius made the Spring and Autumn for Su Wang, Qiu Ming for Su Chen. The description of the husband's will and make a biography, is the left of the Spring and Autumn Annals.
Zuo Bo Peach: Spring and Autumn Yan people Zuo Bo Peach sheep horn mourning, high quality talent horizontal. When the feudal lords struggle for supremacy, fish and flesh of the people, willing to save the water and fire. I heard that the king of Chu Zhuang is a wise man, and they **** to go. Road storms, snow, hunger and cold, Bur Tao sick and weak, angle of exhaustion, help each other under a hollow tree, Bur Tao advised to give up, angle of the sad intolerance. Two deaths are better than one live, finally understand the reason, food on the road, one step, three times, tears into a river. To King Zhuang of Chu, urgent return to find, Bo peach frozen puppet tree, angle sad pain. After the anniversary of the death, the angle sad face of the wilderness deep worship, weeping, praying.
Zuo Xiao'e: East Han Gandharan, Qinghe Wang Liu Qing Ji. There is talent, like rhetoric. The Emperor gave her to the King of Qinghe and gave birth to a son, Liu Hu, who succeeded to the throne as Emperor An and was honored as the Queen of Filial Piety and Virtue.
Zuo Junbi: Luzhou (now Hefei, Anhui Province) people, the end of the Yuan Southern Red Turbans generals. Was entrenched in Luzhou for more than ten years, for the Tianwan regime Bianliang province chief. Once surrendered to the Yuan, and then surrendered to the Ming.
Zuo Guangdou: Anqing Tongcheng (now in Anhui Province), the Ming dynasty straight minister. He was a straight official in the Ming Dynasty. When he was serving as a royal historian, he rejected the eunuchs, and later impeached the *courtier Wei Zhongxian, who was killed by Wei.
Zuo Liangyu: Linqing, Shandong Province, the late Ming general. In his early years, he fought against the Qing army in Liaodong, and then entered the Central Plains to suppress the late Ming peasant insurgents. He fought with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for many years, and was promoted to General of the Thieves, and later appointed as Uncle of Ningnan. He died at the age of forty-six in the second year of Shunzhi's reign.
Zuo Maodi: Laiyang, Shandong Province, Southern Ming officials. Chongzhen scholar, the Southern Ming Hongguang years as the right commander of the Imperial Household, the governor of Yingtian, Huizhou. After entering Beijing to negotiate peace with the Qing court, was under house arrest, refused to surrender and was killed.
Zuo Zongtang: Xiangyin, Hunan Province, a minister of the Qing Dynasty, 1860-1865, suppressed the Taiping Army with great success. He was later appointed Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu to suppress the Western Twisted Army and the Shaanxi and Gansu Hui people's uprising, and in 1876, he defeated the Russian and British-backed Alcobar invasion force, and was promoted to Minister of Military Affairs (the same position as the Prime Minister) and transferred to Governor of Liangjiang. There is the Complete Works of Mr. Zuo Wenxiang.
Zuo Bao Gui: Fei County, Shandong Province, Hui nationality, the end of the Qing Dynasty general. During the Sino-Japanese War, he led the army to Pyongyang, North Korea, to resist the Japanese. The army fought a bloody battle and set off cannons with his own hands. After the cannon killed in action.
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