hè 贺
百家姓 · Bai Jia Xing
Surname Origin
The origin of the surname "He" is as follows: 1. It was changed from the surname "Qing". According to "Tongzhi - Clan Strategy", during the Spring and Autumn Period, Gongsun Qingke, the grandson of Duke Huan of Qi, had a son named Qing Feng, who took his father's name as the surname. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Qing Chun who served as Shizhong. At that time, Liu Qing, the father of Emperor An of Han, was the King of Qinghe. To avoid the taboo of the King of Qinghe's name, Qing Chun changed his surname to "He" (because the characters "He" and "Qing" have similar meanings). Therefore, the surname "He" only emerged after the first year of Yongchu (107 AD) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. 2. It was changed from a compound surname of the Xianbei ethnic group. According to "Wei Shu - Records of Official Titles", during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the compound surname "Helan" from the northern part of the Dai region moved south to Luoyang with Emperor Xiaowen of Wei and then settled in the Central Plains, and later adopted the Han surname "He".
Famous Story
He Zhizhang (659–744), styled Jizhen and self - titled "The Mad Scholar of Siming", was a native of Yongxing, Yuezhou during the Tang Dynasty. He was a well - known calligrapher. He passed the imperial examination during the reign of Empress Wu Zetian and served as the Gentleman - attendant to the Crown Prince and the Librarian of the Palace, so he was then called "He the Librarian". He was good at writing grass and official scripts and was also proficient in literature. His poems had an elegant and meaningful style with occasional ingenious ideas. He was open - minded, good at joking, and fond of drinking. He frequently associated with Li Bai, Zhang Xu and others. Later, he became a Taoist priest and lived in seclusion by Jinghu Lake. He lived to be eighty - eight years old.
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