柳,刘

Liu Zongyuan (773–819) Zi: Zihou. He was from Hedong (now Yongji County, Shanxi Province), so he was also known as Liu Hedong. He was a litterateur of the Tang Dynasty. He passed the imperial examinations during the Zhenyuan period of Emperor Dezong and served as a censor. Later, he was demoted to be the Magistrate of Yongzhou and then the Governor of Liuzhou, so he was also known as “Liu Liuzhou”. He was the main proponent of the Ancient Prose Movement in the Tang Dynasty. His poems and essays were good at depicting landscapes and reflecting reality, with a fresh and incisive style. His collected works include Collected Works of Liu Hedong and Records of the Dragon City. Liu Jingting (1587–1670?) Real name: Fengchun. He was from Qinzhou. He was a famous storyteller in the late Ming Dynasty. His original surname was Cao. To avoid his enemies, he wandered around the world. Resting under a willow tree, he changed his surname to Liu. He once joined the military staff of Zuo Liangyu. After Zuo's defeat, he also joined the army of Admiral Ma in Songjiang but ended up frustrated. He was good at storytelling, which could make people stop and listen with great pleasure and forget about fatigue.

Migration and Distribution The Liu surname is derived from the name of a fief. According to expert research, there are more than 80 million people with the Liu surname in the world, which can truly be described as "Liu (meaning 'flow' in Chinese homophone) is everywhere". The Liu family established the Eastern and Western Han Dynasties and ruled the country. As a result, their descendants were distributed in as many as fourteen places, including Tianshui, Zhongshan, Nanyang, Pengcheng, and Dongping. During the late Han Dynasty and the Three - Kingdoms period The Liu people in the Central Plains continuously migrated in all directions to avoid the "Rebellion of Dong Zhuo". During the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties The Liu people migrated south in large numbers and had a great influence in the south of the Yangtze River. During the Tang and Song Dynasties The Liu surname had spread across both the north and the south of the Yangtze River and was prosperous throughout the whole country, which remains the case to this day. From the late Ming Dynasty People with the Liu surname from Fujian and Guangdong began to move to Taiwan one after another, and later many of them went overseas to earn a living.