Liu surname, the earliest Liu surname originated from Yao's descendant Liu Lei, so Liu Lei is the ancestor of Liu surname. Liu overlooks Pengcheng, Jiangsu. Liu Jian established the Western Han Dynasty, the Later Han Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty.

Liu, whose surname is Qi, has two homologous branches: one comes directly from Liu Lei and was formed in Xia Dynasty; In the early Spring and Autumn Period, a scholar society composed of descendants of Liu Lei was formed.

Second, celebrities

1, Liu Bang (65438 in 256 BC+February 28-65438 BC+June 095 BC 1), a native of Fengyi County, Pei County (now Li Zhongyang Street, Fengxian County, Jiangsu Province). An outstanding politician, strategist and military commander in China history, the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty, and one of the great pioneers of the Han nationality and culture, he made outstanding contributions to the development of the Han nationality and the reunification of China.

2. Liu Yuxi

Liu Yuxi, a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, calls himself a "Luoyang native" and a Zhongshan native. The first one is Zhongshan, Wang Jing and Liu Sheng. A writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty, he was called a "poet".

3. Liu Ji

Liu Ji was born in Nantian Township, qingtian county (now wencheng county, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province), so he was called Liu Qingtian, a strategist, politician and writer in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and a founding father of the Ming Dynasty. After three years of Hongwu (1370), he became a sincere person, so he was also called Liu Chengyi. In the ninth year, Wu Zongzheng granted a surname posthumously, posthumous title Wencheng, who was later called He Wencheng Gong.