According to legend, the Yellow Emperor is the son of Shaodian, whose real name is Gongsun. It was renamed Ji because it lived on the bank of Jishui, and its descendant Hou Ji was honored as the ancestor by Zhou people. After (the son of), Wang An was destroyed by the State of Qin, and his descendants fled to the Jianghuai area to take refuge. Locals don't distinguish between "Han" and "He", and later they mistakenly wrote why, so later generations used it. He, one of the "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu" in Tang Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the clans in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers were collectively called "Nine Surnames of Zhaowu", namely, Kang, Shi, An, Cao, Shi, Mi, He, Huo Xun and Wu Di.

From adopting or giving a surname. For example, there was a man named He Miao in the Han Dynasty whose real name was Zhu and his surname was He. After Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang, Xianbei's compound surname was He Ba, and his single surname was He. In the Five Dynasties, Tuguhun was also a member of Xianbei. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Tubo carved the son of Sonan in Ming Dynasty, and was given He by the imperial court, and then he was given. Take the first name as the surname. According to the Records of the Five Elements of Hanshu, those who had Zhu Miao in the Western Han Dynasty took his name as his surname and changed his surname to He Mingmiao. His descendants continued to form a noble family and became another branch of He.