1, Yao He (777-843), a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty. Born in Shanzhou (now Shanzhou District, Henan Province), Yao Chongzeng, the prime minister, is a grand nephew. In the eleventh year of Yuanhe (8 16), he was awarded the martial arts master book. He has served as a censor, a secretariat of Shanxi and Hangzhou, a doctor of criminal justice, an official in service, and finally a secretary. The world calls Yao Wugong, and his poetry school is called "martial arts style". See the epitaph of Yao He's life unearthed in Luoyang.

2. Yao Monk (499-583) was born in Wu Kang County, Xing Wu County (now Deqing County, Zhejiang Province). The father of Yao Cha, a physician and historian in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. I have been eager to learn and read literature and history since I was a child. Liang Wudi worked as a servant in Linchuan for six years (534), joined the army in Jiangzhou Cao Tian, and worked as a Chinese medicine practitioner in a temple.

Exploring the origin of Yao surname

1, which originated from the Qiang nationality, came from Yi Zhong, where the western Qiang was burned as the leader of the Qiang department in the later Han Dynasty. According to the historical book "Book of Jin", the leader of the Qiang nationality in Xiping County was originally a descendant of the Western Qiang Burning Dang nationality in the Western Han Dynasty, and later changed his surname to Yao. Among the descendants of Yao, the chief changed his surname and called him Yao.

2. Originated from Mongols, it came from Mongolian Imperial Ministry in Yuan and Ming Dynasties. According to "A Brief Account of the Surnames of Mongolian Eight Banners in Tongzhi Imperial Clan in Qing Dynasty", there was a 50-year-old Mongolian Rao in Ming Dynasty who was given the Han surname Yao because of his meritorious service to the imperial court, and was called "Yao".

3. Originated from Manchu, from the Nuzhen Family Department of Jin Dynasty. According to the historical records "A Brief History of Tongzhi Imperial Clan in Qing Dynasty Manchu Eight Banners Surname", Yao Jiashi, Manchu, was born in Yuejiabu, a Nuzhen in Jin Dynasty, and was born in Han nationality. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was captured by the Wuhuan Department of Xianbei in Liaodong, and then gradually evolved into the Jurchen of Liaodong, living in Yehe (now Yehe Township, Lishu, Jilin), and later the official Han surname was Yao.

4. It originated from the De 'ang nationality, and came from the De 'ang clan in the Ming Dynasty. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, when the central government vigorously promoted the movement of changing land into streams, Yao Yingbing, a deputy general of Yunnan Province, was placed in Yao 'an, so the Han surname was Yao's.