In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yao's surname had moved south to the south of the Yangtze River, and the aristocratic family left Nan 'an (now Nan 'an, Fujian) and.
There have been residents of Yao surname in Shanghai for a long time, and tombstones of Yao surname in Tang Dynasty have been unearthed in Kongzhai in Qingpu and Jimingtang in Jiading. Yao Tingrui, Jinshan Fengjing, built the Haishou Temple during the Song Jianlong period. In the third year of Song Tiansheng (1025), Yao and Liu moved from Jurong to Chongming Xinsha for farming. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yao Nan, the general of point governance, crossed Hengshan Mountain in Songjiang. Now there are still many Yao surnames in the village in the north of the mountain. Yao Yun's ancestors moved from Zhongzhou via Zhejiang to Nanhui Zhou Pu, saying that "Yaojiatang came first, then Zhou Pu Town"; The Yao family in Baiqu Port (now Sanlintang) has been famous as a doctor and professor since the Southern Song Dynasty. The Yao family in Wusong was a giant family in Jiading at the end of Song Dynasty. Yao moved from Pinghu to Huating Wubao (now under Jinshan Gallery) at the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty. Yao, an unknown scholar, avoided chaos in Fengxian Taojia, and Yao Zihai lived in Huating. After the Ming dynasty, more people moved. According to the Yao family tree, the Yao family moved to Zhou Pu in the 16th year of Jiajing (1537).
By the end of 1994, there were 108500 people surnamed Yao in the city, ranking 25th.
The surname of Yao in Shanghai is recorded, such as Yao Shunyuan in Wusong, who served as the southeast lieutenant of Pingjiang House (now Suzhou) at the end of the Song Dynasty, guarding Wusong and resisting Yuan. Yao Tixin, a native of Jinshan, Ming Dynasty, was in charge of punishments in the early years of Jiajing. He refused to accept huge bribes and was executed by eunuch Wei Dajing. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Yao collected biographies of the literati's poems in Jinshan Gallery and compiled them into Song Feng Ji. Yao Peiqian is the author of Song Gui Reading Hall Collection, Thoughts on Classics and History, Summary of Mirror Mirror, Outline of Ming History, etc., and has extensively collected folk customs and compiled Rongcheng Song, which has left valuable information for studying the social customs and folk culture of ancient Shanghai. The Draft of Jinshan County Records compiled by Yao You is the blueprint of Jinshan County Records compiled by Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. Yao Shizi, Zhang Yan, a native of Jinshan, is a famous bibliophile in Jiangnan after Liu Yazi. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, his son donated 50,000 books to the country, among which there were many rare books, including the Chongzhen edition of Songjiang Fuzhi, the Diary of Zhang Xiaoshan, a park scholar, and the manuscripts of Hanshu and Houhanshu approved by famous scholars. After browsing these books, Chen Yi, then the mayor of Shanghai, specially made these books for Yao. The plow developed by Yao Fenglou, a skillful craftsman of Fengxian 4th Regiment, is especially suitable for farming in coastal areas, and is called "Yao Jiali", so that hundreds of farmers in Fiona Fang compete to use it. Yao Nan of Jiading Jiangqiao focuses on eradicating mulberry diseases. Wen Yao, editor-in-chief of Shanghai County Records during the Republic of China, and his uncle Yao Minghui, who was in charge of Zhengfeng College of Literature, were experts in Shanghai history records. Yao Minghui's father, Yao Wendong, was once the attache of Li Shuchang, the Minister to Japan, and was in charge of the East Literature Museum run by the Embassy. He was the earliest organizer of China's study in Japan in modern times. In the eighth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1882), it was learned that the Japanese were plotting to attack Korea, that is, telegraphing the imperial court. Let me seize the opportunity to station troops in Tianjin so that Japan will not dare to move. Having lived in Japan for a long time, Yao Wendong is well aware of Japan's ambition of invading China, that is, collecting information from various sources, writing a book "The Essentials of Japanese Military Affairs" and submitting it to the imperial court for decision-making. After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, Wendong lamented that "loyalty and loyalty have not been exhausted all his life, and I wish I could not donate it to the end".
Yao, who lives in Shanghai, is a person who has been fighting for judicial independence in China for a long time. Yao Shuijuan, a famous Yue Opera performer; During the "August 13th" War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, battalion commander Yao Ziqing led a bloody battle in Baoshan. There are senior economists Yao Nai and Yao Xitang. Yao Xitang, executive vice president of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, is a young and middle-aged scholar who has made contributions to the country. Yao, an old Huizhou merchant who runs a famous silk shop in Shanghai in partnership with others; Shi Yao, the owner of Yao Shunxing Flower Shop (now the predecessor of Fujian Zhonglu Qunlian Flower Shop), 1924 was founded in Yinxiang Port and is famous for its double-line brand cotton tires.