1, the surname Yuan won. In other words, Li originated from Li's surname, and his blood ancestors were (Li's surname, Ji's surname). He was appointed as Shundali (the official in charge of criminal law), so the official family was named Li (the old saying "Li" and "Li" are interlinked), first Li and then Li. When he arrived in Shang Zhouwang, Li Zheng, a hereditary official, was killed because he told Zhou Wang and angered him. His son Li Zhen fled with his mother Qihe, and later settled in Lu Yi, eastern Henan. In order to survive by eating plums (the fruit of woody plants) along the way, to repay "Mu Zi" for saving his life, to avoid the pursuit, and to manage, He Zizhen began to change his surname to Li, and since then China has had Li's surname. The ancestor of this surname is Loretta Lee, and Li Er is the eleventh.
2. Li Shu's totem theory. Li Yin became an official in Dali and got his surname Li. Later, he took refuge for food. Because they eat wild plums, they are cultivated as domestic plum trees, and plum trees are regarded as sacred trees, that is, totem trees. Therefore, all descendants of Li often plant Li as a symbol next to the house, and this habit has been preserved to this day. Li Baijia had a peach and plum garden, and many plum trees were planted in the palace garden of the Tang Dynasty.
3. The source of Ji's surname said. In Shang Dynasty, there was a descendant of Zhou surnamed Ba, who lived in Zhong Lishan (now northwest of Changyang, Hubei). After the destruction of commerce, Ba people were named Ba Zi State (now Banan District, Chongqing). In 306 AD, Ba people established a great country in Sichuan, which was called Cheng Han in history. This was the first dynasty established by Li in China.
It originated from giving surname and restoring Li. During the Shu and Han Dynasties, Zhuge Liang gave local ethnic minorities surnames such as Zhao, Zhang, Yang and Li. During the Han and Jin dynasties, nomadic minorities in the north attached themselves to it, and some Xiongnu and Xianbei people were given surnames such as Liu and Li. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, after Emperor Xiaowen moved the capital to Luoyang, he implemented a comprehensive sinicization policy in culture, and Xianbei people had a compound surname, Shili, named Shili.
5. It originated from Manchu, belongs to Chinese, and changed its surname to surname.
6. Originated from Xibo nationality, it belongs to Han culture and changed its surname to surname.