There are six main origins: 1. From the surname Ji, after Tang Yao, the surname was based on the fiefdom. According to legend, before Yao proclaimed himself emperor, he was first granted the title of Tang Dynasty, and later changed the title to Tao (now Taoqiu, northwest of Dingtao, Shandong), so it was called Tao Tang clan. One of his descendants is called Tao. ② Comes from the surname Ji. After Tang Yao, the surname was named after professional skills. Before Yao became the leader of the tribe, he lived in the northwest of Dingtao, Shandong Province, and made pottery as a profession. The place was called Taoqiu. Some of Yao's descendants took their surnames from their ancestors' occupations, forming the surname Tao. ③ Take occupation as your surname. Among the seven clans of the Shang Dynasty, there was the Tao family, all of whom were engaged in pottery. After the Spring and Autumn Period, common people who were engaged in the pottery industry also had people with the "Tao" skill as their surname. ④Comed from the surname Yu, after Yu Shun, the surname was based on the official. The descendant of Shun, Yu Yan, once served as an official in Taozheng, an official position in charge of the production of pottery utensils. His descendants were named Tao after their ancestor Shangguan. ⑤Comed from the Tang surname, changed to Tao to avoid imperial taboo. According to "The Biography of the History of the Song Dynasty" and "The Story of the Eastern Capital - Tao Gu Biography", Tao Gu in the Song Dynasty was originally named Tang. In order to avoid the name taboo of the ancestor of the Jin Dynasty (Shi Jingtang), he changed his surname to Tao. His descendants passed down the surname Tao, forming a branch of the Tao family. ⑥ From other ethnic groups who changed their surnames and from minority ethnic groups. For example, the Tao family, Tuohe Luo family of the Manchu people, the Tuqin family and the Gurung family of the Daur people, and the Tokul family of the Xibo people all have the Chinese surname Tao. The Bai, Dai, Jing, Miao, Yao, Yi, Bulang, Mongolian, Hui and other ethnic groups all have the surname Tao. Ancestor: Tang Yao. Migration: The Tao surname was originally born in Dingtao, Shandong. Before the Zhou Dynasty, the surname Tao did not appear in history books. It was only in the Spring and Autumn Period that the first figure recorded in history appeared, namely Tao Ying, a woman who was passed down through the ages with her moral principles. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Tao surname gradually moved south to the present-day Lankao area in Henan Province. After multiplication and development, it formed the largest county in the history of the Tao surname - Jiyang County. During the Western Han Dynasty, Tao She and Tao Qing served as officials in Chang'an, and Tao Qinggong was granted the title of Marquis of Kaifeng. His descendants inherited his position and settled in the local area. During the Han Dynasty, people with the Tao surname gradually moved south to Jiangsu and Anhui, and settled in the south of the Yangtze River. For example, Xuzhou Zhoumu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Tao Qian, the Marquis of Liyang, were natives of Danyang (now Xuancheng, Anhui). During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the gentry from the Central Plains moved southward on a large scale. The Tao surnames from Henan and Shandong began to move south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The Tao surnames who originally lived in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui also crossed the river and entered Zhejiang and Jiangxi. During this period, many people named Tao emerged in the Jiangnan area, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty Shizhong Taiwei, Tao Kan from Poyang (now Boyang, Jiangxi), and later moved to Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). The famous poet Tao Yuanming was His great-grandson. Tao Zhenbao, the Prime Minister of Xiaochang in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Tao Long, the Marquis of Jin'an, were both from Moling (today's Nanjing, Jiangsu Province). After continuous reproduction, the Tao surname formed a situation where the clan had a large number of people and prosperous descendants in the above-mentioned places. Therefore, in later generations, the Tao surname was named Danyang and Xunyang. The number of his county is Wangtang. Before the Song Dynasty, the development of the Tao surname was still based on the above two places, slowly spreading throughout the south of the Yangtze River, and a branch of the Tao surname entered Hunan. During the Song Dynasty, the Tao surname developed in the north, and there were people with the Tao surname in Shaanxi, Henan, Lu, Jin, Hebei and other places. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, war smoke spread all over the Jiangnan area, and some people with the Tao surname moved to Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Tao surname was one of the surnames of the Ming Dynasty immigrants who immigrated to the Great Locust Tree in Hongdong. They were relocated to Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Beijing and other places. The Tao surname from the two lakes followed the immigrants from Huguang and Sichuan. The tide settled in Sichuan and then spread to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. During the Qing Dynasty, the Tao surname had spread throughout the country, and some people crossed the sea to Taiwan and then spread overseas. Most of the Tao people in Taiwan migrated from Fujian during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At present, most people with the Tao surname live in Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang provinces, and the population of the Tao surname ranks 106th in the country. County Hope: Jiyang County Jiyang County was established in the Han Dynasty, northeast of present-day Lankao, Henan Province, and Jiyang County was established in the Western Jin Dynasty. Its governance was in Jiyang (today's Dingtao, Shandong), and its jurisdiction was similar to the east of Lankao, Henan, and the south of Dongming, Shandong. After moving south, it was abandoned. Danyang County The Qin Dynasty established Danyang (Yang) County, and its administrative seat was Wanling (in the northeast of Dangtu in Xuancheng, Anhui today). Tang Dynasty merged into Dangtu. Xunyang County is Xunyang. In the Tang Dynasty, present-day Jiujiang was called Xunyang County, and Jiangzhou was once called Xunyang County. The place of governance was Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). Hall name: Wuliutang Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in Chaisang, Xunyang. He once served as Jiangzhou Jijiu, Zhenjun, and Peng Zeling. Due to social unrest and political corruption, he resigned and went into seclusion. There are five willow trees next to the house. He named himself Mr. Wu Liu and wrote "The Biography of Mr. Wu Liu". Other hall numbers: ① County Wangtang numbers: Jiyang, Danyang, Xunyang. ②Self-established hall names: Aiju, Cunyin, Zhongxiao, etc. Generation: Tao's generation in Ningxiang, Hunan: Heyue elites are sincere and generous, Zhong Zu is the founder and successor of Junwei, prosperous and prosperous for thousands of years, noble and virtuous, the reformers are prosperous and beautiful, and they bless the virtuous and prosperous descendants.

Tao's generation in Luzhai, Guangxi: good accumulation brings happiness to the whole family, and kindness to grandchildren brings prosperity from generation to generation. The Tao family in Liuyang, Hunan Province: The virtues of the world are carved, the achievements of the nine sects are celebrated, good talents are brought to the country, peace is achieved for the country, and the family is strengthened. Tao's generation in Wuhan, Hubei: Qimingmao Shoude, Weihongjia orthography. The Tao family in Changfeng, Anhui Province: Accumulate virtue and pass on happiness, and keep hard work and strong will. Tao's generation in Nanchang, Jiangxi: Shangyun has good luck and good luck, the virtuous and virtuous call his thread, and he studies and cultivates Confucianism. Tao's generation in Suining, Sichuan: The imperial guard succeeds, the great country is established, the knowledge of Tianxi is learned, and the world is prosperous. Tao's generation in Suihua, Heilongjiang: literature is loyal and faithful, sanctification is passed down forever, learning, thinking, and Taoism are true for thousands of years. Tao's generation in Weihai, Shandong: Jia Chuan Zun Junze, Lun Xian Qi family promotion, Enyi Wei Si Guang, Fan Zhang Zhi Bao Cheng. Celebrity: Tao Ying, a woman during the Spring and Autumn Festival. She is from Lu, the daughter of Tao family, her place of origin is unknown, she is a young widow, and she is raising an orphan. The people of Lu, who were engaged in spinning and weaving, heard about its meaning and wanted to marry each other. Ying Ying heard about it and wrote "Song of the Yellow Bird" to express his unparalleledness. See "Biography of Women" for this. Tao Qian (132-194), a general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The name is Gongzu. A native of Danyang (Dangtudong, Anhui). During the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was the governor of Xuzhou and once suppressed the Yellow Turban Rebel Army. He later served as Xuzhou Mu, and occupied present-day southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu. In 193, Cao Cao attacked his father in the name of revenge because his father was attacked and killed by his generals. When they entered Pengcheng (north of Xuzhou, Jiangsu), the two armies fought. Cao Cao's army killed hundreds of thousands of men and women in Surabaya, and he was defeated and retreated to Tancheng. Cao Jun could not attack Tan, so he turned to Suiling and other places. In 194, Cao's army attacked again and occupied Langya, Donghai and other places. He was about to retreat to Danyang, but Cao's army returned to Yanzhou because of Zhang Miao's rebellion. Soon he died of illness. Tao Kan (259-334), a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The courtesy name Shixing (or Shiheng) was born in Xunyang, Lujiang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi) in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Young and lonely. At first he was a county official, but later he was praised for his filial piety and integrity, and was appreciated by Zhang Hua. He was appointed as a doctor and gradually rose to the rank of general. He was promoted to governor of Jingzhou to suppress the peasant uprising in Jingxiang area. Because of Wang Dun's jealousy, he was demoted to the governor of Guangzhou. When I have nothing to do in the state, I transport hundreds of bricks outside the house every morning and bring them back inside at night to learn from my hard work and inspire myself. After Wang Dun was defeated, he returned to Jingzhou and sent troops to attack the Western General. In the third year of Xianhe (328), Su Jun rebelled. He launched an army to attack and was elected as the leader of the alliance by Wen Qiao and others. After the rebellion was over, he was promoted to the position of Shizhong and Taiwei, and was changed to the title of Duke of Changsha. Later, he served as the governor of Jiangzhou and the military commander of eight states. After his death, he was given to Da Sima as a gift. In the army for forty-one years, he was diligent in his official duties, brave and decisive. It is advocated to cherish the "divided yin" and oppose "wandering around in idleness and drunkenness, living without benefit in time, and dying in obscurity after death". He is also good at writing, and he writes sparsely from far and near. He always answers in his own handwriting, and his writing flows smoothly without any stagnation. "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" contains two volumes of records, which have been lost. The surviving articles "Abdication List" and the remaining pieces "Xiangfeng Fu" are published in "Yi Wen Lei Ju". Tao Yuanming (365-427), a poet of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His courtesy name is Yuanliang, his nickname is Qian, his courtesy name is Yuanming, and his life name is Mr. Jingjie. A native of Chaisang, Xunyang (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi). He was born into a declining noble family. He first served as Jiangzhou Jijiu. He resigned and returned home because he was dissatisfied with the dirty officialdom. Later, he served as Zhenjun and Jianwei. At the age of forty-one, he was appointed Peng Zeling. He only lasted for more than eighty days. Because he was unwilling to cooperate with the gentry society, he resolutely retired. At the end of Yixi's campaign, he was appointed Zuo Lang, but he failed. Today there are more than 120 poems and more than ten articles. These works reveal the contradiction between the poet's political ideal of "helping the common people" and the "great hypocrisy" of the gentry society, criticize the darkness of politics and the cruelty of the rulers at that time, and express the poet's full of grief and anger and "King Kong's angry eyes" style of resistance. Therefore, Gong Zizhen said, "Moxin poets are actually plain, two parts Liang Fu and one part arrogant." Lu Xun also said: "Tao Qian is great just because he is not 'quiet' all over." Representative works in this area include: "Reading the Classic of Mountains and Seas·" "Jingwei Titles Weimu", "Ode to Jing Ke", "Reciting Wine", "Giving Sheep a Long History", "Animation of Ancient Times", "Drinking Drinking", "Ode to Feelings about Scholars Not Encountered", etc. Because he lived in seclusion in the countryside for a long time, worked hard on the fields, was close to farmers, and lived in poverty, he was able to sincerely praise labor and simple rural life, and in this way he opposed the dirty official career. Representative works in this area include "Come Back and Come Back", "Returning to the Garden and Living in the Fields", "Harvesting Early Rice in the West Field in the Mid-September of the Gengxu Year", "Migration", etc., and "Poetry of the Peach Blossom Spring" is a reflection of his long-term rural life. In summary, the paradise of "Autumn ripens and the king's tax" embodies the poet's ideals, reflects his strong dissatisfaction with the dark reality, and also expresses the farmers' wishes to a certain extent. But this is just a kind of utopia after all, and it bears the imprint of Lao Tzu’s “small country with few people”. In addition, his works also promote negative ideas such as happiness and peace of mind. Tao Shi's artistic achievements are very high.

He summarized the fine tradition of five-character ancient poetry since the Han and Wei dynasties, highly developed the line drawing technique of ancient folk songs, and was good at expressing his deep feelings with simple, natural and extremely refined language and seemingly ordinary but intriguing images, forming a plain, natural and elegant A unique style with timeless charm. His poems and prose also swept away the elegant and elegant style of writing since the Western Jin Dynasty. They were written freely and without fuss, "flowing out from the heart with no trace of axe" (Li Gefei's words were quoted in "Lengzhai Night Talk"). Due to the proliferation of formalist literature, Tao Yuanming had little influence in the Six Dynasties. "Wen Xin Diao Long" did not mention him at all, and "Poetry" only listed him as a "middle grade". But after the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Xin Qiji, Lu You, and Huang Zunxian in the late Qing Dynasty all respected him and were influenced by him to varying degrees. There is "Tao Yuanming Collection" handed down from generation to generation. Tao Hongjing (456-536) was a Liang Taoist thinker, medical scientist and writer in the Southern Dynasties. The courtesy name is Tongming, his nickname is Huayang Seclusion, and he is a native of Moling, Danyang (now Nanjing City). At the age of ten, I read Ge Hong's "Biography of Immortals" and studied it day and night, and immediately became determined to maintain health. My father was harmed by his concubine, so he never married. If you have read thousands of volumes, you will feel ashamed if you don’t know anything. During the Song and Song dynasties, he was invited by the imperial court to serve as a lieutenant general in Zuowei Hall. In the tenth year of Yongming (492), Shangbiao resigned and lived in seclusion in Juqushan (Maoshan). After Emperor Wu of Liang came to the throne, he could not make appointments, but he often went to consult on important matters in the court, and he was called "the Prime Minister of the Mountains" at that time. His posthumous title is Mr. Sadashiro. He is good at Taoism, loves landscapes, is good at piano and chess, is good at calligraphy, is proficient in medicine, and is good at parallel prose. His poems are more famous for "I asked what is in the mountains and wrote a poem to answer it" and "Written on a Cold Night". The original collection has been lost. The Ming Dynasty compiled "Tao Yinju Collection". He also wrote books such as "Zhen Gao", "Compendium of Materia Medica" and "Bu Que Ji Hou Bai Fang". Tao An (1315-1371), Mingchen. The word owner respects. A native of Taiping, Anhui (Dangtu, Anhui). "History of the Ming Dynasty" records that he was "less sensitive and knowledgeable in classics and history, especially good at Yi". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, people were promoted. Later, he led his elders to welcome Taizu to Taiping, and was awarded Zuo Si Yuan Wai Lang to stay in the shogunate. Knowing Huangzhou (Huanggang, Hubei Province), rents are lenient and corvee is avoided, and the people enjoy their work. In the first year of Wu's reign (1367), he became a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. He was the chief official in formulating rites and regulations, and formulated laws and regulations with Li Shanxing and others. At the beginning of Hongwu's reign, he was ordered to make imperial edicts and compile national history. There is "Collection of Tao Xueshi". Tao Zongyi (1316-?), a writer in the early Ming Dynasty. The courtesy name is Jiucheng, and the name is Nancun. A native of Huangyan, Zhejiang. Lives in Songjiang. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he failed to win the imperial examination, so he gave up his ambition. Work articles, especially calligraphy. He cultivated an area of ??the garden, and when he had free time, he entertained himself with pen and ink. He often made notes on leaves and stored them in basins. It took ten years to compile the "Stop Farming Records", which recorded many Yuan Dynasty statutes, anecdotes, cultural relics and peasant military deeds in the late Yuan Dynasty. , also discusses novels, dramas, calligraphy, painting, and poetry, which has extremely high academic value. In the early Ming Dynasty, he served as an instructor for a time. He also wrote "Books and History", "Four Books Preparatory Notes", "Nancun Poetry Collection", etc., and compiled notes on previous novels into "Shuo Yong". Tao Shu (1779-1839), minister of the Qing Dynasty. The courtesy name is Yunting, a native of Anhua, Hunan. Jiaqing Jinshi. During his official career, he was the governor of Anhui and Jiangsu, and the governor of Liangjiang. Daoguang Zhong successively managed Anhui's lakes and rivers, planned water conservancy in Taihu Lake, and dredged the sea mouth; piloted grain shipping and eight Shanghai transportation regulations; he also took charge of Huainan's salt administration, intensified rectification and reform, and performed fifteen tasks on the list. His works include "Memorial", "Collected Poems", "Diary of Shu Shou", "Chronicle of Tao Huan Gong", and "Collection and Notes of Tao Yuanming's Poems". Daoguang died in the 19th year. Posthumous title Wenyi. Tao Chengzhang (1878-1912), a modern democratic revolutionary. The courtesy name is Huanqing, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. In his early years, he determined to fight the Qing revolution and went to Beijing twice to assassinate the Empress Dowager Cixi, but failed. He once went to Japan to study, and after returning to China, he participated in the founding of the Liberation Association and Shaoxing Datong Normal School. In the 33rd year of Guangxu (1907), he joined the Tongmenghui. The following year, he edited "Min Bao". Due to discord with Sun Yat-sen, the Guangfuhui Federation was established in Tokyo in the second year of Xuantong (1910) and he served as vice president, splitting with the Tongmenghui. After the Wuchang Uprising, he returned to China and served as a senator of the Zhejiang military government. Later he was assassinated. There are "History of Chinese Nationalities" and "Chronicles of Zhejiang Cases". Other people named Tao include Western Jin general Tao Yu; Eastern Jin general Tao Zhen; Tang poet Tao Han; Five Dynasties Southern Tang painter Tao Shouli; Song minister Tao Yue, poet Tao Bi, painter Tao Yi; early Yuan poet Tao Fuheng; Ming painter Tao Cheng; Qing Dynasty poets Tao Shan and Tao Yu, poet Tao Shu, calligrapher and painter Tao Yu, painters Tao Yu, Tao Fu, Tao Fu, etc. Modern Tao people include the revolutionary Tao Zhu, the People's Liberation Army general Tao Yong, the patriotic general Tao Zhiyue, the Kuomintang official Tao Xisheng, the educator Tao Xingzhi, the ethnologist Tao Yunchui, the economist Tao Dayong, the sociologist Tao Menghe, and the meteorologist Tao Shiyan, folk art researcher Tao Rui, painter Tao Yuanqing, film actor Tao Jin, Beikun actor Tao Xianting, etc.