李姓祖先谱系的建构刍议

Research on Construction of Genealogy Surnamed Li

先秦时期,"姓""氏"有别,秦汉以降,"姓""氏"合而为一。"老子"的族氏应为"赖(或厉)",老子是他称。老子被建构为李姓的祖先,应与西汉前期推行的黄老思想以及当时的社会变革有着极大的关系。因"理""里""李"音同义通,而皋陶曾任尧大理,故以此为依据,李姓又把自己的祖先延伸及皋陶。皋陶是颛顼的曾孙,而颛顼是黄帝的孙子,这样,李姓就被纳入到以黄帝为祖先的谱系。

In the pre-Qin period, the surname and clan were different. They were integrated into one since the Qin and Han Dynasties. Lao-tzu’s clan should be Lai（or Li）. Lao-tzu was a name called by others. The fact that Lao-tzu was worshiped as the Li’s ancestor should have a close relationship with the Huang-Lao thought and the social change in the early Western Han Dynasty. Because of homophonic synonymy among the Chinese characters 理, 里, 李, and Gaoyao served as a judge（reads as Dali in chinese） in the reign of Emperor Yao, so surname Li thought its ancestors could be Gaoyao, who was the great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu and Emperor Zhuanxu was the grandson of Emperor Huang. Thus, surname Li was included in the genealogy of the Emperor Huang.