Other ethnic minorities also have Miao surnames, which belong to sinicization and are changed to surnames. Miao people are distributed in Miao, Korean, Uygur and other ethnic minorities. In the policy of keeping seedlings and the movement of returning to the native land carried out by the central government during the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, most of its sources were changed to Han Miao.
2. The source comes from the ancient doctor of Miao's father, who belongs to the name of the ancestor. Because Miao's father doesn't use the "four diagnoses" to diagnose diseases and the "eight methods" to treat diseases, even without any operation, he can only be regarded as a witch doctor. Now it seems that he probably used psychotherapy or psychotherapy.
According to legend, he has treated many patients and achieved remarkable results. It is not too much to call him "doctor". Therefore, people regard him as an "ancient doctor".
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In the Western Han Dynasty, a county was established, and in the Three Kingdoms period, in the first year of Baoding (Xu Bing, AD 266), Sun Wu set up Huiji County in Dongyang County, and the county was ruled in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province at that time. In the seventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (Xin Mao, AD 147 1), Jinhua Prefecture led Jinhua, Lanxi, Dongyang, Yiwu, Yongkang, Wuyi, Pujiang and Tangxi, so it was called "Eight Wu".
Yili is named after the famous Ili River. Yili is an ancient and magical land with a long history, developed culture and many nationalities. Since ancient times, it has been closely related to Xinjiang and the mainland. As far back as the Han Dynasty, the history book Hanshu recorded Yili in the name of "Ili".