郝氏圖騰釋義

【釋義】 郝，「大火也」。郝由「赤」字和「邑」部組成。在甲骨文和金文中，「赤」是由「大」和「火」組成的會意字，本義是大火。

【起源】 契曾助禹治水有功，被舜任為司徒，掌管教化，居於商（今河南商丘）。相傳其母因吞玄鳥（燕）卵而生下他，故被賜姓子，相傳為火正，又稱閼伯，所以子姓也叫赤姓。商族後來不斷的壯大，終於在契的 14 代孫湯的領導下，推翻了夏桀的統治，建立商朝。到了商朝末期第 30 代王帝乙時，郝省氏的裔孫期，被封於太原之郝鄉（今山西太原），以封地為氏，就是郝氏。

• 得姓始祖： 帝乙、郝子期

• 始祖地： 郝鄉（山西太原）

• 郡望堂號： 太原、京兆；曬書堂、豐文堂

• 當今排序／人口： 第 89 位／約 264 萬

• 宋版百家姓排序： 第 71 位

• 現存家譜： 28 部

Interpretation of the Hao (郝) Clan Totem

Definition of the Character: "郝" (Hao) means "great fire." The character is a combination of "赤" (Chi/Red) and the radical for "邑" (Yi/City or Fief). In Oracle Bone and Bronze scripts, "赤" is an associative compound formed by the characters for "Great" (大) and "Fire" (火), signifying a massive blaze or the intense color of a great fire.

Origin: Xie (the ancestor of the Shang people) assisted Yu the Great in taming the floods and was appointed Minister of Education (Situ) by Emperor Shun, residing in Shang (modern-day Shangqiu, Henan). Legend says his mother conceived him after swallowing the egg of a "Black Bird" (Swallow), thus he was granted the surname Zi. He served as the Huozheng (Master of Fire), also known as Ebo, which led the Zi surname to also be known as the Chi (Red) surname. The Shang tribe grew in power and eventually overthrew the Xia Dynasty under the leadership of Tang (Xie's 14th-generation descendant). During the reign of Emperor Yi (the 30th King of Shang), a descendant named Qi was enfeoffed in Haoxiang (modern-day Taiyuan, Shanxi). His descendants adopted the name of this fief as their surname.

• Ancestral Founders: Emperor Yi, Hao Ziqi

• Ancestral Homeland: Haoxiang (Taiyuan, Shanxi)

• Prefectural Seats and Hall Names: Taiyuan, Jingzhao; Shaishu Hall, Fengwen Hall

• Current Rank / Population: 89th most common / Approx. 2.64 million

• Song Dynasty "Hundred Family Surnames" Rank: 71st

• Extant Genealogies: 28 volumes