Xu surname, Chinese surname, belongs to the Shun Emperor Yao Chonghua Yao surname Concubine surname Ji surname descendants of the descendants of the surname, is a multi-ethnic, multi-origin surname. "Hundred Family Names" ranked twentieth.
In 2007, it ranked 28th on the surname list, with a population of about 8,984,000, accounting for about 0.56% of the total number of Chinese, mostly in Jiangsu, Shandong, Yunnan, Guangdong, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and other provinces, and the Xu clan in these seven provinces accounted for about 55% of the Xu population of the Han Chinese in China.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics in 2014, Xu ranked 26th on the surname list.
Surname origin
It comes from the surname Ji
For the descendants of Wu Huisheng Lu, Lu Huan's descendant Lu Wei, Lu's lifelong son six people: the eldest son Yue Fan, Fan is a surname, sealed in Kunwu, that is, the ancient emperor Qiu Huan Zhifu, for the Kunwu clan, the leader of the Kunwu clan during the Yao Shun period Xu You was the great sage of the world, buried in Jishan after his death, and many descendants took Xu Yu as the ancestor of the Xu clan.
Xia Zhi Kunwu was destroyed by Shang Tang, and his descendants migrated to Xuchang, Henan.
It is from the surname Jiang
He is a descendant of the Yandi Shennong clan. The Xu clan and the Qi clan are the same ancestors, after the ancient four Yue Boyi.
The "Four Yues" (Yao Shunshi Sifang tribal leader) is a four-branch ethnic group developed from the Jiang surname, who formed an alliance with the Ji tribe and developed in parallel with the "sub-surname" Shang clan.
The allies, led by tribes surnamed Ji and Jiang, defeated the King of Shang and established the state of Ji, Western Zhou.
During the reign of King Cheng of Zhou, he divided the princes on a large scale, among which the old land of Shang also divided some princely states with the surname of Ji and the princely states of the surname of Jiang, and the State of Xu was one of the princely states surnamed Jiang who were divided by Zhou, and its ancestor was Uncle Wen, also known as Xu Wenshu.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Xu was called a vassal of the State of Chu, and was destroyed by Chu in the early Warring States period. After the fall of the State of Xu, the descendants took the state as their clan and called it xu, and the history called Xu the authentic. The Xu clan of this tribe held Gaoyang (高阳, in present-day Gaoyang, Hebei) as their county seat.
Derived from the Ji surname
It is from Ji Qixu, the son of Duke Wen of Wei during the Spring and Autumn Period, and belongs to the clan named after the ancestors.
Spring and Autumn period. The Wei monarch Wen Gong ji had the son Ji Qihu , also known as Ji Qixu , and later served as the Grand Master of the Wei Dynasty , in charge of conscription and dispatch of apprenticeship , as well as field cultivation and other labor.
Ji Qihu assisted his father Wei Wengong in implementing the policy of reducing taxes, reducing criminal law, and sharing hardships with the people, so that the Weiguo economy gradually prospered and quickly became stronger. Ji Qihu's older brother was the famous Duke Ji Zheng of Weicheng, who was deposed by the Grand Master Yuan, but later restored the throne with the help of the Spring and Autumn overlord Jin Wen Gong Ji Zhong'er.
The most commendable thing left by the Great Situ Ji Qihu of the Weiguo To future generations is that he began to have the compound surname of "Situ". Among the descendants of Ji Qihu, there are those who take the ancestral name as the surname, during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, the words "Hu" and "Xu" were false, so they were also called Xu, but they were pronounced hǔ (ㄏㄨˇ); and more descendants of Ji Qihu were called surnames by their official titles, called Situ.
Originated from the Manchus
It belongs to the Sinicization and changes the surname to a surname.
(1) Shunburu's multi-crowned Han surname is Xu;
(2) After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Yilari clan was mostly crowned with the Han surname xu and so on.
Originated from other ethnic minorities
It belongs to the Sinicization and changes the surname to a surname. After the Qing Dynasty, the Xu clan was distributed among the Tusi, Li, Yao, Yi, Tujia, and Achang ethnic minorities in SichengFu (present-day Lingyun, Guangxi), as well as the Hui, Mongolian, and Korean ethnic minorities in the northern region.
Most of its sources were changed to the Han surname Xu during the policy of restraint and the reform of land during the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
Get the surname Ancestor
Xu You, also spelled Wuzhong, was born in 2155 BC and died in an unknown year. During the Yao Shun period, Emperor Yao respected his ability and deliberately gave up the throne to him, but he stubbornly refused to accept it, living in seclusion on Jishan Mountain, farming and eating.
Emperor Houyao again asked him to be the governor of Kyushu, and he went to the water to wash his ears, saying that he did not want to hear it.
After his death, he was buried at the top of Mount Mi, and Emperor Yao named him "the god of Miyama, with food on the Five Peaks, and the ancestors of the future generations", so the descendants called Jishan Xuyoushan.
More than 4,100 years ago, Xu You was active under the Ji Mountain in the Yingshui River Basin, which was the land of Xu Guo in those years, so most of the Xu clan people in later generations regarded him as their ancestor.
Migratory transmission
For more than 500 years, from the founding of the State of Xu in the early Zhou Dynasty to the fall of the State of Xu at the beginning of the Warring States period, the Xu people were mainly active in Henan, including the states of Chu in the south and the States of Zheng, Jin, and Wei in the north, that is, in present-day Hubei, Shanxi, and southern Hebei.
During the Qin, Han, Jin, and Northern Dynasties, the surname Xu developed rapidly in Henan and Hebei, forming the two major counties of Gaoyang and Runan, which were famous in history, and were famous surnames in the northern region.
During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Xu people had already moved to Anhui, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan and other places.
In the great migration from the Gushi area of Henan in the early Tang Dynasty, the Xu surname spread to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Gansu regions, entering Fujian for the first time, and the Xu surname entered Guangdong during the Song and Yuan dynasties, and involved the Taiwan region in the late Ming Dynasty.
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 520,000 people with the surname Xu, accounting for 0.74% of the country's population, ranking 26th.
The distribution is mainly concentrated in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 39% of the total population of Xu surname, especially Henan is the largest province of Xu surname, with nearly 80,000, accounting for about 15% of the total population of Xu surname.
It is secondly distributed in Shandong, Jiangxi, Hebei, Zhejiang, Fujian and Hunan, and the Xu surname in these six provinces is concentrated by 45%. The whole country has formed a gathering area of Xu surnames of Yu, Xiao, and Su.
In Song Yuanming's 600 years, the total growth rate of the Xu population was 17%, the net growth rate of the national population was 20%, and the population growth rate of the Xu surname was slower than the growth rate of the national population.
The distribution in the whole country is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shandong, and the Xu surname in the three provinces accounts for about half of the xu surname population in the country, especially Jiangsu is the largest province with the Xu surname.
It is secondly distributed in Jiangxi and Anhui, and the Xu surname in the two provinces is concentrated by 15%.
During the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the focus of the national Xu surname was mainly in East china and Central China, and it migrated east and south with Henan and Anhui as the center.
The overall pattern of the distribution of the Xu surname changes and the flow of its population mainly around Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangxi and other provinces.
vital statistics
The contemporary population of Xu surname has reached more than 7.3 million, accounting for 0.5% of the total population. 58%, is the twenty-eighth surname in the country.
In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of xu surnames has increased from more than 600,000 to 6.5 million, an increase of 11 times, but it is still lower than the average growth rate of the national population.
In the past 600 years, the Xu surname has mainly flowed from the eastern region to the south and southwest, and the Yunnan region has become an important gathering area for the Xu surname.
At present, the Surname Xu is mainly concentrated in the five provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Fujian, Henan and Taiwan, accounting for about 40% of the total population of the Xu surname.
It is secondly distributed in shandong, Hebei, Yunnan, Anhui, Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces, and concentrates 28% of the population surnamed Xu.
The whole country has formed four areas centered on Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Yuluji, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Yunchuan.
Surname fame
The Warring States Xu Xing, about 372-289 BC Chu people first appeared in the historical records of the Famous Xu surname.
Xu Pingjun (Empress) of the Western Han Dynasty, 88-71 BC Changyi (present-day Shandong) Han Xuan Emperor Liu Que married, the mother of the Han Yuan Emperor, was poisoned.
Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty, c. 58-147, was a scribe and philologist who wrote "Explanation of Characters in Speaking Texts".
Xu Shen of the Northern Song Dynasty, a native of Haiyang County, was one of the Eight Sages of Chaozhou. Author of "Gao Yang Collection".
Xu Daoning of the Northern Song Dynasty, a native of Chang'an, was a painter. He is famous for his ability to write about the three scenery of forest trees, Pingyuan and Wild Water.
Xu Heng of the Northern Song Dynasty, 1209–1281, was a Chinese politician, educator, thinker, and astronomer of the 13th century.
Lady Xu of the Southern Song Dynasty, 1252-1282, heroine of the Putian People's Early Yuan Dynasty Shemin Uprising.
Xu Zichang of the Ming Dynasty, a native of Wu County from 1578-1623, was curious about the literature and wrote different books, such as the legendary "Water Margin" and "LingXi Pei".
Xu Dishan, Republic of China, 1894-1941, Jieyang ren, writer, scholar, essay "Falling Peanuts", essay collection "Empty Mountain Spiritual Rain" and so on.
Xu Guangping, Republic of China, 1898-1968, Guangdong, Mrs. Lu Xun.
Xu Shiyou of the Republic of China, 1905-1985, Xinyang revolutionary and military figure, was awarded the rank of general in 1955.
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Resources
1. Origin of the Xu surname . Greater China Genealogy Network . [2018-4-26]
2. Celebrities . Greater China Genealogy Network . [2018-4-26]
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