The Wu surname, from the Ji surname, is a direct descendant of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan clan. It is reported that during the Shang Dynasty, the 12th grandson of the Yellow Emperor, Duke Gu (King Tai of Zhou), established the Zhou tribe. King Tai had three sons, of which the younger son Ji Li was quite talented, giving birth to a son Ji Chang, and when Ji Chang was born, there was a saint Rui, so king Tai belonged to Ji Chang to take the throne. King Tai's eldest son Tai Bo and second son Zhongyong knew that their father meant to pass the throne first to Ji Li and then to Ji Chang, so they decided to automatically give way to Xian, and together they went south to Jingman (the name of the Zhou people hostile to the Chu state).
Taibo and Zhongyong brought the advanced culture of the Central Plains to jiangnan, which was relatively backward at that time, and was elected by the local natives as a monarch, known as Jurchen Wu. After Taibo's death, he was succeeded by Zhongyong. After King Wu of Zhou (Ji Chang was King Wen and his son Ji Fa was King Wu) destroyed Shang, Zhongyong's 3rd grandson Zhou Zhang became a prince, and the state name was changed to Wu, and he posthumously honored Taibo as Wu Bo. To Zhongyong's 19th grandson Shoumeng became king, and the capital was founded in present-day Wu County, Jiangsu. Shou Meng's fourth son, Ji Za, was supposed to inherit the throne, but he avoided it and fled to Yanling to make a living by cultivating the land. After that, the descendants of King Shoumeng of Wu were divided into two branches: one developed politically, and famous monarchs such as Wu Wang Lu and Wu Wang Fuchai appeared; the other was the independent development of Ji Zha and his descendants, and there were many people and many people, which constituted the vast majority of today's Wu surnames.
After the state of Wu was destroyed by the state of Yue, its descendants took the state as their clan and called it Wu.
Wu surname migration distribution
Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, the ancient state of Wu was in the area of wuxi county in present-day Jiangsu Province, and this place was also the birthplace of the Wu surname.
However, after the fall of the State of Wu, Fuchai's crown prince Wu Hong was exiled to Jiangxi, and Fuchai later multiplied in jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, and Henan. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Wu clan was widely distributed in the north and south of the great river. When Emperor Gaozong of Tang had the surname of Wu follow Chen Zheng and Chen Yuanguang's father and son into Fujian to open up Zhangzhou, and when Emperor Tang was emperor, there was a general surnamed Wu who followed Wang Zhenzhi into Fujian, and all of them settled in Fujian. After the Song Ming Dynasty, the Wu clan dominated the southeast, of which Ji Zha's 53rd grandson Wu Xuan was a Later Shu horse, and the family was prominent for a while. Wu Xuan's 5th grandson, Wu Jifu, was the ancestor of wu's entry into Guangdong.
Wu's move to Taiwan began in 1291, and the first person to enter Taiwan was Wu Guangdou, a member of the Yuan Dynasty's ceremonial department, who was ordered to lead 6,000 people by boat to "envoy to Ryukyu" (i.e., Taiwan). The Ng moved to Hong Kong around the yuan dynasty.
The surname Wu is the seventh most common surname in Taiwan. Tainan County has the largest number of people with the surname Wu, as well as in Chiayi, Yunlin, Changhua and so on. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, many people from the Wu clan along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong went to Penghu, Taipei, Kaohsiung and other places to make a living and start a business. The current Taipei County Xindian Ankeng Wu family was a dog who moved from Fujian to Taiwan (present-day Kaohsiung City) during the Shunzhi period, and during the Kangxi Dynasty, wu Feng's father and son came to Taiwan. So far, the most prominent of them is the Wu Boxiong family. Wu Boxiong is currently a member of the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee of Taiwan, the mayor of Taipei City, and other important positions, and his family is known as the "first in Taiwan" of the Wu family.
Wu expanded overseas, first to Japan. The Wu people crossed to Japan around 450 BC, and one of them evolved into the Japanese Imperial Family. At the same time that the Wu clan crossed east to Japan, a large number of people also moved south into the area of present-day Vietnam. Among them, The 50th grandson of JiZa, Wu Quan, became king in 939 and established the earliest independent dynasty in Vietnamese history, the Wu Dynasty. The last president of the South Vietnamese regime, Ngo Dinh Dinh Yan, was after U Quan.
Now there are more than 200 surnames in Vietnam, and the Wu surname is the sixth largest surname. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wu Feng entered Korea, and since its development, the Wu surname is known as one of the 20 most common surnames among the 143 surnames in Korea. After the Ming Dynasty, some people surnamed Wu immigrated to Nanyang, moving to Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar and other countries, and in modern times, some people have lived in Europe and the United States.
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Wu surnamed famous in history
Wu Qi, a military figure during the Warring States period. Later generations referred to him and Sun Wu as "Sun Wu", and "Wu Zi" and "Sun Zi" were also collectively called "Sun Wu's Art of War", which occupied an important position in ancient Chinese military texts. (440 BC – 381 BC), a chinese military figure, statesman, reformer, and representative of the warrior family in the early Warring States period. A native of the Weiguo Zuo clan (present-day Dingtao County, Shandong Province, northeast of Cao County, Shandong Province).
Wu Guang, leader of the peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty. In 209 BC, he and Chen Sheng launched an uprising of 900 soldiers and established the Zhang Chu regime.
Wu Rui (c. 241 BC – 201 BC), the leader of Baiyue during the Qin-Han dynasty, was the first Qin official to respond to the peasant revolt at the end of Qin, Xiang Yu was a prince, and Wu Rui was made the King of Hengyang; The Han Dynasty was established and renamed the King of Changsha. Died in 201 BC, courtesy name "King Wen".
Wu Han (?-44), ziyan, Han, a native of Nanyang Wanxian (present-day Nanyang, Henan), was a famous general and military figure of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the second general of the Twenty-Eight Generals of Yuntai.
Wu Daozi (c. 680-759) was a native of Yang Zhai (present-day Yuzhou, Henan) in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored with the title of "Painting Sage".
Wu Quan (898–944) was the son-in-law of the Southern Han Dynasty Jing Navy, and in 937 Yang Tingyi was killed by the general Jiao Gongxian, and the following year Wu Quan sent troops from Aizhou (present-day Qinghua) to kill Jiao Gongxian. In 939, the Southern Han army was defeated at the Bai Teng River, called the king, and built the capital Ofu Luo (present-day northwest of Hanoi, on the north bank of the Red River, the former Tang Dynasty Annam Duhu, that is, Jiaozhou), thus creating Vietnam to break away from Chinese rule, and was regarded by later generations as an important figure in the independent construction of ancient Vietnam. In the first year of the Later Jin Dynasty (944), Wu Quan died at the age of forty-seven, reigning for a total of seven years.
Wu Yu (979-1036) was a native of Tong'an, Quanzhou, Northern Song Dynasty (present-day Baijiao Village, Zhangzhou Taiwan Investment Zone), and was revered as a "divine doctor" by the people.
Wu Mian ,(1334–1385) of the Dong clan, a native of Wukaidong (present-day Liping County, Guizhou Province) in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, was the leader of the Wu Mian Rebellion.
Wu Cheng'en (c. 1500-1582) was a Ming Dynasty Huai'an native, a novelist, and is considered to be the author of Journey to the West.
Wu Yousheng (1582-1652), also known as Youke, was a Han Chinese, a native of Dongshan, Wu County. Infectious disease scientist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It has written a brand new book "On The Epidemic of Temperature", which is the first in the study of infectious diseases in China. With his lifelong experience and experience in epidemic control, he boldly put forward the theory of "furunculosis", which is also a great innovation in the history of world medical infectious diseases, so it has won wide respect from future generations.
Wu Sangui (1612-1678) was a native of Liaodong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the founder of the Wuzhou regime, Wu Zhou Taizu.
Wu Jingzi, a native of the Qing Dynasty, was an outstanding satirist known for his novel The History of Ru Linwai.
Wu Woyao was a Novelist of the Qing Dynasty. He is the author of "The Strange Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years".
Wu Changshuo was a Qing Dynasty seal engraver and calligrapher. Gong poems, good calligraphy, especially fine seal carving.
Wu Qilian was a politician and scientist in the Qing Dynasty. He is the author of 22 volumes of botanical works "Botanical Names and Facts" and 38 volumes of "Botanical Names and Facts".
Wu Changshuo (1844.8.1 - 1927.11.29) was a famous Chinese painter, calligrapher and seal engraver in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and the "Houhai School" represented him to collect "poetry, books, paintings and seals" as one, and melted gold stone calligraphy and painting as a furnace, and was known as "the first person in the stone drum seal book" and "the last peak of literati painting". In painting, calligraphy, and seal engraving, they are all flag figures.
Wu Yu, a scholar, lashed out at old ritualism and Confucianism, and Hu Shi called him "the scavenger of Chinese thought."
As a big surname, the Wu surname is invaluable in the development of history, and the celebrities in the Wu surname are also numerous, which shows the prosperity of the Wu surname, and the origin behind the Wu surname, we should also understand and learn.