The hu surname is one of 19 surnames in the Chinese mainland that exceed 1% of the total population. In the pre-Qin period, the main area of activity of the Hu surname was south of the Yellow River, the Huai River and the Han River Basin. By the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Hu surname had been spread to various places, from Sichuan and Shaanxi in the west, Shanxi and Hebei in the north, and Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the east. At the time of the Tang and Song dynasties, the Hu surname had already formed an advantage in the Yangtze River Basin region, and entered Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty.
Hu surname
Hu Gongman, a descendant of Emperor Shun's 33rd generation, in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, after King Wu of Zhou destroyed the Shang, married his eldest daughter to Emperor Shun's descendant, Concubine Man, and enfeoffed him in Chen, establishing the State of Chen, with the capital at Wanqiu (present-day Huaiyang, Henan), and Concubine Man establishing the state of Chen in Chendi. He selected the best and the best, promoted the good and punished the evil, and exerted great efforts to govern, so that Chen Guoqiang could prosper for many years. After The Death of Concubine Man, her courtesy name was Chen Hu Gong,so she was also known as Hu Gong Man. His descendants had people with their surnames, called Hu. Chen Hugong was also revered by his descendants as the ancestor of the Hu surname.
The surname Hu and the surname Chen have the surname of the ancestor: Hu Gongman
The original birthplace of the Hu surname was mainly two: one originated in present-day Huaiyang, Henan, and the other originated in present-day Fuyang, Anhui. The Hu clan centers on the place of origin and extends to the periphery. When he arrived in the Han Dynasty, he moved into Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei and other places. Among them, the family that moved to Gansu Province became a major family in the Later Han Dynasty, and later became the main source of Hu reproduction in various places. This Wang clan is from the Han Jing Emperor period to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, prosperous for nearly 800 years of the Anding Hu clan, since ancient times there is a world of Hu clan out of the stability of the theory, the history is always strikingly similar, 300 years later, Gansu another branch of the Longxi Li clan (Li Yuan ancestors), is also in the stability not far from the Lintao rise, the two major Wang clan echo north and south.
Map of Anding County, Western Han Dynasty
Anding Hu clan, named after Anding County. And Hu Cheng, the ancestor of hu clan stability, the historical Hu cheng is upright and outspoken, generous and dignified. In the third year of the Jing Emperor of the Western Han Dynasty (154 BC), Liu Hao, the King of Wu, launched the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, and Hu Cheng, along with the taiwei Zhou Yafu, led the army to suppress the rebellion, and was made the Grand Master for his merits. Later, Hucheng moved from Chang'an to Anding Linjing (present-day Zhenyuan, Gansu), and In the first year of the han dynasty (140 BC), emperor Wu of han died at the age of 67 and was buried in Yanbaoshan, Lingtai (Lingtai, Gansu). At this point, the Anding Hu clan began to take root here.
Location of Anding County during the Three Kingdoms period
History continues, and the Anding Hu clan at this time is also multiplying. By the Three Kingdoms period, Hu Zuncai, a descendant of Hu Cheng's twelve generations, was also a wenwu, an official to the general Of Cao Wei Cheqi, and his descendants included the zhennan general Hu Fen, the Qinzhou Thorn Shi (Tianshui) Hu Lie, the Jinwu Emperor Gui Concubine Hu Fang, the general Hu Yuan, the Northern Wei Situ Hu Guozhen, the Northern Wei Xuanwu Ling Empress Hu Chonghua, the Yongzhou Thorn Shi Hu Monk, the Jingzhou Thorn Shi Hu Ning, the Xuzhou Thorn Shi Hu Qian, the Longdong King Hu Changren (whose daughter was the second empress of the Northern Qi Emperor Gao Wei), the Zhao Prefecture Thorn Shi Hu Chang Cang (father Hu Qian, the uncle of Emperor Xiaojing of Wei), and so on.
Hu Lie, a native of Linjing County, Anding County, Qin Prefecture, participated in the Battle of Wei Andu shu, and when Situ Zhonghui rebelled, his son Hu Yuan attacked and killed Zhong Hui, and his fame was far and wide.
From the Western Han Dynasty to the Northern Dynasty, Anding County has been a strategic place since ancient times, and from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern Dynasty, Anding County successively belonged to Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Qinzhou and Jingzhou. During the Three Kingdoms and Two Jin Dynasties, this was the base of Cao Wei's main grain and grass, the west could block Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition army, and the south could enter Guanzhong to guard Chang'an. The Anding Hu clan of this period was also full of talents, influencing the entire Longdong (Anding County) and Longnan (Tianshui County), and even the imperial hall. During the Northern Wei Dynasty, Hu Chonghua, the Empress Xuanwuling of northern Wei from the Anding Hu clan, had been listening to the government for thirteen years, and was highly skilled in martial arts.
Genealogy of the Hualin Hu clan during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was another important tribe under The Stability, Hualin Hu, Zhaoji Yuzhang, and Fapai Hualin, which multiplied into the Hualin Hu clan of The Right of Jiangxi (most of Jiangxi, northeast Hunan, southeastern Hubei, and southwestern Anhui). The Hualin Hu clan is widely distributed, with many talents and has not faded through the ages. In the Song Dynasty, only the Hualin Hu clan passed 3 yuan, 2 list eyes, and 6 tanhua, and the jinshi and officials to the history of thorns, Shangshu, sangong, sanshao, and university scholars are difficult to count. Hualin Academy is one of the four major academies in ancient Jiangnan, along with Yuelu Academy, White Deer Cave Academy, and Goose Lake Academy, and has had a very important and far-reaching influence on Chinese history. Hualin Academy was originally a private school of the Hualin Hu family, and later developed into Hualin Academy.
Genealogy of the Hu clan
From the Han to the Tang Dynasty, the Anding Hu clan maintained the prestige of the Gate Valve clan for nearly eight hundred years. Anding has become the most common county of the Hu clan, so there is a saying that "the Hu clan in the world is stable". Not only because the Anding Hu clan became the earliest and most prominent and largest branch of the Hu surname, but also made and made Anding Tang the most common and loud hall name of the Hu clan in the world.