Leopard Gongdun, also known as Xu's ancestral tomb, is located in today's Tancheng County, Shandong Province, in order to let you better understand the Xu ancestral tomb, first of all, the origin of the Xu surname, Xu surname ranked 150th in the hundred family names, according to the current population order, ranked 11th, in 2010, the national statistics show that there have been close to 20 million people, accounting for about 1.5 percent of the national population, can be described as a super surname.
There are three origins of the Xu surname. The most important one is from the Surname Xu, is the yellow Emperor's grandson Ofan Bo Yi's son Ruo Mu's descendants, Ruo Mu's father Boyi is a surname, this surname is given by Shun, Ruo Mu's fief is called Xu, it is Xu as a clan, to the fief as a clan was very common at that time, Ruo Mu is also called Xu Ruomu, that is, the ancestor of the Xu clan, the first person of the Xu clan, his descendants also take Xu as the clan, the surname is different, to put it simply, you are a Shanxi person, I am a Shandong person, everyone is a Chinese, this is the difference between the clan and the surname. The surname is relatively large, and the name of the surname separated from this surname is called the surname, and the surname slowly becomes a surname later, and this branch is the Surname Xu.
There is also a branch derived from the sub-surname Xu, which is after the Xu tribe of the Shang Dynasty, which is the main two branches of our Han people.
The last one originated from ethnic minorities, such as the Mongols, Koreans, and Manchus. Xu surname also has a special situation is Xu Fu during the Qin Shi Huang period, Xu Fu for Qin Shi Huang to seek immortal medicine, led 3,000 boys and girls to cross the sea, and later went to Japan to live, never went back, these 3,000 people in Japan to breed offspring, not only in China, even in Japan there is this saying, so some Japanese people regard Xu Fu as their ancestors.
Therefore, Xu also had a branch that crossed to Japan very early. There is also a XuFu Ancestral Hall in Jiangsu.
The earliest breeding place of the Xu surname was in the southern part of Shandong, that is, the Tancheng area where we are now located, and there is also Tancheng County in the local area, and Xu half said that it is said. And the leopard gongdun we see is the mausoleum of the previous monarchs of the Xu kingdom, the founder of the Xu kingdom is Xu Ruomu, the fifth generation of monarchs is Xu Bao, and the leopard gong is the honorific title of his descendants. Therefore, leopard gongdun has the name of Xu's ancestral mausoleum.