Former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo recently passed away at the age of 88. Domestic reports say that his ancestral home was Changqing, Shandong (present-day Changqing District, Jinan, Shandong). Is his ancestral home jinan in Shandong? This starts from the origin and migration of the Lu surname in China.
The surname Lu comes from the country of Lu. Lu Guo, also known as "Lu Rong Guo", "Lu Rong Guo", "Lu Guo", "Lu Zi Guo", etc., is a Jiang surname Rong clan, with qi, Shen, Fu, Xie, Xu and other countries as the same surname, originally belonging to the four Yue people, Lu Rong and Jiang Rong, strong personality, and long-term living a nomadic migration life.
The basis of philology
So how did the "Lu" in the name Lu Rong come from? This is related to Lu Shui, who notes the Book of Later Han in the Book of Later Han: "Lu Shui is a Ruoshui". According to Mr. He Guangyue in the "Chu Extinction National Examination", Lu Rong originated in the upper reaches of the Ruo River, Lu Shui is also called Ruo Shui, Mo (Luo) Water, it is said that the origin of Guo Mo Ruo's name is related to this two waters, Lu and Ruo (Yinnuo) in most parts of the Yangtze River Basin, Lu Shui is also known as the Min River in Sichuan. Because the tribe originated on the upper reaches of the Lu River, it was named after it. It is adjacent to the more closely related Yun zhi rong.
As for the meaning of the word "Lu", the "Explanation of Words" Yun: "Lu, the rice utensils are also ,...... Yi Wen Lu. Lohuche. "The Order of Shangshu Wenhou" Yun: "Lu Gongyi, Lu Yabai." Wang Fuzhi analyzed in the second volume of the "Broad Sense of the Sayings": "Lu, the rice utensils, the cover of the lulu and the like, to serve the rice, from the consideration (to remove the heart), from the consideration (to remove the heart) also to the instrument." The vessel of the mind (to remove the heart) burns the earth, and it is all black, so the zi character is from the steroid, which means the same thing. Han Lu, Black Dog Also; Lu Gou, Lu Long, Hei Shui Ye; Bo Zhi Lu, Hei Cai Ye, all say that their color is as black as Lu Ye. Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Pen Talk" also said: "Yiren calls black for Lu." It can be seen that this ancient tribe of the Lu Kingdom is honored by black and can make rice utensils. In ancient times, rice utensils were woven from wicker and thorn strips, which were convenient to carry during migration, so Lu was regarded as a precious thing by the Rong people and eventually became the title of their own clan.
The ancestors of the Lu state worked hard to become strong, and around the time of the Shang Dynasty, they developed into a powerful tribe. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ancestors of the State of Lu followed King Wu of Zhou to destroy the Shang, and it is recorded in the Shangshu Mu Oath that King Wu of Zhou united with the tribes of Yong, Shu, Qiang, Qi, Wei, Lu, Peng, and Pu to jointly attack the Shang,...... Dynasty. Lu and Peng in the northwest". This also proves from one side that the Lu tribe was still active in the upper reaches of the Min River in northwestern Sichuan at this time. After king Wu destroyed the Shang, the Zhou Feng meritorious warrior Jiang Shangyuqi, because Lu Rong was related to Jiang Ben, at this time a part of the Lu people moved east to the Changqing District of present-day Jinan, Shandong, established the Lu Ziguo, and turned to the life of agricultural settlement. With the improvement of cultural level, it gradually merged into the Huaxia ethnic group. Around 804 BC, Lu was annexed by Qi, and because Gao Dai supported the Duke of Qi Huan for his meritorious service, he was enfeoffed to the State of Lu and fed in Lu, and Gao Dai was not only the ancestor of the Gao surname, but also the ancestor of the Lu surname in later generations. The Han Dynasty placed Lu County here.
Except for some Lu people who moved to Shandong, the rest are still nomadic in the area of Kunshan and Bears Ears Mountains, adjacent to Shaanxi and Henan, and are still adjacent to the Yunzhi Rong, still known as Lu Rong. When the Qin and Jin dynasties rose and their power began to grow stronger, Lu Rong was threatened, and most of the Lu people crossed the Shangluo Mountains and migrated southwest to the adjacent areas of Shaanxi and Hubei, leaving a small part of them gradually merging with the Peng state into a family, known as "Peng Lu Rong". Later, Lu Rong went out of the mountains and moved east to Nanzhang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, which is facing the fertile wilderness of the plains, providing favorable conditions for the agricultural settlement of the Lu people.
In Shandong
After Lu Rong moved to Nanzhang, although he was freed from the qin and Jin raids, there was another tiger and wolf country adjacent to it--that is, the State of Chu. As the Chu state grew stronger, Lu Rong felt threatened. Faced with the invasion of foreign enemies, Lu Rong could think of not sitting still, so he united with the State of Luo to jointly resist the State of Chu. In 699 BC, the "Chu Qu Fa Luo ,...... Luo and Lu Rong were two armies. "Due to the arrogance and carelessness of Qu Feng, the light enemy ventured forward, and under the attack of the combined forces of Luo and Lu, the Chu army suffered from the enemy on its belly and back, and scattered everywhere, the Chu state was greatly defeated, the commander hanged himself, the rest of the generals were captured, and the Chu state suffered heavy losses. However, the expansion of the Chu state was unstoppable, and the specific time history of Lu's destruction is not recorded in detail, and according to experts, Lu Rong was destroyed by King Wu of Chu around 690 BC before the fall of Suiguo.
After the destruction of Lu Rong, its remnants were forced to migrate, first to the present-day city of Zhijiang in Yichang, Hubei Province, and later to Pingjiang County, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, which is adjacent to Miluo, and still has Ludong, Lushan and Lushui in Pingjiang County. Another part of the Lu people, who were reluctant to surrender, fled into Jingshan and lived a nomadic and migratory life.
Although the Lu state has disappeared into the long river of history, the Lu guo cultural sites in Shandong and Hubei still show the existence of this tribe.
1. Shandong Changqing Luguo Ancient City
The ruins of the ancient city of Changqing in Shandong are located in Luchengwa, west of Guozhuang in Guide Town, and in the second year of the Song Dynasty (996), due to the opening of the Yellow River, the flooding of Lucheng city caused the whole city of Gulu to sink, turning into a large depression of about 2,000 meters long from north to south and east to west. Before 1958, the villages around Luchengwa were also named after the east gate, west gate, south gate and north gate of Lucheng. Later, the Yellow River broke through again, and eventually Lucheng was silted up and flattened.
Earlier we said that Gao Dai became the ancestor of the Lu surname, and the Lu surname originated from this. The descendants of the Lu clan have spread their branches and leaves, not only all over the motherland, but also crossed the ocean to reach South Korea, and even the former president of South Korea is also a descendant of the Lu clan.
What the hell is going on here, and under what circumstances did the descendants of the Lu clan come to Korea? According to relevant historical records, the Lu clan of the Tang Dynasty had a total of eight prime ministers, which can be described as unlimited scenery. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao and Wang Xianzhi launched a peasant revolt and conquered Luoyang in 880 AD. After the fall of Tongguan, the capital chang'an was in turmoil, Huang and Wang threatened to kill all the Tang dynasty royalty and ministers, and Lu Hui, then a university scholar in the history of thorn history, crossed to Korea by boat with his family and nine sons and seven other good university scholars. Lu Hui and the seven best righteous men in the same ship married Jinlan, vowing not to have the same surname but seeking the same name, and agreed to add a "he" next to the name, and Lu Hui changed his name to Lu Sui. Lu Sui's nine sons have become the nine major branches of the Han and Korean Lu clans, and have bred more than 40 generations and more than 300,000 people in the Lu clan of Korea. In 2000, as a descendant of the Lu family, former South Korean President Roh Tae-woo and his wife came to Changqing to find their roots and ask their ancestors, and took a group photo in front of the tomb of Lu Guojun.
Changqing, Shandong
2. The ancient city of Zhanglu Rongguo in southern Hubei Province
Located in the street of Jiuji Town, Nanzhang County, the old county Pu Village, is the ruins of Lu Rong Guocheng, because there was originally a tucheng with a length of about 150 meters from north to south and about 100 meters wide from east to west, which was inhabited by the Ye surname, also known as yejia tucheng. Tucheng was dug up in the early years when the land was leveled, and the remains of a moat nearly 100 meters long and 3 to 5 meters wide are preserved on the west side. According to historical records, the site is Zhonglu County in the Han Dynasty, indicating that the administrative office of Zhonglu County was built on the ruins of the ancient city of The Ancient Lu Rong State. At present, the remains of Jomon bricks and tiles of the Han Dynasty and pottery and porcelain fragments from the Wei and Jin dynasties can still be seen on the surface of the site. In 1979, four round cake-shaped "Lu Quan" gold coins were unearthed in The Garden Village of Shou County, Anhui Province, and experts deduced that the gold coins originated from this place.
Nanzhang, Hubei
From the above description, it can be seen that "Lu" is a surname of Jiang, and it is one of the Nine-Nation Alliance army at the time of King Wu's cutting, which naturally originated in the West. With the migration and the opening of branches and leaves, it is also normal to be distributed in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Shandong. In addition, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, it migrated to part of the Korean Peninsula, so the Lu surnames imported into the peninsula were divided into many batches. The Lu surname has the most cultural precipitation and attaches great importance to this cultural heritage today, including Shandong Changqing and Hubei Nanzhang. Lu Taiyu, who was president at the time, recognized that his ancestors had visited Changqing in Shandong, which could be understood as an act of contemporary cultural belief.