Lü is a multi-ethnic, multi-origin surname group, ranking 43rd in China in 2007 and 2010 and 26th in Taiwan Province. The population is about 7,015,000, accounting for about 0.44% of the total number of Chinese.
Surname Origin:
1. From the surname of Jiang, with the country as the surname.
Its ancestor was Lü Hou or Lü Shang, also known as Jiang Ziya. According to legend, the ancient tribal leader Shennong Yandi, because he lived in the Jiangshui River Valley, took it as his surname and called it Jiang surname. Later, the Qiang people surnamed Jiang developed four tribes, namely Siyue, and the Lü tribe was one of them. The leader of the tribe was given the title of Marquis of Lü during the Xia Dynasty, and the princely state of Lü (Lü Guo) (in present-day Nanyang, Henan) was established. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Lü was destroyed by the state of Chu, and its descendants took the state as their clan and called it Lü Shi, and the history called Lü Zhengzong. In ancient times, in present-day Xincai, Henan, there was another Lü state, historically known as Dong Lü, which was actually a branch of the Nanyang Lü state. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Eastern Lü was destroyed by the Song Dynasty, and its descendants also took the state as their clan and called it Lü.
2. From Wei.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin state had the Lü clan, which was divided from the Wei clan.
3. Change the surname from ethnic minorities.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei moved the capital to Luoyang, sinicization was implemented, and the original Xianbei generation of the Northern Fu surname Ling Lü and Ling Qiu changed to the Chinese character single surname Lü. Five generations later, the Zhou Dynasty changed the northern three-character surname to The Lüling clan to the Chinese character single surname Lü Shi.
Migratory distribution
The Lü surname is frequently broadcast and widely distributed.
After the fall of the Lü state of Nanyang, some of the remnants were moved to Puchun, Hubei Province. After the fall of the new Cai Lu state, the remnants of democracy were to be distributed in present-day southern Henan and northern Anhui.
The Lü clan of the State of Qi had dispersed between Han, Wei, Qi, and Lu before the fall of the Kang Dynasty, and their descendants had developed and multiplied in Shaanxi and Gansu.
During the Two Han Dynasties, the Lü clan was also distributed in some parts of present-day Hebei, Shanxi, and Inner Mongolia. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lü Fan, a native of Xiyang, avoided chaos and moved to Shouchun (present-day Shou County, Anhui).
During the Three Kingdoms period, Lü Kai of the Shu Han Dynasty and Lü Qian of Wei Rencheng both had descendants who migrated to Hedong (present-day southwest of Yongji County, Shanxi).
During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many places in present-day Zhejiang and Jiangsu had residents surnamed Lü.
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, one branch of the Lü clan migrated to Fujian, distributed in Quan and Zhang'er Prefectures, and later some moved to Guangdong.
Since the Kangxi dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, many branches of the Fujian and Yue Lü clans have migrated to Taiwan, and then some people have migrated overseas, distributed in Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, the United States, Canada and other countries.