Textual research on Xu's origin
There are two main surnames of the Xu family in contemporary Han nationality: Won surname and Zi surname.
The first one is from Han surname. The distant ancestors can be traced back to the Five Emperors more than 4000 years ago. Shao Hao's family first lived in the southeast of Yanshan Mountains in Hebei, and then moved to Qufu, Shandong. It is a branch of Dongyi nationality, with phoenix as its totem. Hao Tao, the grandson of Shao Hao, was an official in charge of criminal law and justice during the Yao and Shun period, and Boyi, the son of Hao Tao, was an official in charge of kindling and domesticating birds and animals. He contributed greatly to Yu's water control. Xia Wang is the son of Boyi in Xu Feng, and his hometown is in the north of Sixian County, Anhui Province. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Guo Xu was always active between the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, known as Xu Rong in history, also known as Xu Yi or Xu Fang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu Yanwang rose up against the Zhou Dynasty and was destroyed by Zhou Muwang and Chu. Later, Xu Yanwang's son was renamed Xu Zi. During the Warring States Period, the State of Wu destroyed Xu in 5 12 BC, and then the State of Yue destroyed Wu. In 5 1 1 BC, the state of Chu destroyed Yue, and Xu's territory was incorporated into the territory of Chu. The descendants of the Xu family took the country as their surname and scattered between Jianghuai. 4000 years ago, in the Xia dynasty, Xu was blocked, and in the Warring States period, the country was broken. The surname Xu has a history of at least 2500 years.
The second expense comes from the child's surname. At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, after the rebellion of Wu Geng and San Jian in the Yin Dynasty was put down, the adherents of Yin Shang and other six clans split, including Xu.
Integration of foreign genes
The third is from a foreign family. The events of Xu's mixed consanguinity are as follows: Xu was among the Di people in the northern part of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and now the Di people in Ningxia and Qingyang, Gansu; There are also Xu surnames among Shu people. After entering the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Xu surnames of these ethnic minorities basically assimilated into the Han nationality. In the Qing Dynasty, the clans in Manchu Eight Banners collectively changed their surname to Xu, and later became the Han nationality named Xu in Northeast China.
The distribution and migration of Xu surname in history
From Xia Dynasty to early Qin Dynasty, Xu lived in Jianghuai area in Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan and Shandong. During the Han, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xu had developed to Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hubei and other places. In the Tang Dynasty, he entered Fujian and Guangdong, and in the early Ming Dynasty, he entered Taiwan Province Province. Because Xu's main force had moved away from the north as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties, several wars in the north did relatively little harm to Xu. Especially during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Xu's surname flourished in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Fujian, forming five families: Donghai, Gaoping, Langxie, Puyang and Dongguan, and finally forming a typical oriental surname today.
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 840,000 people surnamed Xu, accounting for 1. 1% of the national population, ranking 17. The largest province of Xu surname is Jiangxi, accounting for about 23.5% of the total population of Xu surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong and Jiangsu, which account for about 62% of Xu's total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Fujian, Anhui, Sichuan, Hubei and Henan provinces, accounting for 80% of Xu's population. The whole country has formed a Xu-Da gathering area centered on Jiangxi and Zhejiang. The population of Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Northwest China is very sparse.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 6.5438+0.92 million people surnamed Xu, accounting for 2.654.38+0% of the national population, ranking tenth. Zhejiang is the largest province with Xu surname, accounting for 35. 1% of the total population of Xu surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces, accounting for 64.5% of the total population of Xu, followed by Anhui, Fujian, Shandong and Hubei provinces, accounting for 2 1.6% of the total population of Xu. The Yangtze River Delta is still the main gathering area of Xu surname in China, but Fujian and Guangdong in the southeast have re-formed another gathering area of Xu surname.
The distribution of contemporary Xu surname
With a population of nearly 6,543.8+0.9 million, Xu is the 11th surname in China, accounting for 654.38+0.55438+0% of the national population. At present, the distribution of Xu surname in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces, accounting for about 34% of the total population of Xu surname in China, followed by Henan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Hubei provinces, with a concentration of 26.5%. Jiangsu is the largest province with Xu surname, accounting for about 1 1.3% of the total population of Xu surname in China. The Yangtze River Delta, Lu Yu and Sichuan and Hubei have formed three distribution centers with a high proportion of Xu surname.
A famous person named Xu in history
China Personal Names Dictionary has collected 685 celebrities with Xu surname, accounting for 1.5 1% of the total names, ranking 10th among celebrity surnames. Xu's famous litterateurs account for 1.77% of all litterateurs in China, ranking eighth. Xu, a famous medical scientist, accounts for 2. 15% of the total number of medical scientists in China, ranking eighth; Famous artists named after Xu accounted for 2.22% of the total number of artists in China, ranking ninth.
Xu's blood type:
Generally speaking, the blood type distribution of Xu population is: O type accounts for 34%, A type accounts for 29.2%, B type accounts for 28. 1%, and AB type accounts for 8.7%.
A star named Xu
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