Textual research on the origin of Wu surname
There are four branches in the origin of Wu surname: Jiang surname, Yi surname, Yao surname and Ji surname.
The first branch originated from the surname Jiang. The Wu tribe in the era of the Yellow Emperor took Qian Yu as the totem and interpreted it as Wu, which was the clan name. Li Yu is an ancient beast with a very loud voice. Wu belongs to the tribe, surnamed Jiang, and is active in the place east of Longshan in Longxian County, Shaanxi Province, where he lives, called Wu Shan. Wu Quan was the leader of the Wu clan in the Yan Emperor's era, and his descendant Wu Shu was the birth mother of the Yellow Emperor. Yan Di and Huangdi are two branches of the ancient Qiang people, who intermarried with each other and formed the main body of the Chinese nation. In the Xia Dynasty, Jiang Wu moved eastward to Guanjin with Xia, and now he is in Wuyi East, Hebei Province. Wu He, who was once compared to a sharpshooter, is his descendant. Jiang surnamed Wu has a history of at least 5000 years.
The second expenditure comes from the Ng Wui family. Zhuan Xu, the son of the Yellow Emperor, the son of Zhuan Xu, said that his people were distributed in Ruhe, Henan. Lao Tong, the son of Lao Tong, and Li, the son of Lao Tong, successively served as Zhu Rongjia of Shunzhi. Zhu Rong family was the title of the leader in charge of fire in ancient times, which represented the extremely high status and power in the clan. Li of Zhu Rong was demoted and succeeded to the throne, and Wu lived in his hometown. During the Xia Dynasty, the Wu family moved eastward along the north bank of Weihe River to Wu Shan in Pinglu, Shanxi. During the Shang Dynasty, the Wu clan was active in the north and first entered Xinzheng area of Henan Province along the Yellow River. Later, it moved eastward to the west of Leize, Puyang, and finally reached the ancient city of Chaoyang in the northeast of Linqu, Shandong Province, known as Wu Wang in history. Wu Bo at the end of Shang Dynasty is the descendant of this Ng Wui family. This calendar of Wu surname has a history of more than 4000 years.
The third branch originated from the surname Yao. Shun tribe is a branch of Dongyi nationality, and Shun lives in the Central Plains instead of Yao. Lishan, located next to Wu Shan in Pinglu, Shanxi, occupied the land of the ancient State of Wu and was called Shi Yu in history. Yu Xia inherited Shun and established the Xia Dynasty. Shun's son was named Yucheng, now in eastern Henan. Yao surname has always been an important country in the East. The country died in business, and the descendants took Wu as their surname. At the end of Qin Dynasty, the leader who launched the first peasant uprising in China history in osawa Township, Su County, Anhui Province was Yao's descendant of Wu. This Wu surname has a history of 3500 years.
The fourth expenditure comes from Ji's surname. Born in the early Zhou Dynasty, also known as the Wu surname of Zhou family, it is the most important part of the Wu surname, with the longest influence and the largest population. At the end of Shang Dynasty, his grandfather, Gu's father, sealed his eldest son Taibo in wuyue, Longxian County, Shaanxi Province, and his second son in Xiyongyuan, a martial art in Shaanxi Province. Soon Taibo and his family, surnamed Zhou and Wu, went out to Shangxian County, Qinling Mountain, Shaanxi Province, passed through Hengshan Mountain, Hunan Province, was originally from Hubei Province, passed through Wucheng, Qingjiang River, Jiangxi Province, crossed Yongxiu, went down the Yangtze River and moved to Jiangning, Zhenjiang and Changshu, Jiangsu Province. After four generations, they finally reached Meili in the east of Wuxi, Jiangsu. Zhang Zhou, the great-grandson of Zhong Yong, founded the State of Wu, also known as the sentence Wu. In 585 BC, Shoumeng was officially called the King of Wu. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu once conquered Chu, contended with the State of Jin in the north and dominated the southeast. It was destroyed in the state of Yue in 473 BC, and the descendants of the State of Wu took Wu as their surname. This Wu surname mainly lived in East China, and later developed to the Central Plains, North China and South China, with a history of 2600 years.
The distribution and migration of Wu surname in history;
During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Wu mainly lived in Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places. One of them went north to Shandong, west to Shanxi, south to Hubei and back to Jiangxi. At the beginning of Han Dynasty, he became the King of Changsha, and his descendants formed an important Wu family in Huguang and Zhongyuan. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sun Jian, the magistrate of Changsha, married into the Southern Wu State, and his sons Sun Ce and Sun Quan established the Wu State in Jiangdong. The Wu family has developed rapidly in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. The Tang Dynasty is the most important period for the development of the southern Wu surname. In the early Tang Dynasty, the surname Wu once entered Sichuan. Then from the southwest of the river into Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi. In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, Wu had set foot in Vietnam and established the "Wu Dynasty" in Vietnam. Since then, the group of Wu surname has developed more rapidly in the south, and the prosperity of Wu surname in Guangdong and Guangxi is directly related to the establishment of the "Wu Dynasty" in Vietnam. It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that Wu Cai first entered Taiwan Province Province.
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 6.5438+0.7 million people surnamed Wu, accounting for 2.2% of the national population, and it was the eighth surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province of Wu surname is Jiangxi, accounting for about 13% of the total population of Wu surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian. Wu in these six provinces accounts for about 60% of the total population of Wu, followed by Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu and Hunan provinces, with a concentration of 25%. The whole country has formed a population gathering area with Jiangxi as the center.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 2.3 million people surnamed Wu, accounting for 2.5% of the national population, and it was the seventh surname in the Ming Dynasty. During the 600 years of Song Yuanming, the net population growth rate was 20%, and the population growth rate of Wu was higher than that of the whole country. In 600 years, the total population growth rate of Wu was 35%, with a net increase of 600,000. Zhejiang is the largest province of Wu surname, accounting for 19.8% of the total population of Wu surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Fujian provinces, accounting for 665,438+0% of the population of Wu. Secondly, it is distributed in Guangdong and Anhui provinces, with a concentration ratio of 16%. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Wu surname changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated from the north to the southeast, south and Sichuan. The whole country has re-formed two areas where Wu population is concentrated: Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian and Guangdong.
The distribution of contemporary Wu surname
With a population of more than 24 million, Wu is the tenth largest surname in China, accounting for about 1.93% of the national population. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou and Jiangsu provinces, accounting for about 34% of the total population of Wu, followed by Anhui, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Shandong, Jiangxi and Henan provinces, with a concentration of 465,438+0%. Guangdong is the largest province in Wu, accounting for 8.5% of the total population. Wu surname has three distribution areas: South China, East China, Sichuan, Hubei, Guizhou and Hunan.
Wu surname is distributed in Guangdong, Qionggui, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Jiangxi and Zhejiang, Guizhou and most of Hunan, Jiangsu and southern Anhui, and southeastern Chongqing. Generally, the surname Wu accounts for more than 2.4% of the local population, with a maximum of more than 5%. The above-mentioned areas account for 65,438+04.7% of the total land area, and about 56.3% of Wu residents live there. In, most of Chongqing, Hubei, eastern Hunan, northern Jiangsu and Anhui, Shandong, southern Shaanxi, Henan, Ningxia, central Gansu, eastern Qinghai, eastern Hebei, Tianjin, central and southeastern Inner Mongolia, most of Liaoning and eastern Heilongjiang, the distribution ratio of Wu among local people is between 65,438 0.2% and 2.4%, and its coverage area accounts for 28.5% of the total land area. In other areas, about 34.2% of the population is inhabited by people surnamed Wu.
A famous man named Wu in history
China Personal Names Dictionary has included 805 celebrities with Wu surname, accounting for 1.77% of the total names, ranking seventh among celebrity surnames. Wu's famous litterateurs account for 1.28% of the total number of litterateurs in China, ranking 13. Wu's famous physicians account for 2.55% of the total number of physicians in China, ranking seventh; Wu's famous artists accounted for 3. 16% of the total number of artists in China, ranking fifth.
The famous Wu surname in China, which originated in the south of the Yangtze River, is outstanding and famous. Wuqi, a famous Chu State in the Warring States Period; Guangwu, the leader of the peasant uprising army in Qin Dynasty; Wu Rui, Changsha King of the Western Han Dynasty; Wu Yang Hou Wuhan in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Wu Zhi, a scholar of Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms; Wu Yun, a Southern Liang writer: Wu Daozi, a painter in the Tang Dynasty, and Jason Wu, a historian; Wu Luan, a famous soldier in the Jin Dynasty after the Five Dynasties; Wu Jun and Wu Lin, the famous ministers in the Southern Song Dynasty, Janice; Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en, painter Wei Wu, physician Wu Youke; King Wu Sangui of the Qing Dynasty, physician, Wu Shangxian, botanist Wu Qirong, novelist Wu, seal engraver and painter Oh Seok-Jae, painter, epigraphy and philologist Wu Dacheng; Wu Fupei, Northern Warlord of the Republic of China; Contemporary painter Wu Changshuo, archaeologist Wu Jinding, anthropologist Wu, historian Wu Han, physicist Wu, mathematician Wu Wenjun, linguist Wu, sociologist Wu Wenzao and forester Wu.
A male star named Wu
, Wu Xiubo,,,,, Wu Lingeng (Yan Yalun), Wu Yusen, Wu Junyu, Wu Genglin, Wu Yekun, Wu Jiale, Wu Yunfu, Wu Zhuoxi, Wu Qihua, Ng Man Tat, Wu Chao, VanNess Wu, Dennis Wu, wuyue, Wu Jialong.
A female star named Wu
Orfila, Wu Junru, Wu Peici, Wu Chenjun, Jacklyn Wu, Wu Xiaoli, Wu Wenjing (An), Wu Yingchun, Wu Xiaomin, Wu Qili, Wu Peishan and Wu Shumin.
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