The ancestor of Hu surname is Hu Gongman. Yu Shun's thirty-third grandson, Zhou Wuwang's son-in-law, was named Chen Hou. Hu also has two country names from ancient times to the present. Two countries in the Zhou Dynasty had beards. One is in present-day Henan, a vassal state with the same surname of the Zhou Dynasty, which was enfeoffed at the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty. It joined the allied forces led by Chu to attack Wu, and later attacked Wu with Chu. On the way back to the division, Chu annexed Hu by the way.

Probe into the origin of Hu surname

Hu is one of the surnames of China, pronounced Hu, which originated from Hu, a vassal state in the Zhou Dynasty. Ranked 158, 20 18 among hundreds of surnames, the national surname population ranking 15, accounting for 1. 16% of the national population. About 35.4% are distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Anhui provinces, and 30.2% are distributed in Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces.

According to the data of relevant departments in 2007, Hu's surname accounts for 1.3 1% of the total population of Han nationality, ranking 13, and it is also one of 19 surnames. The national surname report in 2020 shows that Hu's surname ranks 15.

During the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, the works related to surnames, such as Shi Ben, On a Thousand Commandments, General Meaning of Customs, and Hu Zi Ming, did not come from the theory of Gui surname. It was not until 5 16 years after the Northern Wei Dynasty that some members of the family of Situ Hu Guozhen thought that Hu was a palace barbarian, and this theory was adopted as one of the origins of Hu by some family name books and Hu genealogy in later generations.