The Migration and Distribution of Surnames in Gu Liang

Gu Liang's surname is a compound surname or an ancient Chinese surname, but the total population is not included in the top 300 of the hundred surnames in Taiwan Province Province, ranking 457th among the hundred surnames in the Song Dynasty. Up to now, it has a history of more than 2800 years, and aristocratic families come from Xiapi County and Xihe County. Gu Liang's surname is not in the top 100 in Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province province. Gu Liang's surname is known to the world, mainly because of Gu Liangchi, the author of The Legend of Spring and Autumn Valley. Although Gu Liangchi is not directly related to Confucius, he can still be classified as a Confucius. Because his teacher Xia Zi is one of Confucius' favorite students. On the origin of Gu Liang's surname, many ancient books put forward roughly the same view, as mentioned above. Tracing back to the source, we can see that the family is lookout for Xia Gou. Tracing back to the source, we can see that the family is lookout for Xia Gou, because the valley is simplified into a valley, and the beam has evolved into a beam, and the surname is derived from the surname. The Collection of Yuanhe's Surnames also mentions that "there is a Gu Liang surname in Xiapi". From these documents, we can know that Gu Liang's surname is an ancient compound surname originated in Shandong, which was acquired in the Spring and Autumn Period and has a history of more than 2,800 years. According to Gu Liangchi's Biography of the Spring and Autumn Valley in Tongzhi Genealogy, it enjoys a high reputation in China academic circles. In the Tang Dynasty, the family moved to Xiapi, which is now xuzhou east, Jiangsu. After the Spring and Autumn Period, the compound surname gradually evolved into a single surname Gu or a single surname Liang. Therefore, it is difficult to find celebrities in Gu Liang in ancient and modern celebrity dictionaries. Gu Liang's surname is Xiapi County (Linhuai County was changed to Xiapi County in the tenth year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty [AD 72], and Pixian County was changed to Xiapi County in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, which is equivalent to the northwest of Suining County in Jiangsu Province today, that is, the northwest of Jiangsu Province today); Xihe County was established in 125 BC. It is equivalent to the area along the Yellow River in Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces.

There are five villages named Gu in Dingtao County, Heze City, Shandong Province, with about tens of thousands of people, all named after Gu. "Gu's Genealogy" records: "Gu's surname is late, and the word begins ... It is appropriate for Han to be too determined to worship Confucius ... but it is naturally borrowed from Cao Yan." This Gu Wu village was built in the early Western Han Dynasty. The tomb of Guliangchi is behind the ancestral hall of the ancient village in Tanglinpo, and the ancient tombstones still exist.