Hundreds of family totems named Wu
Wu is the family name of Wu nationality. Wu takes sentence (reading hook) as his totem. Wu is made up of the sun and blackbirds. Tai Hao's eldest son, Ju Mang, was a clan specializing in measuring the vernal equinox in the ancient East, and was Tai Hao's assistant. It is the totem of birds, and Wu is also the totem of birds. Tai Bo, the eldest son of Wu Quan, Yu, Yu and Zhou Jiagong, is from Wu Zu.
Totem consists of "sun" and "duck head", which shows that Wu people are sun worshippers. At the same time, "Duck Head Map" seems to show the truth of a story: crows are the "soul protectors" of Wu people (witchcraft). The "duck head" pottery figurines unearthed in the northeast also show that Wu is the first person. Wu was named after the earliest domestication of wild ducks.
Wu's life experience
Different from other surnames, the origin of Wu surname is slightly complicated, involving the Yellow Emperor and ethnic minorities. Generally speaking, there are roughly five origins.
Originated from Jiang surname
The first origin comes from Yan Di Jiang's family. Long before the Yellow Emperor, there was a tribe called Jiang, and his totem was Qian Yu.
In ancient times, Yu and Wu were homophonic, followed by homophonic, with similar glyphs and can be used universally. It was not until the Warring States period that Yu and Wu began to distinguish. So this tribe interprets totem as witch and takes witch as its family name.
During the Xia Dynasty, the Wu tribe migrated to Guanjin (now Wuyi East, Hebei Province). During the period of Shao Kang in Wang Xia, there was a man named Wu He in the Wu tribe. He was famous for being good at shooting. He used to shoot with the then archer Hou Yi. This tribe of Jiang surnamed Wu, who later took Wu as the surname, has a history of more than 5,000 years.
Originated from Ji surname
The second origin comes from the surname Ji of the Yellow Emperor. The most famous origin of Wu surname in history, which has the most profound influence on later generations and the most prosperous population, is recognized by most people of Wu surname at present.
At the end of Shang Dynasty, Gu Gong and his husband, descendants of the Yellow Emperor, led the tribe to settle in Joo Won? (now Qishan, Shaanxi) under Qishan. He has three sons: Taber, Zhong Yong and Li Ji. Li Ji's son Ji Chang is very talented. Gu Gong wants to be his heir, so that he can pass it on to Chang. In order to make way, Taibo and Zhong Yong took their families to wuyue in the south and established the State of Wu.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu rose and was later destroyed by the State of Yue, so the adherents of the State of Wu took the country as their surname. This Wu surname has a history of more than 2600 years. Taber has no son. After his death, his younger brother Zhong Yong became Wu Jun. After Zhong Yong succeeded to the throne, he continued to develop the foundation laid by Taibo. In the history of Wu's development, Zhong Yong is second only to Taibo. Zhong Yong passed on three generations to Zhang Zhou. Because I didn't forget that I was a descendant of Zhou people, I named it. When Zhang Zhou ascended the throne, Zhou Wuwang had eliminated the Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty. Zhou Wuwang sealed the governors of the world and sent people to look for the descendants of Taibo and Zhong Yong. Because it has become a word of Wu, and his younger brother Zhong was sealed in nearby Yuzhou (now Pinglu, Shaanxi Province) to establish Yuzhou, Zhong was called Yuzhong. Zhou Wuwang also named Taber Wu Bo. Taber was later called the ancestor of the Kaiser by the surname Wu. Known as the ancestor of Wu.
Originated in Ng Wui.
The third place of origin is from Ng Wui. Zhuan Xu's grandson Lao Tong has two sons: Li Zhonghe Ng Wui. Our clan lives in Jiang's hometown of Wu tribe. At that time, it was in the era of Shun, who entrusted the glorious mission of taking charge of the fire. Later, he was killed by Shun for his crime and succeeded to the throne.
In Xia Dynasty, Ng Wui's family moved to Wushan, Pinglu, Shanxi.
During the Shang Dynasty, this clan moved to Linqu, Shandong Province, and was called Wu Wang in history. At the end of Shang Dynasty, there was a man named Wu Bo, a descendant of Ng Wui family. Calculated, this Wu surname has a history of more than 4,000 years.
Originated from Yao surname
The fourth origin comes from the surname Yao. Shun is the leader of Dongyi tribe in a remote area. After replacing Yao's position, he called the ancient Wu (now Lishan, next to Wu Shan, Pinglu, Shaanxi Province) on the land of the tribe Yu.
After the son of Yu established the Long Xia Dynasty, the son of Feng Shun was in Yucheng (now Henan) and became the state of Yu. Yus married his two daughters to Shao Kang and helped Shao Kang restore the Xia Dynasty.
After the establishment of Shang Dynasty, the State of Yu declined and perished, and the adherents of the State of Yu took Wu as their surname. One of the leaders of the peasant uprising at the end of Qin Dynasty was a descendant of Yao and Wu. This Wu surname has a history of more than 3500 years.
Distribution of Wu immigrants
Before Qin and Han dynasties
The ancient State of Wu was located in Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, where the surname Wu was born.
At the beginning of the week, it was Taber's fief. By the time Sun Shoumeng became king in the19th century, the country was getting stronger and stronger, and its border extended to Jia Hu, Zhejiang. At the same time, the surname Wu first moved quickly between Qi and Lu near the north. Most of Wu in this area is the fourth son, Shou Meng. Later, he moved to Henan, Anhui and other provinces.
In 537 BC, after the Wu Chu War, Jueyou was brought back to Chu. Then he went into exile in Chu, got married and had children. Later generations took the first name as the surname, forming a branch of Wu surname: Jueyou.
Focha's son, Gu Wu Mi, was captured in the battle with the Vietnamese. A few years before Wu's death, Prince Wu You of Fu Cha and Prince Sun Miyong were also captured and defected to Yue.
Qin and Han dynasties
Wu Rui was born in Wuzhi, and his father moved to Lushan from Chu. The Han dynasty ruled the country and was divided into groups. Wu Rui was named King of Changsha, with its capital in Linxiang (now Changsha, Hunan) and 3,000 restaurants. Since then, Wu Rui, a member of the Wu family, has moved from Jiangxi to Hunan.
Wu Ba, a native of Lingnan, was born in Yangshan (now Yangshan County, Guangdong Province) in the late Western Han Dynasty. The first generation of Wu Ba is one of the descendants of the Wu royal family who moved south with the Vietnamese after the death of Wu. During the reign of Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty, Wuba was promoted to two counties (partial to Yang) and (partial to Yang), which were located in the west of Guizhou Province. The descendants of Wu Ba are prosperous. Tongzhi in Guangdong: The Wu people in the south of Wuling, especially in Guangdong, are mostly descendants of Wu Ba.
three kingdoms period
After Wu Yuncheng moved back to Wujun to pay homage to the ancestors of Wu Taibo for three generations, history entered the Three Kingdoms period. Wu Jiacheng was a banner of Sun Wu's politics, and Wu Guotai, the mother of Sun Ce and Sun Quan's brothers, came from the Wu family in Wujun.
Wei Jin Sui Tang Dynasty
For more than 700 years from Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, northern minorities invaded the Central Plains continuously, resulting in frequent wars in the north and relative stability in the south. Therefore, a large number of northern scholars moved south, and Wu also moved south. According to Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe Surname Spectrum", the Wu family was mainly distributed in Wuchang, Puyang, Bohai, Chenliu and other places during this period, with prosperity in the south and decline in the north.
According to historical records, the places where Wu's descendants began to branch in Jiangnan mainly include Hangzhou, Hangjing, Fenghua, Wenzhou, Linhai, Pingyang, Lin 'an and other places in Zhejiang today. Xingguo and Shi Hang in Jiangxi; Putian, Fuzhou, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou and Tingzhou in Fujian; Chaozhou, Jiaying and Nanxiong in Guangdong; Wuzhou, Nansi and other places in Guangxi, such as Chaoyang County, Chaozhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, and Tianyuan Branch of Wu's storage hall in Longxiang Township, are descendants who migrated with the war after Wu's death. It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the bronze pots rose and settled down. [5] Most of them began after Qin and Han Dynasties, including Zhejiang and Jiangxi before Sui and Tang Dynasties. Fujian and Guangdong after the Tang Dynasty.
According to historical records, the ancestor who entered Fujian to sacrifice the word "filial piety" was the grandson of Taibo 62, and his ancestral home was Gushi, Gwangju, Henan. In the Tang Dynasty, he joined Wang in the uprising in Huang Chao, Fujian, and his six relatives lived in Fuzhou and Quanzhou, known as the sixth ancestor of Wu, with branches in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou. Ji Fuguong, the ancestor who entered Guangdong, was the grandson of Gong Xuan V. Gong Xuan originally lived in Sichuan, then moved to Nanfeng, Jiangxi, and later moved to Ninghua County, Tingzhou, Fujian due to the war. Although the Wu family is spread all over the country, its reproduction and development center is in Jiangnan.
Song and Yuan Dynasties
According to the genealogy of Wu family in Haiyan (22nd edition of Guangxu), Tingwei Wu Gong settled in the Western Zhou Dynasty (now Xishimen, Tongxiang County, Zhejiang Province) in his later years, and his former residence still existed until the end of Qing Dynasty. The score is called Janice Family in Xizhou. In the middle of Song Dynasty, Wu's descendants, relying on your money to violate the law, brought bad luck to Janice's family in Yuxi area. Spectrum said that because of this crime, the Wu family was in Yuxi? They registered, and Ding Kou was shot? Only one of them escaped the disaster by luck.
Yin, who survived, gave birth to three sons and later lived in three places: Wu Dezhao, the eldest son, lived in Qianzuju, Shimen Prefecture; The second son, Wu, lives in Deqing (now Deqing County, Zhejiang Province); The third son, Wu Dehui, lived in Haining County before the rule. After staying in Yuxi, they were divided into three schools: one was a descendant of Wu Shengweng and lived in Matou Village; A faction separated from Haiyan; One faction is separated from the village and is a descendant of Wu.
Wu Haiyan School, with Orfila as its ancestor. According to the genealogy of Wu family in Haiyan, Wu Xin, the ancestor of Wu family in Haiyan, was born in the late Ming Dynasty and lived in Shimen for generations before the Western Zhou Dynasty. Wu xinsheng Wu, word, ranked fourth. Wu is from Shimen County. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in order to avoid the war, the family moved to Gangtu Bridge in Haiyan and became the ancestor of Wu in Haiyan.
Wu You gave birth to two sons: the eldest son Wu Feng and the youngest son Wu Kai. Wu Feng, named Junya, was appointed as the magistrate of Hanlelang County (now Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea). According to historical records, this is the first time that a member of the surname Wu arrived in North Korea today. Wu Feng, one of Wu's sons, has a high word and an official position of Yang Houguo (now Lishi, Linquan County, Anhui Province). Wu Kai, Wu Feng's younger brother, was appointed as the order of innovation (now Xixian County, Henan Province).
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the surname Wu had spread all over the country. In the previous generation, some Wu surnames were still prosperous. Wu's second son, Wu, gave birth to the Wuxiang family in the Song Dynasty, which was a royal official family. A branch of the Wu family in Puyang, after a series of migration, formed a deep-rooted Wu family in Taiyuan, Runan. Members of the Wu family in Bohai moved south and took root, forming Wu Xuanjia, the first prominent family in the south of the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty. After a thousand years of silence, the authentic fourth son, Wu, began to revive in Yanling. Dong Tingpu, a descendant of Changfang who had been hidden for more than 1000 years, returned to the clan in the early Southern Song Dynasty. During this period, due to the existence of ethnic relations, the Song and Jin Dynasties confronted each other for a long time, resulting in the far-reaching Wu Junjia, namely Wu Jun and Wu Linjia in Shuiluo, Gansu. All the Wu families mentioned above attach great importance to clan inheritance, and their historical origins are very clear.
Ming and Qing dynasties
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the surname Wu was more widely distributed. Since ancient times, the lineage has been orderly, and the aristocratic families have almost disappeared. Most prominent Wu families in this period were developed from a single family in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and their geographical distribution showed the cross distribution of the same surname and different nationalities. For example, the Wu family in Chaozhou Prefecture and Dragon, Guangdong Province, although living in the local area since the Han and Tang Dynasties, developed very slowly due to wars and famines in previous dynasties, and did not become a member of the Wu family until the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty. The migration of Wu surname is mostly caused by war, famine, settlement, official appointment, government organization of immigration and other reasons. For example, in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Wu family in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province was a descendant of Fu Cha, but its ancestor was a refugee from Shexian County, Anhui Province. After settling in Nanchang, it grew into a local clan. The Wu family of Jiangxi Dejian Jianjie moved here at the end of the Tang Dynasty to avoid the mutiny in Huang Chao. Moved from Jinling (now Nanjing) during the Wu's Five Dynasties War in Yiyang, Jiangxi. The Wu family has three main branches in Hunan. The ancestors and people of Jiudu Chongwu came to Yiyang, Hunan Province to do business and settled in Yiyang, and their descendants became Jiudu Chongwu in Yiyang. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Wu family of Quanfeng, whose ancestral home was Hunan, settled in Yiyang, and later generations became the Wu family of Quanfeng in Yiyang. The Wu family of Jia Liuxi moved from Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province to Jia Liuxi, Yiyang, Hunan Province in the early Ming Dynasty. According to its genealogy, by the time of Qingganlong, this Wu family had passed down 13 generations.