Chu, as a surname, is pronounced as: chǔ, the initial is ch, the final is u, and the tone is three tones.
Chu's surname is Zi Hou. In the Song Dynasty, Zi Shi was named Chu Shi, so he took Chu Shi as his surname. Later generations omitted it, so he was named Chu Shi, and the doctor of the Wei State, Chu Shi Pu, was also Chu Shi's surname. This statement comes from Zheng Qiao's A Brief Introduction to Tongzhi Clans.
The China Dictionary of Personal Names has included 47 celebrities with Chu surnames, accounting for .1% of the total names, ranking 163rd in the list of celebrity surnames. Famous figures of Chu surname include Chu Shaosun, a historian in the Western Han Dynasty, Chu Mao, a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Chu Suiliang, a minister and calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, and Chu Yinghuang, an electrician in China.
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Migration distribution
Chu is a multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname, ranking 225th in the current surname list, with a population of about 453,, accounting for .5% of the total population in China. About 25%. Chu surname is not listed in the top 1 in mainland China and Taiwan Province.
Chu's surname, whether it is based on land acquisition or from Chu's official position, originated from today's Henan province, because Song is in today's Shangqiu, Zheng is in today's Xinzheng, and Wei is in today's Qixian.
During the Warring States Period, one branch of the Chu family moved to Shandong. For example, in the Western Han Dynasty, there was Chu Da, and the official was Liang Xiang, who was from Lanling (now Zaozhuang, Shandong). There is a migration in Yingchuan, such as Dr. Chu Shaosun, who is from Yingchuan and lives in Pei (now Pei County, Jiangsu Province).