Source history:
Gu surname, China surname, is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, which mainly originated in Huiji area of Zhejiang (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Give yourself a surname first, after the surname of Kunwu in Xia Dynasty; Second, from the surname of the company, after Gu Yao, the descendant of Gou Jian, the king of Yue; Third, it originated from other brotherly peoples.
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 70,000 people surnamed Gu, accounting for 0.09% of the national population, ranking145th. The largest province of Gu surname is Jiangsu, accounting for about 47% of the total population of Gu surname in China. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, where Gu's surname accounts for 76% of the total population, followed by Hubei, Fujian and Henan provinces.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 450,000 people surnamed Gu, accounting for 0.49% of the national population, making it the 47th most popular surname. Jiangsu is still the largest province with Gu surname, accounting for about 6 1% of the total population of Gu surname. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and the surname of Gu in these two provinces accounts for about 83% of the total population of Gu.
Historical celebrities:
(Pre-Qin and Han Dynasties): Gu Yao, the ancestor of Gu surname.
(Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties): Gu, a native of the Southern Liang Dynasty, was an exegetist and historian. Turtles occupy Hou, insects seal strange words, and everything is impossible. Jade 30 volumes.
Gu Kaizhi (Eastern Jin Dynasty), a versatile man in Iraq, rode straight away. He is good at poetry and calligraphy, especially painting, and is known as "talent, painting and infatuation". His paintings are mainly portraits, immortals, Buddha statues, animals, landscapes and so on. The evaluation of his paintings by later generations is "meaning to save the pen first and be full of painting". His works, such as On Painting and Wei Jinsheng's Praise for Painting, have had a great influence on the development of Chinese painting.
Five Dynasties (Sui and Tang Dynasties): Poet Gu Kuang (Tang Dynasty). He was good at painting mountains and rivers, and his poems sympathized with the people and criticized the disadvantages of the times. Later, he lived in seclusion in Maoshan, nicknamed "Huayang Yizhen". Gu cong (the year of birth and death to be tested) (Tang dynasty) was a second-level entity prime minister established during the Tang dynasty. Gu (9 10 ~ 980), a native of Jiangnan, was a famous figure painter during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Status:
There are more than 2.3 million people surnamed Gu, ranking 89th in China, accounting for about 0. 19% of the national population. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, accounting for about 70% of the total population. Followed by Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Heilongjiang provinces, with the surname of Gu accounting for 10%. The population of Jiangsu province accounts for 47% of the total population in Jiangsu, and it is the largest province in Jiangsu.