The Yu surname changed from the Mongolian surname is the same ancestry as the Yu surname; the Han surname Yu and the Yu surname are from different ancestry.
Origin of the surname Yu:
1. It is derived from the surname Ji, after Yu, the prime minister of Qin during the Spring and Autumn Period. Yu Yu, the grandson of Wang Ji Yuchen of Zhou Dynasty, moved to Xirong to avoid the chaos. Later, he was ordered to go to Qin as an envoy. Seeing that Qin Mu Gong Yingren was a virtuous and generous man, he stayed in Qin as a minister. Youyu was in the Qin State and planned an expedition against Xirong for Duke Mu of Qin. In the 30th year of King Xiang of Zhou Dynasty (623 BC), Duke Mu of Qin adopted Yu Yu's strategy and led his army to capture Beidi County and Longxi area first, thus severing the connection between the tribes of Xirong, and then defeated them one by one, annihilating Xirong 14 The country expanded thousands of miles, making Qin the Western overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period. Duke Mu of Qin granted him the title of Shangqing (i.e. Prime Minister) of the State of Qin due to Yu's merits. The descendants of Yu Yu take their ancestor's name as their surname. Some of them are called Yu family, and some are called You family. The Yu and Yu clans share the same origin and are known as the authentic Yu clan in history.
Most people of the Yu clan respect Yu Wei as their ancestor.
2. Derived from the surname Si, it comes from Sihan, the youngest son of Emperor Yu in ancient times. It is a surname given by the emperor.
3. It originated from the Chidi tribe. It came from the surname Wei of the Chidi tribe during the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was a Chinese surname changed to a surname.
4. It originated from the Xiongnu tribe. It came from the tribe of Xiongnu Yu (pronounced "Tu", not "fish") during the Han Dynasty. It was a Chinese-style change of surname to surname. Among the tribesmen, there are those who take the name of their original place of residence as Han surnames, and are called the Yu family. (To be tested)
5, originated from the Mongolian people, which is a Chinese change of surname to surname. The Yu family in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan today, claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan (Temujin), Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, and came from the family of Prime Minister Temu. There are poems as evidence: "I was the prime minister's family in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Hong soldiers dispersed to the west... The preface verses are like this, and the descendants meet in this family."
6. It originates from the place name. It comes from the way of praising Yu in the ancient Shu Kingdom during the Han Dynasty. It is a surname based on the name of the city. Li Bai has a clear description of Baoyu Plank Road in the famous "The Road to Shu is Difficult". The craftsmen, post officials, merchants, and innkeepers who have lived along the Baoyu plank road for generations all have their surnames based on the names of their places of residence. They are called Baoyu and Baoxie. Later, they were simplified to the single surnames Bao, Yu, and Xie. Yu's pronunciation is xié.
7, originating from ethnic minorities: Manchu, Lisu, Qiang, Xibe, Miao, Buyi, Tujia, Bai, Baoan, etc., which belongs to the Sinicization of surnames.
8, originated from the ancient Di tribe, from the Baima Di tribe during the Tang Dynasty, and was a Chinese surname changed to a surname.
Origin of the surname Yu:
1. The traditional saying is that the surname Yu is derived from the surname Ji, which comes from the descendants of the Yellow Emperor's subordinate Tai, and is a surname based on the names of things. According to historical records such as "Tongzhi Clan Briefing" and "Historical Records", there was a famous doctor named Tarsus during the Yellow Emperor's time. He had superb medical skills and was proficient in the treatment of meridians. He was the founder of the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine. The acupoint is the "point of the pulse", which is what people commonly call the "acupoint" and the port of the pulse. Therefore, everyone calls the famous doctor's tarsus the acupoint. In ancient times, the characters "腧" and "俞" were connected, and later they were written as Yu Tu in simple Chinese. According to legend, among the descendants of Yu Fu, the classic medical skills of the ancestors of Guangda were often called the Yu Fu family. In later provincial texts, they were simplified to the single surname Yu.
A long time ago, the ancestor of China’s Xinglin was paid by the Yellow Emperor’s minister. He once tasted hundreds of herbs with Shennong and was familiar with the properties of various herbs. He was regarded as a miracle doctor. Once the Yellow Emperor's youngest son Yu Yang was left with only one breath left. Huangdi loved his son very much and was very sad when he saw this. Fu cut open Yu Yang's stomach, cleaned his internal organs, and finally revived him. Afterwards, someone asked him: "If you cut open the belly of a dying person, wouldn't you have to bear the responsibility if you can't save him?" He said: "The first condition for being a doctor is to forget yourself. Only by forgetting yourself can you take the responsibility." Can focus on the patient.” Because of his superb medical skills, he can make patients recover no matter how serious the disease is. Therefore, people called him Yu Fu, since Yu and Yu have the same pronunciation, and later he was called Yu Fu. His descendants took Yu as their surname, that is, the Yu family, and regarded Yu Fu as the ancestor of the Yu surname. According to historical records, there is only one theory about the origin of the surname Yu.
2. It originated from the surname Ji. It came from Xie Duyu, a prince of the Lu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a surname based on the name of an ancestor. Xiedu Yu was the prince of the royal family of the King of Lu and the youngest son of Ji Tong, Duke Zhuang of Lu. In the 16th year of the reign of King Ji Zheng of Zhou Xiang, the son of Lu State, Xedu Yu, led the Lu army to conquer the State of Hua (originally located in Sui County, Henan Province, and later moved to Fei, which is now the town of Yanshi, Henan Province, so it was also called Fei Hua, and was later conquered by the Qin Dynasty). The country was destroyed), and was later granted to Yu by Ji Shen, Duke of Lu Xi (Gong of Lu Li). Yu, also known as Fu Yu, also known as Xian Yu and Xi Yu, is now Siyang City, Jiangsu Province. In the ninth year of Jijiao, King of Zhou An (the ninth year of King Chu's mourning, 393 BC), Xiong Yi, King of Chu's mourning, launched an attack on Lu because of Lu's support for Zheng. The land of Fuyu became a battlefield between the two armies, and later belonged to Chu. . Two years later, in the eleventh year of King An of Zhou (the eleventh year of King Chu's mourning, 391 BC), the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Zhao joined forces to attack Chu and defeated the Chu army in Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan) and Yuguan (now Kaifeng, Henan). Today's Zhongmou, Henan Province), after that, Daliang became the capital of Wei State, while Fu Yu was divided up by Zhao Liehou and Zhao Ji.
After the land of Fu and Yu was lost to Lu, the descendants of the prince Xedu Yu took the name of their ancestor's fiefdom as their surname and were called the Yu family, which has been passed down from generation to generation to this day.
3. It originated from the surname Mi. It came from Yu, an official in the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period. It was a surname based on the official title. According to the historical record "History of the Road": In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Yu in the Chugong clan, which has been passed down to this day. In fact, the Yu people are not a blood clan directly descended from the Mi surname, but an official title, which is the official in charge of building ships.
Yu, in ancient times, refers to hollowing out tree trunks to make boats (canoes), and "thinking of river paths" is the tool and way to cross the river. Later, in the Chu State of the Spring and Autumn Period, it generally referred to ships. Yu people initially referred to craftsmen who made ships, and later evolved into the official title for supervising ship construction, which was directly subordinate to Yin Si. Since Chu State is located in the Jianghuai Plain, transportation across rivers and battles are very frequent, so "Yu" is an important functional department under the jurisdiction of the Chu State Ling Yin, and Yu people are indispensable positions.
Among the descendants of the Yu people, there are those who take their ancestor’s official position or occupation as their surname, and they are called the Yu people. Later, they were simplified to the single surname Yu, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
4. Originated from the Mongolian ethnic group. It comes from the leader of the Mongolian Qincha tribe, Yuliboyawu Buhuatiemu'er. It is a Chinese-style surname changed to a surname. During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a famous Mongolian marshal on the East Route, Yuli Boyawu Buhua Tiemu'er, who was a descendant of the Mongolian Qincha tribe leader and was later given to King Wuping by the Yuan Dynasty. His nephews Yan Tiemu'er and Sadun, as well as his grandnephew Tang Qishi, were all prime ministers of the Yuan Dynasty. There was also a queen named Yuli Boyawu in the family, so she became prominent in the late Yuan Dynasty. After Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, Borjijin Tuohuantemuer, succeeded to the throne, the power of the Yuan Dynasty was actually in the hands of the two prime minister families of Yantiemu'er and Boyan. The two factions fought fiercely, and the Boyawu family of Houyuli launched a coup. , Boyan took the opportunity to eradicate him. After the Yuli Boyawu family was attacked by the "Iron-fisted Grand Master" Boyan and lost power, the clan members withdrew from politics and returned to their fiefdom, Anfeng County, Fengyang Prefecture (today's Shouxian County, Anhui Province). At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the family fled to Luyang (another name for Hefei, Anhui Province in ancient times) to avoid being killed by political enemies. They adopted the homophonic pronunciation of the first letter of the original surname "Yu" and changed their surname to Yu. The descendants of the Yu family who are now the descendants of the Boya Wu Buhua Temu'er family in Yuli are widely distributed in today's Sichuan, Anhui, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other regions.
5, originated from Manchu, Yi, Tu, Hui, Korean and other ethnic minorities.
6, derived from the surname Ji, from Ning Yu, a Weiguo official in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is a surname based on the name of an ancestor. Ning Yu, the famous Ning Wu Zi Ji Ning Yu (Confucius praised him for his wisdom and his stupidity), was the son of Ning Su, the ruling minister of the Wei State during the Spring and Autumn Period, and later also a doctor of the Wei State. He was famous for his intelligence and loyalty. World. Among Ji Ningyu's descendants, there are those who take their ancestor's name as their surname, and they are called the Yu family and the Ning family, which have been passed down from generation to generation.