I've always been curious about people named Gu around me. What is the origin of Gu's surname?

1. Take the country as the surname. During the Warring States Period, Wei, the son of Qi State, was sealed in Oracle bones, and later generations took the country as the surname and called it bone.

2. From the surname of Won, after Boyi, with the same origin as Zhao and Qin. According to "Gulangbei", they are all descendants of the Yellow Emperor Boyi, who was given the Yuan surname when he passed it on to Shun. The descendants of Ying family were Fei Zi (the first ancestor of Qin State) sealed by Zhou Wang in Qin Valley (southwest of Tianshui, Gansu, northwest of Jingyang, Shaanxi), and later generations began to take Gu as their surname.

3. From his family or his surname:

(1) according to Shu Wei? According to official records, there was a Xianbei man Gu in the Northern Wei Dynasty, who changed his name to Gu after entering the Central Plains.

(2) According to the Book of the Tang Dynasty, Gu in the Tang Dynasty was called the "Nine Classics Library" and his surname was Gu Na. He was originally from Dongyi, and later his descendants changed their surnames to Gu Shan.

(3) Today, Yi, Tujia, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, Xibe, Korean and other ethnic groups all have this surname.

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Celebrity surname:

1, Gu, 1889- 1953, from Anshun, Guizhou, was a senior general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China. With Chiang Kai-shek holding an important position in the Kuomintang, he founded the Kuomintang gendarmerie, which is known as the "father of the gendarmerie".

2. Gu Yingtai, an official and historian in Qing Dynasty, was born in Feng Run, Zhili (now Feng Run, Hebei). He presided over the compilation of Notes on the History of the Ming Dynasty, which recorded the historical events from Zhu Yuanzhang to the demise of the Ming Dynasty, with 80 topics, which was of great historical value to the study of the history of the Ming Dynasty.

3. Gu Shutang, a famous economist in China, published in February 1979. The Political Economy (Socialist Part) edited by Gu Shutang has become a general economics textbook for universities in northern Chinese mainland, and is called the "Book of the North". The book broke through the framework of Soviet textbooks, absorbed the latest research results of theoretical circles at that time, and made many revisions. In the field of economic education in China,

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