What is the historical origin of the surname Yu?

The branch secretary, also known as Ji Dan, is the second son of Zhou Wuwang. After the king of Wu destroyed the business, he was sealed in Zhi and established Zhi State. Since then, Ji's birthday has been called Zhi Shu, becoming the ancestor of Yu family.

The earliest spread and migration of the Yu family was in the northern part of Qinyang, Jiaozuo, which is the seat of the ancient kingdom and the birthplace of the Yu family. After the demise of Zhi State, the Yu people mainly lived in present-day Henan, and also mainly lived in Henan, such as Fangcheng, Wu Tang, Xuchang, Funiu Mountain and other places.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, people named Yu began to spread slowly in Henan, from Shanxi and Hebei to the north, from Anhui and Shandong to the east, and from Shaanxi and Gansu to the west. During this period, the Yu family mainly took the Central Plains as the center of communication and migration, forming three counties of Henan, Donghai and Hanoi. Among them, Yu, who entered Shandong in the east, was the most prosperous.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yu really went to the whole country. Due to the long-term disputes between warlords? Bones are exposed in the wild, and there are no crows in a thousand miles? Many people surnamed Yu followed the fleeing army to move south to a vast area in the southeast. ? Five random China? This period promoted the communication and integration between ethnic groups, and also made the Central Plains a battleground for military strategists. In order to escape the war in southern Henan, Yu recently went south to Hubei, and then moved to Sichuan and Hunan.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, due to the reunification of the country, the reduction of wars and the deep-rooted homesickness of the Chinese people, the Yu family migrated to nothing, but flourished, and the Yu family formed several large families in the north.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Bing captured the border beam in Tokyo (now Kaifeng, Henan Province) and took some people back to Qin and Yu to Heilongjiang. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, Yu began to enter Fujian from Zhejiang and Guangdong from Fujian.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the peasant uprising army rose everywhere, the society was in turmoil, and the population of many provinces dropped sharply. Shanxi was in an advantageous position, not affected much, and the population was prosperous.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court implemented the policy of population migration. The Yu family in Shanxi was also one of the surnames of people who moved in the Ming Dynasty, and the people moved to Shandong, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Jiangsu and other places respectively.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were many surnames in Henan, Hebei, especially Shandong, who made a living and settled in Kanto.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about120,000 people, accounting for 0. 15% of the national population, and the surname was only 103. At that time, Shandong was the largest province in Yu, accounting for about 2 1.3% of the total population in China. The distribution of Yu surname in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan, Sichuan and Zhejiang, which account for about 58% of the total population of Yu surname in China. Secondly, it is distributed in Hunan, Hebei, Shanxi, Guangxi, Hubei, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places. Lack of information in other regions. The whole country has formed three gathering places of the Yu family centered on Lu Yu, Sichuan and Zhejiang.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 220,000 people surnamed Yu, accounting for 0.24% of the national population, and it was the eighty-fifth surname of the Ming Dynasty. In the past 600 years, the net population growth rate is 20%, while the population growth rate in China is higher than the national population growth rate. At that time, the distribution of Yu surname in China was mainly concentrated in Shandong, Jiangsu and Hebei, accounting for about 63% of the total population. Secondly, it is distributed in Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan and Shanxi, and the surnames of these five provinces are concentrated by 29%. Shandong is still the largest province with Yu surname, accounting for about 40% of the total population. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of the Yu family changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated to the east and southeast regions. The distribution characteristics of Yu family with Shandong as the center and spreading around have been re-formed in the whole country.

At present, the population of Yu surname has reached 6.42 million, which is the 39th surname in China, accounting for about 0.48% of the national population. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei and Henan provinces, accounting for 7 1.9% of the total surname population, followed by Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia, with 9. 1% of the surname population.

Shandong is the largest province of the Yu family, accounting for 2 1.8% of the total population of the Yu family. For thousands of years, Shandong has been the residence of Yu. With Shandong and Liaoning as the center, it forms the second largest surname residential area in China. The surname population radiates around and gradually decreases, with more surnames in Jiangbei and fewer surnames in Jiangnan. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of the migration of the population in danger are very different from those in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The direction of the migration has moved back strongly from southeast to the Central Plains and North China, which is greater than that from north to southeast and south. At the same time, the Yu people north of the Yellow River migrated to the northeast.