What is the origin and history of Gu surname?

Gu originated from Gu Guo in Xia Dynasty. Gu is a surname with a long history. One of the earliest surnames was formed in the late summer and early Shang Dynasty (now Fanxian County, Henan Province), and the other was formed in the early Western Han Dynasty from Huiji (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province).

According to historical records, during the Xia Dynasty, Kunwu descendants were sealed in Guguo (now Fanxian County, Henan Province), and the nearby Bakungwu and Pengwei countries were the important pillars of the Xia Dynasty in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the barrier of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the late summer and early Shang Dynasty, Gu was destroyed by Shang Tang. After the national subjugation, Gu's descendants scattered all over the country, taking the name of the country as their surname. From then on, China began to have Gu's family.

The other, Gu, comes from a distant descendant. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Sun Yao, the descendant of Gou Jian, the King of Yue, was named Dongyi (now Yongjia, Zhejiang) for helping the princes to destroy Qin. Later, Yao also betrothed his son to Huiji, called Gu. Later, the descendants of Gu took the "Gu" of his fief as their surname and formed a caring resident. These two Gu surnames, one originated in the north and the other in the south, were later called "South Gu" and "North Gu". Today, when people surnamed Gu talk about their origins, they still say "looking south" and "looking north".

Migration distribution

Today there is Gushan in Jiangsu Province, which is located at the junction of Wuxi, Jiangyin and Changshu. Probably named after the migration of ancient immigrants. According to Song Zai, Gu "lived in Huiji for the first time and had it in Han Dynasty". His mother is filial, and his mother likes to eat carved beards (that is, she is rich in rice and grew up in a pond) and moved to Taihu Lake (across Jiangsu and Zhejiang). The lake was carved by herself, and the mother could adopt it. "

During the Three Kingdoms period, Gu Huiju was a salt official (now Haining, Zhejiang). Gu Hui 12 Sun Tangchao had an official named Yu Hanggong. In the Tang Dynasty, there was also a doctor from northern Henan, Gu Yun, from Chizhou (now Guichi, Anhui). From the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty, Gu has always been one of the four surnames in Jiangdong. After the Tang dynasty, due to the transfer of official positions and other reasons, the Gu family continued to spread to the north and south. In the Ming Dynasty, it was not only distributed in Shanghai, Shandong, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong and Sichuan, but also lived in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia in the north.

But looking at the Gu family, most of the celebrities surnamed Gu in history came from the south, especially Jiangsu.