What is the origin of the "mother" surname in history and where is the ancestral home?

"Mother" surname comes from "Tian" surname. The "mother" surname came from the Spring and Autumn Period, and the son of Hu Gongman, a descendant of Chen State, completed the fief. The surname of "mother" is recorded in "Customs Tong": "Hu mother, later surname, mother brother, don't seal mother's hometown. It is far from Gong Hu and close to the mother city, so it is called Humujia. "

The "mother" family name first lived in Shandong Province, and later migrated to all parts of the country during the Ming and Qing Dynasties due to war, official business, immigration and a trip to Kanto. Although the "mother" surname has a long history, the number of people surnamed "mother" is small, and they all live in scattered places, so the specific number of "mother" surnames is still uncertain, but the only thing that can be determined is that there are very few "mother" surnames.

Nowadays, people who follow their mother's surname are mainly distributed in Yongcheng and Xinxiang, Henan, Guangyuan, Jiange, Shehong, Langzhong and South, Xishui, Chishui and Renhuai in Guizhou, Fuyang in Anhui, Mengcheng in Bozhou and Yang Guo in Anhui. And the rest of the cities will not be listed one by one.

Although there are few people who take their mother's surname, there are also many celebrities, such as Jin Shi Meng Niu in Song Dynasty, Rui Shen, the mother of Zhengqing in Dali Temple in Ming Dynasty and a famous geologist. There is also an academician of the Modern Academy of Sciences, whose mother is Guoguang, a native of Jinxi, Liaoning, a modern optician and educator. The light of the motherland has made outstanding contributions in optical pattern recognition, machine vision, color recovery of faded film, file storage of color film, color photography and display of black and white film, etc. It's a pity that such an excellent scientist was seriously ill on April 20 12, at the age of 8 1 year.