The origin of Lu surname

There are two main sources of Lu surname: Jiang surname and Ji surname.

The first one is from Jiang.

Emperor Yan was born in, surnamed Jiang. Sun Boyi, the descendant of Emperor Yan, was named Taiyue. At the time of crisis, he assisted Yu Qia Shui and was sealed in Lu (now Nanyang West, Henan Province). Boyi was the founding ancestor of Lu Hou, and later he was given the surname Jiang for offering sacrifices to Emperor Yan. Lu experienced Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lv Hou entered the DPRK as a shepherd in Zhou Muwang. In Zhou Xuanwang, it was renamed Guo, and the branch of Lu surname is now Xincai, Henan Province, which was called Donglu in history. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Donglu was destroyed by the Song State, and its land was later returned to Cai State, and the Lu people moved eastward to the northeast of Tongshan, Jiangsu Province.

In 688 BC, King Chu Wen destroyed Lu (Fu), and after the destruction of Lu, all descendants took the country as their surname, and Jiang surnamed Lu with a history of more than 4,000 years at most. Lu Shang, a descendant of Jiang surnamed Lu, also known as Jiang Ziya and King Taigong, helped destroy the Shang Dynasty and was abolished in the early Zhou Dynasty. He was an important vassal state in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

The second expenditure comes from Ji's surname.

At the end of Shang Dynasty, they occupied the land of Wei State and sealed their relatives to Wei State, which was the first place in Wei State to seal the surname of Ji. After the destruction of the Shang Dynasty, he made his brother higher than Bi, and now Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, is the country of Bi. Wei moved to Weicheng, northeast of Ruicheng, Shanxi.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Dr. Jin Gong took food from Lu Zhen and Lu Guo, and from the kitchen in the southwest of Huo County, Shaanxi Province. Therefore, it is called my son, the kitchen city is in the north of Shangqiu, Henan Province, and his son Lu Xiang takes Lu as his surname. The history of Ji surname is at least 2600 years.

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The distribution and migration of Lu surname in history

During the pre-Qin period, Lu lived in Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Lu was distributed in Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia and other places in the north. During the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Lu's family had spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, and at the same time, Lu's footprints also appeared in Yunnan in the southwest and Guangdong in the south. During the Tang Dynasty, he immigrated to the south twice. Lu entered Fujian and Taiwan Province in the early Qing Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, there were about 940,000 people surnamed Lu, accounting for 1.2 1% of the national population, and it was the 14 surname in the Song Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan, Jiangxi and Anhui. The land surnames in these four provinces account for about 56% of the total population of land surnames, followed by Shaanxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian and Hebei, and the land surnames in these five provinces account for 32%. Shandong is a big province with Lu surname. Living in 16% of the total entrance of Lu surname, two population centers of Lu surname have been formed in Lu Yu, Jiangxi and Anhui.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were about 550,000 people surnamed Lu, accounting for 0.6% of the national population, and it was the 32nd largest surname in the Ming Dynasty. In the past 600 years, the net population growth rate was 20%, while the population growth rate in Shandong was negative. In the face of war and massacre, the victims should first be the people whose main body is in the north, and Lu is the surname of the northern region, which naturally suffered a serious impact.

The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Gansu, among which the surname Lu accounts for about 46% of the total population, followed by Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shaanxi, and the surname Lu in these four provinces is concentrated by 28%. The population of Lu surname in Zhejiang Province accounts for about 18% of the total population of Lu surname, making it the largest province of Lu surname. ? The population flow of Lu surname in China moves from north to southeast and northwest, and the center of Lu surname drifts from north to southeast, forming two population gathering centers of Lu surname in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Qin Long.

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