Who is Hu's ancestor?

It's Hu Gongman (Guiman, Chen Hugong).

Hu's surname can be traced back to Guiman, a descendant of ancient sage Yu Shun. Gui Man is the 33rd generation grandson of Yu Shun. After Gui Man's death, posthumous title Hu Gong and later generations took history as their surname.

In 2007, the national surname population ranked 13, which was widely distributed, accounting for about 1.3 1% of the national Han population. With the population exceeding 1%, it became one of the most popular 19 surnames in China. Gui Man, a descendant, was sealed in Hu in his early years (now Hu Township, Zhecheng County, Henan Province). He was called "Gong Hu" and founded Huxiang City. Hu's surname came from his early fief.

Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong, Hunan and Hubei all have this surname, and the Hu surname in the above seven provinces accounts for about 65% of the total Han population in China. Among them, the Hu surname in Sichuan accounts for about 10% of the Hu surname of Han nationality in China.

Extended data

The origin of Hu surname can be summarized as follows: taking history as the surname, taking the country as the surname, and changing the surname to Hu.

Hu Gongman's real name is Gui. Hu Gongman got the posthumous title in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Some descendants of Hu Gongman took posthumous title as their surname. There are five branches of Gui surname, which is called "Gui Five Surnames", and Hu is one of them. During the Spring and Autumn Period, two Hu States were established in today's Anhui and Henan. One is Hu Guixing, and the other is Ji Hu. Hu's two descendants took the country name as their surname.

Changing the surname from Hu is another source of Hu. For example, there was a surname of Hu Wu (or Hu Mu) in the Qin Dynasty, a surname of Hu Wu in the Han Dynasty, and a category of Hu Wu. After the Jin Dynasty, Hu Wufu's surname was gradually replaced by the word "Hu".

Because most of his descendants changed their surnames to Hu, the name of Hu Wu became less and less popular. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, a descendant of the Li royal family was rescued from danger by Hu Sangong and later changed his surname to Hu.

Many ethnic minorities have changed their surnames to Hu. Ancient and modern nationalities such as Gaoche, Xianbei, Qidan, Xi, Korean, Manchu, Bai, Miao, Yao, Pumi, Yi, Hui, Hezhe, Daur, Lisu and Xibo all have many Hu surnames.

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