Tracing the origin of Lu family

Lu is the 43rd surname of China, especially in Shandong and Henan. Today, the population surnamed Lu accounts for about 0.46% of the national population, with a total population of over 5.7 million.

Lu's name and totem

Lu, original copper ingot. The word "Lu" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions looks like an ancient copper cake, and the word "Lu" in the bronze inscription is simply filled in two pieces, which becomes an intuitive image of a copper ingot. Xiao Li's word "Lu" connects the upper and lower parts. Lu means smelting technology and industry. Lu people took this as the original totem and named it the family name and emblem. The place where Lu people lived for a long time was called Lu, and the castle they built was called Lu, which eventually developed into a country, and the surname Lu appeared.

Lu originated from evolution.

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

The first letter is Jiang's. Yan Di was born in 1860, surnamed Jiang. Sun Boyi, Yan Di, named Taiyue, assisted Qiong Yougong, and was sealed in Shandong, now Nanyang West, Henan. Boyi was the founding Hou of Lu. In order to be worshipped by Emperor Yan, he was given the surname Jiang. Lu experienced Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and in the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lu Hou became the leader. Arrived, renamed, and branched into Lu, always known as Henan Xincai, known as Donglu in history. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu was destroyed by Song State, and its land was later returned to Cai State. Shandong people moved eastward to the northeast of Tongshan, Jiangsu. In 688 BC, King Chu Wen destroyed Lu. After the demise of the two Lu countries, all the descendants took the country as their surname, and the surname was more than 4,000 years old 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 destroyed at the beginning of the 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, it was the first place to seal the country. After Zhou Wuwang destroyed the business, he made his brother Bi Gong higher than Bi Gong, and now he is Bi Guo in Xianyang, Shaanxi. Wei was moved to Weicheng, northeast of Ruicheng, Shanxi. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Jing of Jin lived in Lu, and his doctor's name was in the southwest of Huo County, Shaanxi Province. He also eats in the kitchen, so he is called Chu Wuzi. His kitchen city is in the north of Shangqiu, Henan Province, and his son Lu Xiang takes Lu as his surname. Lu Ji's surname has a history of at least 2600 years.

Integration of foreign genes

The third kind comes from the change of foreign surname. After entering the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were constant wars in the north and frequent regime changes, and people in the Central Plains fled to the south. Foreigners live in the north of China. Incidents of foreign genes flowing into the northern Han people occur constantly. The blood relationship of the Hokuriku family mainly occurred after the Western Han Dynasty. The most important events are as follows: there was a surname Lu in the Dongyue family in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Lushi Lushi, a native of Baimabian, Wuhan County, Han Dynasty; Qin Zhou is A Qiang; The Lu family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty came from his own family; He was born in Xianbei, Henan Province, and Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang and settled in the Central Plains. Xianbei people, such as Tatars, Deputy Lu people, Female Lu people, early Lv Ling people and Female Lu Yin people, are all surnamed Lu, and these clans have become Han people. Manchu people in Qing Dynasty were surnamed Lu, originally from Han nationality, and later became the Han nationality in Northeast China by filling the flag with Han nationality.

The distribution and migration of Lu surname in history

In the pre-Qin period, the land mainly lived in Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Shandong, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Lu family was distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places in northern China. During the Three Kingdoms and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Lu once spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

There were about 550,000 people surnamed Lu in Ming Dynasty, accounting for 0.6% of the national population, and it was the 32nd largest surname in Ming Dynasty. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the national population growth rate was 20%, while the population growth rate in Shandong was negative. In the face of war and massacre, the victims should be from the north first, and Lu is the surname of the north, which is naturally seriously affected. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Gansu provinces. The population of Lu surname in these three provinces accounts for about 46% of the total population of Lu surname, followed by Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, among which the population of Lu surname is concentrated at 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 of Lu surname in China moved from north to southeast and northwest, and the center of Lu surname drifted from north to southeast, forming two population centers of Lu surname in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Gansu and Qin provinces.

Distribution and atlas of contemporary Lu surname

The contemporary population of Lu surname has reached more than 5.7 million, which is the 43rd surname in China, accounting for 0.46% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Lu surname has increased from more than 550,000 to 5.7 million, an increase of 10 times. The population growth rate of Lu is still lower than that of the whole country. Since the Song Dynasty, the population of Lu has shown a downward trend during the period of 1000. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong and Henan, accounting for about 26% of the total population in Shandong. Followed by the distribution in Hebei, Liaoning, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Heilongjiang, Zhejiang, the six provinces of the surname Lu concentrated 29%. The whole country has formed the distribution characteristics of Lu surname with Lu Yu as the center and gradually spreading to the northeast, southeast and southwest. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of the population movement of the surname Lu are quite different from those of the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The migration from southeast to central China, north China and west China is very strong, which is greater than that from north to south.

Lushi is distributed in Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Beijing and Tianjin, northwestern Shaanxi, most of Hebei, most of Heilongjiang, central and southeastern Inner Mongolia, most of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, northeastern Hubei, southeastern Fujian, Taiwan Province, southeastern Guangxi and most of Yunnan. Lu's surname generally accounts for more than 0.56% of the local population, and the central area can reach more than 1.2%. The coverage area of the above areas accounts for 27.7% of the total land area. In northeastern Hebei, eastern Inner Mongolia, western Liaoning, the border area between Heilongjiang and Kyrgyzstan, Ningxia, eastern Gansu, southwestern Shaanxi, northeastern Sichuan, central Hubei, southwestern Anhui, northwestern Jiangxi, most of Fujian, most of Guangxi, southeastern Guangdong and northwestern Yunnan, the surname Lu generally accounts for 0.42%-0.56% of the local population, and its coverage area accounts for about15 of the total land area.

Traditional culture of Lu surname

The counties in Shandong mainly include Hedong, Dongping, Donglai, Yangzhai, Puyang and Luoyang. Lu Guild Hall has the same name as County Guild Hall and Weibin Guild Hall. The name "Weibin" is the name of Lu Shang, the ancestor of the Lu family. Lu, that is, Jiang Ziya, is said to have lived in seclusion and fished by the Wei River. Get to know each other, respect the Buddha, assist in destroying the business, and seal it in Qi.

Lu's name has the following five couplets:

Erect; Shop management talents

Yueyang Xianke; Weishui old man.

The old man is pregnant with Wei Shui; Yingzhou spring flowers are blooming.

Abandon the fishing rod and respect the emperor; Make less umbrellas and more talents.

Treasure Dian talents, pushing the elegance of sacred works; Hold your head high and pay tribute to Uncle Hui's body.

Family motto

Family precepts are the most authentic and easily accepted family precepts, especially those of Lv Kun, a scholar in the Ming Dynasty. Lv Kun, a native of Ningling, Henan Province, was a Wanli scholar. He is the governor of Shaanxi and assistant minister of punishments. He is a tired official. Lv Kun's thought is eclectic, calling himself "Confucianism, Taoism and Zen", insisting on the monism view that "everything in the world just gathers and disperses at one breath", and opposing the view that "reason precedes qi" in Neo-Confucianism and "reincarnation" in Buddhism. Advocate paying full attention to the idea of "national survival, people's life and death, people's good and evil". In educational thought, he opposes "being born with knowledge" and thinks that only by continuous learning can new knowledge be acquired. It is advocated that reading should be clear about the main idea, not looking for chapters and sentences, and stick to function words. Advocate the cultivation of "kindness", "identity" and "saving the lost". He attaches great importance to the character education of his children and thinks that there is no good character. "Three yuan for one official, one penny for one share?" It emphasizes "being virtuous, being fair, being mature and telling the truth" and "putting righteousness first" in everything.

Shanghai Library has 198 Benlu genealogy.

Celebrity frequency and family sages

From 755 to 79000, * * * collected a total of 250 celebrities surnamed Lu, accounting for 0.55% of the total number of celebrities, ranking 37th among celebrities. Famous writers in Shandong account for 0.74% of the total number of writers in China, ranking 28th. The famous doctor Lu accounted for 0.45% of the total number of medical doctors in China, ranking 49th. Famous Lu artists account for 0.43% of the total number of artists in China, ranking fifty-fifth.

The important figures of Lu surname in history are: Lv Buwei, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty; Lv Zhi, Queen of the Western Han Dynasty; Lyu3 bu4, famous in the Eastern Han Dynasty; Monroe of the Three Kingdoms; Lv Chen, a philologist in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Lu Jing, a phonologist; Lv Guang, the sixteen cool monarch of the Eastern Jin Dynasty; Tang Dynasty philosopher Lv Cai, Prime Minister Lv Jin and famous Taoist Lv Dongbin; In the Northern Song Dynasty, Shang Shu was the prime minister of Lv Mengzheng, Lv Duan, Lv Yijian and Lv Gongzhu, a scholar and epitaph of Lu Dalin. Lv Benzhong, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and Lv Zuqian, a philosopher and writer; Ming Dynasty painter Lv Ji, scholars Lv Kun and Lv Nan, drama theorist Lu Tiancheng; Lv Liuliang, a thinker in the Ming and Qing Dynasties; Democratic revolutionist Dasen Lu and architect Lv Yanzhi in the Republic of China; Contemporary linguist Lv Shuxiang, historians Lv Simian and Lv Zhenyu, meteorologist Lv Jiong, painter Lv Fengzi, national musician Lv Wencheng and Buddhist scholar Lu Peng.

Lv blood group

The distribution of blood types of people surnamed Lu is as follows: O type accounts for 33.8%, A type accounts for 28.6%, B type accounts for 28.8%, and AB type accounts for 8.8%.