The surname Su ranks 42nd among the Song version of the Hundred Surnames.

Composition idea: The article describes the origin and development of the ancient surname Su, then describes the migration in various dynasties, and describes the distribution of the Su surname around the world in modern times.

The surname Su is an ancient, multi-ethnic Chinese surname. Its origin is mainly the surname of one's own family and the surname of foreign people. Because King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty granted Zhuanxu a descendant of the Gaoyang family, Angersheng was born in Su State, and later generations honored Su Angersheng as the ancestor of the surname. Looking beyond Wugong County, there are also Hanoi County, Fufeng County, etc.

The surname Su originally originated in Henan. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Su surname from the Central Plains migrated southward on a large scale; during the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the population of the Su surname mainly migrated from north to southeast, and from west to south. The surname Su ranked 42nd in the Song version of "Hundred Family Surnames".

In modern times, many people of the Su family have gone abroad to develop new careers overseas. They are now mainly distributed in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, the United States, Canada, etc. nation.

The migration distribution of the Su surname during the Tang and Song Dynasties

In the Tang Dynasty, a large number of immigrants surnamed Su went south to Sichuan and Fujian. In the early Tang Dynasty, Chen Yuanguang entered Fujian and founded Zhangzhou, and people surnamed Su had already entered Fujian. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Su Yi, the fifth grandson of Su Wei, followed Wang Chao and Wang Shenzhi to Fujian. After his death, he was given to the general and the Marquis of Wu'an, and was buried in Tong'an County. He was the ancestor of the Tong'an Su surname in Lushan Hall.

In the Song Dynasty, Zhang Dun pacified the Meishan barbarians. Most of the survivors surnamed Su fled south to Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan, and some also fled to the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. People surnamed Su from Lushan Hall were scattered throughout the south of the Yangtze River as officials during the Southern Song Dynasty, and one branch came from Fujian to Guangdong. A branch of Su Shi's youngest son, Su Guo, moved to Hongdong, Shanxi, and later to Sufeng Village, Jinzhong, Shanxi.