The origin of the surname Wu

The surname Wu first originated from the surname Jiang of Emperor Yan, which has a history of more than 5,000 years. The second origin of the surname Wu comes from the Wuhui clan of the Zhu Rong clan, which has a history of more than 4,000 years. The third origin is from the surname Yao, which has a history of more than 3,500 years ago. The fourth origin of the surname Wu is from the surname of Huangdi, which has a history of more than 2,600 years.

In the more than 700 years from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Wu surname experienced great development. During the Song Dynasty, there were about 1.7 million people with the surname Wu in the country, making it the eighth most common surname at that time. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, people surnamed Wu began to immigrate to Southeast Asia. The Chinese people with the surname Wu in the Philippines mainly come from the coastal areas of Fujian, and there are also people with the surname Wu from Guangdong and Taiwan.

In 2015, the surname Wu was among the top 20 surnames in North Korea. People with the surname Wu are mainly distributed in North Korea, Vietnam, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, the United States, Canada, Australia, etc. The total number of people with the surname Wu in the world is about 70 million.

The distribution of Wu surname in China is mainly concentrated in the five provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou and Jiangsu, accounting for about 34% of the total population of Wu surname, followed by Henan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan and Hubei. , Shandong, Jiangxi, and Anhui provinces, another 41% was concentrated.

Cultural heritage of the Wu surname:

Wu Daotai Mansion was built in 1904 and is located in the middle section of Taizhou Road in Yangzhou City. It is a Chinese cultural relic protection unit. At that time, the owner of the house, Wu Yinsun Daotai (who passed the imperial examination in the Jimao year of Guangxu and had served as chief envoy and governor of Guangdong, Gansu, Xinjiang, and Zhejiang) spent 400,000 taels of silver to invite his cousin Zhou Yingxiao to supervise the construction and hired designers from Zhejiang. The construction workers imitated the Ningshaotai Road Government Office and built it in combination with Yangzhou architectural style.

Wu Daotai Residence is also the largest Zhejiang style building complex in Jiangsu Province. It was built in 1904. In that year, Wu Yisun used 400,000 taels of silver to imitate the Ningshaotai Dao Yamen Office and combined it with Yangzhou architectural style. With its large scale and exquisite structure, it is a unique residential building complex among the ancient buildings in Yangzhou. It is as famous as the former residence of Hu Xueyan in Hangzhou and the former residence of Xue Fucheng in Wuxi, and is known as one of the "Three Famous Residences in the South of the Yangtze River".

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Wu Surname