Where is the hundred family name Wu?

Wu ranked sixth in the Song version of Hundred Family Names. In 20 15, Chinese mainland ranked 10th in the surname list, accounting for 2.05% of the total population of Han nationality in China, with about 24.6 million people.

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Wu's surname originated from Jiang's surname more than 5,000 years ago, Zhu Rong's surname more than 4,000 years ago, Yao's surname more than 3,500 years ago, Huangdi Ji's surname more than 2,600 years ago (Taibo was called the ancestor of Kai's surname by the descendants of Wu), and Manchu changed its surname in Qing Dynasty.

During the 700 years from Wei and Jin Dynasties to Sui and Tang Dynasties, the surname Wu has made great progress. According to Yuan He Shi Jia, the Wu family in this period mainly distributed in Wuchang, Puyang, Bohai and Chenliu. In Song Dynasty, there were 6.5438+0.7 million Wu surnames in China, which was the eighth surname at that time. The province with the largest population of Wu surname is Jiangxi with more than 220,000 people. The population of Wu in Jiangxi, Anhui, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Shandong and Fujian is 6.5438+0.02 million. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, people surnamed Wu began to emigrate to Southeast Asia. The Chinese surnamed Wu in the Philippines mainly come from Fujian coastal areas, but also from Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces. According to relevant data, at the end of19th century, there were more than 50,000 overseas Chinese in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, and the population of Wu ranked seventh. 20 15, Wu is the top 20 surname in North Korea. People surnamed Wu in Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore mainly come from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian.

Historical records such as Wei Lue, Jin Shu, Liang Shu, History of the North and History of the Road show that during the Han, Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the king of Japan sent envoys to worship the China Dynasty many times and solemnly declared that the Japanese royal family was a descendant of Wu Taibo.