Yu's origin

Yu surname has four origins: 1, after the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin and Yu. According to "Customs Pass", Yu's surname is "Hou, who lives in Zhangzhou and belongs to Xin 'an, so be careful." "Take the word name as the surname. According to the surname test, it is said that Xia also has a surname. 3, from the nation, and later changed his surname to Kui. According to Guoyu, "Lu, Luo, Quan, Yu and Man all have five surnames. "4. From his family and his surname. For example, the Yu family in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province, whose original compound surname was Tiemu, is evidenced by a poem: "Yu Ben was the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty and was deported to the west ... The words in the prequel poem are like this, and the descendants will meet in their own homes" (see Yu's genealogy). Other Yi people are digging and forgiving clans with fish as their totem, and the Han nationality surname is Yu; Yu Yuezhi, the name of the Qiang nationality, was later changed to Yu; The Han surnames of Baima Tibetans in Sichuan and Gansu are Ru Yan, Reze and Peiru. Yumer, Xibo nationality, Han surname Yu; Other ethnic groups such as Miao, Yi, Buyi, Manchu, Tujia, Bai, Baoan and Qiang all have this surname.

Get the surname Yu Yu, ancestor. During the Spring and Autumn Period, doctors in the State of Qin were also in surplus. Their ancestors were originally Jin people and fled to Xirong (the collective name of ancient northwest ethnic minorities). After serving in Xirong, he was ordered to go to Qin. Seeing Qin Mugong's virtue and generosity, he left Qin as a relative and won the trust of Mu Gong. As one of many vassal states, the Qin Dynasty was not prominent. After Yu Yu became a supernatant, it was not expected by Mu Gong. He helped Qin Mugong plan to attack Xirong, destroy twelve countries, expand thousands of miles and dominate Xirong, and finally made Qin Mugong one of the five tyrants in the Spring and Autumn Period. Yu once laid a solid foundation for the prosperity of Qin and the unification of the world, and later generations were proud of it, so they took his word as their surname and respected him as their ancestor.

The State of Qin, which propagated and migrated in the Spring and Autumn Period, made its capital in Yong (now southeast of Fengxiang, Shaanxi), occupying the central part of Shaanxi and the southeast end of Gansu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the descendants of Yu Yu should breed in this area. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the Yu clan moved eastward, and one moved to Shaanxi (now Shaanxi County, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province); One species moved to the south of the Yangtze River, mainly breeding in Anhui today. In the north and south of China, the descendants of Yu basically multiply and grow at the same time, but the development trend in the north is much weaker than that in the south. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the surname Yu had become a famous family in Xin 'an County. At this time, the war in the north continued and the society was in turmoil. For the first time, the gentry in the Central Plains began to move south, and Yu's place was right in the middle, so it was inevitable to move south. One of the tribes named Yu continued to go south and entered Hubei and Hunan. Yu Qi, a native of Jinling (now Changzhou, Jiangsu Province) in the Southern Song Dynasty, is famous for his filial piety. He was the only person named Yu who went down in history before the Tang Dynasty. After the Tang Dynasty, the Yu family developed rapidly and gradually formed two big noble families in the southeast. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the father and son sailed in Fujian, and a surname Yu settled in Fujian with the boat. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Gao Yu, a native of Jianyang (now Fujian), took refuge in Putian when Huang Chao captured Jianzhou, and later reclaimed Hushan to the end. Also, Yu Yuan went north from Tongan, Fujian to Shaowu, and then moved to Wuxi, Qujiang County, Shaozhou (now Guangdong Province) during the Guangqi period, which was the ancestor of Yu's entry into Guangdong. Shortly thereafter, Yu Yuanhai's second son Yu Xianhai moved to Changsha, Hunan, his third son Yu Zhou moved to Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and his eldest son Yu Cong stayed there. The descendants of his three sons also moved to Fengxin, Linchuan, Jiangxi, Wuhua, Meizhou, Tai Po, Pingyuan and Haifeng, Guangdong. In the Song Dynasty, Yu's family basically spread all over the country, and talented people came forth in large numbers. During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, Yu, as one of the surnames of the locust tree people who moved to Hongdong, moved to Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei, Anhui and other places. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yu family not only spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, but also flourished in the north. In the Qing Dynasty, Yu moved from Fujian to Taiwan Province Province, and later some people moved overseas. Today, the Yu family is widely distributed, especially in Sichuan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Henan, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces. The above seven provinces account for about 77% of the total population of Han nationality.