What is the origin and history of the surname Hou?

The Hou family has been performing well in history, with many talents, the most famous is a hermit Hou Huan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, he was still welcomed as a guest by Xinling Jun when he was seventy years old, and has always been respected by Xinling Jun. Hou Huan also lived up to Xinlingjun's expectations, and in the twentieth year of King Anli of Wei (257 BC), he offered advice to Xinlingjun, tried to steal the talisman, recommended the warrior Zhu Hai to kill Jin Contempt, seize military power, and finally defeated Qin to save Zhao. In addition, the Eastern Han Dynasty Great Sima Hou Ba, the Northern Dynasty General Hou Jing, the Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Hou Junji, the Huaiyang County Princely Xiyi, the Song Dynasty Deputy Prime Minister Hou Meng, the Qing Dynasty writer Hou Fangyu, etc., are all outstanding figures in the Hou family.

Modern artist Hou Junshan, modern and contemporary performance artists, cross talk masters Hou Baolin and Hou Han, chemist Hou Debang, medical scientist Hou Baozhang, etc., are all well-known figures. The surname Hou ranks eighty-second among the hundred surnames.

From the surname Ji. Take the title as the clan. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book: Prime Minister's Lineage Table": The Jin Kingdom more than 3,000 years ago in Chinese history was the feudal state of Tang Shuyu, the younger brother of King Cheng of Zhou. And the Hou family is from the prince of the Jin Kingdom.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Jin and his younger brother were killed by Duke Wu of Jin, and their descendants moved to other countries, and took the title of their ancestors as their surname, which was the surname of Hou.

According to the record of "Jinxiang Changhou Cheng Monument", in the early Spring and Autumn Period, Zheng Zhuanggong's younger brother Uncle Duan was killed by Zheng Zhuang Gong because of rebellion, first fled to Yan, and then fled to Gong (now Hui County, Henan), so it is also called Gong Shu Duan. After the death of Gongshu Duan, Zheng Zhuang gave his son Gongzhong the surname Hou, thus forming another Hou clan.

From the surname Ji. Take the title as the clan. According to the "New Tang Dynasty Book: Prime Minister's Lineage Table", in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Mourning Marquis of the Jin Kingdom and his younger brother Marquis were both killed by the Duke of Jin Wu, and their descendants fled to other countries, taking the original title of Marquis as their clan. Hou Ying of Wei is his descendant.

From the surname Hi. According to the "Surname Strategy" cloud: the descendants of the Xia Hou clan were enshrined in the Hou State, and the descendants thought that they were the clan.

It was changed by the Xianbei surname. According to the "Wei Shu Guanshi Chronicles", during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Northern Wei Dynasty had the surnames Hou Nu and Hou Fu, and after entering the Central Plains, they were all changed to the Chinese character single surname Hou.

The earliest one is the descendant of Cangjie in ancient times, according to the "Han Shanggu Changshi Hou Xiang Tablet": "Hou, from Cangjie later." "Cangjie, that is, Cangjie, is said in the history books to be the historian of the Yellow Emperor and the founder of Chinese characters.

According to legend, he was a native of Nanle County, Henan Province. "Zhou Di Ji" said: "Cangjie's surname is Hou Gang's family, and his name is Jie."

One of his descendants lived in Fengyiya County (present-day Baishui County, Shaanxi), known simply as the Hou family.