Why did the surname Wu come from ancient times

Updated on culture 2024-07-11
5 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-12

    1.With the name of the princes, from the surname Ji, he is a direct descendant of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, the Yellow Emperor's twelfth grandson, Gu Gong's father (King Taiwang of Zhou), established the Zhou tribe.

    King Tai of Zhou had three sons, Taibo, Zhongyong and Ji Li. Ji Li's son Chang was smart and precocious, and King Tai of Zhou wanted to spread the word to Chang, so Taibo and Zhong Yong fled to Jiangnan and established the ancient kingdom of Gouwu. After the Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Shang Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou named Zhou Zhang, the third grandson of Taibo, as the marquis, and then changed the country name to Wu.

    When it was passed to Shoumeng, the descendants were divided into two branches: one developed politically, such as the monarch of Wu such as Lu Lu and Fucha, but it still belonged to the surname Ji. The other branch is based on Ji Za as the ancestor of the Kai clan, and the descendants are numerous, constituting the vast majority of today's Wu clan.

    2.In ancient times, the descendants of Shun were sealed in Yu, because the pronunciation of the word Yu was the same as Wu, so there was a surname Wu after Shun.

    3.Emperor Zhuan had Wu Quan at the time, and then there was also Wu Clan.

    4.Created by the fusion of ethnic minorities and Han Chinese or the translation of their names into Chinese. For example, the Xibe, Kyrgyz, Korean, Hezhe, etc. all have the surname Wu.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-11

    The most primitive meaning of the word "Wu" is to turn back and shout loudly. The ancestor of the surname Wu, Taibo, ran south of the river from Qishan, Shaanxi.

    Su Wuxi Meili, where the foundation of the state of Wu was created. Wuxi Meili thus became Wu culture and Wu surname.

    Birthplace. When we travel from the Pearl River Delta to Taihu Lake, we always feel that we are moving towards charm.

    The charming city of Wuxi is located on the shore of the beautiful Taihu Lake, rich in people, humanities and culture.

    Developed, convenient transportation, known as "Chunshen Old Seal", "Taihu Lake Pearl" said, is an ancient and new.

    Xing's "famous city in the south of the Yangtze River".

    There is the country of Wu in history, and then there are people with the surname of Wu, Wu land, Wu culture, and Wu surname. The rise of Wuxi's economy and culture can be traced.

    to the ancestor of the Wu surname, Taibo.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Most of the Chinese surnames come from ancient times, and the surname Wu is no exception.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Hello, the surname Wu first originated from the surname of the Yellow Emperor Ji, and the birthplace is Xinzheng, Henan, Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan. In ancient times, the surname Wu was mainly distributed in: Chenliu County (now Chenliu Town, Kaifeng City, Henan), Puyang County (now Puyang City, Henan), and Yanling County (now Changzhou, Jiangsu).

    The distribution of the surname Wu 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 the surname Wu, followed by Henan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Shandong, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, and 41% is concentrated. The surname Wu ranks 6th in the Song version of "100 Family Names", and according to the statistics of relevant national departments in 2018, the total population of the surname Wu in mainland China is about 28.8 million, ranking 10th. Wu, the collective name of the culture of Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions in eastern China, is located in the Taihu Lake region of northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu and the whole territory of Shanghai, which has long been located in the same administrative unit (Huiji County, Jiangnan East Road, Liangzhejiang Road), and the language is Wu; It was not until the Ming and Qing dynasties that it belonged to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, and its culture, customs, and language were relatively close.

    In the pre-Qin period, Wu belonged to the land of Baiyue, which was called "Gou Wu" by the Central Plains, and lived in the ancient Yue people.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    The surname Wu, a Chinese surname, is a multi-origin and multi-ethnic surname. Originated in Wuxi, Jiangsu. In ancient times, the counties surnamed Wu were distributed in: Chenliu County (now Chenliu Town, Kaifeng City, Henan), Puyang County (now Puyang City, Henan) Lingor, Yanling County (now Changzhou, Jiangsu).

    In 473 BC, the state of Wu was destroyed, and the descendants of the surname Wu not only migrated in the interior of the motherland, but also spread abroad. In the early days, the Wu surname mainly moved to neighboring Vietnam, Japan, and Korea, and later moved to the Nanyang Islands to multiply. A branch of the Kure royal family evolved into the Japanese imperial family.

    During the Han and Wei dynasties to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Japanese Wu people missed their homeland, and the Wa King sent envoys to worship the mainland dynasty many times, and solemnly stated: The Japanese royal family is a descendant of Wu Taibo. In modern times, some of the children surnamed Wu Wang Xisun moved to Europe and the United States.

    Now, with the wave of global integration, the descendants of the surname Wu have spread all over the world. Well.

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

    The surname Wu ranks 6th in the Song version of "Hundred Family Names", and according to the statistics of relevant national departments in 2018, the total population of the surname Wu in mainland China is about 27.8 million, ranking 9th.

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