Taiyuan County, Shanxi, Nanchang County, Jiangxi.
The origin of "Wū"
The surname Wu (Wū Wu) has two origins: 1. It comes from the surname Yu, After asking for advice for Lu Zhong's fourth son in the Spring and Autumn Period, he named his surname after the fiefdom. According to the "Review of Surnames", the surname Wu comes from the fiefdom. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the fourth son of Lu Zhong asked for words and was granted the title of Wu (in today's Yanshi City, Henan Province). His descendants took the surname of the fiefdom and called it Ouspensky. 2. It comes from the surname Yang, who was named after Zang, a retainer of the Qi family, a senior official in the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period. According to the "Tongzhi Clan Brief": After the Jin Dynasty official Wu Zang, he lived in Wu, so he became a surname. ?In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qi family of the Jin Dynasty, after the retainer Zang surnamed Wu, settled in Wu (today's Jiexiu City, Shanxi Province), and was known as Wu Zang in the world. His descendants took the surname of the town and formed the Wu family.
The ancestors of the surname: Sima Mimo and Wu Zang.
According to the "Manuscript of the Words and Deeds of Famous Xian Clan", it is said: After Sima Mimo, the prefect of Wu County, he became a surname. This Sima Mimo was also named in the great history book "Zuo Zhuan" written by Zuo Qiuming. In the 28th year of the Zhao Dynasty, the book pointed out: "Sima Mimo was Doctor Wu". It can be seen that the ancestor with the surname Wu was once a very prominent figure in the Jin Dynasty. "Tongzhi Clan Brief" says: After the Jin Dynasty official Wu Zang settled in Wu, he became his surname. ?This Wu Zang was also an important minister of the Jin State, so he was qualified to own a food town. According to these two records, the surname Wu originated from the same place, but they had two ancestors, and the time when they got the surname was hundreds of years apart. Who of the people with the surname Wu in later generations came from Sima Mimo, and who? It was passed down from Wu Zang. Although the truth cannot be tested and the origin cannot be traced reliably, no matter which one is their true ancestor, people with the surname Wu are still very qualified to be proud of their surname, because these two Wus The surnamed ancestors were all important figures in the Jin Dynasty at that time. In "Zuo Zhuan", it was also mentioned that the king took the fields of Wu, Liu, Chi, and X to Zheng. Wu Di, which belonged to the Zheng State, has nothing to do with the Wu surname of later generations according to research, because this Wu Di refers to a place southwest of Yanshi City, Henan Province, and has the same relationship with Wu Yi in Shanxi Province. Not a short distance. Descendants of the Wu family regard Sima Mimo and Wu Zang as the ancestors of the Wu surname.
Migration distribution
The surname Wu is not among the top 100 surnames in mainland China and Taiwan. According to the "Manuscript of the Words and Deeds of Famous Xian Clan", it is said: After Sima Mimo, the prefect of Wu County, he became a surname. This Sima Mimo was also named in the great history book "Zuo Zhuan" written by Zuo Qiuming. In the 28th year of the Zhao Dynasty, the book pointed out: "Sima Mimo was Doctor Wu". It can be seen that the ancestor with the surname Wu was once a very prominent figure in the Jin Dynasty. "Tongzhi Clan Brief" says: After the Jin Dynasty official Wu Zang settled in Wu, he became his surname. ?This Wu Zang was also an important minister of the Jin State, so he was qualified to own a food town. According to these two records, the surname Wu originated from the same place, but they had two ancestors, and the time when they got the surname was hundreds of years apart. Who of the people with the surname Wu in later generations came from Sima Mimo, and who? It was passed down from Wu Zang. Although the truth cannot be tested and the origin cannot be traced reliably, no matter which one is their true ancestor, people with the surname Wu are still very qualified to be proud of their surname, because these two Wus The surnamed ancestors were all important figures in the Jin Dynasty at that time.
In "Zuo Zhuan", it was also mentioned that the king took the fields of Wu, Liu, Lao, and X to Zheng. Wu Di, which belongs to the Zheng State, has nothing to do with the Wu surname of later generations according to research, because this Wu Di refers to a place southwest of Yanshi County, Henan Province, and has a relationship with Wu Yi in Shanxi Province. Not a short distance. The above is the origin of the surname Wu with solid evidence. In addition, according to "A Study of Surnames", the origin of the Wu family can be traced far back to Emperor Ku's grandson Lu Zhong. This special book on surname studies records it like this: "Guoyu" says that the fourth son of Lu Zhong came to have the surname of Yu, and he was named Wu, looking out to Nanchang, Fuzhou and Chongren.
?It turned out that Emperor Ku’s son was Zhu Rong, and Lu Zhong was Zhu Rong’s son. Lu Zhong was an important figure in the history of the Chinese nation. He gave birth to six sons, namely Kunwu, Cenhu, Pengzu, Laiyan, An and Jilian have a wide range of descendants and are one of the ancestors of Chinese surnames. For example, Su, Gu, Wen, Dong and other surnames are the descendants of the eldest brother Kunwu; Qian, Tian and Peng are the descendants of the eldest son. The surname Cao comes from Lao Wu; the Mi surname of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period comes from Lao Liu Jilian. And if the Wu surname is really a descendant of Laosi Laiyan, then it is obvious that he and the above surnames are from the same family. According to the records in "A Study of Surnames", the Wu family later mainly flourished in three places: Nanchang, Fuzhou and Chongren. Nanchang, the current capital of Jiangxi Province, Fuzhou and Chongren are also within the territory of Jiangxi Province. It can be seen that the Wu family originated in Shanxi during the Spring and Autumn Period. By the Han Dynasty, it had spread to various parts of Jiangxi south of the Yangtze River, and was in Prosperity thrives here.