Hu Jingkang
Hu (Hú) is a Chinese surname, ranking 13th in terms of the proportion of the surname Hu in the national population
position, ranking 158th in "Hundred Family Surnames". According to historical records such as "Yuanhe Surname Usuru", the origin of the Hu family name can be traced back to the descendants of the ancient sage Yu, Shun and Yao. Shun, named Xuanjing or Chongming or Chonghua, was the eighth grandson of the Yellow Emperor. Because he was born in Yao (now Fan County, Puyang, Henan), his surname was Yao. In the pre-Qin period, there were many derivation of the surname Yao, such as Chen, Wang, Hu, Sun, Yu, Tian, ??Yuan, Feng, Lu and other surnames, all of which came into being during this period. Before Shun was selected as Yao's successor, Yao asked Shun to move to live near the Guishui River in order to test him out. Therefore, some of Shun's descendants took the river where they lived as their surname and the Gui family. In the Shang Dynasty, Song Zhong's note in "Shiben" said: "After the surname of Yao was thought of by Yu, Jibo Zhigang Zhongxing was revived, and Yin Tang was granted the title of Chen, thinking that he was the queen of Shun."; in the Zhou Dynasty, "Historical Records" and "Zuo Zhuan" "Records: "Zuo Zhuan" in the twenty-fifth year of Duke Xiang: "Zhi Chan said: In the past, Yu Yan's father was Zhou Taozheng, to serve my late king, and my late king relied on his sharp tools, and after his gods, to prepare for Sanke, Yong Yuannu. Taiji was paired with Hu Gong and granted the title of prince. ": After King Wu of Zhou destroyed King Zhou of Shang Dynasty and established the Zhou Dynasty, he found Gui Man, the thirty-fourth generation descendant of Shun, and made Gui Man a prince. He sealed the country in - Chen (today's Huaiyang County, Henan Province), known as Hu Gong, the ancestor of the Hu surname, is a descendant of Hu Gongman, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors who was granted the title of Chendi by King Wu of Zhou more than 3,000 years ago. Hu Gongman was the 33rd generation grandson of Yu Shun and Yao, the son-in-law of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, and was named Chen Hou. After that, Gui Man was called Chen Hu Gong because he was granted the title of Chen, and the Fang Kingdom he founded was also called Chen Kingdom. Later, his descendants took Hu as their surname, and the surname Hu became the origin of the surname Hu of the Han people. It can be seen that the ancestors of the Chinese Hu family are descendants of the orthodox surnames of Yu, Shun and Yao, and are descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The Hu family also has two country names originating from ancient times. There were two Beard States in the Zhou Dynasty. One is in present-day Henan, a vassal state with the same surname in the Zhou Dynasty that was enfeoffed in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It once participated in the coalition led by the Chu State to attack the Wu State, and later followed the Chu State to fight against the Wu State. The Chu State annexed the Bearded State on its way back. Another Hu State had the surname Gui, and was destroyed by the Chu State during the reign of Lu Dinggong. After the fall of these two Hu clans, the descendants of the royal family all took the names of the original countries, forming two branches of the Hu family.