Tracing back to its roots, the Qu family is divided into two branches. A branch is the orthodox surname, and B branch evolved from Ju surname.
there are three theories about the origin of nail branch. First, it comes from the surname Ji. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the marquis of Jin Mu gave birth to a young son who lived in Quwo, Shanxi Province, and his descendants changed their surnames according to the local conditions. The second is to inherit the ancient surname. In the summer, there was a rebellious attitude, and later generations chose their own surnames. Third, other clans came in, and the chieftain of Xi and Qidan clans in Tang Dynasty had Qu surname. Manchus also have people who live in Liaoyang; Now Manchu, Lisu and other ethnic groups have this surname.
De's surname is Quwo Huan Shu, a native of Jin State at the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the beginning of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. He is a ninth grandson of Zhou Wuwang's third son Shu Yu, son of Mu Houlin and brother of Wen Houqiu. When Qiu Zi was Zhao Hou, he awarded his uncle Yu Quwo and addressed him as Uncle Quwo Huan. Quwo fief was bigger than the capital of Jin State, and its virtue was noble and honest, which won the trust and support of the people of Li. When his grandson Quwo was a Duke of Wu, the Ma Zhuang clan was so powerful that he killed three kings to gain the land of Jin, which was called Duke of Wu. After the Jin Dynasty, the Duke of Wu still took Yicheng, Shanxi Province as the capital, and Liuquwo as the birthplace of the clan. Later generations still called Qu surname according to the place, and respected Uncle Huan of Quwo as the originator of his surname.
people with Qu surnames multiply and move frequently. Originated in Quwo, Shanxi Province, it thrived in its original place for a long time after it got its surname. During the Warring States period, the three countries were divided into Jin, and some people entered Hebei and Henan for official reasons. Due to various reasons, the main body of ancestral home moved to Linfen in the north or Shaanxi County in the south. Up to the Qin Dynasty, I saw an imperial adviser named Qugong, who was the descendant of Uncle Quwo Huan. During the Han Dynasty, except for the rapid prosperity of Qu surname in Shanxi and Henan, another branch moved northward to Yanmen County and gradually formed a large settlement. At this time, the names of Qu are still scarce, except for a Qu Shu who became rich by robbing a tomb in Biography of Huo Zhi. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Qu's surname was in Linfen and Daixian in Shanxi, and the Shaanxi ethnic group in Henan was strong and prosperous, and it was a famous family in Pingyang, Yanmen and Shaanxi counties of Qu's family. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the county name Quwang, especially Quhuan, a native of Anyi, Shaanxi Province, was an outstanding representative, and he lived in Longdi and became famous in the Central Plains. At this time, the Qu surname has been widely settled in Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, entrusted by the court, Khúc Th?a D? entered Vietnam with his family, forming a branch of foreign countries. During the Song Dynasty, the Song and Zhao Dynasties were partial to the east of the Yangtze River, and the number of Qu surnames migrated to the south was increasing. In the early Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Qu surname, as one of the great immigrant clans, was moved to Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Beijing and other places. From then on to the middle of Qing Dynasty, the surname Qu gradually dispersed in Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and other provinces. After the Kanggan Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, some people from Shandong and Hebei entered the northeast to make a living, and most of their descendants stayed there. With the upsurge of going to the east and the movement of developing the Great Northern Wilderness, more young people named Qu settled in Heilongjiang. Nowadays, people surnamed Qu are widely distributed in China, with Liaoning and Heilongjiang being the most numerous.
The Qu family of Yizhi is derived from the evolution of Ju surname, and there are two theories about the origin of Ju surname. One is from the surname Ji, a descendant of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor was named Abandon after his pet, and he was the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty. The abandoned son had a son named Tao, who was born with a mark on his palm, which resembled the ancient Chinese word "Ju", so he was named Juju. Ju Tao later became the leader of the Zhou Dynasty, and later generations took his name as the bow. The second is to use the famous name as the surname. Jutao's descendants have a wise man, Juwu, who served as a doctor in Yan State. His descendants, Jun, called Juxing after his name.
The authentic surname is Jutao, who lived in the 16th century BC and his ancestral home was Qingyang, Gansu. There are two great ancestors in the classics. One is the student Ju Yu of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period of Qi Jinggong in 54 BC. Second, Ji Sheng, the son of Yan Yi Wang in the late Warring States period. According to the genealogy records of most Ju surnames, they changed their surnames from Ji Sheng to Ji Sheng, and Juwu, the Taizi Dan of Yan State in the Warring States Period, was the great-grandson of Ju Shenggong. Ju Zhongmou, a scholar of Yong Xi in Song Dynasty, was also the ancestor of Qu family. According to this inference, it has been handed down for about 76 generations since Jusheng. Among the above two sources, the divergence and migration of Juyu family cannot be verified, while the divergence and migration of Jusheng family are clearly analyzed: Jicheng-Xiangping-Jicheng-Runan-Donglai-Shanyang-Dengzhou. Ancestor celebrities recorded in local historical records include Ju Xian, Ju Peng, Ju Yin, Ju Zhang, Ju Yanzeng, Ju Yanyun, Ju Zhen, Ju Qingsun, Ju Chang and Ju Zhongmou from the end of the Western Jin Dynasty to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.
There are many noble families in the Ju family. Ju Changyuan was a scholar in the Southern Han Dynasty during the Five Dynasties. During the reign of Kaibao in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Pu served as prime minister, hired him as a writer, and then made a Qinghe order, and his family flourished for a while. Runan County is also a land of Qu surname. Emperor Han Gaodi set up the county and ruled Shangcai, which now governs the area south of central Henan and north of Huaihe River in Anhui. In addition, in Linzi in 54 BC, Xiangping in 32 BC, Donglai in 2 A.D., Gaomi in 95 A.D. and Dengzhou in 14 A.D., there were prominent families of the Ju family.
Although Ju's surname is small, Ying Jie is full of celebrities. Juwu was the teacher of Yan Taizi Dan during the Warring States Period, and once recommended Jing Ke to the Prince. Ju Yue was a famous person in Ming Dynasty. When Zhengde was in Germany, he was captured by foreign enemies to Chengnan Temple, where he was beaten, bullied, brave and unyielding and killed. Mrs. Ju was a dancer in the Song Dynasty. When Gao Zong was the first talented woman in Xianshao Academy, she was called "the head of the bow". In the Warring States period, there were Kong Qiu's disciple Ju Yu, in the Song Dynasty, there was an imperial adviser Ju Yong, and in the Yongxi period, there was a scholar Ju Zhongmou. These Chinese talents Jun made outstanding contributions to the country and the people.
In the Western Han Dynasty, the mourning emperor Shang Shuling Ju Tan was implicated in the "Dongping Wang Xuan Mountain Standing on a Stone" incident, and was demoted to Huangzhong and changed his surname to Qu. In the next 5 years, the descendants of Ju Tan developed and grew in Jincheng and Xiping, becoming local tycoons. There appeared famous warriors such as Qu Yi, Qu Yan and Qu Yun, and Qu Jia, the king of Gao Changguo on the sublime side. The surname of Qu evolved in the historical process, and later a branch was derived to become the surname of Qu, forming the origin of modern schools. Later, the original Qu surname and the transformed Qu surname blended together. After the death of Qu surnames in Shandong Province, a monument was erected to restore Ju surnames, so it was called "dead bow and live songs". It is also said in the clan that the ancestors of Qu family once served as officials in the court, and they were harmed by treacherous court officials to destroy the nine clans. When their family members met Pan Cha and Qu homophonic, they lied about their surname Qu, escaped the killing and survived by luck, and continued their new surname to this day. There is no historical data about this rumor, which is probably a variation of Jutan incident.