Yu's name and totem:
So it is synonymous with snakes. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions and China, the word Yu is like a house supported by trees. The upper part is the roof, and the lower part is the beam frame and columns. The whole glyph is like a house structure diagram. Yu's original meaning is house. Later, it evolved into the first person "I" and the redundant "Yu", both of which are the extended meanings of the house, and the original meaning of "Yu" has long since disappeared. The people left behind in the early days were a group of people who were good at building houses with trees. They regard the house as the primitive totem of the clan, and the house supported by trees represents the emblem and name of the clan. The place where I live is named after the Chinese character, and the castle I built is named after the Chinese character, which eventually developed into a country named Yu.
The origin and evolution of the Yu family;
Yu family is mainly composed of Yu family and Kui family.
The first one was sent by the company. When Emperor Yao was in power, Yao ordered the descendants of Emperor Zhuan Xu to control water, and the cannon was blocked. Water control failed for nine years. After Shun Yao ascended the throne, he used Yu, the son of Gun, to control water, and Yu changed to dredging. 13 years later, the flood subsided and was sealed in Yangzhai, now Yuzhou, Henan. In 2070 BC, Yu succeeded Shun and established the first hereditary feudal dynasty in China-Xia Dynasty, with the title Xian. The kings of 14 and 17 in Xia Dynasty were all in Yangcheng, and now they are offered in Dengfeng East, Henan Province, and now they are in Dengfeng Northwest, Anyi, Northeast Xia County, Shanxi and other places. He was killed by his master in BC 1600, and Jie Li was killed in the Southern Dynasty, and later people took his name as his surname. After the enfeoffment of Yu Xia, the state-owned Yu Yu also established Yu Yu, followed by the Yu Yu family.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin people fled to Xirong to be an official. It is said that he is virtuous and generous, caters to everyone, makes suggestions for the state of Qin, and has made great contributions to "expanding territory and benefiting the country" and "dominating the west and conquering the country". Later generations took history as their surname, and there were, especially, and. Guo Yu in Xia Hou may have existed until the end of Shang Dynasty. This country is located in the southwest of Shaanxi Province, and its land is occupied by the Liu Xu family of Xidi. Those who fled to Xirong in the name of the country were later used by Yu Yu in Qin Mugong. They may be descended from Yu Xia or Sidi Liu Xu. The latter is more likely.
The second expenditure came from Que. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Yu became a monk in a small country, and later generations took the country as their surname. Di, also known as Zhai, is an ancient nation distributed in Hexi and Taihang Mountains before the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it gradually moved eastward with frequent activities, which was related to Qi, Lu, Jin, Wei, Song and Xing. Because it is distributed in the north, it is called the northern land, and later it is divided into three parts: Xidi, Di Zi and Long Beach. It is distributed in the northern part of Changzhi, Shanxi, and mixed with Jin people, including Dongshan Gaoluo family, Confucianism, Lushi family, Jia family, Jia family and so on. Some of them merged with Jin people in the Spring and Autumn Period. The Yu family in Chibi, that is, the family where people live, is the hometown of future generations, which is actually translated from the near sound of Yu. Therefore, China's surname Yu originated in Changzhi, Shanxi, with a history of at least 3,000 years.
Integration of foreign genes:
The third one comes from a foreign name. The Yu surname in our country communicated and merged with the surrounding ethnic groups earlier than other surnames. The Yu family from Shanxi orthodoxy is actually a mixed group of Huaxia people and Di people. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the inflow of foreign genes occurred in the Yu family, mainly in the south. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Chen Dynasty, Xinfeng people in Jiangxi had surnames. Xi people were a branch of southern Wu Lingren at that time, and many surnames in southern China were related to them. the Yuan Dynasty
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 80,000 Yu surnames, accounting for 0. 1% of the national population, ranking behind 120. Surnames are mainly distributed in Fujian, Hubei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Hebei. The surnames of five provinces account for about 80% of the total surnames in China, followed by Henan, Guangdong and Jiangsu. Before the Song Dynasty, Yu's main force had basically moved south to the south of the Yangtze River.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 540,000 people surnamed Yu, accounting for 0.58% of the national population, and it was the 35th largest surname in the Ming Dynasty. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian, in which the surname Yu accounts for about 69% of the total population, followed by Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Anhui, and the surname Yu accounts for 2 1%. Jiangxi is the largest province with Yu surname, accounting for 29.2% of the total population of Yu surname. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of the Yu family changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated from the north to the southeast, forming a population gathering area of the Yu family centered on Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian.
Distribution and atlas of contemporary Yu family;
The population of Yu surname has reached more than 5.8 million, which is the 40th surname in China, accounting for 0.48% of the national population. Since the Song Dynasty, the population growth rate of the Yu family has been formed in the period of 1000. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Henan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan and Guangdong provinces, accounting for about 54% of the total population of Henan, followed by Anhui, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Hunan, Yunnan and Fujian, accounting for 32% of the total population of Henan. Henan province has the largest surplus population, accounting for 13% of the total population. Yu, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian are the four major gathering places of Yu.
Yu surname is widely distributed in the crowd, but it is not balanced. In southeastern Henan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, most of Sichuan, Chongqing and Hubei, Yunnan, western Guizhou, northern Hunan, eastern Guangdong, western Guangxi and northwestern Xinjiang, the proportion of the Yu family in the local population is generally above 0.72%, and that in the central region is above 2.4%. The above-mentioned area accounts for about 19% of the total land area, and about 58% of the people surnamed Yu live in it. In central Henan, northern Anhui, southern Shandong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, northeastern Zhejiang, Taiwan Province, northwestern Hubei, northern Sichuan, northern and southern Chongqing, most of Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, southwestern Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and eastern Qinghai, the surname Yu accounts for 0.24%-0.72% of the local population. The above-mentioned area accounts for about 24.7% of the total land area, accounting for about 30.
Yu's traditional culture;
There are mainly Xin 'an, Xiapi and Xing Wu. Besides the same name as the county king, Yu's surnamed tang also has Qingyan and Zhonghui. The name "Qingyan" came from the Song Dynasty, so Zhu's favorite student. He is a man of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and faith, calling himself "Qing Yan", so his descendants took this as their Tang name. Yu Tianxi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, is a teacher of the history of prime ministers. When the king was away, he ordered Yu Tianxi to choose a young, intelligent and virtuous son from the royal family. Yu Tianxi found Gui Zhuang, later Song Lizong. After Zong acceded to the throne, Yu Tianxi was named Fenghua County Order, and after his death, he was named "Zhonghui".
There are five pairs of couplets, which are the following important surnames:
Senior four exhortation; Just riding a bike.
The spirit is in the pavilion; fishing village
Collect and assist Taiwan Province Province; Bold and bold.
Qinghe forest cloth; Respect Mencius.
When remonstrating grass incense, I remember Qujiang's legacy; Hair makes money, dare to forget singing.
Celebrity frequency and family sages:
From 755 to 79000, there were 142 celebrities, accounting for 0.3 1% of the total number of celebrities, ranking 74th in the celebrity surname list. Yu famous writers account for 0.3 1% of the total number of writers in China, ranking 7 1. More than one doctor accounted for 0.56% of the total number of medical doctors in China, ranking 39 th; Famous artists in China accounted for 0.45% of the total number of artists, ranking 52nd.
The important figures of the Yu family in history are: filial son Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty; In the Northern Song Dynasty, Zuo Shu's Cheng Yu Jing was still popular. Yu Jie, Minister of Southern Song Dynasty; Yu Gan, the overseer of the Yuan Dynasty; Yu Xiangdou, the author and publisher of popular novels in Ming Dynasty, Yu Huang, an Apocalypse scholar and minister of war; Huai Yu, a litterateur in Qing Dynasty, and Yu Xiaoke, a Confucian scholar; Yu Hanmou, commander-in-chief of the Army of the Republic of China, Yu Sansheng, a Peking Opera artist, and Yu Jiaxi, a bibliographer and classical philologist; Contemporary physicist Yu, astrophysicist Yu, literary historian and drama educator Yu Shangyuan.
Surname blood type:
The blood type distribution of the people surnamed Yu is: O type accounts for 35.8%, A type accounts for 29.8%, B type accounts for 26.3%, and AB type accounts for 8. 1%.