Do you know the origin of the surname "Wu"?

One, the origin of the family name

Wu (Wú Wu) family name has five origins:

1, from the family name of Ji, the country for the clan. According to "Tongzhi - clans", "historical records - Zhou Benji", "Yuan and the compilation of surnames", "Danyang Wu genealogy" and other relevant information contained in the King of Zhou, the old king of Zhou, late in the year to pass on to the third son of the Jili, the eldest son of Tai Bo and the second son of Zhongyong automatically let the virtuous, as far as Jiangnan, to agriculture as an industry. Later, Tai Bo established the state of Gou Wu. After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu appointed Zhou Zhang, the third grandson of Taibo, as a marquis and renamed the state as Wu. Later, it was destroyed by the state of Yue, and the descendants of its royal family took Wu as their surname.

2. According to legend, there was a tribe named Yu Clan in ancient times, and Yu Shun was the leader of the tribe, and his descendants were surnamed Wu because of the close sound of Yu and Wu.

3, from the ancient emperor Zhuanxu period Wu Quan's descendants. According to the relevant information, it is rumored to be the descendant of Wu Quan in the ancient Zhuanxu Emperor (Gao Yang Clan).

4, the Xia Dynasty King Shaokang Wu He, followed by the Wu clan.

5, the integration of ethnic minorities with the Han, resulting in the Wu surname. Sibe, Kirgiz, Korean, Hezhe, etc. have for Wu surname.

The founder of the surname: Tai Bo. More than three thousand years ago, in the area of Qishan, Shaanxi Province, there was a week tribe, and the leader was called King Tai of Zhou. King Tai of Zhou had an eldest son, Tai Bo, a second son, Zhong Yong, and a youngest son, Jili. Jili's son, Chang, was smart and early, and was favored by King Tai. King Tai wanted to pass on the title to Chang, but according to the tradition of the time, the title should be passed on to the eldest son, so the king was depressed. Understanding his father's intention, Tai Bo fled to the desolate south of Jiangnan with his second brother Zhong Yong and created his own foundation, establishing the ancient state of Gou Wu. After the fall of the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty was established, and King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty conferred the third grandson of Tai Bo, Zhou Zhang, as a marquis, and thus changed the name of the state to Wu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the state of Wu was destroyed by the state of Yue, and the descendants of the royal family did not forget the hatred of their country, so they took the name of the state as their family name, and Tae-bo became the founder of the Wu family name.

Two, migration distribution

Wu surname originated in the south of China, in the period of Qin and Han Dynasty, is the first period of development after the surname. After the death of Wu, Wu descendants exiled to Jiangxi wuyuan, Anhui shexian area, and there are north to shandong, shanxi and other places. At the end of qin and early han, the wu family members to participate in the uprising, because of the merit, more than the king, there are a number of famous families, such as nanyang wu, chen liu wu, henan wu, etc., the glory of a time for the development of wu family name history of an important period. To the period of Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties, Wu clan can be further developed, due to the Wu surname has a woman in the end of the Han Dynasty married to the monarch of Wu, became a royal family, born Sun Quan, Sun Ce, and so on, and after the death of Wu, into the service in the two Jin Dynasty, repeated celebrities, well-known in the world. During the Southern Dynasty, the Wu family name after "Yanling Jizi" developed to the central part of Hubei Province, and gradually prospered, and at the same time, formed the famous Wuchang County Prefecture. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, some of the Wu family members who lived in Shandong Province moved to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and gradually became a famous local family after serving in Shu. To the Sui and Tang dynasties, Wu has appeared Chenliu, Puyang, Bohai three famous family, Chenliu family originated in Shandong Wu family, after the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although through the war, but still as a local family to continue to develop, and appeared in the "Zhenguan political summary" of the author of the Wu Jing on behalf of a number of celebrities. Puyang Wu surname for the Eastern Han Dynasty after Wu Han, after the Han Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties, due to always for the royal family, celebrities, so Puyang Wu surname flourished for a while, the status has been prominent. At the same time, the Bohai Wu family name is also famous for celebrities and known in the world. To the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Wu family for various reasons, there is a large number of northern Wu south and in the south of the development of the situation, so the northern Wu gradual decline, the South gradual prosperity, and in this period, "Yanling Jizi" descendants, Xianyang Wu, Shaoxing Wu and a large number of clansmen, and gradually prominent, successive generations of officials, the family continues to expand and prosper, and later gradually divided out of Ningxia, Anhui, and the Bohai Wu also due to the celebrities have been known. And in the future gradually divided out of Anhui Ningguo, Zhejiang Jiaxing and other prestigious families. To the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the modern period, Wu name a large number of people, the family distribution is further extensive, the population increased, but also appeared in addition to the mainland, to Southeast Asia and the phenomenon of extensive migration overseas. Wu surname distribution is very wide, now to the south of the Yangtze River for more, the ratio of the population of the Wu surname in the provinces of East China are accounted for more than two percent of the population of the provinces, especially in Fujian Province for the high, accounting for about five percent of the population of the province. Wu is now China's tenth largest family name ranking, a large population, accounting for about two percent of the national Han population.

Three Historical Figures

Wu Qi: a famous militarist during the Warring States period, he was a native of Zuo (present-day Cao County, Shandong Province) in the State of Wei. At first he was a general of Lu, then a general of Wei, then he ran to Chu, served as a magistrate, presided over the change of law, which promoted the development of Chu, and then he was killed.

Wu Guang (吴广)：Leader of the peasant revolt at the end of Qin Dynasty, he was a native of Yangxia (present-day Taikang, Henan Province). In 209 B.C., he and Chen Sheng started an uprising of 900 soldiers and established the Zhang Chu regime, but was later killed.

Wu Rui (吴芮): a vassal king at the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, he was the magistrate of Panyang (present-day Boyang East, Jiangxi Province) during the Qin Dynasty. He led an uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and was crowned King of Changsha after being credited with helping Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty to claim the title of Emperor.

Wu Han: Nanyang Wanxian (present-day Nanyang, Henan Province), the East Han Dynasty, the Grand Secretary of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a representative figure of the Nanyang Wu Clan, was named Marquis of Guangping for helping Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty to quell the rebellion, making his family the most prominent of the Wu family in the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

Wu Jun: a native of Wuxing (now Anji, Zhejiang Province), he was a literary scholar during the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties, and an official of the imperial court. He was a scholar of literature in the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties, and was an official of the imperial court. He was well versed in history, and his writings were good at writing landscapes, and he was especially good at writing small books and journals, with a clear and elegant style, which was called the "Wujun style".

Wu Jing: Bianzhou Junyi (present-day Kaifeng, Henan Province), Tang Dynasty historians, the official Weiweiwei Secretary and Xiuwen Pavilion Bachelor, authored the "Empress Wu's Records", "Zhenguan Political Essentials" and other books.

Wu Bing: Biling Wuyang (now Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province), South Song Guangzong Shaoxi years (1190-1194), the Painting Academy to be edict. Empress Li of Guangzong loved his paintings, and was very generous with her favors, giving him a gold belt. He was a painter of birds and flowers, and Xia Wenyan's "Illustrated Baojian" of the Yuan Dynasty described his paintings as "sketching and folding branches, which can capture the creation of the world, and the coloring is exquisite and rich". He was careful to adhere to the style of courtyard painting. Paintings include "Spring Pond Sleeping Ducks", "Camellia Widgeon", "Mandarin Ducks and Rui Lien", "Jade Butterfly", "Folding Branches of Vermillion Peach", "Folding Branches of Peony", "Cockscomb Flower", "Rose", "Perennial", "Narcissus", and 43 other paintings, which are recorded in the "Records of Southern Song Dynasty paintings", and all of them are "easy and interesting" and "wonderful". They are all "simple and interesting" and "wonderful". The heirloom works are "Hibiscus" and "Jiahe Caozhu", now in the Palace Museum; "Bamboo Bird" album page, silk, color, 25 cm longitudinally, 25 cm horizontally, the lower side of the painting signed by the "Wu Bing painting" 3 words, Wu Bing's masterpieces, hidden in the Shanghai Museum.

Wu Zhen: a native of Jiaxing (now Zhejiang Province), he was an outstanding painter in the Yuan Dynasty, known for his landscapes and bamboo paintings, and was one of the "Four Famous Artists of the Yuan Dynasty".

Wu Daozi: a famous painter of the Tang Dynasty, a native of Yangzhai (present-day Yuxian County, Henan Province), who was regarded as the "Sage of Painting" because his paintings of figures, ghosts and deities, birds and animals, and pavilions were the best in the world. The lines of his paintings are strong and vigorous, with rich variations, changing the fine strokes of the ancient wandering silk depictions, and developing the artistic method of line drawing, so the objects expressed are rich in a sense of movement and rhythm, which is known as the "Wu Band Dangfeng".

Wu Changling was a famous opera writer in the Yuan Dynasty, a native of Datong, Shanxi Province.

Wu Chengen: a famous novelist of the Ming Dynasty, a native of Shanyang (present-day Huai'an County, Jiangsu Province). He is famous for his book "Journey to the West", one of the four great masterpieces of Chinese classical literature.

Wu Sangui: a native of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, was the King of Pingxi in the Qing Dynasty. He served as a general soldier stationed at Shanhaiguan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and was named King of Pingxi for leading the Qing troops into the pass, and was later killed for rebellion during the Kangxi period.

Wu Jingzi: a famous novelist in the Qing Dynasty, a native of Quanjiao, Anhui Province. He is known as an outstanding satirist with his novel "The History of the Confucian Forests", which exposes the social ugliness of the time from various aspects, and is an outstanding work in the classical satirical novels of China.

Wu Woyao: A famous novelist in the Qing Dynasty, he was a native of Nanhai, Guangdong Province (now Guangzhou City). He wrote the most influential novel "Twenty Years of Witnessing the Strange Present".

Wu Changshuo: a famous seal engraver and calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, a native of Anji, Zhejiang Province. He was a poet, a good calligrapher, and an excellent seal carver, with a unique style of calligraphy and calligraphy.

Wu Youxun: a native of Gao'an, Jiangxi Province, China's famous physicist, participated in the birth and development of modern quantum physics, served as a professor at Tsinghua University, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National People's Congress, the CPPCC Standing Committee quarter and other positions.

Four, county hall

1, county

Yanling County: the Western Jin Dynasty when Qu'a County set up the county, the seat in the present-day Danyang, Jiangsu Province, southwest.

Puyang County: Jin Dynasty, when the East County to set up the country, the end of the Western Jin Dynasty into the county, the seat in Puyang (now southwest of Henan Province, Puyang County). This branch of the Wu Clan, its founding ancestor for the Guangping Marquis Wu Han's grandson Wu Zun.

Bohai County: Western Han Dynasty. The seat of the Fuyang (today's Hebei Province, Liaoning Province, along the coast of the Bohai Bay).

Wuxing County: Wu Xing County was established by Wu in the Three Kingdoms in the area of Huzhou, Zhejiang Province. The county seat was in Wucheng (south of Wuxing in present-day Zhejiang Province). The Tang Dynasty also changed Huzhou to Wuxing County.

RuNan County: set up by Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, it is located in the south of the central part of today's Henan Province and the area north of the Huai River in Anhui Province. The capital was Shangcai (southwest of Shangcai County in present-day Henan Province).

Wuchang County: the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Wu each set Jiangxia County, Wu Jiangxia Wuchang (now E City), Wei Jiangxia Shangchang (now southwest of Yunmeng). Jin destroyed Wu, also ruled the old land, changed to Wuchang County. Southern Song Dynasty moved to rule Xiakou (present-day Wuchang), the jurisdiction was reduced to present-day Wuhan and its vicinity. The capital was Wuhan, Hubei Province.

Chenliu County: the Western Han Dynasty county, the seat in Chenliu (now southeast of Kaifeng, Henan Province). This branch of the Wu Clan is descended from Jiza, where the clan of Wu Chou of the Eastern Han Dynasty is located.

Changsha County: the Qin Dynasty county, the seat in Linxiang (now Changhu Province, Sha City). This branch of the Wu family is after Jiza, and its founding ancestor was Wu Rui, the king of Changsha in the Western Han Dynasty.

2. Hall Names

Yanling Hall: Jiza was the fourth son of King Shoumeng of Wu, who was famous for his virtues and virtues. Shoumeng dreamed of letting him inherit the throne, but he insisted on not accepting it, so Shoumeng had to put him in Yanling. His three older brothers, who were successively kings of Wu, tried to pass the throne to him when they were dying, but he still refused to accept it. Therefore, he was regarded as "the third man of supreme virtue", and because of his fief in Yanling, he was called "Yanling Jizi" by the people of the time.

The Hall of Supreme Virtue: Confucius admired Tai Bo's spirit of humility, exclaiming, "Tai Bo, it can be called the highest virtue has been carried forward, three to the world to let, the people have no virtue but to call it!" In the view of Confucius, Tai Bo's character has reached a very high level, and there are no more words in the world to describe his virtues. Therefore, Tai Bo was called "King of the Three Letters", and quoting Confucius' words of praise, the general name of the Wu Clan was "Hall of Supreme Virtue".

In addition, the main hall names of the Wu family name are: "Yuan Yuan Tang", "Si Jing Tang", "Yi De Tang", "You Chit Tang ", "Sanjeantang", "Chongli Tang", "Jean De Tang", "Sijeantang ", "Kwan On Tong", "Yue Shing Tong", "Tun Hau Tong", "Tak Yee Tong ", "Yuen Tak Tong", "Shu Tak Tong", "Shi Tak Tong", "Shuang Lok Tong ", "Shuanghe Tang", "Siyuan Tang", "Chongbentang", "Shuibentang ", "Hearing Yi Hall", "Seed Hall", "Yanling Hall", etc.

Five, clan characteristics

1, successive generations of Wu clan status are more prominent, many senior officials, and celebrities.

2, the Wu family members of more royal relatives, which makes the family has a good environment for development, reproduction and dissemination to all parts of the country.

3, each branch of the Wu family name character line generation is arranged in an orderly manner. Sheng County, Zhejiang Province, Wu surname a word line language: "heaven and earth, the pro-division, ZiChouYinMao, ChenSiNuWei, ShenYouXuHai." Hunan Yueyang Wu family name a word line: "Xiang Zhaoqi Wen Xin Shize, the first Xun since ancient times far Tengfang, the way to pass on the family but benevolent to let, Maode a thousand years to carry the spoils of light." According to Wu Muxiu "Wu Shi genealogy", Hunan Dongting Wu surname a character line: "Jia Shi Yong Ding, Keshao Jing from, Maoguang must be due, following the gift of inheritance." According to the "Yongding Wu genealogy", Fujian Yongding Si Xian Village, Wu surname pie language: "Nian Wan Shi Tan Zhi, the country to Yurui set, its son Ren Guangyu, Nai Chang Yi Zongli, Jean De Yong Zhen Shi, Jiaxing Shao Xianliang, diffraction of the Qing hair Wenwu, Handa."

Wu Ancestral Hall General Couplet

〖Wu Ancestral Hall Lintel Inscription〗

Yanling Gaofeng

"Yanling Gaofeng" refers to the Zhouzhang formally sealed the Wu, the country's power is getting stronger and stronger, and the nineteenth grandson Shoumeng formally claimed to be the king of Zhongyong. Shou Meng had four sons, the youngest of whom, Ji Zha, was the most virtuous, benevolent and courteous, and was loved by his father and brother. Shou Meng gave up his throne to him. Ji Zha, like his ancestor Tai Bo, refused to give up the throne and fled to another country, not accepting the throne for the rest of his life. The king of Wu then sealed him in Yanling (present-day Changzhou City and Jiangyin County, Jiangsu Province) and called him Yanling Jizi. Therefore, the Wu Clan was also called Yanling Tang. Yanling became one of the counties of the Wu family name in later times.

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〖Wu Ancestral Hall Four-character Couplet〗

The first of the family line;

The most virtuous of them all.

--Anonymous Composition of Wu Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The whole couplet is from the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Taibo was the eldest son of King Tai of Zhou (Gugong Danfather), and gave way to his younger brother, Jilu, and his son, Chang, who was the king of the Zhou Dynasty (Wenwang). Confucius called him "the most virtuous", and he was listed as the first of the family in the Records of the Grand Historian (史记).

Yanling Shize;

Meili family name.

--Anonymous Composer of General Ancestral Halls of the Wu Surname

The couplet is based on the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), in which the son of Wu, Ji Zha (季札), who was feudalized in Yanling (present-day Wujin, Jiangsu Province), was called Yanling Ji Zi (延陵季子). He lived in Meili, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and avoided Wu when Tai Bo gave up his throne.

Yanling's prestigious family;

The famous officer of the court.

-Anonymous writers of Wu Ancestral Halls

The first couplet is from the Spring and Autumn Period - Wu Ji Zha. The next couplet is from Wu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty, who was a governor of Henan Province at the time of Emperor Wen Di, and was recruited as a court captain. He recommended Jia Yi to Emperor Wen, who called Jia Yi to be a doctor.

The government and the peace are called the best;

Mindfulness of the body and the use of the mind.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of ancestral halls of the Wu surname

The first couplet is from the Western Han Dynasty - Duke Wu, who was just and honest, and was the first in the world in terms of ruling and leveling the world.

The next couplet is from Qing Dynasty - Wu Tingdong, who was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and was the first in the world to rule the world.

The rule of peace is the best;

Let the virtue remain in the world.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of ancestral halls of the Wu surname

The first couplet alludes to Duke Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. The next couplet alludes to the origin of the Wu Clan.

The palace maidens line up;

Xiaoluan becomes immortal.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of ancestral halls of the Wu surname

The first couplet is a reference to the Spring and Autumn Period in which Sun Wu taught the court ladies of the king of Wu the Art of War to make battle formations in order to show their ability to rule the army. The next couplet is based on the story of Tang Wenxiao, who married Wu Cailuan, a fairy, and both of them became immortals.

Cleverness and elegance;

Painting saints remain famous.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of ancestral halls of the Wu surname

The first couplet is a reference to the Western Jin Dynasty, where Wu Yinzhi served in various places, and all of them were recognized for their clean and honest work. The next couplet alludes to the famous painter Wu Daozi of the Tang Dynasty, who is known as the "Sage of Painting" in the world.

Hawk and tiger;

Sword and jade.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of the Wu Ancestral Hall

The first couplet is from the Three Kingdoms, Wu Qi, who was praised by Cao Cao for his "eagle-carrying body, tiger-viewing and phoenix-viewing". The next couplet is from Wu Bozong of the Ming Dynasty, who was called "Jade Light and Sword Breath".

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[Wu Ancestral Hall Five-character General Couplet]

The descendants of filial sons from eight Fujian provinces;

The family of three emperors and kings.

--Anonymous Composition of Wu Ancestral Hall General Couplet

Canonicalization of Wu Ancestral Hall Couplet of the Wu Clan in Tainan City, Taiwan

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〖吳姓宗祠六言通用联〗

三让两家天下；

一剑万世千秋。

-anonymous writes Wu Ancestral Hall General Couplet

The upper couplet is from "The Records of the Grand Historian - Wu Taibo's Family": "Confucius said: 'Taibo can be said to be the most virtuous, three times to the world to let, the people did not get to call it a day.' " The next couplet alludes to the allusion to Ji Zha hanging his sword on Xu Jun's tomb tree.

Sun Zi can teach the palace maidens;

Wen xiao is fortunate to meet the immortal beauty.

-Anonymous writers of the Wu Ancestral Hall of the General Assembly

The first couplet refers to the Spring and Autumn King Helu Lu, who used Sun Wu to train the courtesans, and killed two of his concubines during the training of the women's army without regard to the King's face, which really made the military discipline strict. The next couplet alludes to the Tang - Wu Cailuan met the scholar Wen xiao thing, want to pass the scholar Wen xiao met him in the year of Taihe, by her receiving. Ten years later, they went together to Yue Wang Mountain in Wuzhong, and each of them crossed a tiger and became immortal.

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〖Wu Ancestral Hall of the Surname of Wu in Seven Characters〗

Bohai family style has been flourishing for thousands of years;

Yanling Shize has been prosperous for ten thousand years.

--Anonymous WU Ancestral Hall General Couplet

This couplet is a couplet of the WU Clan Ancestral Hall in Shangyu County, Jiangxi Province. The whole couplet refers to Wu - Ji Zha in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the fourth son of King Shou Meng of Wu, called Gongzi Zha, is an ancient sage related to the historical origin of Jiangyin. It is said that Ji Zha abandoned his house and plowed the soil under the Shun Pass Mountain southeast of Shengang in Jiangyin to avoid the throne, and was known as "Yanling Jizi". Ji Zha was not only a man of high moral character, but also a visionary politician and diplomat. He made friends with the wise men of the world and contributed to the improvement of Chinese culture. Ji Zha emphasized trust and righteousness. When he was passing through Xu, the king of Xu envied his sword and asked for it, but Ji Zha was unable to give it to him because he still had to visit other countries. When he returned from his mission and passed through Xu again, the king of Xu had already died, so Ji Zha took off his sword and hung it on the pine tree next to the tomb of the king of Xu. The attendant was puzzled. He said, "I have long promised in my heart to give the sword to Xu Jun, can I go against my wish just because Xu Jun is dead?" This incident was rumored to be a beautiful story for thousands of years. According to the Spring and Autumn Annals, Ji Zha died in 485 B.C. and was buried in the southwest of Shen Gang. The descendants built the Ji Zi Ancestral Hall next to the tomb and erected a stele in front of the tomb. Legend has it that the inscription of the stele, "Woo-hoo, there is the tomb of the gentleman Wu Yanling," was written by Confucius in 10 ancient seal scripts. The site of today's Shengang Middle School is the original site of the Ji Zi Ancestral Hall, Ji Zi's tomb of the tall sealing soil is still towering on the west bank of the old Shenpu River.

The century of Pi Zhen Yan Ling;

San Jean is still in the heart of Tai Bo.

--Anonymous Composition of Wu Ancestral Hall

This is the ancestral hall of the Wu Clan in Shangyu County, Jiangxi Province. The whole couplet refers to Wu-Tai Bo in the Spring and Autumn Period. Authoritative works on surnames, "Yuan and surname compilation" cloud "King Tai of Zhou, son of Tai Bo, Zhong Yong Feng Wu, children and grandchildren in the country for the clan" (Tai Bo is also known as Tai Bo). Scholars of the family name recognize the ancestor of the Wu family as Tai Bo. Tai Bo was the eldest son of King Tai of Zhou, and King Tai of Zhou intended to give up the family business to his third son, Jili, so Tai Bo fled twice with his second brother, Zhong Yong, in order to fulfill his wish, and ran away twice, from Qishan in Shaanxi Province all the way to the south of the area of Wuxi in present-day Jiangsu Province, and set up a small state of the clan, which was known as Jiu Wu after the first flight. The native Wu people in the area admired the virtue of Tai Bo's brothers, and more than 1,000 households submitted to him, so Tai Bo became the leader of J Wu. After his death, Tai Bo had no heir and was succeeded by his second brother, Zhong Yong, who inherited his position from generation to generation. At the time of King Wu of Zhou, Zhou Zhang, the great-grandson of Zhong Yong, was appointed as the ruler of Wu.

The moon and the bananas are green;

The white sails and the willows are green.

--Anonymous Composition of General Couplets of Ancestral Halls of the Wu Surname

The first couplet alludes to Wu Wenying, a Song Dynasty lyricist who specialized in lyrics. The next couplet alludes to the Ming Dynasty novelist Wu Cheng'en.

People call the ancestor the painting saint;

I hate the king's son said frequent incense.

-Anonymous writer Wu Ancestral Temple General Couplet

The first couplet alludes to Wu Daozi, a famous painter in the Tang Dynasty, who was known as the "Saint of Painting", and was regarded as the "Ancestor" by the folk artists of painting and sculpture. "

The article of the Ministry of Justice is known to the sun and the moon;

The general's work is known to the mountains and rivers.

--Anonymous Composer of General Ancestral Hall of the Wu Surname

Canonically used the anonymous collection of Wu Tianfa's monument character post couplet.

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〖Generic Ancestral Hall of Wu Surname>

Secret meaning and smoke, magnificent words and rain;

Essays and articles, algae and thoughts.

-Wu Rongguang writes a general couplet of Wu Ancestral Hall

Adopting the couplet of Wu Rongguang, a calligrapher and jinshi scholar of the Qing Dynasty.

Wu Rongguang wrote a general couplet of Wu Ancestral Hall

Wu Rongguang is a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty and a jinshi scholar, and he used the couplet of Wu Rongguang.

--Anonymous Composition of Wu Ancestral Halls

This couplet adopts the couplet of Wu Ancestral Halls in Hu Bukou, Shexian County, Anhui Province. The above couplet is a reference to the fact that this branch of the Wu Clan originated from Yanling Jizi, i.e. Ji Zha, the fourth son of King Shou Meng of Wu, who was appointed to Yanling because he did not want to inherit the throne. The name "Xitu" means that Hu Bukou is west of Yanling. The next couplet, "Shili", refers to the nearby Shimenwu and Shimenkeng, where the Wu Clan lived in the diaspora; and "Dongshan" is the name of a small mountain in the area.

Our descendants are the red gentry, higher than the Yanling Ding family;

The government is generous, and the name of the governor was marked early.

-Anonymous writers of Wu Ancestral Halls

The first couplet refers to the Spring and Autumn period of Wu - Ji Zha. The next couplet refers to Wu Gong of the Western Han Dynasty.

With different aspirations to conquer and kill, he gave up two worlds in three;

With the same merit to open up, he shook up ten thousand years in the south of the Yangtze River.

--Anonymous Composition of General Ancestral Halls of the Wu Surname

This couplet is a couplet of ancestral halls of the Wu Surname in Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province. The whole alliance refers to the spring and autumn of the Wu surname ancestor of the king of Zhou Tai's son Tai Bo gave way to the younger brother Jili open up the south of the historical facts, the alliance in today's Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, Tai Bo Ancestral Hall (also known as the Temple of Supreme Virtue, let the king of the temple) and the tomb of the Tai Bo. Tai Bo was honored for his three concessions to the world and his noble virtues. The Wu family name in the world honors Tai Bo as the founder of the family name.

It is good to study, it is good to plow, it is good to learn;

It is hard to start a business, it is hard to keep a business, it is not hard to know the difficulties.

-Wu Jingzi wrote a general couplet of Wu Ancestral Hall

Adopting the self-titled couplet of Wu Jingzi, a novelist in the Qing Dynasty.

Holding the discussion rigidly and squarely, sitting in the seat is the body of the lecturer;

The wind cuts are harsh and severe, flying silk writing the name of the imperial historian.

-Anonymous author of the General Ancestral Hall of the Wu Surname

The first couplet is from the Northern Song Dynasty, Wu Shen, who held the discussion in an upright manner, and wrote "the seat of a lecturer" in the above book. The next couplet is based on the Northern Song Dynasty - Wu Zhongfu, who was an official of the Imperial Household, and was a tough and stern official, who successively dismissed Prime Ministers Liang Shi and Liu Hang. In the second couplet, Wu Zhongfu, who had been a member of the Imperial Household Council of the Northern Song Dynasty, was awarded the title of "Iron Royal Historian" by Emperor Renzong in white letters.

The most important thing to remember is the fact that the people of China are the most important people in the world, and that they are the most important people in the world.

-Anonymous author of a general couplet of the Wu Ancestral Hall

The couplet of the Wu Ancestral Hall is used in the idiom of the Wu Ancestral Hall.

Beginning of the country to remember Jiangsu, in front of the monument to be able to trace the root of the will;

Moving to Taiwan to honor the Liyi Yi, overseas still exist in the heart of the ancestors.

--Anonymous writer of Wu Ancestral Hall

This couplet is dedicated to the Tai Bo Ancestral Hall in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, by the Wu Clan Association of Miaoli County, Taiwan.

In mid-October 1992, a group of 198 people, descendants of the Tai Bo Clan, who came from Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, met at the "World Zi De Clan Association" in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. "The world to the virtue of the clansmen association" under the leadership of the Wuxi Taibe ancestral ancestral roots, in the people clansmen, sprinkled into the ceremony, unprecedented. Taiwan's Miaoli County Wu clan associations also specially dedicated this new hall association.

Department out of Yanling, trace the ancestral family style, the flow of fragrance orchid valley;

Pai Derivation Yi Li, remembering the Confucianism, look forward to the heavy grass hut.

--Anonymous writer of the Wu Ancestral Hall of the General Assembly

This is the Wu Ancestral Hall of the General Assembly.

Bohai Yanling divided into two counties, the Department of the same source, back to the three let family, the real more than two thousand years * * * * called the originator;

Min Qiong branch gathered in one hall, joyful association of exotic areas, the favorite four sides of the ceremonies, tens of thousands of miles away from the great vibration of the family style.

Origin of the surname Wu

On the word "Wu":

The word "Wu", in its original meaning, means a person running while shouting and looking back, which symbolizes the call of the original hunter of pigs. The original pictogram of the character Wu: running, looking back, shouting. "Wu is an ideogram consisting of two components, "yai" and "mouth". After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the character was standardized. The "ya" part of the character was already being changed to "tian". During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a scholar named Wu Ping, who wrote a famous book called "The Book of Yue Jie" (越绝書) with Yuan Kang (袁康), and in the last part of the book, he used the method of breaking up the characters to tell his name in a cryptic way. The book says: "The text is a rhetorical finalization, from Bangxian. Bangxian was surnamed after his mouth, and E. Chancellor to the sky; Qu Yuan, the prime minister of Chu, shared his name." Today, when people with the surname Wu introduce their surname to people they first meet, they often say that their surname is Wu - "口天吴". From the two components of the character Wu, "口" means to shout, to yell, and "矢" means "mouth" means to shout, to yell, to yell, to yell. The two components of the character Wu, "口" means shouting and "喊叫" and "矢" looks like a person running and looking back from time to time. The combination of the two components makes up the character "Wu", whose original meaning was to indicate a person running while shouting loudly and looking back at the same time. This situation should not be unfamiliar to contemporary us, and it is even a worldwide theme in primitive murals, because it actually depicts a picture of hunting life in human childhood. When the hunter finds a big beast, he runs and shouts while looking back from time to time. This kind of yelling and screaming action is called Wu, and such people are called Wu people. Primitive human hunting often wearing a tiger skin, which can still be seen from the hunting life of contemporary African primitive tribes and primitive dance, in the "Water Margin" Wu Sung tiger that time we have also seen this kind of hunter wearing a tiger skin. Therefore, in ancient times, the word "Wu" and often add "虍" first, as "Yu", Wu people and therefore called Yu people. In the pre-Qin literature, there are often Yu people, refers to the officials specializing in the field hunting.

From the point of view of pronunciation, the pronunciation of Wu is similar to that of "woo", "wow", "wow", "hello" and other onomatopoeic words, and it is also similar to that of "woo", "wow", "wow", "hello" and other onomatopoeic words. The pronunciation of the character Wu is similar to that of "woo", "wow", "wow", "hello" and other onomatopoeic words, and it is most likely the sound that primitive people shouted when hunting. The character "Wu" is not only an accident, but also a character for sound.

"Wu" as a symbol of language, although with "Yu", "(tiger - several + fish - 攵)"、"(吾攵) " and other words, but as a sign of people's bloodline origin, i.e., the family name "Wu", but never with "(Tiger - several + fish - 攵)"、"(Tiger- several + fish - 攵) " and so on; above the Western Zhou Dynasty, "Wu" and "Yu" were not distinguished. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, "Wu", "Yu" two surnames have been clearly distinguished, except for a few such as the "Sui Book" in "Wu Zhuo" also written "Yu Chuo

Wu Zhuo" is the name of the family name of Wu Zhuo in the "Sui Book", except for a few cases such as "Wu Zhuo" is also written as "Yu Chuo", since the Tang and Song Dynasty, "Wu", "Yu" as a family name is more clearly distinguishable.

The Wu people

"Tianwu", a monster with a tiger's body and a human face, is the totem and ancestral god of the Wu people, and is closely related to the hunting life of the Wu people

The Overseas East Classic in the Classic of Mountains and Seas says, "In the valley of the rising sun, the god said, 'Tianwu', and the god said, 'Tianwu'. 'Tianwu', the Water Uncle." A similar account is found in the Overseas Eastern Scripture of the Great Wilderness. According to the book's depiction, it was a huge monster with eight heads, eight legs, eight tails, a human face, and a tiger's body. We can get a glimpse of its mysterious, grotesque appearance from the illustration above, which is transcribed from the ancient book Shanhaijing.

This half-human, half-beast monster is the totem and ancestral god of the Wu people, the ancient primitive hunting clan. "Tian" means "great" and "Tian Wu" means the great Wu.

"Tian Wu" is a tiger with a human face, which is closely related to the hunting life of the Wu people. Wu people hunt for a living, and "the tiger is the king of beasts", therefore, the Wu people worship a tiger-like animal, this ancient animal may have become rare and extinct in the pre-Qin Dynasty, the Wu people is to Yu as a totem, "Tian Wu" prototype is Yu. In the previous explanation of the character Wu, we have pointed out that hunters often wore tiger skins as a kind of hunting camouflage and celebrated the harvesting of the prey when the dance costume that mimics the movements of the animal. Therefore, just like Wu is often added "产" as "虞", "天吴" not only resembles a tiger, but its name is also called "天虞" in the "Nanshan Jing" and the "Great Wilderness Western Scripture". The name is also referred to as "Tianyu" in the Nanshan Jing and the Great Desert West Jing.

The characteristic of "Zouyu" is that it can run very fast, which is closely related to the character "Wu" (吳), which is derived from "矢", and it is also the same as that of the Wu people's hunting life, which is characterized by their ability to run well. But "Tian Wu" is also a human face.

The Wu people belonged to the Yanhuang ethnic group, and initially lived in the area of present-day Shanxi and Shaanxi. The Wu people left a lot of place names named "Wu" or "Yu" in this area, such as Mount Wu, Mount Yu, and Yucheng, etc. Around the time of the Yanhuang era, with the development of the Wu people, they left a lot of places named "Wu" or "Yu". Around the time of Yan Huang, with the expansion of Yan Di's clan and Huang Di's clan to the east, Wu people were also forced to move east on a large scale, to the time of Yao and Shun, Wu people have many branches have migrated to the southeast coast of the Yangtze River delta area. The original god "Tian Wu", who blessed his descendants with good hunting results, of course had to be turned into "Shui Bo", who protected his descendants' safety and good harvests when dealing with the rivers, lakes and the sea. Because of this, the character for Wu is sometimes associated with fish. In Jinwen, the word "Wu" in Wu can be read as "(tiger - several + fish - 攵)". Even the character for Wu is sometimes written as "holy", like a fish.

There are three origins of the surname Wu

One, from the surname Ji, the country for the clan, for the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan's descendants.

Wu surname characters as early as the time of Emperor Yan Di and Emperor Huang Di already existed. Yandi's ministers have a called Wu Quan, his descendants are the inventor of our music.

The original clan, which was called "Wu" because of its bravery and swashbuckling, good at hunting, had its activities before Yao and Shun, which were recorded in the classic history books such as Shangshu, Spring and Autumn Annals, Guoyu, and Shiji, etc., and it was only in the Lu Shi, the history of the state, that Luo Chou of Song, who was famous for his broad and complicated knowledge of the subject, named Wu Quan's clan as the first Wu clan. first Wu clan. According to Lu Shi, Wu Quan was a vassal of Emperor Yan Di. It can be seen that the Wu people initially belonged to the tribal group of Emperor Yan Di and Emperor Huang Di. The Classic of the Mountain and the Sea - Hai Nei Jing" recorded an interesting, strange story: Wu Quan's wife called A female edge of the woman, she and the grandson of the Emperor of the Yellow Emperor at the time for the minister of Feng Bo Ling Tong * pregnant, three years later, a fetus was born 3 children, respectively, called the drum, Yan, Shu. Drum and Yan legend is the inventor of the bell, is also the earliest invention of music creator. Feng Bo Ling was the founder of the Jiang and Qi surnames and other clans.

Wuquan belonged to the ancient Wu clan, the Road History has said clearly, in fact, Wuquan is not only a person's name, it is also very likely to be the name of the clan again. Because of this, some books and said Wu Quan is Zhuanxu people, legends are different, no need to look deeper. Chen Mingyuan "Chinese family name people full" said: Wu Quan's descendants to Wu for the clan, become a Wu surname.

The Chinese nation to the Yellow Emperor as *** with the God of the ancestors, "Road History - State Name Chronicle" records: the mother of the Yellow Emperor, is a member of the ancient Wu people of a female name, named Wu Shu.

By the time of Emperor Zhuanxu, there was another named Wu Hui, who served as a fire official, Zhu Rong, with his brother Chong Li, successively. Wu Hui was another outstanding half-human, half-god figure among the ancient Wu people. He was the great-grandson of Zhuan Xu's Gao Yang clan and the son of Lao Tong. By the time of the Gaoxin Clan (帝喾), Wu was called Wu Hui because he moved to the land of the Wu people. Wu Hui's brother Chong Li served as the fire officer of the Gao Xin Clan, called Zhu Rong, and was later eliminated by Emperor ?ài of the Gao Xin Clan for his ineffective work. Thus, Wu Hui succeeded Chong Li as the fire officer of the Gaoxin clan of Emperor ?iàn and became Zhu Rong (祝融). The duty of Zhu Rong was to observe the Mars in the sky and to control the fire used by the tribes for illumination, warmth and cooking, which was a very sacred thing in the age of ignorance and barbarism. Because of this, Wu Hui, after serving as Zhu Rong, was so powerful that he was honored as Zhu Rong God after his death, and the canonical texts listed him as one of the three emperors in ancient China. Zhu Rong dealt with fire, after his death became the fire god, also known as "Zhu Tian Bodhisattva", the countryside folk custom, in case of fire, the mouth shouted "Zhu Tian Bodhisattva blessing peace", kneeling and worship. In the theory of the five elements, fire is compatible with the south, so Zhu Rong, the god of fire, became the god of the south of the five emperors.

After Wu Hui became the leader of the Zhu Rong tribe in the south, the Wu clan continued to grow and gradually separated into eight clans, of which the Kunwu clan was one. Wu Hui gave birth to Lu Terminal, who married a woman named Simply Woman, a sister of the Southwest Ghost Fang Clan, and gave birth by Caesarean section, giving birth to six sons in one birth: Kunwu, Senhu, Pengzu, Huiren, Cao, and Jilian. Each of these six sons became the head of a clan, with his own family name and clan. Kunwu was the eldest son of Lu Jian, whose real name was Fan. After his clan separated, he lived in Kunwu, around the area of present-day Xianyi in the mountains, and his clan was given the surname "Ji" and called "Kunwu Clan" after the name of the place where he lived. Later, the Kunwu clan moved eastward to Xuchang, Henan Province. Legend has it that the Kunwu Clan was the inventor of the pottery manufacturing industry, "Shuowen Jiezi": "Kunwu, huanqi also," Kunwu itself is a nickname for the pot. The descendants of the Kunwu clan multiplied and developed, giving rise to the surnames of Kunwu, Fan, Kun, Wu and so on. The ancient sound of the word "Wu" and "Wu", so there is a part of the Wu's change to "Wu" and become a later Wu's. The Road History - Later Chronicles. Lushu - Houji: "Kunwu", note: "The book of the clan also has the Wu Clan". If Wu Hui was assimilated from the Wu Clan into the Chongli Zhu Rong Clan and divided into the Zhu Rong Eight Surnames, which was a separation of the ancient Wu people, then a branch of the Kunwu Clan changed to the Wu Clan, which was a small return of the Wu Clan. However, this is the statement of the Road History, and so far we have not seen any Wu surname who claimed to be after Kunwu.

In the time of Emperor ?a?, the Injun tribe had a valiant and warlike chief, General Wu. A branch of the Wu people joined the western Injun tribe at the time of the Gaoxin Clan and adopted the dog as their totem. One of the outstanding members of the Wu tribe became the leader of the Injun tribe with his valor and skill in war, and was called "General Wu" in history. General Wu was a fierce warrior who fought against the Chinese tribal group led by the Gaoxin Clan in the Central Plains. Emperor Gaoxin had no way to defeat the enemy, so he had to offer a heavy reward for talent: whoever could cut off General Wu's head would promise to marry his two beautiful princesses to him as wives. After the edict was issued, no one was recruited, and then a dog raised by Gaoxin's side killed General Wu and married the princesses.

At the time of Shaokang in the Xia Dynasty, there was a man named Wu He, who was famous for his good shooting and once competed with Hou Yi, the divine archer of the time, whose story is contained in the Lineage of Emperors and Kings. The Complete Book of Chinese Family Names says: "Legend has it that there was a Wu He during the Xia Dynasty when King Shaokang was in power, and there was a Wu Clan thereafter." Wu He is found in The Century of Emperors and Kings, and he used to compete with Yi in archery. In fact, Wu He was one of the ancient Wu people. The clan regime established by the Wu people was Wu, which existed throughout the Xia and Shang Dynasties. The Lu Shi - Guo Ming Ji then says: "There was also Wu Bo at the time of (Shang) Zhou."

The Yellow Emperor was the humanistic ancestor of the Chinese nation and the first ancestor of the ancient times recorded in the history of the Wu surname, who lived in the Jishui basin (about present-day Shaanxi