The Origin and History of Xu Ziran

Source: Xu surname is one of the earliest surnames in China, and its origin can be traced back to Xu Ruomu, the tenth generation descendant of the Yellow Emperor more than 4,200 years ago. From the ancient state of Xu to the present, thousands of years of development have made Xu the first 1 1 surname in China with a population of nearly 20 million.

In Jiangxi, a province with a large population of Xu, Xu ranks tenth in the province. As the most important branch of North Xu, the "South Xu Family" born by Xu Zhiyan, a senior scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, accounts for about half of the population of Xu in the world today.

Xu's genealogy is a historical book that records the development of Xu's family in a special form. It occupies an important position in the custom of blood clan in China traditional society, and it is the pedigree of Xu's blood clan.

Historical celebrities:

1, Xu Ruomu: the son of Boyi, who helped Dayu to control water and made great contributions to the success of Yu's water control. Thus, Ruomu, the son of Boyi, was rewarded, sealed and established Xu Guo. Because if Woodenhead is sealed, its descendants will take the country as their surname and call it Xu, and Xu Ruomu is the ancestor of Xu.

2. Xu Fu: an alchemist in the Qin Dynasty. According to legend, he went to the East China Sea to collect elixir for Qin Shihuang and never came back. He stayed in today's Japan and became the ancestor of the Japanese.

3. Xu Bo, a water conservancy engineer in the Western Han Dynasty, presided over the canal excavation project during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and built a canal with a total length of more than 300 miles, which reduced the transportation time from Kanto to Chang 'an by half and irrigated more than 10,000 hectares of farmland along the canal.