Originating from ancient times What does 望出平阳 mean?

What is the meaning of "Looking out for Pingyang"?

--Anonymous Composition of the General Association of Ancestral Halls of the Woo Surname

The whole association refers to the origin and county name of the Woo Surname. (See the header of the title "I, the origin of the family name" and "four, the county hall" introduction)

One, the origin of the family name

Wu (Wū) family name origin pure, the source of a:

From the witch is an ancient Chinese occupation specializing in prayer, divination activities, to occupation for the family. In ancient times, there was a kind of occupation specializing in praying, sacrificing and divining activities, which was called wu man. In ancient times, wizards were regarded as messengers from heaven and were respected by the royal family and the general public. They were also often in charge of astronomy, medicine and arithmetic, and had a high status in the imperial court. In the Xia and Shang Dynasties, wizards were called wuzhu and wuchen respectively. In the Shang Dynasty, there was Wuxian (巫咸) and his son Wuxian (巫賢), who were astrologers at that time. Among the descendants of the Wushen, there were those who took their official positions as their surnames, called the Wu Clan, which is the main source of the Wu surname today. According to the book "Customs", "All clans are in the business of witching, divining, smithing and pottery". The surname Wu comes from the profession it is practiced by, "the wizard, witch doctor, and the official of divination and sheng." Wu for the ancient time of the famous noble family, is one of the hundred surnames in the oldest surnames. And the "Surname KaoLiu" said: "The Yellow Emperor's minister Wupeng made medicine, for the beginning of the Woo." During the Shang Dynasty, the status of Wu in the court was quite high, and the minister Wu Xian and his son Wu Xian were both important ministers of the Shang Dynasty, and their descendants were called the Wu Clan. In the "Draft of the Words and Actions of the Famous Xian Clan", it is mentioned that "there are Wuham and Wuxian in Yin, Wujian in Han, Wujian in Jizhou, and Wudu, who wrote the Nurturing Sex Scriptures." Since the Han Dynasty, people with the surname Wu have spread all over the world.

The ancestor of the family name: Wu Peng. According to the "Surname KaoLiu": "The Yellow Emperor's minister Wupeng made medicine for the beginning of the Woo family." The "Yin have Wuxian, Wuxian, Han have JiZhou Ru Shi WuJian, and also have Wudu, write the "nourishment of the scripture" also." From the above, it can be seen that the founder of the Wu Clan is a lineage originating from traditional Chinese medicine. The founder of the clan was Wu Peng. Wupeng was the minister of the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan's, had been ordered by the Yellow Emperor and Xiangjun "prescription bait, redirection Han stabbing treatment, and people can be full of years", became the founder of Chinese medicine. Since ancient times, the Wu family has a long history, in the past a long time, mainly in the area of Pingyang, that is, today's Shandong Province, Zou County area, this place was originally the early Zhou Dynasty, the land of the state of Zhu Zhu, and later became a state of Lu, a eup. It can be seen that the home of the Chinese with the surname Wu has long been in present-day Shandong Province. The family of Wu lived in Pingyang County (southwest of Linfen County, Shanxi Province). Traced from the "Surname Kaolu", the originator of the Wu family, is the Yellow Emperor minister Wu Peng as a doctor.

Second, migration distribution

Wu surname in the mainland is not included in the top 100 hundred surnames, in Taiwan is ranked eighty-fifth of the hundred surnames. The Woo family from the ancient times, thousands of years, mainly in the Pingyang reproduction. In other words, the ancient Pingyang is the original source of the Woo family. Historically, there are several places in ancient Pingyang. The origin of the witch family Pingyang, refers to the present day Zou County, Shandong Province. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the land of the state of ZhuMian, which later became a euphony of the state of Lu, and was set up as the county of Zou in the Qin Dynasty. The Wu family name lived here and was inherited from generation to generation. Later sown to the nation's witch descendants, all to Shandong as the ancestral land, which is not unreasonable. From shandong and jiangsu and across the vast Yangtze river, wu ancestors are very early to reach the south of min, guangdong around the foundation, so fujian and guangdong provinces of wu, is also originated in shandong zouxian. The ancestors of the Wu surname moved to Jiangsu at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and then moved south from Jiangsu to Fujian and Guangdong, bringing the Wu surname to the southeast coastal area. This situation can be found in the history of the Ming Dynasty, many concrete evidence, the most notable of which can be said to be more than Wu Zixiu and Wu Zishao two celebrities. Continuing into the Qing Dynasty, there are people with the surname Wu from Guangdong across the sea to move to Taiwan, in Taiwan to establish a foundation, multiply and grow. The Wu surname in Taiwan is the seventy-third largest surname in Taiwan after the Ma surname and before the Wang surname. The ancestors of the Wus in Taiwan came from Guangdong and moved to Taiwan from Guangdong in the early Qing Dynasty. Strictly speaking, they are all descendants of the ancient god doctor Wu Peng.

Three Historical Figures

Wu Xian: an extraordinary man. "Gui Zang" contains: "In the past, the Yellow Emperor will be war, divining in Wuhan," "Lie Zi - Yellow Emperor": "There is a divine witch from Qi, in Zheng, ordered to say Wuhan, know the survival of human life and death, the period to the years, sentences like God." From the recorded performance, it can be seen that he is indeed a divine sorcerer, anticipating things like God. Not only that, but he was also well versed in the art of healing. It is said that he was Yao's doctor, "He can wish for the welfare of people, heal their diseases, wish for trees to wither, and wish for birds to fall." This Wuxian is really a combination of medicine and divination.

Wu Hai: a famous figure in the ancient times, who was both a doctor and a diviner, wrote "Children's Craniofacial Scriptures", which can be used to divine the life of the sky, and can also be used to determine illnesses and diseases. He passed on to his children and grandchildren, and then by his generations of children and grandchildren to teach each other, for China's earliest one of the early childhood science medical monographs.

Wu Kai: Jurong people in the Ming Dynasty, resolute and decisive, wisdom and courage, guarding the border town for more than 30 years, the border repairs, the prestige of parallel.

Wu Luo-Jun: Word Ting-Sheng (582-664), No. Qingzhou. Luo Jun's ancestor, Wu Siam, was born in Xia County, Pingyang County, Shanxi Province (present-day Linfen City, Shanxi Province) in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, when he avoided chaos and went to Yanzhou, Shandong Province, and later took charge of Nanping, Fujian Province. During the Sui Dynasty (605-617), Luo Jun moved with his father to Ninghua. Wuluo Jun grew up learning literature and practicing martial arts diligently, and was rich in selflessness and fearlessness, loving injustice, mutual help and love, often doing good deeds, loving and hating clearly. He was a young man with knowledge, courage and ambition, and got the reputation of "a young man with literary and military skills". In the third year of Tang Zhen Guan (629), the world was basically peaceful. Woo Luo Jun was already 48 years old at this time, taking into account "Huanglian to Chang'an days end, version of the book sparse", no formal establishment can not be, so "Luo Jun to go to the line on the statement, said Huanglian open soil and teeth, it is appropriate to grant the field fixed tax". "The court of the Jia's, the regiment authorized witch Luo Jun a post, so that the return to cut the barren in order to self-expression." Huanglian approved by the court, in the Tang Qianfeng two years (657 years), there is a town of building the first, named "Huanglian town", the end of the "version of the history of alienation". Wuluojun got the court awards and orders, it is no longer "king of the mountain", but the court officials, they can exercise the authority, coupled with the original rich economic accumulation, large-scale development, the development of the realm of the city from Tongtuling in the east, the west to the station ridge, the north from the mud pits, and the south to the cedar wood pile. That includes six-eighths of the current Qingliu County and a part of Mingxi, amounting to more than 4,000 square kilometers, laying the foundation for the establishment of the county after fifty years. Wuluojun passed away on August 11, 664, the first year of the Tang Linde reign, at the age of 83 years.

Wu Zixiu: a famous scholar from Xingning County, Guangdong Province during the Hongzhi reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, who was known for his valor and courage. It is said that he lived in Luogang, which is very close to the thieves' den, but he was able to defend his hometown alone. Once, he captured the leader of the robbers by a strange strategy, and personally killed the leader of the robbers, offered the head to the government, and then invited the government soldiers to almost eliminate the robbers. So, of course, that group of robbers hate to the bone. One night, they killed all of Wu Zixiu's family, which made the people of Xingning to talk about this incident.

Wu Zixiao: Ming Shenzong Wanli years of new Yu County, Longchuan County, Guangdong Province, out of the knowledge of the new Yu County, to filial piety and friends of the humble medium and the people known as "Qingtian". The fame of the Wu family, and therefore, in the south of the country is also loud and clear exceptionally.

Additionally, during the Warring States period, there was Wu Yang, who was good at divination. Wudu, during the Han Dynasty, was immortalized in later generations for his famous book, "Nurturing Sexuality Scripture," which became an immortal work in medicine. From Wupeng, Wuham, Wuhui, Wuyang, Wudu, all are ancestors of the surname Wu, and the same is the ancestor of Chinese Weitong medicine. From this, we can see that the ancestors of the Wu family name have been closely linked to the traditional Chinese medicine from the very beginning.

Four, county hall

1, county

Pingyang County: the Three Kingdoms Wei divided the Hedong County to set up the seat in Pingyang, equivalent to today's Shanxi Province, south of Huoxian Fen River Basin and the area to the west.

2, hall

The main hall names of the surname Wu are: "Pingyang Hall" and so on.