The origin of the surname Xu!

The Xu family mainly comes from the surname won and the surname changed by ethnic minorities. Xu Ruomu is the ancestor of Xu surname in Xia Dynasty.

Taking the country as the surname, Boyi, the great grandson of Jin in the Five Emperors era, helped Dayu to control water. Boyi's son was named Xu, and his hometown is in the northern part of Sixian County, Anhui Province. Guo Xu lived in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. After many wars, Guo Xu's territory was transferred to Chu, and Guo Xu's descendants took the country as their surname.

Taking the tribe as the surname, after the rebellion of Wu Geng and Sanjian was put down in the early Zhou Dynasty, the adherents of the Shang Dynasty were divided into six clans, including Xu.

Xu was ranked150th in the Song version of Hundred Family Names.

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A celebrity surnamed Xu

China Personal Names Dictionary has collected 685 celebrities with Xu surnames in past dynasties, accounting for 1.5 1% of the total names, ranking 10th among celebrity surnames.

There are mainly Pi Guangxu, a philosopher, Xu Shu, a famous scholar in the Three Kingdoms, Xu Ling, a famous scholar in the Southern Dynasties, Xu Zunming, a famous scholar in the Northern Wei Dynasty, Xu Shang, Xu Yanruo and his son in the Tang Dynasty, Xu Xuan, a writer in the Five Dynasties Song Dynasty, a painter, Xu Zhongshu, a historian, Ren Xu, a paleobotanist and Xu Sixing, a contemporary writer.

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