What is the origin of the surname Du?

Category: Society and Livelihood

Analysis:

The history of the Du surname's origin is very honorable from the historical documents. According to legend, one of the emperor's twenty-fifth son had a name Qi, Yao surname Yi Qi, Du from the Qi surname, is the descendant of Emperor Yao. In ancient times, people in the fiefdom of the name Yao for the Tao Tang clan. The descendants of Tao Tang Clan had built a state in Liu. At that time, Kong A, the sixth grandson of Xia Hou Clan, was the king of Xia, and he was good at squaring ghosts and gods. Legend has it that two dragons, a female and a male, were sent down from the sky, but Kung A did not know how to raise them, so Liu Lei, a grandson of the Tao Tang Clan, learned how to disturb the dragons from the Bunlong Clan. Liu Lei, a descendant of the Tao Tang Clan, learned how to disturb the dragon from the Bunlong Clan, and the Bunlong Clan was given the surname of Bunlong because they raised the dragon for Emperor Shun. Liu Lei, who learned how to disturb dragons to serve Kong Jia, was also given the surname Yilong. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Liu Lei's descendants built the Tang State, which was known as the Tang Du Clan.

Later, King Cheng of the Zhou Dynasty wiped out the Tang state, and his brother Yu was sealed in Tang, while the king of the Tang state was moved to Du, called Du Bo. At the time of King Xuan of Zhou, the state of Du was destroyed again, and Du Bo, who was a great doctor of Zhou, was killed without any crime. Most of the descendants of Du Bo defected to other lords, and those who stayed in Du city used Du as their surname.

There are also scholars who believe that the descendants of Du are the descendants of ancient Du Kang. It is rumored that Du Kang was a person in the ancient Huangdi period and was good at making wine. If Du Kang is the originator of the surname Du, then the surname has a history of at least 4,000 to 5,000 years.

In addition, some of the Dugu Hun clan of the Northern people in the latter Wei Dynasty also changed to the Du clan.

Gathering place (migration distribution)

In the pre-Qin period, the Du clan spread and multiplied in the present-day provinces of Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan and so on.

The Han Dynasty to the period of the North and South Dynasties, the Du Clan in today's Henan Province is more widely distributed, such as Nanyang, Neihuang, Weihui, Dengfeng, Yanshi, Xuchang, Linxian, Dengzhou, Linbao, Luoyang, Xinye, etc. There are its clansmen; Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, Du Clan is more prosperous. In addition, today, Sichuan, Deyang, Penshan, Mianyang, Chengdu, Shanxi, Yongji, Taiyuan, Anhui Lujiang Huoshan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Xiangyang, Hubei, Jiangsu Gaoyou, Hebei Linzhang, Zhengding, Shandong Weifang, Zhangqiu and other places, there are also Du's settlements.

The Du surname is the fifty-third largest surname in Taiwan, mainly located around Taipei, followed by Miaoli, Hsinchu, Tainan, Changhua, and Taichung. It started roughly during the Yongli period of the late Ming Dynasty (1647 AD). In the area around Douliu in Yunlin, a Zheng Gong Tun Sheng surnamed Du arrived to reclaim the area. The end of the Qing Kangxi (1722 AD), there are Du surname to the present Miaoli County, after the dragon town to open the foundation; into the end of the Qianlong Fujian Du Ruimao and Du Luang Cheng, into the reclamation of the present Taipei Tamshui Township, such as Shen Ao Li. Some of them migrated overseas. Some of them have been migrated overseas.

Hall names

The main hall names of the Du Clan are "Poetry Sage Hall" or "Shaoling Hall". The origin of this name is that Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, called himself "Shaoling Ye Lao", and history called him "the Saint of Poetry".

There are also "Jingzhao Hall" and so on.

Historical celebrities

The Du family name, which came from the emperors and kings, has been a great family in the limelight for thousands of years. The performance of Du in history has always been very outstanding, and it has not only produced a lot of outstanding people who are famous in history for their achievements and strategies, but also has a lot of talents in academics and literature, which contributes to the traditional culture of China.

In Eastern Han Dynasty, there were two famous Du ministers, Du Lin and Du Mi. Du Lin was an official at the time of Emperor Guangwu. His greater achievement was in academics. He was known as a generalist scholar, and was honored as the "Scholar of Primary Schools" by the later generations. Du Mi, who served Emperor Heng and Emperor Ling successively, was a minister of the people. He coined the idiom of "silent as a cicada".

During the Tang dynasty, Du's performance was particularly outstanding. The great poet Du Fu, known as the Sage of Poetry, was a household name. To distinguish him from Du Mu, he was known as "Old Du". Du Mu was another famous literary figure of the Tang Dynasty. Since he was a little later than Du Fu, he was called "Little Du". However, his literary attainments were not inferior to those of the old Du. His words are beautiful and his symbols are elegant. The A Fang Gong Fu (阿房宫赋), which is regarded as a monumental work in Chinese literature, was written by Du Mu. Du Mu's son, Du Gouhe, was also famous for his poems at the end of the Tang Dynasty. His poem "The sound of the birds is broken by the warm wind, and the light of the sun is heavy" has been recited for many years.

The cuckoo cries blood, from a poignant legend. Legend has it that Du Yu, the ancient king of Shu, claimed the title of emperor in Shu at the end of the Zhou Dynasty, and his name was Emperor Wang. Later, he went into hiding and gave way to his prime minister. At that time in February, the son of the cuckoo bird singing, Shu people pregnant, so the cuckoo for azalea. A small cuckoo bird, but also from the emperor it.

1, the Du family name of the main county of Jingzhao County, Xiangyang County, Puyang County and so on. Among them, Jingzhao County is the most famous.

2, Jingzhao County is the first year of the Han Dynasty to change the right internal history set up, the executive equivalent of the county governor, is one of the three auxiliary. Equivalent to today's north of the Qinling Mountains, east of Xi'an City, south of the Wei River. It was renamed Jingzhao County during the Three Kingdoms period.

Hall names:

The main hall names of the Du Clan are "Poetry Sage Hall" or "Shaoling Hall". The name comes from the fact that Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, called himself "Shaoling Ye Lao", and history called him "the Saint of Poetry".

Migration and distribution

The Du family name is more common in Henan, such as Nanyang, Neihuang, Weihui, Dengfeng, 偃师, Xuchang, Linxian, Dengzhou, Linbao, Luoyang, Xinye, etc. There are clansmen of Du in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. In addition, today's Sichuan, Deyang, Penshan, Mianyang, Chengdu, Shanxi, Yongji, Taiyuan, Anhui Lujiang Huoshan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Xiangyang, Hubei, Jiangsu Gaoyou, Hebei Linzhang, Zhengding, Shandong Weifang, Zhangqiu and other places, there are also the Du family name settlement.