Lu family

Surname Lu

Lu family is a multi-ethnic and multi-source surname group. In 2007 and 2010, Chinese surnames ranked 43rd, 26th in Taiwan Province, and 40th in 2018. The population is about 7.015 million, accounting for about 0.44% of China's total population. In China, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Zhejiang and Fujian are the most common places of surname Lu. Henan and Shandong account for 31% of the population of surname Lu, followed by Guangdong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Taiwan.

It is said that Shennong, the leader of ancient Chinese tribes, took Jiang as his surname because he lived in Jiangshui valley. Later, it developed eastward to the Central Plains, where it was mixed with the tribes of the Yellow Emperor, and divided into four clans (namely four mountains). Boyi once assisted Emperor Yao in charge of the four mountains, and later helped Dayu to control the flood. He was the "Minister of Xinlv" of Dayu, so he was granted Marquis Lu. In the Shang and Zhou dynasties, both were vassal states. In the early spring and Autumn period (680 BC), the state of Lu was destroyed by the state of Chu. Later, his descendants took the state as their surname and lived in scattered places In the places of Han, Wei, Qi and Lu, the surname Lu was called authentic in history, while Boyi was listed as the ancestor of the surname Lu.

Historical development

Origin and development of surnames

Originating from the surname Jiang, it comes from the LV family of Boyi granted by Emperor Shun in his later years. It takes the surname given by the emperor, the name of the tribe, the name of the country, and the name of the city of residence as its surname. Its ancestor was Boyi. According to legend, the ancient tribal leader, Emperor Yan of Shennong's family, was named Jiang because he lived in Jiangshui valley. During the reign of Emperor Shun, Boyi, a descendant of the Jiang family, was in charge of rites. He helped Shun govern the tribal alliance and made great achievements. When Yu was the son of heaven, Boyi devoted himself to assisting the prime minister and became Yu's confidant. Boyi was the first Marquis of the state of Lu and the ancestor of the Lu family. In Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the state of Lu was a vassal state. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, the 37th emperor of Miao nationality after Boyi hoped that LV Shang would assist King Wen and King Wu to establish the Zhou Dynasty. Because of his meritorious service, he was first granted the title of LV Shang in Yingqiu, which was called the state of Qi. During the spring and Autumn period and Warring States period, the ancient state of Lu and the state of Qi coexisted for more than 300 years. When LV Xiaobai, Duke Huan of Qi, the 12th grandson of LV Shang, sent troops to the North (679 BC) to attack the ancient kingdom of Shen in Nanyang through the state of Deng in Nanyang. After the destruction of the state of Shen by the state of Chu, the people of the state of Lu, who were located in the west of the state of Shen, were afraid that the state of Chu would send troops to attack. A large number of people moved eastward to Xincai and established a new state of Lu, known as the state of East Lu in history.

After the state of Lu in Nanyang was destroyed by the state of Chu, all the descendants of the state of Lu took the name of their hometown as their surname, forming the main vein of the family. At the end of the spring and Autumn period, the state of Qi built by sun lvshang, a branch of marquis Lu, was destroyed by the Tian family. His descendants took Lu and Qi as their surnames, and called them Lu, Qi, and Jiang. They scattered in Han, Wei, Qi, and Lu. In history, they were called the authentic Lu family, which was the Lu family of Nanyang. Most of the Lu people respect Boyi as the ancestor of the de surname.

According to historical records, a part of the Lu surname in the north of Anyang, Henan Province, comes from the Gao surname.

It comes from the Wei family of Ji. In the spring and Autumn period, Chong'er, the prince of the state of Jin, fled. Among his followers was Wei Xun

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Also known as Wei Wuzi. After Chong'er returned to the state of Jin and became the king, he granted Wei Wei the title of a doctor and Wei's son. Wei Wei had a fiefdom in Lu and Chu, so we called him Lu. The descendants of Lu Kai took the fiefdom as their surname and called it Lu.

According to the source of surname and the general annals, there was the Lu family in the Jin State in the spring and Autumn period, which was derived from the Wei family. The hometown of Lu people in Shanxi Province was annexed by the state of Jin. The Marquis of Jin took it as a capital and awarded it to the Wei family, the official of Ji family. Although the descendants of Wei family belong to the official family of Jin Dynasty and the surname Ji, they still use the name Lu because they were granted the hometown of Lu people. There was a nephew of Minister Lu in the Duke Hui of Jin Dynasty. The article of Lvcheng in Huozhou in Volume 41 of the summary of Fang Yu's reading history: "the west of the state is three li, so Lvxiang is also the capital of the nephew of Lu in Jin Dynasty. Now there is Lvpi, which is ten li in the southwest of the state. It is also named after nephew of Lu. In Sui Dynasty, it was set up in Lvzhou." After Lu Yi was annexed by the Jin Dynasty, his nephews took the Yi as their surname and formed the surname Lu. It's for the Lu family in Shanxi.

They come from ethnic minorities and change their surnames.

1. In the northern and Southern Dynasties, after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, the Han nationality was carried out. The northern Fu surname, Chi Lu surname and Chi Qiu surname of the former Xianbei people, were changed to the Chinese single surname, Lu surname. Later in the Five Dynasties, in the Zhou Dynasty, the three character surname of the Northern Dynasty was changed to the single surname of the Chinese character.

According to Zheng Qiao's Tong Zhi Shi Zu Lue, the Xianbei people used to have multiple surnames, such as Chiu Lu and Huo Lu Ling. After Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, he changed Xianbei's compound surname to Han's, and Chiu's surname to Lu's. In the Later Zhou Dynasty, the surname of Lu Ling was changed to the surname of Lu. The biqiu family and the Deputy Lu family listed in the general annals of the clan are all changed to the Lu family.

2. In today's Li, Mulao, Tu, Mongolian, Tujia, Korean and other ethnic minorities, there are all Lu people, who belong to the Han nationality and change their surname to Lu. Most of its sources are in the Tang, song, yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties when the central government carried out the policy of Jimi and the movement of changing the land to Liushi.

According to Zuo Zhuan, the surname Ren includes Xie, Zhang, Xue, Shu, Lu, Zhu, Zhong, Quan, Bi and Guo. All the ten countries have their own surnames.

Surname Ren

The surname of the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor was enfeoffed in the state of Ren. The power of Ren expanded and ten small states were established. Bi was one of them.

In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, there were ten surnames, Xie, Zhang, Xue, Shu, Lu, Zhu, Zhong, Quan, Bi and Guo, all of which were the vassal states of Ren's descendants and were derived from Ren's branches. According to a saying in Zuozhuan: "dare not speak with Zhu Ren", the so-called "Zhu Ren" refers to these ten surnames, which are the aristocratic surnames of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Therefore, they are not willing to argue with each other. It can be seen that the Ren clan was prominent at that time.

The ancestor of the surname de

The ancestor of the surname Lu is the grandson of Boyi, the surname Jiang, and the ancestor of Siyue. He was granted the title of marquis Lu for his contribution to the flood control of Xiayu, and established the Marquis state Lu with the surname of Jiang (the capital of the state is now Nanyang, Henan). In the spring and Autumn period, the state of Lu was annexed by the state of Chu. Later descendants took the state as their surname and called it the Lu family. In history, it was called the authentic Lu family. We respect Boyi as the founder of our country.

Boyi

It is said that Shennong, the leader of ancient Chinese tribes, took Jiang as his surname because he lived in Jiangshui valley. Later, it developed eastward to the Central Plains, where it was mixed with the tribes of the Yellow Emperor, and was divided into four clans (namely the four mountains). Boyi once assisted Emperor Yao in charge of the four mountains, and later helped Dayu to control the flood. He was the "Minister of Xinlv" of Dayu, so he was named Marquis Lv. In the early spring and Autumn period (680 BC), the state of LV was destroyed by the state of Chu. Later, his descendants took the state as their surname He lived in Han, Wei, Qi and Lu. He was known as the founder of the surname Lu, while Boyi was listed as the ancestor of the surname Lu.

Communication migration

The origin of the surname Lu should be in the west of Nanyang, Henan Province. During the Western Zhou, spring and autumn, and Warring States periods, the surname Lu should be propagated in Xi'an, Shaanxi, Dongping, Shouzhang, Shandong, Shouxian, Fengtai, Anhui, etc.

More than 4000 years ago, Boyi, who came from the Jiang tribe, had the state of Lu. After the destruction of the state of Lu, sun, a member of Boyi's tribe, took the state as his surname and began to have the surname of Lu. At that time, not only the number of surnames was small, but also the number of surnames was small. As the Fen surname under the surname, the Lu surname was one of the earliest surnames in Chinese history.

With the development of history, in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the descendants of Boyi, who took Lu as their surname, once again divided Lu into many small surnames. It can be found from the data that only Jiang Shang continued to use the surname Lu Zuo in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was called the surname Jiang and the surname Lu Shang (the family of Lu who originated from the surname Ji 2600 years ago also began to use the surname Lu Zuo to breed in Hedong county. Some of the descendants of this Lu changed their surnames to other words later, and the others continued to use the surname Lu Zuo After the lineage was confirmed, Lu Shang was recognized as the source of his ancestry, and was integrated into the present-day surname Lu.

During the Qin Dynasty, they migrated north and west again, especially in the southwest of Shanxi Province. By the Han Dynasty, the surname Lu was mainly distributed in Henan, Shanxi, Shandong and other places, and scattered in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China. Among them, the Lu family, who grew up in Dongping of Shandong Province and Huainan of Anhui Province, became a famous local family in the Wei, Jin, southern and Northern Dynasties. The southern migration of the surname LV began in the Han Dynasty, either in Zhejiang or Jiangsu, or in Hubei, Yunnan and Sichuan. The large-scale southward migration of the Lu family began in the Wei, Jin and southern and Northern Dynasties, and then formed two famous families in southern China. One is the Lu family in Jinhua, who took Lu Qian as the ancestor, and the other is the Lu family in Jinjiang.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, one of Lu Shang's descendants lived in Haiqu county (now Rizhao West, Shandong Province). In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, politics was dark, eunuchs were autocratic, and the government was fierce. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, a branch of the LV family had moved to Jiuyuan County, Wuyuan County (now Baotou West, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Lu Bu was the representative of the Lu family in Wuyuan.

The two Song dynasties were the heyday of the development of the surname Lv. During this period, many politicians and thinkers of the surname LV emerged, which greatly enhanced the influence of the surname Lv. It also established its great surname status in China. In the early Song Dynasty, the surname Lu ranked 22nd in a Hundred Surnames compiled by an old Confucian in Qiantang.

The surname Lu of Taiwan moved from the mainland in 1684. The two brothers, Lu a Si and Lu a Nanke, from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, first settled in Yingge Town, Taipei County. This surname is said to be the descendant of Lu Xiangjian, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty. After that, Lu Zuqian moved from Jinhua, Zhejiang Province to Guizhou, then from Guizhou to Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, then from Zhangzhou to Quanzhou, and some of them moved to Guangdong. Since Lu a brothers came to Taiwan, there has been a steady stream of Lu Wu who moved to Taiwan from Fujian and Guangdong. Taipei county is the most, followed by Jiayi county. When Japan occupied Taiwan in 1895, it forced LV Zhimin to change his surname to Miyamoto and other Japanese surnames until 1945

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