Genealogy of Wu surname in Fuyang, Anhui Province

Wu Ding, the ancestor. When Wu Ding, King of Shang Dynasty, succeeded to the throne, his national strength was weak and he tried his best to restore the prosperity of Yin and Shang Dynasties, but he was worried because he could not find a good minister to assist him. According to legend, one night, Wu Ding dreamed that a saint named "Shuo" helped him, so he searched everywhere and finally found it in Yanfu, east of Pinglu, Shaanxi. This man is Fu Shuo, a saint born as a slave. Wu Ding trusted Fu Shuo very much, and Qi Xin worked together to make the Shang Dynasty reach its peak, which was called "Wu Ding Zhongxing" in history. After Wu Ding's death, later generations thought that he was worthy of his surname compared with Cheng Tang, the founding monarch, so he took his name as Wu's surname and named Wu Ding the ancestor of Wu's surname.

Wu surname distribution

Wu's earliest birthplace should be in today's Henan Province, and later it propagated here, and quickly moved to neighboring Shandong, Jiangsu and other provinces. By the Han Dynasty, the Wu family in Shandong had always been a prosperous and prominent family. Wu, who came from here, has since multiplied in Henan, Anhui and Shanxi. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Wu moved southward on a large scale and became a noble family in Jiangsu. Among them, there is a Wu family in the north who moved to Shanxi today. Wu Zetian appeared in the Tang Dynasty, which made Wu reach a very prosperous period and spread all over the country.

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