What does the surname Bu read?

The origin of the surname Bu is very complicated and has a long history. Today, it is difficult for even the surname Bu to tell its origin. There are many celebrities named Bu in every dynasty and generation. Nowadays, the surname Bu is widely distributed in China, especially in Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Guangxi, Guangdong and Inner Mongolia. The surname of Bu in the above five provinces accounts for about 67% of the Han population in China. Bu surname is the 92nd surname in China, with a large population, accounting for 0.04% of the Han population in China.

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In the pre-Qin period, people with the surname of Bu had been distributed in Shandong (now southwest Shandong), Qin (now Shaanxi), Jin (now Shanxi), Chu (now Hubei) and other places. In the Western Han Dynasty, there were Bo Shi in Luoyang, Henan, Buji in Dong Jun (now Puyang, Henan) and Buyang in Guiyang (now Chenzhou, Hunan). For example, Bu Tianshou, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Gaochang, Xizhou (now Turpan, Xinjiang). During the Song Dynasty, people named Bu settled in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places. At the end of Song Dynasty and the beginning of Yuan Dynasty, Bu Shi of Shibi Village in Ninghua, Fujian moved to Guangdong.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi Bu surname was moved to Shaanxi, Henan, Ningxia, Beijing, Tianjin and other places as one of the surnames of people who moved to Sophora japonica in Hongtong. After the Qing Dynasty, Buxing from Shanxi and other places moved to Mongolia for a living. For Shanxi people, it is called westward. At this time, the southern Bu surname has been scattered in South China and Southwest China. Now, the surname Bu is widely distributed in China, especially in Anhui, Guangxi, Guangdong and Inner Mongolia. The Bu surname in these four provinces accounts for about 67% of the Han population in China.

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