When did Xu's surname originate? Where did the ancestors come from? What was the name of the first ancestor?

Keywords: Baijia surname

Last name: Xu

Ancestor: Ruomu

Classification: country as surname

Source of surname:

The source of Xu surname is relatively pure, mainly from Sheng surname. He is a descendant of Ruomu, the son of Boyi, the great grandson of the first emperor. According to legend, the trapped emperor had a granddaughter named Nvxiu. She had a great career because she ate swallow eggs. Ono married Hua, a young woman from Shaodian, and gave birth to a young son named Ruomu. Because of his father's meritorious service, he was named Xu and established Xu Guo. After Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Xu existed as a vassal. Zhou Muwang spread to Xu Junyan. He is the thirty-second grandson of Xu Guo. He is very clever and friendly to the people, so he won the love of the people and became stronger and stronger. At that time, Zhou Muwang liked to travel around the world and often didn't ask about state affairs. The governors complained a lot about him, so Xu Junyan had ambitions to replace Zhou Muwang. He claimed to be Xu Yanwang and led the allied forces of various countries to March on Zhou Guo. When Zhou Muwang learned the news, he immediately returned to Beijing and transferred troops to suppress it. Xu Yanwang had to retreat and escape. He hid in the mountains near Pengcheng. Because of his popularity, many people followed him to the mountains. This mountain was later called Xushan, hence the name Xuzhou. Therefore, he had to seal his son to live in Xu, called "Xu Zi", and continue to manage Xu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu was defeated by Chu, and his national strength gradually declined. In the eighth year of Zhou Dynasty, Xu was destroyed by Wu, and Xu's descendants called Xu, taking the country as their surname, and passed it down from generation to generation.

Hope county:

1, Donghai County: Qin Shijian County, located in present-day Shandong Province. The Western Han Dynasty is equivalent to Feixian County in Shandong, Linyi in Jiangsu, south of Ganyu, Zaozhuang in Shandong and north of Guannan in Jiangsu. The Eastern Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties were equivalent to the areas east of Donghai County and north of Huaishui in Jiangsu Province.

2. Gaoping County: Shanyang County was changed to a county in the first year of Qin Dynasty, which is located in the south of Juye, Shandong Province. Since then, there have been frequent migrations, including the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when Dugao County was changed to Gaoping County to rule Du Gao, which is equivalent to Jincheng and Gaoping in Shanxi today.

Hall number:

Affinity Hall: In the history of the imperial court in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Tuan was a good official who was honest and loved the people, and was called the "iron court". When he was the magistrate of Chengdu, he was as clear as water. When he saw the people living and working in peace and contentment, he happily played the piano for fun. He keeps a crane and often encourages himself not to be corrupted by its white hair; Use the red color on the crane's head to motivate yourself to serve the country faithfully. He is poor. He has nothing but a piano and a crane.

Migration distribution:

In ancient times, Ruomu was sealed in the north of Fengyang County, Anhui Province, and his ancestors lived in many places in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other provinces. Secondly, Xu's large-scale southward migration began in Wei and Jin Dynasties, and further developed in southern China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. At the end of the Song Dynasty, Xu moved from Shicheng, Jiangxi to Shanghang and Liancheng, Fujian. In the Yuan Dynasty, the Xu family mainly spread in Fengshun, Meixian and Haifeng in Guangdong. In short, the Xu family was mainly distributed in the lower reaches of the Yellow River in China during the Qin and Han Dynasties, especially in Shandong. From Wei and Jin Dynasties to Tang Dynasty, the Xu family mainly spread in the Huaihe River Basin and most of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Since the Song Dynasty, it has been distributed in the vast Jiangnan area. As for the large-scale reproduction of the Xu family in southwest China, it was after the Song Dynasty.