Are there any people with the surname Ju in China?

There are people with the surname Ju in China.

The surname Ju is a rare surname among the Han people. In the Han Dynasty, there were Juwu, the governor of Jingzhou, Julan, and government officials; in the Song Dynasty, there were Jushigu, who controlled the army, Juguangyuan, Jiading Jinshi, Juran, and a famous painter; in the Liao Dynasty, there were Juge, who was from Pinggu, and Henghaijiedushi. .

In the Ming Dynasty, there were Ju Jing and Ju Jing, the censors; in the Qing Dynasty, there was Ju Wenbin, the edict of Queshan County, Henan; and Ju Lai, the famous landscape painter in the Qing Dynasty. It is said that some of the descendants of Juzi took Ju as their surname in order to express their respect and memory for their ancestors, which is similar to the type of people who take official positions as their surnames.

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Origin of the Ju surname:

1, Origin

Derived from the surname Zi, from the founding monarch of the Song Dynasty in the early Western Zhou Dynasty After Wei Ziqi, the surname is based on the name of the ancestor. This branch of the Ju family originated from Wei Zi of the Song Dynasty in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, when it was the Juguan family and the Juchenjing family. Among the descendants of the Juguan and Juchenjing clans, most of the provincial slips were later changed to the single surname Juguan, which was passed down from generation to generation. Until the Han Dynasty, there were still people with the compound surname Juguan.

2. Origin 2

It originated from the surname Ji. It came from the ancient Yellow Emperor's master Feng Ju, and it is a surname based on the name of the ancestor. According to the records of the famous scholar Ying Shao in "Ji Jie": "Feng Ju, Huang Di's teacher." Legend has it that Huang Di's teacher had the surname of Xutu. He was granted the title of Feng Ju at that time, so he was named Feng Ju.

Among Feng Ju’s descendants, there are those who take their ancestor’s name as their surname, and are called Feng Ju’s family. Later, they were divided into Feng and Ju families. The Ju family later omitted the word "钅" and changed it to Ju. It has been passed down from generation to generation and is one of the oldest surnames.

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