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The Lu family is the 43rd most common surname in Taiwan. It is distributed throughout the island, especially in Tainan. It was originally one of the four major surnames under the jurisdiction of the government and is commonly known as "Nanhe Lu". The counties and cities with the largest distribution are: Taipei County, Taipei City, Chiayi City, Kaohsiung County, Pingtung County, and Tainan County. The towns and cities with the largest distribution are: Taipei Tamsui, Taipei Banqiao, Tainan Guanmiao, and Taipei City Songshan District. The vast majority of people with the surname Lu in various parts of Taiwan are from Fujian.
The migration of the Fujian Lushi family to Taiwan began in the Ming Dynasty. The "Qingyang Fanyang Lu Family Genealogy" compiled by Jinshi Lu Jing in the Ming Dynasty (1625) records that Lu Zhisheng, the third ancestor of the Qingyang Lu family in Changtai, Fujian, was noble and kind. With the guidance of Mr. Feng Shui, this branch must deviate from his ancestors. In order to make his family prosperous, he crossed the sea to Taiwan, reclaimed wasteland and started a business. He followed the instructions and returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors three hundred years later. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty (1465-1487), the descendants of the Lu Zhisheng clan moved to Tainan. After more than 300 years of inheritance, by the Jiajing period of the Qing Dynasty (1796-1820), they had become a prominent family. They followed the instructions of their ancestors and sent people back to Qingyang to pay homage to their ancestors. Lu Xitang, the 9th generation grandson of Qingyang, and Lu Ting, the 10th generation grandson of Qingyang, successively settled in Tainan and passed on the tradition.
Kinmen Xianju Lu family is a descendant of Lu Zou, the ancestor of Anlu family. Lu Zou served as the imperial minister of Zhongcheng during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty (874-888), and was a "descendant of Jin'ou Prime Minister". During the Guangqi period (885-887), he entered Fujian as a traveling official from Gushi County, Guangzhou, Henan. He first lived in Tong'an Wengnei (Wangqian Wengzi Nei, Tingxi), and later moved to Luling (today's Baomei Village, Tingxi Town). By the time the 14th generation grandson Lu Zongfa (named Xiyan, nicknamed Fuzhai) moved his family to Xianju Village in Wudao (Kinmen) in the early Yuan Dynasty, he was the first ancestor to move to Wudao. The Lu family in Kinmen has gone through many vicissitudes. It once had a prosperous scene with a constant flow of books and rich clothes. Later, due to the invasion of foreign tribes, harassment by Japanese crowns, and constant wars, the population was divided and the branches and leaves were dispersed. Some people moved to Taiwan and Penghu, and the Qinmen Gate There are more than 3,000 descendants of Lu Zongfa in places such as Penghu and Taiwan Island. Kinmen Lu Ruoteng was the Minister of War in the Longwu Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the censor of Zuo Qiandu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he waited with the old generals Guo Dahe and Fu Xiangjin in Qingyang Village, Changtai County, Fujian Province, waiting for an opportunity to raise troops to resist the Qing Dynasty. There were many Lu Ruoteng in Qingyang. The clan members surrendered to him, and later the team joined Zheng Chenggong's army. The Zheng family treated Lu Ruoteng as a distinguished guest and worshiped him as a military advisor. Lu Ruoteng followed the Zheng family to Taiwan and died in Penghu in 1664. His relatives and members of the Lu family in Qingyang followed the army to Taiwan.
"Sanshelu" at the foot of Xitou Mountain in Haicheng Town, Longhai County, Fujian Province (formerly part of Haicheng County) (there are more than 210 households with the surname Lu in the three villages and nearly a thousand people) According to records, they are descendants of Lu Rujin, the general who opened Zhangzhou in the early Tang Dynasty. Their founder, Lu Zhensu, settled in Ximenkeng during the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty (1436-1449). By the first year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1736), the tribesmen began to migrate to Taiwan one after another. Among them, the 14th and 15th grandchildren of the eldest brother moved to Shuikutou, Taiwan; the 14th grandson of the second eldest brother moved to Taipei; and the 16th and 17th grandson of the third eldest brother moved to Keelung. After the Lu family of Sanshe moved to Taiwan, they either farmed or did business. They developed smoothly and had close contacts with their ancestral family. Their relatives in Taipei and Keelung are called the "Longmentang" Lu family to show that they never forget their ancestral land. When old people die, some are buried in their ancestral land, and when they return to their hometown to build a house, they are called "Taiwan House". Every year during the Qingming Festival, a group of people must be sent back to their hometown to worship their ancestors. When they return to Taiwan, they often bring a group of tribesmen with them to settle down and make a living.
According to statistics from relevant departments, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, 6,895 people with 98 surnames from seven counties in Zhangzhou Prefecture moved to Taiwan. Among them, 6 people with the surname Lu were from Haicheng County, 1 from Zhangpu County, and 6 from Nanjing County. , 1 person in Zhao'an County, 7 people in Pinghe County, 2 people in Changtai County, and 2 people in Zhangzhou Prefecture. In fact, the number of people is much more than these 25 people. We have learned so far:
Tong'an County: In the 25th year of Ming Yongli (1671), Lu Zhongqing moved from Kinmen in Tong'an to what is now the West Island of Penghu and the east of Xiaochijiaochi. During the Ming Dynasty and Zhengnan Dynasty, Lu Xinmin settled in what is now Tainan City, and was later called "Nanhe Lu". During the reign of Yongzheng (1723-1735), Lu Zhong entered Yongjing, now Changhua. During the Qianlong period (1736-1795), Lu Jinlang, Lu Quanyin, Lu Shenji, etc. successively entered Tamsui, now Taipei. During the Jiaqing period (1796-1820), Lu Tingshao settled in what is now Wanhua District, Taipei City.
The genealogy of the Lu family in Guyu Baoguzhuang Village, Guanghuali, Datong Township, Tong'an County records that during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, 72 households of Lu people (mostly of the "Yuan" or "Shi" generation) settled in Tainan and Taichung. .
According to the birth and death dates of some people who moved to Tailu recorded in this genealogy, it can be seen that they moved to Taiwan around the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for more than a hundred years.
Lu Yunguang of Xinghua Prefecture (today’s Putian City) settled in Fanshu Village, today’s Tamsui Town, Taipei County, around the middle of the Kangxi period. Today’s name is “Yunguang Keng” (named after Lu Yunguang).
Lu Biao and Lu Ai from Pinghe County successively settled in the fields of present-day Changhua during the late Kangxi period. During the Qianlong period, descendants Lu Ping, Lu Chun and others settled in what is now Taichung City. During the Jiaqing period, the Lu people gradually settled in Luodong and Wujie of present-day Yilan.
Lu Shitong from Changtai County entered Jintian in the late Kangxi period.
Lu Liangsheng from Nanjing County settled in what is now Xingang, Chiayi, and Lu Supu settled in what is now Taichung. They were all during the Yongzheng, Qianlong, and Jiaqing years. The Lu people settled in what is now Shilin, Taipei, and Zhushan, Nantou. During the Qianlong period, Lu Zhi settled in what is now Zhushan, Nantou. During the Jiaqing period, Lu Ni settled in what is now Toucheng, Yilan. According to the Genealogy of the Lu Family in Fanyang compiled by Lu Huanzhang in the 25th year of Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty (1845), 10 people from Nanjing and Xihoulin communities moved to Taiwan.
Lu Junzhi from Longxi County (now Zhangzhou City) settled in Changhua County during the Yongzheng Period. During the Jiaqing period, there were also Lu people who settled in what is now Changhua County, Yilan Toucheng, and Taichung. In addition, during the Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Daoguang years, Lu people from Haicheng County (now Longhai City), Zhao'an County, Zhangpu County, and Yongding County settled in various parts of Taiwan.
The "Taipei Lu Family Genealogy" compiled by Mr. Lu Junhua and provided by Lu Yingcheng's clan in Taipei City records that the Lu family who moved to Taiwan from Fujian are still mainly from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou.
Therefore, strengthening the study of local chronicles and genealogy is not only conducive to maintaining the family ties between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also an important part of effectively conducting research on the origins of surnames.
(Chairman of the Lu Committee of the Fujian Surname Origin Research Association: Lu Ruihua)