What is the origin of the surname "Yu"?

Ancestor: Yu Yu.

Classification: First name is surname

Source of surname:

According to "Custom Pass", after Yu's surname, he lived in Juzhou, a Xin 'an family, and paid attention to Pi and Er. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Yu Yu in the State of Qin. His ancestors were Jin people, and they avoided chaos in Xirong. Yu Yu used to be an official in Xirong, and later he was ordered to go to the State of Qin. Seeing Qin Mugong's virtue and generosity, he stayed in Qin as a minister. He planned to conquer Xirong for Mu Gong and make A Qin the western hegemon. His descendants took his first name as their surname, some surnamed Yu, and some had the same name.

Hope county:

Xin 'an County: In the first year of Jin Taikang (AD 208), Xindu County was changed into a county, and Xindu (now Chun 'anxi) was administered. It is equivalent to the west of Chun 'an, Zhejiang, Xin 'anjiang Valley, Qimen and other places in Anhui.

Xiapi County: In the 15th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 72), it was changed to Linhuai County, which administered Pi (now northwest of Suining, Jiangsu Province), with Xinyi and Pixian counties in Jiangsu Province in the north, Jiashan in Anhui Province in the south and Lianshui, Huai 'an and Jingjiang in Jiangsu Province in the east. It was changed to a county in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wu: In the first year of Baoding in the Three Kingdoms (266), Wu was located in Wucheng (now Wu, Zhejiang), equivalent to the northwest of Lin 'an, Yuhang and Deqing in Zhejiang, and Yixing County in Jiangsu.

Hall number:

Tang: Yu in the Song Dynasty was Zhu's favorite teacher. He believed in benevolence, righteousness, reason and five ethics, and was nicknamed "Qing Yan".

Bell Hall: In Song Dynasty, Yu Tianxi was the mentor of the history of prime ministers. After Wang Wu's explanation, Tianxi was ordered to find a more virtuous child among the royal family as a son. Tianxi brought him Gui Zhuang, which was later Song Lizong. Li Zong acceded to the throne, sealed Tianxi as the duke of Fenghua County, and died as a "loyal minister".

Migration distribution

Historically, Yu was basically a typical southern surname. The earliest birthplace of the Yu family should be in Fengxiang to Xianyang, Shaanxi Province. Due to the lack of data, it is difficult to study it in detail. It is generally believed that Yu moved to Shexian County, Anhui Province in the Han Dynasty, where he settled, multiplied and developed. After the Han Dynasty, Yu surnames in the south and north of China were basically multiplying, while those in the north were much weaker. Many people surnamed Yu moved to Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Jiangxi. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the surname Yu had become a famous family in Xin 'an County. Due to the war in the north, it is inevitable that Yu moved to the south, and some of Yu's people moved to Hunan and Hubei. After the Tang Dynasty, the Yu family developed rapidly and formed two aristocratic families in the southeast. From the late Tang Dynasty and the early Song Dynasty, he moved to Fujian and Guangdong. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Yu family not only spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, but also developed rapidly in all parts of the north.