Origin one
According to the traditional view, Yu's surname originated from Ji's surname, and after Huangdi became a minister, it belonged to the surname of things. According to the history books Tongzhi Genealogy and Historical Records, there was a famous doctor in Huangdi who was the founder of China's traditional Chinese medicine meridian theory. Shu, pressing the pulse, is commonly known as the mouth of the acupoint pulse, so everyone is called the famous doctor Shu. In ancient times, Shu was connected with Yu, and later it was written as Yu.
According to legend, among the descendants, it is the classic medical skill of the ancestors of Everbright, and it is often called surname, and then simplified to single surname Yu.
A long time ago, the ancestor of Xinglin in China paid the bill for the minister of the Yellow Emperor. He once tasted the hundred herbs of Shennong and was familiar with the medicinal properties of various herbs, so he was honored as an imperial doctor. Once, Yu Yang, the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, had only one breath left. The Yellow Emperor loved this son very much and was very sad to see him. Fu cut open Yuyang's stomach, cleaned his internal organs and finally saved his life. Later, someone asked him: if you cut open a dying man's stomach, don't you have to bear the blame if you can't save him? He said: the first condition of being a doctor is to forget yourself. Only by forgetting yourself can we focus on the patients. Because of his superb medical skills, no matter how serious his illness is, he can make the patient recover. Therefore, people called him Yuefu, and Yue He was homophonic. Later, he was called Yuefu. His descendants take Yu as their surname, that is, Feng Yufu is the ancestor of Yu. There is only one statement in historical records.
Yu is a household name in Liezi. It is said that his name is Zhi, and he is the founder of meridian theory. Because he is good at treating meridians, people call him. In other words, Yu is not a surname, and the word Yu should be pronounced as loss, which is very different from the pronunciation of Yu's surname. How can you say that Yu is from? It is generally believed that China's writing will not surpass that of Xia Dynasty. At the time of the Yellow Emperor, there were no words. Even if there are characters, they are still in the primary stage, which are generally simple and can only be pictographs and cognitive characters. Yu Zi is said to be a hieroglyph, or it may have appeared in its initial stage; While pictophonetic characters like Yu are impossible, and Yu's words are naturally unreliable (see Xu Tiesheng's Dictionary of the Origin of Surnames in China 20 14).
Yu Yue (182 1- 1907), a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, once wrote an article "Yu Shuo", which made a detailed textual research, but it seems to be beside the point. So, are there any clues about the origin of Yu in the archaeological documents of the pre-Qin period? In Luo Zhenyu's book Three Generations of Jinwen Village, we can find two bronze inscriptions in the Western Zhou Dynasty, namely Yu Bochan and Yu Bochan. Apollo's inscription was originally written by Jaco. Professor Wu Zhenfeng thinks this Bo (Apollo) is the leader of the Guo nationality. In other words, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a small country called Guo. The nation of Guo is called Guo, or Yu (this is called borrowing). During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wang He Lu had a boat called Jade Emperor Boat, which also wrote asparagus. This provides a good basis for the word "Yan" as the word "Yu".
Liu Yuan 2
From the surname Ji, from the son of Lu Guogong in the Spring and Autumn Period. It was named after its ancestors. Xie Duyu, the son of the royal family of Lu, and the youngest son of Duke Ji of Lu Zhuang. In the sixteenth year of King Xiang of Zhou Dynasty, Duke Lu led the Lu army to conquer the slippery country (originally belonging to Suixian County, Henan Province, and later moved to Yanshi Town, Henan Province, so it was also called flying slippery, which was later destroyed by Qin State), and was later sealed by (Duke) Ji Shen. Yu, also known as Fu Yu, also known as Xianyu and Yu, belongs to Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. In the ninth year of King Zhou An (in 393 BC), Xiong Yi, the king of Chu, launched an attack on Lu because of the unity of Lu and Zheng, and the surplus land became the battlefield between the two armies and later returned to Chu. Two years later, in the eleventh year (39 1 BC), Han, Wei and Zhao joined forces to crusade against Chu and defeated the Chu army in Daliang (now Kaifeng, Henan) and Zhongmou, Henan. Later, Daliang became the capital of Wei, and Fuyu was divided between Zhao Liehou and Evonne.
After the surplus land was hopeless to return to Lu, it was sealed in the descendants of its son, taking the feudal city of its ancestors as the surname and passed down from generation to generation.
Liu Yuan 3
It originated from the surname Mi, and came from the official of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, belonging to the official title. According to the historical book "The History of Taoism", in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Yu, who was passed down from generation to generation. In fact, Yu people are not blood clan directly derived from Mi surname, but official titles, that is, officials in charge of shipbuilding. Yu, in ancient times, refers to hollowing out tree trunks to make boats (canoes), and thinks that river diameter is a tool and way to cross the river. Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu generally referred to ships. Danger people, originally referring to craftsmen who make ships, later evolved into the official title of supervising the construction of ships, directly under. Because Chu is located in the Jianghuai Plain, transportation and crossing the river are very frequent, so Yu is an important functional department under the jurisdiction of Ling Yin of Chu, and Yu is an indispensable position. In the forty-sixth year of the Warring States period (six years in 323 BC), Xiong Huai changed its name to a more specific boat festival, which was under the unified jurisdiction of the public government together with the boat festival. In the Warring States period, the Chu State had a special festival. Boat Festival was the official position in charge of waterway construction and transportation, while Car Festival was the official position in charge of land construction and transportation. The official name of our time in the late Han and Tang dynasties came from this.
Among the descendants of the Yu people, there are those who take their ancestors' official positions or occupations as their surnames, which are called the Yu family. Later, the provincial language was simplified to a single surname Yu, which was passed down from generation to generation.
Origin four
Originated from Mongols, from Yuli Boyawu, the leader of Mongolian Qincha Department, changed his surname without spending iron ears, belonging to Chinese culture. In the Yuan Dynasty, there was a famous East Road Mongolian marshal, Yuli Boyawu, who was a descendant of the Mongolian Qincha Department and was later given Wu Wangping by the Yuan Dynasty. His nephews Yan timur and Sadun, as well as his grandnephew Tang Qishi, were all prime ministers of the Yuan Dynasty, and there was also a queen Yuli Boyawu at home, so they had a prominent position at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. After Muir succeeded to the throne in Borzygitkin, the Yuan regime was actually in the hands of Yan Tiemu and two prime ministers, and the two factions fought fiercely. After that, I staged a coup in Boya's family, which was wiped out by Bo Yan. My family was beaten by Bo Yan, an iron-fisted teacher in Yuli, Boya. After losing power and influence, the clan withdrew from politics and returned to its fief Anfeng County (now Shouxian County, Anhui Province). At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to avoid the pursuit of political enemies, the family fled to Luyang (another name for Hefei in ancient Anhui Province), taking the homonym of the original surname Yu and changing it to Yu. The descendants of the Yu family, namely the descendants of the Bai family in Boyawu, Yuli, are widely distributed in Sichuan, Anhui, Yunnan, Guizhou, Chongqing, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other regions.
Origin five
Originated from Manchu, from the ministries of Jurchen in the Ming Dynasty, it belongs to sinicization and changed its surname to surname. According to the historical records "Manchu Eight Banners Surnames in Tongzhi Imperial Clan in Qing Dynasty":
(1). The Manchu Harcha family, also known as the Sakhar Chacha family, speaks Halka Hala in Manchu, and lives in Nimacha (now Ussurisk, Russia, opposite Muling Xingkai Lake, Heilongjiang), Blue Ocean (now He Lan River Basin, Longhai, Jilin), Yehe (now south of Yehe Township, Lishu, Jilin) and other places. Later, the Han surnames were Yu and Ha.
[2]. Manchu Nimaha originated from Niman Gubu, one of the thirty surnames commonly used by Nuzhen in the late Tang Dynasty, and was called Nipang Gubu in the Jin Dynasty. The Manchu language is Nimahala, a China fish, who lives in Liaoyang (now Liaoyang, Liaoning). It is one of the oldest surnames of Manchu. The surnames of the Han nationality in the post-Duoguan period are Yu, Yu, Yu and Sheng.
(3) Milan Kucan Yule nationality, Manchu, whose Manchu language is Julku Rehala, lives in Nimacha (now Ussurisk, Russia, on the other side of Muling Xingkai Lake, Heilongjiang Province), and his surname is Yu.
(4) The magnitude of Yudongli in Manchu, also known as Yukushu, is Kujala in Manchu, and it is distributed in Hongai (now Yongji and Jiaohe in Jilin), Huerha (now the Russian area opposite the Heihe River in Heilongjiang), Kongkebasai (now the north bank of Tomu estuary, a tributary of Jieya River in Russia) and both sides of Songhua River. Later, many Han surnames were Yu and Yu.
Liu Yuan
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to Chinese culture and changed its surname to surname. Today, there are members of the Yu family among the Yi, Tu, Hui, Korean and other ethnic minorities. Most of their origins were changed to the Han Yu surname in the policy of retaining people and the movement of changing the land to the stream promoted by the central government in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was passed down from generation to generation.
Origin seven
Originated from the surname Ji, Dr. Wei from the Spring and Autumn Period, named after his ancestors. Yu Yu, a famous man (praised by Confucius for his wisdom), was the son of the late Qing Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period and later became a doctor of Wei. He was famous for his intelligence and loyalty. Among Ji's descendants, there are those who take their ancestral surnames as their surnames, called Yu's and Ning's, which have been passed down from generation to generation.
The Migration and Distribution of Yu Family
Before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, people with the surname of Yu in Hubei had multiplied in large numbers, and some people with the surname of Yu crossed the Yangtze River and entered Jiangdong (as for it, it may be an ancient minority. Save it for reference). When Wu Zetian was in the Tang Dynasty, Yu Wenjun, a native of Jiangling, Jingzhou (now Qianjiang City, Hubei Province), dared to say that there was another mountain in Xinfeng for no reason, because Wu Zetian lived in Yang's position. This statement angered Wu Zetian and exiled him to Lingnan, which was very remote at that time. In this way, the descendants of Yu came to Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of China. Therefore, there should be many descendants of Yu Wenjun in the south of China.
According to "Hundreds of Surnames in Counties and Counties" and "Textual Research on Surnames", Yu has four surnames. These data show that Yu lived in Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Hubei and other provinces for a long time during or before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with a prosperous population and many ethnic groups. After entering the Song Dynasty, Yu suddenly shone brilliantly. In the Song Dynasty alone, 44 people were included in the Dictionary of Names of Past Dynasties in China. Except for three people who have no native place, the rest are from Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu and Jiangxi, and the names of the rest are also distributed in the above places.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Yu was moved to Shaanxi, Gansu, Hebei, Tianjin and other places as one of the surnames of the locust tree people who moved to Hongdong in the Ming Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yu was still in East China, but there were more and more scattered places. Today, the Yu family is widely distributed in China, especially in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other provinces. The surnames of Yu in these three provinces account for about 70% of the Han population in China.
The current population of Yu surname has reached 6.5438+0.4 million, which is the 1 19 surname in China, accounting for about 0. 1 1% of the national population. From the Song Dynasty to the present, the population growth rate of the Yu family showed an A-type trend from 65438 to 0000. At present, the largest province of Yu surname is still Zhejiang, accounting for about 30% of the population of Yu surname in China. Yu surname is mainly distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and Jiangsu, accounting for 72% of the population of Yu surname. Secondly, it is distributed in Shanghai, Liaoning, Fujian and Guangxi. China has formed the distribution area of the Yu family with the Yangtze River Delta as the center.
Yu's family is distributed in Shanghai, Zhejiang, most of Anhui and Jiangsu, eastern Hubei, northern Jiangxi and Fujian, central Guangxi, most of Yunnan, central Gansu, eastern Qinghai, western Ningxia and southwestern Liaoning. The distribution frequency of Yu surname in the local population is about 0.24%, and the central area can reach1.65,438+0%. The coverage area of the above-mentioned areas accounts for about 65448 of the total area of the country. In northern Anhui, eastern Lu Yu, central Hubei, southwestern Jiangxi, Taiwan Province Province, northeastern and western Guangdong, most of Hunan and Guangxi, western Sichuan and Yunnan, southern Guizhou, most of Ningxia, southern and western Gansu, most of Liaoning, southeastern and western Inner Mongolia, the distribution frequency of the surname Yu among local people is about 0.08%-0.24%, and the coverage area of these areas accounts for about 23.4% of the total area of the country.