There is no accurate number of surnames in our country now, some statistics are conservative 6,000, and some statistics say more than 10,000. Let's take a look at the record of "Hundred Family Surnames" 504, of which 444 are single surnames and 60 are compound surnames.
According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty. There is such a record in the "Chronicles of the County Country": "The time of the Yang Zhou is called the Zhou. There is Di Quan, in the middle of the city. There is Tang Ju. There is a gathering on the way. There are people gathering in the countryside. There is Chu's gathering. Therefore, there is a saying that the surname "Chu" is ** Yu Ji, which comes from Chu in the Zhou Dynasty, and uses the name of the place as the surname.
According to literature, during the Song Dynasty, there were about 28,000 people with the surname Chu, mainly distributed in Henan, Hebei, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. By the Ming Dynasty, there were about 32,000 people with the surname Chu, mainly concentrated in Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
Up to now, the population surnamed Chu is about 450,000, accounting for 3/10,000 of the country's population. It is about 220th on the list of surnames. Therefore, the surname Chu is not a rare surname.
According to the "Dictionary of Chinese Names", about 47 people with Chu names are included. For example: Chu Suiliang, prime minister, politician and writer of the Tang Dynasty;Western Han Dynasty scholar Chu Shaosun;The Eastern Jin Dynasty general Chu Li and so on.
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