Chu is a multi-ethnic, multi-origin surname, and the largest province with the surname Chu is Zhejiang. Zhejiang, Liaoning, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Henan are the main distribution areas of the Chu surname, and the Chu surname accounts for about 59% of the national Chu surname population. Secondly, it is distributed in Hebei, Hubei, Shanghai, Shanxi and other provinces and cities. It has a population of about 453,000, accounting for 0 percent of the country's total population025% or so.
The surname Chu is ** in the place name, and the "Zuo Chuan Zhao Gong Twenty-sixth Year" records: Wang Su is in the Chu family. In addition, "Zuo Biography" contains Chu's Pavilion in the south of Luoyang County, and "Later Han County Chronicles" has Chu's Canal in Luoyang. Historical books believe that there is Chu land in Zhou, and the local people take the place name as their surname, called Chu's.
The surname Chu is derived from the surname of the child, and the fief of Song Gongzi Duan is Chu, and the number of "its virtue can be master" is "Chu Shi", which is respectfully called Chu Shiduan, and his descendants take the fief as the clan and call the Chu family.
The surname Chu is the abbreviation of Master Chu. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the princes and state-owned officials were Chu Shi, and the descendants took the official title as the clan. Chu Shi, also known as the city order, is an official position set up by the Zhou royal family in the Spring and Autumn Period, which is responsible for the management of the market and **, and has the functions of the current Minister of Commerce and the Director of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce. Among the descendants of Chu Shi, there are many people who take the official title of the ancestor as their surname, called Chu Shi, and the provincial text is simplified to a single surname Chu, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
Regardless of the surname Chu originating from the place name or official position, its birthplace is in Henan, after the Warring States period to the Qin and Han dynasties, the surname Chu migrated to Lanling, and the other moved to Yingchuan. During the Jin Dynasty, the Chu clan took office in various places and migrated to Yuzhang and Wuchang. When Tang Taizong, Chu Liang was named the Marquis of Yangzhai County, and the second son Chu Sui Lianggui became the prime minister, and he was named the Duke of Henan County, so the descendants of the branch returned to Yangzhai in Henan.
In addition to this branch, there is also a group of people who migrated to Qiantang in the Han Dynasty and one group who migrated to Suzhou. Qiantang Chu surname and Hanoi ancestor, the end of the Han Dynasty, Chu Sheng for the salt official, because of the residence by the fist (now Jiaxing in the south of Zhejiang), his son Chu Tai, out of the Wu State, sealed Qiantang Linping Hou, then settled.
After the Sui and Tang dynasties, some people with the surname Chu moved south to Fujian, Guangdong, and Jiangxi.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the surname Chu of Shanxi, as one of the surnames of the relocated people of the big locust tree in Hongdong, was relocated to Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places.
In the Qing Dynasty, the surname Chu spread throughout the northeast, northwest, and southwest. Nowadays, the surname Chu is widely distributed throughout the country, especially in Jiangsu and Liaoning.
Historically, Chu Shaosun, a historian in the Western Han Dynasty, was erudite and talented, and had done supplementary work on Sima Qian's "Historical Records". Chu Suiliang of the Tang Dynasty, the official to the prime minister, the reputation is prominent, his calligraphy attainments are superb, and Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan, Xue Ji and called "the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty".
The total population surnamed Chu is not large, but the Chu clan is also star-studded in the long river of history, and in different fields, they have contributed their own strength to the development of the Chinese nation.