According to records, Xu You led his people to live mainly in Yanling County, Xuchang City, and Jishan, Dengfeng City. Since then, this descendant of Xu You has been handed down from generation to generation. According to the textual research on surnames and their origins, another ancestor of Xu's surname is Bo Yi, a descendant of Shennong.
After Xu's surname was Yandi Shennong, when the Zhou Dynasty enfeoffed the vassal state in 1 1 century BC, Wen Shu, a descendant of Boyi, was established in Xu (now Xuchang City). Because Xu is weak, he is often bullied by Zheng and Chu, so the capital keeps moving. In 506 BC, at the beginning of the Warring States Period, Xu was destroyed by the State of Chu, and Xu's people, in order to miss their motherland,
Now it seems that Xu's surname has a history of thousands of years, whether it originated from Boyi or from Boyi. And these two ancestors surnamed Xu also have a glorious history. Interestingly, the birthplaces of these two Xu surnames are all in Xuchang, an ancient land.
In the history of China, there are many famous people named Xu. During the Warring States Period, there was a farmer named Xu Xing in Chu State. Dozens of students who followed him all wore cloth clothes and made a living by weaving straw sandals and mats. Xu Xing advocates that everyone should work, and no one is an exception, which embodies a simple ideal of farmers in ancient society. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a famous philologist named Xu Shen. His masterpiece Shuo Wen Jie Zi is a masterpiece of China's classical works and has become an immortal masterpiece. Xu Shen wrote in the narrative of Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Zeng Zeng boy, his ancestors are self-inflammatory ... from his own call, his home is here." I'm the great-grandson of the Xu family, and my ancestor is Emperor Yan Shennong ... My ancestor moved from Xuchang to Zhaoling, and has lived by the Rushui River ever since. In just a few words, Xu Shen explained the origin and migration of ancestors clearly.
In the early days, people surnamed Xu flourished in Henan. In the late Warring States period, it began to migrate to Shanxi, Hubei, Hunan and other places. By the Han Dynasty, Xu's surname had developed to Anhui, Shandong, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang today. In the early Tang Dynasty, Zheng Chen and his son were ordered to enter Fujian, and Xu followed them to settle in Fujian.
In the Ming Dynasty, people surnamed Xu began to migrate from Fujian to Taiwan Province Province.
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Xu Shi, Xu Chonghuai and Xu Shen, led Xu Shi to Taiwan Province, and reclaimed land in Tainan, Taiwan Province Province, to establish a family business. In the first year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, another Xu family crossed the sea from Quanzhou and came to Hsinchu and Changhua in Taiwan Province Province to reclaim land and establish their ancestral business.
Today, after hundreds of years of reproduction and development in Taiwan Province Province, Xu's surname has developed from its original residence in Hsinchu and Changhua to Tainan, Chiayi, Taichung and Taipei. According to statistics, among more than 0/000 surnames in Taiwan Province Province, Xu ranks 11th.