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Guo Xu, also known as Guo Xu, is a descendant of Guo Shu. In the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, as a representative of Guo Shu's descendants, he was sealed in xia yang. In 658 BC, Beiguo was destroyed by Jin (the preface was sealed), and around the opening of Jinyang (that is, around 497 BC), descendants moved to Jinyang and its northern areas (now Taiyuan, Xinzhou and Yuanping in Shanxi).

The descendants, especially the Guo family of Jinyang, are the most famous, which has developed into Taiyuan surname since Qin and Han Dynasties. Guo's serial number is called "Guo Gong", which is the most critical representative of "Guo Sheng changed to Guo".

Migration distribution

During the pre-Qin period, Guo mainly lived in Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Hebei and other places. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Guo's surname had spread to the north and south, to Inner Mongolia in the north, to Gansu in the west, to Jiangsu in the east and to Sichuan in the southwest. During the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, the surname Guo had been distributed in the vast areas north and south of the Yangtze River.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Gushi people, with a surname of 58, entered Fujian via Jiangxi, and Gushi people Wang entered Fujian at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Guo's entry into Fujian was the second southward migration with Henan as the main body.

In the mid-Tang Dynasty, Guo Ziyi, the minister, put down the Anshi Rebellion and was named King of Fenyang. The success of ZTE brought the prosperity of surname clan and reached its peak. Today, most Guo surnames in the south and overseas think of their ancestors. During the Northern Song Dynasty, people from the Central Plains fled south again, and Guo's footprints were almost all over the south. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Guo moved to Taiwan Province Province.

Guo's current situation:

At present, the population of Guo has reached 654.38+05 million, which is the 17th surname in China, accounting for 654.38+0.654.38+03% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Guo has increased from 960,000 to more than150,000, which is about five times that of/kloc-0. Guo's population growth rate is slightly higher than that of the whole country.

The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Shanxi provinces, accounting for 37.8% of the total population of Guo. Secondly, it is distributed in Guangdong, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Anhui, Hubei, Liaoning, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Heilongjiang and other provinces, accounting for 37.5% of Guo's population. Henan is the largest province with Guo surname, accounting for about 14.3% of the total population of Guo surname.

Guo has formed three clusters in China: Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan and Shaanxi. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of Guo's population movement are quite different from those in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, especially from the east to Central China and North China, which has become an important flow direction than from the north to the southeast, northwest and northeast.

Extended data:

Guo surname is one of the surnames in China, and it is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, which mainly comes from the changes of Ji surname, Ren surname and minority surnames. In the early years of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Guo was the ancestor.

There are 397 celebrities named Guo in China Personal Names Dictionary, accounting for 0.87% of the total names, ranking 18 among celebrity surnames. Guo's famous litterateurs account for 0.63% of all litterateurs in China, ranking 40th.

Guo's famous physicians accounted for 0.75% of the total number of physicians in China, ranking 26th. Guo's famous artists accounted for 0.78% of the total number of artists in China, ranking 29th.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Guo surname