1, from the surname Jiang, is the leader of (the legendary tribe named Jiang in ancient times). Because I live in the Jiang Shui Valley. The four phratries developed by Jiang Siyue formed an alliance with the Zhou family of Ji, and finally defeated and destroyed the descendants of Shennong.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there was a descendant of Yan Di Jiang named Ziya. Because he helped to prosper the Zhou Dynasty and destroy the business, he was named Taigong by the Duke of Zhou (his brother) in the State of Qi, commonly known as Taigong, with a good reputation.
In the early Spring and Autumn Period, after that, the son of Duke Wen of Qi sealed Gao, and the grandson of Gao sealed Qi Zhengqing. Because Ying's son has rendered meritorious service and given his ancestral name, he was named Gao and Gao was named Lu, and some of his descendants took Lu as their surname.
2. From compound surname to single surname Lu. According to the chronicle. In "A Brief Introduction to the Clan", the surname comes from Jiang, who was handed down from "Nine Kings Ruled the World". Later he changed one word after another. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang, the compound surnames of Tubo Lushi, Fulu Lushi, Lupu Lushi and Molu Lushi in the north (now central Inner Mongolia and northern Shanxi) were changed to the single surname Lushi in Chinese characters.
From his surname, Jilu. During the reign of Yang Di, Hejian Zhang Qiu (compound surname) was too arrogant and good at astronomy, so he was given the surname Lu.
4. From his surname to Lu surname. If there is a Lei family, Lu is the masterpiece, which is similar to Lei and Lu Yin, so it was renamed Lu at the beginning of the latter Zhou Dynasty. At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan Lu, a loyal minister in the later Zhou Dynasty, put his son firewood under his knee to protect Chai Rong's blood, and named him. There is also a surname Lu in Sanyuan (now Shaanxi) in the Tang Dynasty, which was mistaken for Lu.
Note: During the pre-Qin period, Lu mainly lived in Shandong, Hubei and Hebei. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the surname of Lu developed rapidly in the northern region. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the surname of Lu in Fanyang, Dingzhou, Hebei Province became the most popular surname in the world. During the Tang Dynasty, the surname Lu of the Central Plains also entered Fujian with two southward immigrants. During the Song Dynasty, Vietnamese Mulu people began to enter Guangdong in large numbers. By the Ming Dynasty, they had been completely sinicized and became the main surname of Lu in Guangdong. In the early Qing Dynasty, Lu entered Taiwan Province Province.
During the Song Dynasty, there were about 260,000 people surnamed Lu, accounting for 0.34% of the national population, ranking 62nd. First, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Shandong, Henan and Zhejiang. Lu surnames in these three provinces account for about 44% of the total population of Lu surnames, followed by Hebei, Fujian, Anhui, Guangxi and Jiangsu, where Lu surnames account for 44%. Shandong is the largest province with Lu surname, accounting for 22% of the total population. China has formed Lu Yu, Hebei, Zhejiang and Fujian.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 5 10000 people surnamed Lu, accounting for 0.55% of the national population, and it was the 40th surname in the Ming Dynasty. During the 600 years of Song Yuanming, the net population growth rate was 20%, and the population growth rate of Lu surname was higher than that of the whole country. The distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places, with the surname Lu accounting for 47% of the total population, followed by Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Hubei, Shanxi and other places, with the surname Lu accounting for 37%.
The population of Lu surname in Zhejiang Province accounts for about 19% of the total population of Lu surname, making it the largest province of Lu surname. The population movement of Lu surname in China moves from north to southeast and also to south. Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Fujian and Guangdong have formed two large population centers of Lu surname, and the centers of Lu surname drift from north to southeast.