In ancient times, the Yellow Emperor had a descendant named Judas (the son of Danzhu in the Tang Dynasty), who was once sealed in Fuyi (now Pinglu, Shaanxi Province) and established the ancient kingdom of Guofu. 1955 after the text reform and simplification, Fu Shi was mistakenly changed to Fu Shi. Among the descendants, one named Fu, who took the country name as his surname, was passed down from generation to generation, and was the earliest Fu.
Population distribution:
The contemporary population of Fu surname has reached 8.8 million. Fu surname is a multi-ethnic and multi-origin ancient surname group, ranking 36th in the current surname list of China, accounting for about 0.55% of the national population. In the 600 years since the Ming Dynasty, the population of Fu surname has increased from 440,000 to 8.8 million, an increase of about 20 times, and the population growth rate of Fu surname is higher than that of the whole country.
Distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Anhui, Sichuan, Henan and other four provinces, accounting for about 35% of the country's total population. Followed by distribution in Hebei, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Hunan, Shandong and other five provinces, where the Fu surname is concentrated by 28%. The largest province of Fu surname is Hunan, accounting for 10% of the total population of Fu surname in China.
There are two gathering areas of Fu surname in China: Nanchuan, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, northern Henan, Hubei, Shandong and Hebei. In the past 600 years, the degree and direction of Fu's population movement are quite different from those in the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The migration from the east to China and North China has always been greater than that from the north to the southeast. At the same time, immigrants from the west and southwest have become important immigration flows.