Origin one
Originated from the surname Jiang, and from the Boyi Lv family given by Shun Di in his later years. Belong to the surname given by the emperor, the name of the tribe, the name of the country, and the name of the city. Its ancestor is Boyi. According to legend, the ancient tribal leader, Emperor Yan of Shennong, was named Jiang because he lived in the river basin. During the reign of Shundi, Boyi, a descendant of Jiang surname, became the ruler in charge of etiquette and helped Shundi manage the tribal alliance with great achievements. When Yu became emperor, Boyi helped him wholeheartedly and became Yu's confidant, forming a powerful marquis country with a territory of only 70 miles. Boyi is the first generation descendant of Lu Hou and the ancestor of Lu. During the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Lu was a vassal state. At the end of Shang Dynasty, after Boyi, the Miao monarch Lu Shangfu and the King Wu of Zuowen in the 37th century established the Zhou Dynasty. Because of his meritorious service, Lu Shang wrote his first letter in Yingqiu, saying that the country is Qi. Ding Lugong, son of the late squire, succeeded to the throne. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Lu and Qi coexisted for more than 300 years. Lu, 12 grandson of Lu merchants, the king of Chu (679 BC) sent troops to the north, and after Deng, he attacked Shenyang, an ancient country in Nanyang. When Shen State was destroyed by Chu State, Lu people in the west of Shen State were afraid that Chu State would send troops to attack. A large number of people moved eastward to Xincai, and a new country of Lu was established, which was called Donglu in history.
After Nanyang land was destroyed by Chu, all the descendants of the land took the name of the old country as their surnames, forming the main vein of the land. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, after the Qi State established by Sun, a branch of Lu Hou, was destroyed by the Tian family, his descendants took Lu and Qi as surnames respectively, calling them Lu, Qi and Jiang. , and scattered in the land of Korea, Wei, Qi and Lu, known as authentic Lu in history, named Nanyang Lu. Most Lu people respect Boyi as the ancestor of their surname.
According to historical records, some Lu surnames in Anyang, Henan Province came from Gao surnames.
Liu Yuan 2
Last name from Wikipedia. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhong Er, the son of the State of Jin, escaped. Among his followers, there is a man named Wei Gui, also called Wei Wuzi. After Zhong Er returned to the State of Jin and became a monarch, he named Wei Gui as a doctor. Wei Kun, the son of Wei Gui, had fiefs in Lu and Chu, so everyone called him Lv Kun. The descendants of Lu took the fief as their surname and called it Lu.
According to the Origin of Surnames and Tongzhi Genealogy, there was a Lv family in the State of Jin in the Spring and Autumn Period, which was differentiated from the Wei family. The hometown of Shandong people in Shanxi was annexed by the State of Jin, and the Duke of Jin took this place as a fief and gave it to Dr. Ji Wei. Although the descendants of the Wei family belong to the Jin family, their surname is Ji, but they are sealed in Lu's hometown, so they still adopt Lu's old surname. There is a minister in Jin who is Lu's nephew. "Reading Notes on Historical Records", Volume 41, Lucheng, Huozhou: "The state is thirty miles west, so it is also the hometown of Lu. Now there is Lubei, ten miles southwest of the state, and it is also named after Lu Temple, so it is the hometown of Lu Zhou." Later, it was annexed by Jin, and Lu's descendants took Yi as their surname, forming Lu's family. It's for Lushi in Shanxi.
Liu Yuan 3
From ethnic minorities, change their surnames. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang, it was sinicized, and the original Xianbei people changed the northern compound surname to Chilu, and the Chinese character to Lu. After the Five Dynasties, the northern three surnames were changed to Lu Lingshi, which was used as the Chinese character for the single surname Lu.
According to the genealogy, the Xianbei people initially scolded Lu, and the Lu family had several surnames. After Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved to Luoyang, he changed the compound surname of Xianbei to the single Chinese surname, and changed the surname of Lu to Lu. After weeks, it will be changed from Lu Lingshi to Lu surname. The names listed in Tongzhi Genealogy and Deputy Ambassador Lu were all changed to Lu.
Origin four
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to sinicization and changed its surname to Lu. In today's Li, Mulao, Tu, Mongolian, Tujia, Korean and other ethnic minorities, there are Lu ethnic groups, and most of their sources come from the detention policy and the movement of changing the land to the stream implemented by the central government during the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, which has been passed down from generation to generation.
It originated in the enfeoffment country of Ren Shi. According to Zuo Zhuan, Ren Shi was Xie, Zhang, Xue, Shu, Lu, Zhu, Quan, Bi and Guo. It is said that all ten countries have surnames.
Ren, the surname of the youngest son of the Yellow Emperor, was enfeoffed as a country. The influence of the stone man expanded and ten small countries were established, and Bi was one of them.
In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were ten surnames Xie, Zhang, Xue, Shu, Lu, Zhu, Zhong, Quan, Bi and Guo, all descendants of vassal states, which were enfeoffed. According to a sentence in Zuo Zhuan, "I dare not compete with the princes", in which the so-called "princes" refer to these ten surnames, which are the most common surnames of the nobles in the Western Zhou Dynasty, so I don't want to compete with them, which shows the prominence of the stone clan at that time.