1. Zhu's family began in the Western Zhou Dynasty and took the country name as its surname (since the ancestor of the surname was Cao Xie, this branch is also considered to be derived from Cao's surname). It is said that Cao was imprisoned in Lebanon and built his capital there. The living take the country as their surname, which is called Zhu. During the Warring States Period, the State of Chu destroyed Zhao, and the nobles of Zhao fled everywhere. In order not to forget the motherland, they removed their ears and changed their surnames to Zhu.

2. Originated from the surname of Ji, taking the country name as the surname. The ancient Yi people mainly lived in Zouxian County, Shandong Province.

3, from the son's surname, take the name of the ancestor as the surname. After Zhu, the grandson of Song and Wei Dynasties, Zhu was the ancestor. Zhou Chengwang's name is Cabbage, the brother of Shang Zhouwang's concubines, who was offered as a sacrifice to businessmen in the Song Dynasty. By the end of the Warring States Period in 286 BC, the State of Qi had destroyed the Song Dynasty. Descendants of Zhu, the son who lives in Dangshan, Jiangsu, take the names of their ancestors as their surnames.

4. Originated from the Qi surname, taking the name of the ancestor as the surname. It originated from Dani, the son of Yaodi, and took Dani as the ancestor of Kaishi, belonging to the direct descendant of Yaodi. After Shun defeated Danzhu in Danpu, a descendant of Danzhu migrated to southwest China, which was mainly distributed in the wild in Cangwu (now Jiuyi Mountain in Ningyuan, Hunan Province) in the pre-Qin period. Survived in the evolution of society and developed into a noble family in the county during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which constitutes an important tribe in the Zhu family today.

5. Originated from Zhu's family (also known as Zhu Xiang's family), taking the name of the ancestor as the surname. The Zhu Xiang clan with the totem of red heart wood and bamboo is active in today's Huaiyang area. The descendants of Zhu Hu, the minister of ancient Di Ku, took Zhu Hu as their ancestor. Zhang Zhu, a hermit in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhu Mao, a Qi man in the Warring States, Zhu Hai, a Hercules in the Wei State, and Zhu Jin, a Hou in the Western Han Dynasty, are all descendants of Zhu Hu.