According to historical records such as Compilation of Yuanhe Surnames, the origin of Hu's surname can be traced back to the descendants of ancient sage Yu Shun. In this way, the ancestor of Hu's surname should be Hu Gongman, who was named Chen's land more than three thousand years ago.
2. From Ji surname and Gui surname, taking the country name as the surname.
Guixing Tiger Fruit in Fuyang, Anhui Province. When Lu was in power, he was destroyed by Chu. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, these two countries were destroyed by the State of Chu. The descendants of their monarchs all took Hu as their surname, and China people also took Hu as their surname, calling it Hu's, forming two Hu's who lived next to each other for generations.
Guixing is the surname of Weifang (Ghost Fang). According to Shan Hai Jing, it is Wei's, the son of his son. The inscription on Hu Guoqing's bronze ware is named W ē i. The former site of Guixinghu is in Ruyin, Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui), and the descendants take the country as their surname. The Hu family, which is stable in history, is a prominent family, which originated in Guixing.
3. From the profession
In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Regent Zhou Gongdan set up an official position, in charge of the diet and sacrificial animals of princes and nobles. This official position was called Gu Shi in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Hu in Luqi and Hu in Chu, Qin and Jin Dynasties.
Gui is a vessel for holding exquisite dishes, which was called Gui in Xia Dynasty, Gui in Shang Dynasty and Gui in Western Zhou Dynasty. Later generations regarded Hu as a synonym for food, called Gui for short. Among the descendants of Hu Shi, Su Shi and Hu Shushi, some people take the official titles of their ancestors as their surnames, and most of them take Hu as their surnames.
Migration distribution
There are two main sources of Hu surname: one is Huaiyang, Henan, and the other is Fuyang, Anhui. Hu takes the original point as the center and extends around. After several generations of reproduction, it reached Xincai in the south and Shanxi in the north, becoming the Hu family at that time.
During the Han Dynasty, he traveled to Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei and other places. Among them, the family that moved to Gansu became a prominent family in the later Han Dynasty, and later became the main source of Hu's reproduction in various places.
During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Hu lived in Chen (now Huaiyang, Henan). Later, due to the "Yongjia Rebellion", the gentry of the Central Plains moved southward on a large scale and entered Fujian with the other seven surnames, becoming one of the "Eight Surnames of Fujian".