At the beginning of Qi Huangong's accession to the throne (685 BC), in recognition of his contribution to Qi in internal affairs and diplomacy, he was given a seal (located in the southwest of Changqing County, Shandong Province), and his grandson took Yi as his surname. Xu Gong became the ancestor of the surname Lu.
Lu surname is one of the surnames in China, and it is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-origin surname, which mainly comes from the changes of Jiang surname, Ji surname and minority surnames. It was Lu's ancestors in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Lu ranked 167 among the hundred surnames in Song Dynasty. By 20 10, according to the population statistics, Lu was ranked 42nd and 39th in Taiwan Province Province. The total population of Lu surname in China is about 6.5 million, accounting for 0.47% of the Han population, mainly distributed in Guangdong, Hebei and Guangxi provinces, where Lu surname accounts for about 48% of Luhan surname in China.
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Source of surname:
1, derived from the surname Jiang, takes the city name as the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Wen of Qi was very famous, and his grain was collected in Lu Yi (now Changqing County, Shandong Province). Later generations took Lu as their surname.
2. It originated from the surname Ji, and took the name of the fief as the surname. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, my uncle helped Jin Wengong Ji Chong 'er defeat the State of Chu, and built a city in Zangang (now Tanghe, Henan). My uncle's son, Jia Ji, founded the city (now Qingfeng, Henan), and my uncle's descendants took Lu as their surname.
3. Take the country as the surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was Lu Ziguo (now Hefei City, Anhui Province), and Lu was the successor of Lu Ziguo.
4. Take the official position as the surname:
Such as Lu Lingcheng, the official distance is two weeks, which is an official title (such as Lu Lingcheng, an archer, shooting with the main crossbow; Later, he gradually became the official in charge of the prison, that is, the warden; Qin and Han Dynasties were under the jurisdiction of Shaofu). For example, some descendants of Lu Lingcheng took their ancestral titles as surnames, which were called Ruo Lushi, and then simplified to single surnames;
Since the Han Dynasty, when Lu Lingcheng was an official, he took the official title as his surname (when Lu Lingcheng was an official who made wine and boiled wine, he was under the jurisdiction of Shaofu). Among the descendants of Lu Lingcheng, some took the ancestral official title as their surname, which was called Lu's, and later simplified to a single surname.
5. Name the weapon after the surname. The sword made by Ou Yezi is called Zhan Lu.
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