According to the surname map of China, the Bai surname originated from the Yuan surname. After the death of Qin Wugong, the son Bai failed to succeed to the throne, and Wu Gong and his mother De Gong took the throne from the son.

2. From the surname.

Bai surname of Han nationality comes from Bai, the descendant of Emperor Zhuan Xu, and is named after a feudal city. According to Yuan He Shi Dian, Shanglong Lu and other records, Lu Zhong, a descendant of Emperor Zhuan Xu, married the ghost Fang family and gave birth to six sons. The sixth son was named Ji Lian and given the surname Mi.

3, from the tribe

According to the records of Searching for Surname and Yuan Ming Pao, there was a minister named Bai Fu, the leader of the northern Jiang tribe in ancient China, who was proficient in water veins and made some achievements in dredging waterways. His descendants took "Bai" as their surname and called it Bai.

4. change your surname or give it a surname

Others changed their surnames or changed their surnames again and were given surnames by others: Bai surname of Hui nationality; Jews (Blue Hat Hui), among the descendants of Jews living in Kaifeng, Henan, have a white surname. ; Manchu and Mongolian, etc. Turks and so on. According to the genealogy of Taipei County, Bai Yuanguang, a Turk in the Tang Dynasty, changed his surname.

Extended data

Bai Gui 1

Bai Gui was born in Luoyang, Central Plains during the Warring States Period. It has the reputation of "Shang Zu". As a minister under Wei Huiwang, he is good at building dams and water conservancy projects. Han Shu said that he was the theoretical founder of managing trade and developing production.

2. Tian Lei

Tian Lei (? —257 BC), surnamed Mi, Bai and Qi, was born in (now Baijia Village, Changxing Town, Meixian County, Shaanxi Province). An outstanding strategist in the Warring States period, a representative figure of "military strategist". Bai Gong, the grandson of King Chu Ping, is a descendant.

3. Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (772-846) was born in Xinzheng, Henan, and his ancestral home was Taiyuan, Shanxi. He was a great realistic poet in the Tang Dynasty and one of the three great poets in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen * * * advocated the new Yuefu movement, and together with Liu Yuxi, they called the world "Bai Yuan" and "Bai Liu".

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