The origin of Wu surname in Japan

I saw a very interesting story on the Internet recently, saying that the Japanese didn't kill Wu when they invaded China. From this aspect, we can see that Wu said that he was the ancestor of the Japanese and the Japanese were the descendants of Wu. I didn't say this, but I said it online, so are these questions true? Let's analyze the secrets together and see what's going on!

The origin of Wu surname:

First, the Wu family in ancient times. According to Shan Hai Jing Hai Nei Jing, there was a man named Wu Quan when Emperor Yan lived, and he also had another more widely known name: WU GANG. His wife was pregnant by adultery with Yan Di's grandson Boling. Three years later, she gave birth to three sons, named Drum, Delay and Die. The legend of drum and extension is the inventor of Zhong and Qing, and also the earliest creator of music.

In addition to this record of Wu surname, there is a very powerful legend-the mother of the Yellow Emperor was surnamed Wu. It can be seen that the surname Wu has existed for a long time.

In ancient Wu, there was another marksman with the same fame as Hou Yi, named Wu He. This man was recorded in the Imperial Genealogy, but later we only remembered Hou Yi, the sun shooter, but forgot Wu He. Actually, personally, I think it's a joke to shoot the sun with an arrow. Wu He had a lot of positive things, basically hunting and fighting, which was very powerful at that time, but unfortunately his reputation was not so great later.

Actually, the main source of Wu's surname is not the legend above. What is it? Still Ji's surname. This is going to talk about the old lady Wang Gugong and her father in the Zhou Dynasty. Gu Gongqi's father has three sons, the eldest is Taibo, the second is Zhong Yong, and the third is Ji Li. These three people are all very talented and excellent. However, according to the tradition of Zhou people, only the eldest son, Tai Bo, can succeed to the throne. However, the old man's favorite is the third-year calendar, and his sons have also seen it. At this time, there was a very touching scene: Taibo and Zhongyong knew that their father liked their brother's calendar, but they ran away and ran away from home. From Qishan, Shaanxi, all the way south, I came to the land of wuyue, which was not civilized at that time, which is today's Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. When they got there, the two brothers lived according to local customs. What customs are there? Tattoos, broken hair. Tattooing means tattooing on the body; Broken hair, the Central Plains Han people can't cut their hair, because their parents can't damage their body and skin, but they also cut their hair according to local customs. What is this equal to? Desperate hope: they have become barbarians, so it is impossible to inherit the throne. Ji Li then inherited the throne for the king of Zhou Ji. Later, King Wu succeeded in business, the Zhou Dynasty was established, and the descendants of Taibo and Zhongyong were commended by the Zhou Dynasty. Among them, there are a pair of brothers, one of whom was sealed in Wudi on the spot, that is, in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province today, and his descendants took Wu as their surname; The other was sealed to Yu, that is, in Pinglu area of Shanxi today, and his descendants also changed their surnames to Yu. Therefore, those surnamed Wu and those surnamed Yu are generally considered to be related by blood. In the past, among some Wu clans in the south of the Yangtze River, Wu Yu didn't marry, because although Yu Guo was in Shanxi and Wu Guo was in Jiangsu, after all, it came from a pair of brothers and was a family by its roots.

There are many remains of Taibo in Changzhou and Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Up to today, there is a tomb of Taibo in Hongshan, namely Meili Mountain, Wuxi City. Of course, no one knows whether it is Taibo buried under the ground, but everyone calls it Taibo Tomb, which is a cultural relic protection unit in Jiangsu Province.

There are also some very peculiar Wu surnames among the brothers, such as the Miao people. In the process of learning Chinese culture, Miao people gradually expressed their surnames in Chinese characters. There are many talented people in the Wu family of Miao nationality, among whom there is a man named Wu He in the Ming Dynasty, who is a proud disciple of Wang Yangming. To this day, among the local Miao people in western Hunan, Wu is still the first surname, which is very unique. There are even branches in the Wu surname of Miao people, such as a Wu surname, which is very interesting. In addition, one of the seven oldest tribes of the Mongols was named Wu Lansuhe, and later took Wu as the surname. They were basically unrelated to Wu of the Han nationality. There is also a Wu in the Oroqen clan, which was changed from the name Wu Charcan. Among Hezhe people in the northeast, there is also a surname of Wu, such as the well-known film "Visitors on the Iceberg", whose screenwriter Mr. Bai Xin (formerly known as Wu Yuhong) is Hezhe people.

In ancient times, the surname Wu was mainly distributed in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, and gradually developed to Qilu in the north, and later moved to Henan and Anhui. Generally speaking, most surnames in China migrated from the Central Plains to the south, but the way of Wu's migration was different. It first formed a scale in the south and then developed to the north, but the result was the same. After various wars, Wu took root all over the country. About the Three Kingdoms, Wu people from the State of Wu came to Taiwan Province. Now Wu is also the most popular name in Taiwan Province, and the population of Wu has been ranked sixth and seventh.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Wu produced a famous general-Wu Peifu. As a great warlord, he refused to cooperate with the Japanese invaders in his later years, which was very ethical. Wu Peifu was born as a scholar and educated. He was very proud of his surname and often studied it by himself. As a result, he found that he and the Japanese emperor at that time were actually contemporaries, both descendants of Wu Taibo's 121st generation. This is very interesting. What happened? It is said that after the destruction of the State of Wu by Yue, a group of adherents migrated eastward to Japan, and gradually merged into the Japanese nation over time, and one of them later evolved into the Japanese royal family. During the Han, Wei, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Japanese Wu people missed their homeland, and the Japanese king sent envoys to worship the mainland dynasty many times, and solemnly stated that the Japanese royal family was a descendant of Wu Taibo. Our country's history books, Wei Lue, Jin Shu, Liang Shu, Northern History and Road History, all have records about this. For thousands of years, they have kept their consanguinity symbol "Wu" and derived Japanese surnames such as "Wu Fu", "Wu Han" and "Kurehatori" in Japan today. It can be seen that the Japanese still have such a long blood relationship with Wu.