The origin of the Yu family in several counties in Huizhou

1. Origin of the name

There are three origins of the surname Yu:

1. According to "Customs", the surname Yu is "After Yu, he lived in Shezhou , is a large family in Xin'an, looking out for Xiapi and Wuxing." In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Youyu in the Qin State. His ancestors were from Jin and fled to Xirong to avoid chaos. Youyu originally served as an official in Xirong, but was later sent as an envoy to Qin. Seeing that Duke Mu of Qin was virtuous and generous, he stayed in Qin as a minister. He planned for Duke Mu to conquer Xirong and make Qin the overlord of the west. His descendants took their first names as surnames, some were named You, some were named Yu, and they all came from the same clan.

2. From the Chidi tribe, after the surname Wei. According to "Guoyu", "The five surnames of Lu, Luo, Quan, Yu, and Man are all Chidi and Kai."

3. The self-proclaimed surname was changed from Tiemu's complex surname to Genghis Khan (Tiemu), the founder of the Yuan Dynasty. Mujin)'s descendants came from the family of Prime Minister Tiemu. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the slander and wanted to capture the nine sons and one son-in-law of Prime Minister Tie Mu. The nine sons and one son-in-law left the city at starry night and fled to Guizhou. When they saw Taizu personally leading the pursuers, he hid under Fengjin Bridge. When the pursuers arrived, someone saw the turbulence in the water under the bridge and raised suspicions. Taizu did not investigate carefully and said casually: "There is water in the river and fish in the water. Why make a fuss? Just continue chasing forward quickly." After the brothers escaped, they originally wanted to change the Tiemu clan to the Jin clan, but finally decided to change it to the Yu clan. "Yu" is one less horizontal than the word "gold", and it is a homophony of the word "fish" which means "there are fish in the water". It can be called a double entendre. This type of Yu family lived in Luzhou (today's Hefei). Later generations fled to Sichuan to avoid the rebellion of the Red Army. In the Qing Dynasty, they moved to Yunnan\Guizhou. Their ancestor was Temujin, Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, and they were collectively called the Tie Gai Yu family.

2. Migration Distribution

Historically, the Yu family was basically a more typical southern surname. The earliest birthplace of the Yu family should be in the area from Fengxiang to Xianyang in present-day Shaanxi Province. The specific spread and migration situation is difficult to examine in detail due to lack of information. Generally speaking, people with the Yu surname moved to the Shexian area in Anhui during the Han Dynasty and settled here to thrive and develop. After the Han Dynasty, the Yu surnames in the south and north of our country basically multiplied, but the north was much weaker. Many people with the Yu surname moved to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Yu surname had become a prominent family in Xin'an County. In addition, due to the war in the north, it was inevitable for the Yu surname to move south, and some people of the Yu surname moved to Hunan and Hubei. After the Tang Dynasty, the Yu surname grew rapidly and formed two prominent families in the southeast. People with the Yu surname moved to Fujian, Guangdong and other places starting from the late Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the surname Yu not only spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, but also the surname Yu in the north also developed rapidly.

3. County Wangtang No.

Tang No.

"Qing Yan Hall": Yu Yuanyi of the Song Dynasty was Zhu Xi's favorite disciple. He believed in benevolence, justice, reason and the Five Ethics, and was named "Qing Yan".

"Zhonghuitang": Yu Tianxi was the tutor of Prime Minister Shi Miyuan in the Song Dynasty. King Yi had no queen, so he ordered Tianxi to find a more virtuous child in the royal family as his son. Tianxi found Guizhuang for him, who later became Song Lizong. Lizong ascended the throne and made Tianxi the Duke of Fenghua County. He was given the posthumous title of "Zhonghui" after his death.

County Hope

Xin'an County: In the first year of Taikang of Jin Dynasty (AD 208), Xindu County was changed to Xindu County and a county was established, and the administrative seat was Shixin (now Chun'an West). Comparable to the west of Chun'an, Zhejiang, the Xin'an River Basin, Qimen and other places in Anhui.

Xiapi County: In the 15th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 72), Linhuai County was changed to Linhuai County. County, extending to Jiashan, Anhui in the south, and Lianshui, Huai'an and Jingjiang City in Jiangsu to the east. In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was changed to a county.

Wuxing County: The county was established in the first year of Wu Baoding (266) of the Three Kingdoms. Its administrative seat was Wucheng (now south of Wuxing, Zhejiang), which is equivalent to the northwest of Lin'an, Yuhang and Deqing in Zhejiang today, and also covers the area of ??Yixing County in Jiangsu. .

4. Family Genealogy

Shandong: Sishui Yu’s Huitong Genealogy in five volumes and one external chronicle

Jiangsu: Zhenjiang Jingjiang’s Genealogy Four Volumes, four volumes of the genealogy of the Yu family in Zhenjiang

Anhui: Yu family genealogy (uncounted volumes), Huizhou Xin'an Yu family genealogy, unclassified, discontinued The first volume of thirty volumes of the Ningyu Shaoxiantang genealogy and the thirty volumes of the Qianshan Yu family genealogy

Fujian: Anxi Yu family genealogy is not classified, Changle Yu family genealogy is not divided into volumes Jiangxi: Fuzhou Lixi Yu Genealogy of the Yu family (uncounted volumes)

Hunan: The first six volumes of the twenty-nine volumes of the Yu family genealogy of Xinzhou

Guangdong: Thirty volumes of the Yu family genealogy, Yu family of Qujiang Four volumes of genealogy

Sichuan: One volume of the Changshou Yu family genealogy, four volumes of the Yu family genealogy of Rong County

Yu, She

(Allusions to hundreds of family names)

Yu She is related to Yiyuan brothers with two surnames

"Yu" and "She" are both Han surnames. The two characters look very similar. If you don't distinguish them carefully, There may be many people who still can’t see the slight difference!

Regarding the intricate relationship between the two characters "Yu" and "She", we can get a general idea from the notes of the ancient Yang Shen.

Yang Shen said this: "Nowadays, people with this surname write She in vain. They don't know how to write and think they are smart. The rest of the characters come from She Sheng, and She is close to Snake, so Zen Zhiqie is the correct pronunciation. In the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty, The person calls himself Shajia, which can be proved by the close name of the She family, and the credit name comes from She."

In addition, the Qing Dynasty scholar Zhang Shu also pointed out in the "Five Books on Surnames": " In ancient times, Yu was written as She, and the pronunciation of Yu was Zen Zheqie, which sounded like snake. Nowadays, people mistakenly write She, which is wrong."

According to these two paragraphs, the two characters "Yu" and "She" are different. , and the relationship between the two surnames is very obvious - the two surnames come from the same source, and they are basically brothers.

The Yu and She clans have the same origin, and strong evidence can be found from their breeding places——

The book "Surname Compilation" points out: "Yu , looking out of Xin'an, Qin Yu lived in Shezhou. "Surname Yuan" points out: "She, a native of Nanchang County, lives in Xin'an today."

It can be seen that the Yu and She families used to mainly breed in Xin'an, which is now Shexian County, Anhui Province. The earliest appearance of the surname She was probably in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province in the Tang Dynasty, because the first person named She to appear in history was She Qin, a doctor of Taixue in the Tang Dynasty. His native place was Nanchang. From this, it can be judged that Jiangxi and Since Anhui is a neighboring region, it is extremely possible that the Yu family who multiplied from Anhui to Nanchang, due to some reason or accidental factors, lost a small part of their surname and became the She family. .

According to the above information, the two surnames Yu and She should be brothers, so the ancestor of the Yu family should also be the ancestor of the She family, and the Yu family is Where did it come from?

Regarding this issue, the textual research in "Surname Compilation" is that "after Qin Yuyu, he lived in Shezhou." This Yu Yu, who laid the foundation for the prosperity and strength of the Qin State that later unified the world, was the ancestor of the surnames Yu and She in later generations.

According to the research of later generations of scholars, the Yu family's southward migration should have occurred after the Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, there would have been no celebrities with the surname Yu or even She in Xin'an and Nanchang at that time. In other words, in the north and south of China, the descendants of the Yu family continued to multiply and grow at the same time. The change of the surname Yu to the surname She happened in the south of the Yangtze River. In the north, there were no people with the surname She at first. , and later also migrated from Jiangnan.

Although the Yu and She families have a long history and a history of nearly three thousand years, strangely, they did not become prominent until after the Tang Dynasty, and they showed their prominence in the Song Dynasty.

During the Tiansheng reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, there was a very famous "Four Admonitions", which refers to the four people Ouyang Xiu, Wang Su, Cai Xiang and Yu Jing who were only responsible for speaking in the court at that time. Jing was an outstanding descendant of the Yu family in Qujiang, Guangdong. He was highly valued by the dynasty. Yu Jing's achievements were not limited to this. He went to Khitan three times as an envoy. Later, Nong Zhigao rebelled and he was ordered to manage the affairs of the South. , does not record anything from the South China Sea. He later became a minister of the Ministry of Industry and wrote the "Wuxi Collection" which has been handed down to the world. Later, there was a well-known "Eight Sages Hall" in Guangzhou, and Yu Jing was one of the Eight Sages. This shows his importance in people's minds. No wonder people surnamed Yu in Guangdong in later generations all admired this outstanding ancestor. His deeds are relished.

The ancestor of the Yu family - Youyu (Yuyu)

Youyu, first known as Yaoyu, was a senior official of the Qin State in the Spring and Autumn Period. His ancestors were Jin people and later fled to the Rong ( A general name for the ancient northwest ethnic minorities). You Yu was ordered to go to Qin as an envoy. Seeing that Duke Mu of Qin was virtuous and generous, he stayed in Qin as prime minister. He was trusted by Duke Mu. He helped Duke Mu conquer Xirong and conquered twelve countries, making Qin the overlord of the west. His descendants took the Yu in their name as their surname and called them the Yu family.

Yu Yu’s ancestors were from the Jin State. Later he went to Xirong. His deeds are recorded in the Historical Records - Qin Benji. First of all, one of his contributions to the Qin State was to a certain extent. It influenced the ideological development of the Qin State in the mid-Spring and Autumn Period. One of the characteristics of Qin culture is "improperism". The Qin State culture in the early Spring and Autumn Period was relatively backward. The ethical values ??pursued by the Qin State culture before Shang Yang's reform were basically They were all Zhou people's rituals. Therefore, in Qin's time, the most precious things were basically the palaces and property worshiped by typical farming people. Yu Yu first went to Qin as an envoy, and Qin Mu Gong reported to Qin. He showed the palace treasures of the Qin State, and Yu Yu said: "If you make ghosts do it, you will be tired of the gods. If you make people do it, you will also suffer the people." Qin Mugong felt strange and said that the governance of the Central Plains of China relied on poetry and calligraphy. Lefadu, even so, still cannot save the world from chaos. Without these, wouldn't it be more difficult for Rong and Yi to govern well? You Yu said: It is precisely because the Central Plains of China has poems, books, rituals and music laws that are so difficult to govern. Since the ancient sage Huangdi created the rituals and music laws and personally took the lead in implementing them, he has only achieved a small degree of peace. to future generations. The monarch becomes more arrogant and extravagant day by day. Relying on the majesty of the legal system to demand and supervise the people, when the people feel tired, they will resent their emperor and demand the implementation of benevolence and righteousness. The superiors and subordinates resent each other, usurp and massacre, and even exterminate families, all because of these things such as rituals, music, and laws. But the Rong tribe is not like this. When the superior treats the subjects below with sincerity and kindness, and the subjects serve the emperor with loyalty, the political affairs of the entire country are like a person controlling his own body, without knowing any methods of governance. This is truly the governance of a saint. country's approach.

From this point of view, the dialogue between Yu Zirong and Duke Mu reflects that during the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin actively absorbed Zhou cultural achievements to establish an institutional culture layer, and at the same time continued to struggle with the Rong people. , brought the utilitarianism of the Rong people, which laid a certain cultural mentality foundation for Qin to be able to thoroughly implement Shang Yang's reforms. Qin Mugong realized that Yu Yu was a talent, and if he was allowed to serve in the Rong, he would become the leader of the Qin State. Because of the disaster, Yu Yu was designed to surrender to Qin. In the thirty-seventh year of Qin Mugong, Qin adopted Yu Yu's strategy, changed the direction of attack, attacked Xirong with all his strength, and destroyed twelve small Xirong countries. In history, it was called the Ten Kingdoms of Mu Gongyi. Second, he opened up a thousand miles of land and conquered Xirong. Because the Western Zhou Dynasty was defeated by Xirong, although Duke Mu of Qin did not achieve the hegemony of the Central Plains like Qi Huan and Jin Wen did in the war against the Rong, the Emperor of Zhou still sent Duke Zhao to pay homage to Duke Mu of Qin. , acknowledging Qin’s hegemonic status in the West, which greatly improved Qin’s influence and status among the princes. In historical books such as Zuo Zhuan, the history of Qin was recorded in the Spring and Autumn Annals starting from Duke Wen of Qin. However, most of them did not record the deeds of the monarchs, but since Duke Mu became hegemonic, and the title "Uncle Qin" began to appear frequently. This can also be regarded as Yu's contribution to Qin. The most important thing is that Duke Mu expanded westward, giving the Qin State, which was still in the development stage, a relatively broad strategy. The depth and development space laid a solid foundation for Qin to dominate the world 400 years later.