The earliest birthplace of the Wu family name should be in the territory of present-day Henan Province, and then continued to multiply in this area, and rapidly migrated to neighboring provinces such as Shandong and Jiangsu. By the time of the Han Dynasty, Shandong Wu has been a thousand prosperous, prominent family. The Wu family name from this place, later multiplied to the present Henan, Anhui, Shanxi and other places. Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties period, because of the war in the north, the Wu family also with the Central Plains of the soil together with a large southward migration, became a large family in Jiangsu province, so the Wu family has "Pei Guo" county, and another Wu moved into the territory of present-day Shanxi province. Tang Dynasty, the Wu family because of a Wu Zetian, making the Wu family reproduction reached an extremely prosperous period, the Wu family is also started in the Tang Dynasty in the north of all over again to be able to reproduce and migrate, the family faction continues to expand, in the present day Taiyuan area of Shanxi Province to develop into a large family, so the Wu family has to "Taiyuan" for its county prestige. At the same time, the Wu surname in the south of China has also been further developed, and then spread throughout the country.
Song in the Spring and Autumn period is the source of the Wu family name, so its early activities should be in the present-day Henan Shangqiu area, and then with the passage of time, the increase in the population of the Wu family name, the development of social production, changes in the political situation, the activities of the area is also constantly expanding, about to the period of the Warring States period, the Wu family name of the people in the Central Plains of the more extensive activities. According to documents, from the end of the Qin Dynasty to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Wu family name was largely distributed in the following areas: Xu Tai (northeast of present-day Xuyi County, Jiangsu Province), Chen County (present-day Huaiyang County, Henan Province), Pei County (present-day Pei County, Jiangsu Province), Liang Zou (northeast of present-day Zouping County, Shandong Province), Changan (northwest of present-day Xi'an County, Shaanxi Province), and the eastern part of present-day Henan Province. During this period of social unrest and frequent wars, in order to fight for the world, the great and the good competed, and some people with the surname of Wu also showed their skills in the political arena, and contributed to the overthrow of the brutal rule of the Qin Dynasty. At the same time, this period is also a period of more frequent population migration, the Wu people from the Central Plains gradually migrated around, mainly in some areas of the northern part of China.
The Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the activities of the people of the Wu surname further expanded, the performance of the south of the Jianghuai also distributed a lot of people of the Wu surname, and a noteworthy phenomenon, that is, the southern regime in the people of the Wu surname is far more than the northern regime. This is a reflection of the real situation that since the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the population in the north had been migrating, especially the nobles and scholars who moved south in large numbers. In addition to Wu Zhou, Wu Xin, Wu Shao, Wu Mao and other members of the same family, there were also Wu Tong, the son-in-law of Xun Castor, the son-in-law of Xun Castor, Wuling Nei Shi Wu Zha, Qingzhou Assassin Wu Shen and other people with the surname of Wu in the court of the Western Jin Dynasty. Most of the descendants of these people later migrated to the south.
The social unrest and frequent wars in the north, and the relative stability of the south, led to a large number of people migrating to the south, including many people with the Wu surname. For example, during the Later Jin Dynasty, Wu Yao, the leader of the peasant revolt in Huaibei, rebelled against the brutal rule of the Later Jin Dynasty and contacted the Southern Tang Dynasty, leading a crowd of people who wanted to migrate south across the Huaihuai River. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, a large number of people from the north moved south, bringing advanced production technology and production tools, which played an important role in the development of the southern socio-economic. During this period, there were still people from the Taiyuan Wu Clan who appeared in the political arena, such as Wu Congjian, who served as a general of Yuzhou during the Later Tang Dynasty, and as an assassin of Puzhou during the Later Jin Dynasty, and who married Zhang's daughter for his son in Yuzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty and sent her back to her family home in Taiyuan to get married. After his son's death, Guo Wei (郭威), the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, was serving under Liu Zhiyuan (劉知遠), the governor of Taiyuan (太原节度使), and took Zhang as his step-mother. When Guo Wei became emperor, Zhang had already died and was posthumously named Noble Consort. Wuhan Qiu (武汉球), a native of Zezhou (present-day Jincheng, Shanxi Province), served as a soldier under the late Tang dynasty's Zelu provincial governor Li Sizhao, and then as a colonel of the Forbidden Army during the Later Tang dynasty, gradually rising to a high position. It is likely that this person was a member of this family. Wu Xingde, a native of Yuji, Taiyuan (now Yuji, Shanxi), not far from Wenshui, may also be from this family. In this period there are also civilians surnamed Wu also seen in the records, such as the later Han, Wei State Neihuang (now Henan Neihuang West), the wife of the people Wu Jin a fetus of three sons; Xuzhou marching Secretary Han Lun brutal and mean, heavy tax exploitation of the people, by the Xiangcheng (now Shenqiu, Henan), the people of the Wudu denunciation, the Zhou Shizong issued an imperial edict to remove all the official title.
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: The righteous beggar Wu Xun, begging to run the school. Wu Xun (1838 ~ 1896) Qing Dynasty civilian educator, now Guanxian Liulin Town Wuzhuang people. Because of the brother and sister in the seventh in line, so the name Wu Qi, the name of training is the Qing court rewarded him for begging to raise the school was given. Wu Xun 7 years old, lost his father, begging for a living, and could not study. 14 years old, many times away from home as a servant, and was repeatedly bullied, and even the employer because of his illiteracy to false accounts to deceive, lied that three years of wages have been spent. Wu Xun argued, but was framed as "blackmail", was severely beaten, so angry that foaming at the mouth, no food, no words, sick for 3 days. He suffered from illiteracy, and was determined to beg for schooling.
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