The surname Lu came from Emperor Yan. The historical period is the Spring and Autumn Period.
Emperor Yan was born in Jiang Shui and his surname is Jiang. Sun Boyi, a descendant of Emperor Yan, was named Taiyue. When Yu Xia was in danger, he assisted Yu Qia Shui and was sealed in Lu, now Nanyang West, Henan Province. Boyi was the founding ancestor of Lu, the Marquis, and was given the surname Jiang again as a sacrifice of Emperor Yan.
Lu Guo went through Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Lu Hou entered the court as the Si Kou of Zhou Muwang. When he arrived in Zhou Xuanwang, he changed his name to Fu Guo. The branch of Lu surname has been called Dong Lu since Xincai, Henan Province. At the beginning of the Spring and Autumn Period, Donglu was destroyed by the Song State, and its land was later returned to Cai State, and Lu people moved eastward to the northeast of Tongshan, Jiangsu Province.
in 688 BC, the king of Chu destroyed Lu (Fu). After the demise of the two Lu countries, all the descendants took the country as their surname, and the surname of Jiang Lu had a history of more than 4, years at most. Lu Shang, a descendant of the Jiang surname Lu, also known as Jiang Ziya and Tai Gong Wang, assisted Zhou Wenwang in destroying the merchants, and was abandoned in the early Zhou Dynasty, which was an important vassal state in the eastern Zhou Dynasty.
the original meaning of surname
surname, the early surname is a racial number. The surname is not the title of an individual or a family, but the title of the whole clan. "People" probably refers to many clans at the earliest.
surnames have the function of "parting marriage". In clan society, people with the same surname are not married, which means that people within the same clan are not allowed to marry. Surnames have the function of "respecting love and loving each other". "Love and affection, love and affection" not only refers to the relationship between human beings, the closeness of thoughts and feelings, but also involves political rights and material interests.
In a clan society, members of the same clan enjoy all kinds of rights within the clan equally. In slave society, "people" refers to nobles, while slaves have no surnames. Even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, ordinary people still had no surnames.