Chu / Chu
Two main origins are given: one descends from the Spring and Autumn-period Chushi officials and took an official title as its surname; the other arose from residents of the ancient place called Chu and took the place name as their surname. Both are traced to Henan.
The Zuo Zhuan records Chushi Pavilion south of Luoyang, while the Hou Han Shu's Treatise on Commanderies and States records Chushi Canal in Luoyang; both are cited in support of the ancient Chu place-name origin.
The Chu surname's commandery prestige is Henan Commandery, established under Emperor Gaozu of Han and located around present-day Luoyang in Henan.
The Chu surname is outside the hundred most common surnames in mainland China and Taiwan; its place of origin is identified as Henan.
Chu Shaosun was a Western Han classicist and historian who supplemented the Records of the Grand Historian; Chu Suiliang was an early Tang calligrapher and statesman; Chu Tingzhang was a Qing jinshi who reached the post of Academician Reader-in-Waiting.
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