Gu / Ku · 新安堂
The Gu (古) surname is usually explained through several traditions: descendants connected with Gu Gong Danfu in the Zhou cultural memory, branches related to Gu Cheng and ancient place names, and the Tu-xi clan that adopted the Han surname Gu during the Northern Wei reforms. These are surname-culture clues; each family branch still needs genealogy, stele and local gazetteer verification.
Founder narratives often mention Gu Gong Danfu, Gu Cheng-related branches, and Northern Wei surname changes. In actual family trees, the more useful records are the founding ancestor, migration ancestor, first settlement village, clan hall and generation poem.
Xin'an Hall is the most common reference for Gu surname research; Guobao Hall is also seen in some branch traditions. Commandery labels such as Xin'an, Henei and Henan should be treated as cultural identifiers, not direct proof of the current branch's original village.
Recorded reference regions: 广东, 四川, 福建, 江西, 河南. These labels are search indexes rather than proof of a migration route; compare prefecture, county, village and historical place names with branch records.
Gu branches are especially worth checking in Guangdong, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangxi and Henan. Hakka and southwestern branches often preserve records of movement from the Central Plains to Fujian and Guangdong, then onward to Sichuan, Taiwan and overseas communities.
Overseas Gu branches can be searched with Gu, Ku, Koo, Khoo-related dialect spellings, ancestral county names, clan hall names, associations, cemetery inscriptions, school anniversary books and Chinese newspaper notices. Hakka and Minnan pronunciation may cause different Romanized spellings.
Reference generation words: 文、明、世、德、永、昌、宗、祖、承、先、启、后. Actual branch poems differ by county and lineage.
Generation names are branch-specific records. Compare the original genealogy preface, branch location, clan hall, founding ancestor and revision date before linking two lineages.
Priority materials include Gu clan genealogies, Xin'an Hall records, ancestral hall inscriptions, Hakka village records, Sichuan migration notes, overseas association rosters and cemetery inscriptions.
If your Gu branch has a clan hall, generation poem or ancestral village, record relatives first in ZongMai and then attach genealogy pages, photos, steles and oral-history evidence.
Start My Digital GenealogyFigures are sorted roughly by historical period. They are cultural references for surname research, not proof of direct ancestry.
用于古姓源流文化参考，不等于所有古姓支派直系祖先。
当代流行文化人物。
当代影视与公益人物。
Connect surname pages with Sichuan, Guangdong Hakka, Fujian overseas, Henan origin, Northeast migration and Southeast Asian overseas Chinese research clusters.
Huguang-to-Sichuan migration and Sichuan Hakka genealogy clues.
View TopicGuangdong HakkaClan halls, generation names and overseas Hakka roots.
View TopicFujian Overseas RootsFujian qiaoxiang, Southeast Asian migration and overseas lineage records.
View TopicHenan OriginsCentral Plains surname origins, commanderies and clan halls.
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