Mu / Mu
The surname Mu is pronounced mù and is relatively uncommon today. It is found in Beijing, Songjiang in Shanghai, Qiubei in Yunnan, Nenjiang in Heilongjiang, Changli in Hebei, and Taiyuan, Xinzhou, and Yanbei in Shanxi; it occurs among the Han, Manchu, Hui, and Yi peoples.
The surname Mu is often said to have been simplified from Duanmu. Mu Chong, a Han-dynasty governor of Dongping, stated that his ancestors originally bore the surname Duanmu and shortened it to Mu to avoid an enemy.
Another explanation identifies Mu as the name of a river in Qingzhou and suggests that the surname arose from that place-name; it also associates the surname with the commandery of Hejian.
The recorded commandery seats of the Mu surname are Hejian and Dongping.
At the end of the Ming dynasty, some members of the Mu clan fled to Dacun in Hexi Town, Tonghai, which is described as a major source of the Mu surname in present-day Yunnan. Later, clan members moved to various places in Tonghai and expanded into Yuxi, Honghe, Dali, Qujing, Baoshan, Chuxiong, Zhaotong, and Kunming.
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