Qu / Qu
麴 is pronounced qū and is simplified to 麹 when used as a surname.
The compilation explicitly treats 麴 (qū) as a currently used but relatively rare surname within Chinese naming traditions. It describes it in one passage as a Han Chinese surname and elsewhere as a Tujia surname, so it should not be presumed to be exclusively Han.
According to this compilation's retelling of the Hanshu biography of Wang Jia, Yuanhe Xingzuan, and Zizhi Tongjian, the surname 麴 was said to have been adopted from 鞠: after Western Han official Ju Tan was implicated in a case, his son Ju Bi took refuge in Huangzhong, settled in Xiping, and changed the surname to 麴, becoming described as the first ancestor of the Xiping Qu lineage. This is a secondary compilation's account, not direct verification of the cited originals.
The compilation also cites Xing shi kao lüe quoting Lu Shi for the statement that descendants of Lu included a 麴 clan, and uses tentative wording to suggest a possible Ji-surname origin. This is conjectural and cannot be treated as a verified common ancestry.
The compilation explicitly lists Wuxing and Xiping as commandery associations and Huizheng Hall as the hall name. Its explanation connects the hall name with the benevolent administration of Tang-era Wangjiang magistrate Qu Xinling and reports accounts of answered rain prayers, a shrine built during his lifetime, and a poem by Bai Juyi; these are claims made by the compilation.
The compilation states that the surname was common in Liyang during the Song period, whose former seat was in present-day He County, Anhui. It also reports current distribution in Taiyuan, Datong, Yangquan, Changzhi, and the Lüliang area of Shanxi, as well as Lulong in Hebei, Wusheng and Zhongjiang in Sichuan, and Beijing. It provides no population count tied to a year.
麴演 lived during the Han dynasty.
The compilation separately records Qu Yi as a general under Yuan Shao in the late Eastern Han and Qu Yun as a late Western Jin official from Jincheng who took part in defending Chang'an. It does not state that the two belonged to a shared lineage.
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