Qu / Qu
The Qu surname may have originated from place names such as Quwo, Qufu, and Quzhou. Some Qu families in Jiaodong were originally from the Ju surname and later developed into the Qu surname through the form Qu or Qu with the grain radical; some others originated from surname changes among ethnic minorities.
The Qu surname was found among people from Dangqu during the Shu-Han period of the Three Kingdoms, among the Xi and Khitan peoples of the northwest during the Tang dynasty, among indigenous people in Gansu during the Song dynasty, and among Manchus in the early Qing dynasty who had lived for generations in Liaoyang.
Today, people with the Qu surname are mainly distributed in Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. Shandong accounts for 47.8%, Liaoning 14.0%, Jilin 8.5%, and Heilongjiang 7.4%.
The Qu surname is characteristic of the Jiaodong region. Historically, the Donglai Ju lineage was the most famous among the Ju lineages of Jiaodong.
In the Tang dynasty, Qu Huan became Military Governor of Chenyu and was granted the title Prince of Jinchang. In the Song dynasty, Qu Duan and Qu Zhen became Defense Commissioners of Kangzhou and Zhongzhou respectively. In the Ming dynasty, notable figures included Qu Lian and Qu Rui.
The Qu surname has 66 families in the 23Mofang family database, distributed across eight provinces. Shandong has 18 Qu families, Shanxi has five, and Henan has four.
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