Yú / Yü
A record states that descendants of the Jin marquises in the Spring and Autumn period held a fief at Yu and later adopted Yu as their surname.
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Another tradition states that the ruler of Song was the right Yu in the Spring and Autumn period, held a fief at Yu, and that his descendants adopted Yu as their surname.
Yu is also recorded as a settlement of Wei in the Spring and Autumn period; its former site was at Lianyu Ju southeast of present-day Puyang, Henan, and another tradition derives the surname from this settlement.
The commandery prestige of the Yu surname is Taiyuan.
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