Xu / Xu
The surname has two recorded origins: one traces it to Xuya, one of Yu Shun's seven worthy friends; the other traces it to Hu Ju, a minister of Jin in the Spring and Autumn period, who was enfeoffed at Xu and became known as Xu Jianbo, after which Xu was adopted as the surname.
The surname is recorded in the Clan Records sections of the Zheng Tongzhi, Xu Tongzhi, and Qing Tongzhi. Zheng Qiao's notes include both the Ji-surname Hu lineage and the descendants of Xu, one of Shun's seven friends.
The surname is broadly distributed but not numerous, occurring in Beijing; Wuqing in Tianjin; Qingyuan in Liaoning; Yutai, Dongping, and Pingyi in Shandong; Fuping and Jingxian in Hebei; Taiyuan in Shanxi; and Hancheng in Shaanxi.
Xu Xian lived from the Western Jin period into the Sixteen Kingdoms period. His courtesy name was Xiaozong, he was from Shangdang, studied under Du Yu, specialized in the Spring and Autumn and Zheng's Changes, and was also versed in penal law.
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