Xue / Xue
Xue, written 学 in simplified Chinese and 學 in traditional Chinese, is a comparatively rare Han Chinese surname classified under the entering tone. It is included in Zheng Tongzhi's Shizu Lue and first appears in Xing Yuan.
The surname is traced to descendants of ancient education officials. These officials administered education, and their descendants adopted the office as a surname; the title xuezheng was abbreviated to Xue.
In the early Western Zhou, the Duke of Zhou's son Bo Qin became Duke of Lu. One of Bo Qin's descendants was appointed as an education official, and later generations adopted the office as their surname, marking the rise of the Xue lineage.
The surname's traditional commanderies are Donglu and Dongwu. The Xue ancestral hall in Quanzhou, Fujian, is called Donglu Hall, with the couplet: “Bo Qin's branch carries the family's renown afar; Donglu's transmitted virtue endures through generations.”
After Chu conquered Lu, members of the Xue lineage migrated to regions across China and abroad.
The surname is found in Huainan in Anhui, Lulong in Hebei, Wujin in Jiangsu, Xintai in Shandong, Fenyang in Shanxi, Tainan, Hsinchu and Changhua in Taiwan, Baoshan in Yunnan, Beijing, and other places.
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