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Migration and Distribution (Lack of information) The Mu surname is not among the top 100 surnames in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan. The Mu surname originated from the Xianbei ethnic group. Among the descendants of the Yellow Emperor, there was once a branch that went north and established the Xianbei Kingdom. Some of the noble families in the Xianbei Kingdom had the surname Murong. Later, it gradually simplified to the single - character surname Mu, which is the origin of the current Mu surname. In ancient times, most of the prominent families with the Mu surname were from Wuxing (the area from Lin'an in Zhejiang Province to Yixing in Jiangsu Province). With the development of society, the exchanges between the Murong - surname clan and the Central Plains became more and more frequent. It was also common to see people with the Mu surname living in the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River. The distribution information of the Mu surname is incomplete. In the areas of Pingliang and Qingyang in Longdong, there are numerous descendants of the Mu surname, about a thousand people, making it a prominent clan. Its descendants are spread across the whole country, even in Taiwan, as well as overseas in countries such as the United States and Singapore.