wǔ 武

Migration and Distribution The earliest place of origin of the Wu surname should be present-day Huaxian County, Henan Province. Subsequently, it continued to multiply there and quickly migrated to neighboring provinces such as Shandong and Jiangsu. By the Han Dynasty, the Wu clan in Shandong had always been a prosperous and prominent family. The Wu people from this area later multiplied in large numbers in present-day Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, etc. During the Wei, Jin, and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Wu surname migrated south in large numbers and became a prominent family in Jiangsu. Among them, a branch of the Wu clan in the north moved to present-day Shanxi. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a Wu Zetian, which made the Wu surname reach an extremely prosperous period and spread throughout the country.