Gu origin

Gu stems from dynasty Gu Guo surname.

Gu is a name with a long history, one of the earliest formed in late summer, early, written by gu (now in henan he finds);From a formed in the early western han dynasty, records (now jiangsu suzhou).

Annals, according to sung people characteristics "clan" the cloud: "the guggenheim, last name, Sir, the governors of xia, shang, this PuZhou he finds in the southeast of 28 so attend to city, is the land, for the surname.Again, guggenheim spectrum cloud: king goujian seven generations Sun Min jun shake, han east ou, shake don't named his son gu yu hou, in the early han will take, also the guggenheim ".

According to historical records, the xia dynasty, and of the sons of kunduz my surname by sealing in vassal states Gu Guo (now he finds, henan), and near the name of Queensland country and peng wai kwok, is the important pillar of xia dynasty in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and east of the barrier.In late summer, early, Gu Guo destroyed by the Thomson, after the national subjugation Gu Guo royal descendants, scattered all over the country, to name for the surname, since China began to gu.

And the other a gu from the children of remote.Early years of the han dynasty, king goujian of sun, due to assist leud qin, blocked Yu Dongyi (now zhejiang always fine), then shake and seal their son in the collection, said gu yu hou.Then the children of gu yu hou, with its fief of the title of "gu" is the last name, so as to form a from residents.

The two gu, a originated in the north, the other originated in the south, the posterity is called "south" and "north".Since gu when people talk about its origin, there is still a "south", "the north face".

Guggenheim, after the surname, "north" development as "south", soon became a will take the area south of the most popular, with land, builting, zhang SAN will collectively known as records of four surnamed zhu.Because gu main origin and grew up in a collection, so will take also became one of the most famous county hope of gu.Later, the gu moved the people in the west wuling (now hunan changde), and rapid development, so the wuling also became gu county looked again and again and again.In The Three Kingdoms to the tang dynasty, gu has been one of the four most popular jiangdong;Tang later, due to various reasons, guggenheim constantly to move out to around the north and the south.To the Ming dynasty, not only the distribution in shandong, anhui, hubei, hunan, fujian, guangdong, sichuan and other places, and in the north of shaanxi, shanxi, hebei, Inner Mongolia and other places also have gu people.

But, throughout guggenheim family history, historically, its development reproduction center has been in jiangsu and zhejiang area, therefore, gu historical celebrities from most of the south, especially in jiangsu province.For example: when The Three Kingdoms wu prime minister muldrow, when western support shay smart grandson of jiangnan cremation of leader, muldrow Gu Rong;Eastern jin painter ku;The text in the southern dynasty xian experts Gu Yewang;The yuan dynasty painter gouin, writer xie;Selected works of the Ming dynasty hall of martial valor university Gu Dingchen, official department department Gu Xiancheng card shark;At Ming and qing thinker and scholar gu yanwu;Historical geographers book-compilation gu zuyu had;Gu Zhenguan qing dynasty poets and scholars Gu Dong is high, the house of textualism Gu Guangqi etc., are now in jiangsu province.The tang dynasty poet Gu Kuang for today zhejiang people, in the five dynasties south down artist gu macro for jiangnan person;The late Ming dynasty peasant army generals Gu Junen of hubei.

In ancient names of people, the most commendable is gu kaizhi occupies an important position in the history of Chinese painting, and thinker in the qing dynasty gu yanwu.Gu kaizhi, eastern jin ren tong YiXi years ride often stay straight away, versatile, poetry, calligraphy, fine paintings, have "just unique, painting, and delusion absolutely".The painting is mainly portraits and gods, the Buddha, animals, landscape, etc.Later generations is reviewing its painting "meaning put pen first, painting with in".The author of "on painting", "wei - flow drawing praise", etc., has a great influence on the development of Chinese painting.Between Ming dynasty and early qing gu yanwu, a person, he is knowledgeable, standard system in the country, county towns and their stories, astronomical instrument, cao river, farmers and the history of hundred, phonological xian, etc., are studied.Later in life by focusing on the textual research, open atmosphere in late qing dynasty, the later the textology set wu, anhui has influence;In terms of phonology, the continuity of the work.Author of "the daily record, the five books of sound science, etc., is one of the most respected scholars in the history of our country.

In, in the modern history of gu's contribution to the society are various, for example: modern historian gu jiegang, once editor "atlas of Chinese history, presided over by punctuation History As A Mirror and twenty-four, etc.Have Gu Ji in science and technology, as the example ShuiLiKe deputy editor, participated in the "China encyclopedia" reviewing;Gu Zhenchao, first, the director of the institute of atmospheric physics, has made a contribution to the development of China's meteorological forecast cause.The art world famous Shanghai opera actor Gu Yuezhen;Pianist from el nino, has repeatedly in the international music competition awards, known as "natural Chopin performers, the real piano poet".