There are four qiusheng origin:

1, to the hill is also high.Shuo wen tong xun calm voice, lead the eastern han dynasty YingShao han. Chu yuan wang note cloud: the high, name is also.Later generations to speak (cs17) from the Confucius (hill), add the mound city near to the high words.

2, to as's, according to the custom tong yi ", the zhou dynasty little by sealing in qi, celebrates its camp hill (in county of shandong province today), followed by a QiuShi.

3, according to the were. Wu huan biography, when the eastern han dynasty, wu huan tribes have QiuShi donghu people don't.

4, for the northern and southern dynasties when the compound surname of xianbei ethnic minority group.According to "wei book. Officer's ambition", carried by the northern wei dynasty emperor wen offered seven points, brother bean's analysis as a condition for QiuDuiShi, wei emperor xiaowen QiuShi instead.