Hu ì surname

Inheriting Zhuanxu and King Wen of Zhou, the ancestors were Huilian and King Hui of Zhou. The ancestors of the Hui family, who migrated to Hongdong Dahuai Tree during the Ming Dynasty, were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other places. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to move to other places in Hongdong Dahuai Tree. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Shanxi, and other places.

The earliest record of the Hui surname can be found in the Tang Dynasty's "Yuanhe Surname Compilation".

There are two main sources of surnames:

① Originating from taking ancestral names as surnames. According to the "Study of Surnames", there were descendants of Hui Lian, the second son of Emperor Zhuanxu's great grandson Lu Zhong, who took his name Hui as their surname.

② Originating from the Ji surname. According to the "Genealogy of Ten Thousand Surnames" and the "Speeches and Actions of Mingxian Clans", in the early Spring and Autumn period, as soon as King Hui of Zhou ascended the throne, a rebellion broke out. Originally, during the lifetime of King Zhuang, the grandfather of King Hui of Zhou, he doted on a concubine named Yao Ji. Ji gave birth to a son named Zi Leng, who was highly favored by King Zhuang. After Ziliao grew up, he particularly liked cows and often fed hundreds of cows, eating grains and wearing embroidered brocade robes. He also gave the cows a beautiful name called Wenshou. Riding cows everywhere, trampling on crops along the way, without any hesitation. King Hui's father was still alive and could not be controlled. Now that King Hui has succeeded to the throne, his son is becoming increasingly arrogant and domineering, relying on himself as the uncle of King Hui. King Hui disliked him, so he revoked the fiefdoms of several of his trusted aides. So Ziliao rebelled with his confidants, and King Hui could not resist and fled to the state of Zheng. Zheng Li, the ruler of the state of Zheng, arranged appointments with other feudal lords in the name of King Qin and quelled the rebellion. Later, King Hui of Zhou was reinstated, but the authority of the royal family plummeted, leading to hundreds of years of wars during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. After the death of King Hui of Zhou, his son succeeded to the throne, and his collateral descendants took his posthumous title as their surname, which is the Hui surname

The counties with the surname Hui mainly include Fufeng County. Fufeng Commandery: In the first year of Emperor Wu of Han's Taichu reign (104 BC), the Right Fufeng was established as one of the "Three Assistants". During the Wei Dynasty of the Three Kingdoms, it was renamed Fufeng Commandery. To the west of Chang'an County in present-day Shaanxi Province.

The main hall name of the Hui surname is Jingyan Hall. Jing Yantang: In the Song Dynasty, Huichou, the Supervisor of the County of Changshu County, encouraged farmers to be diligent in farming, mobilized people to enter school, praised and rewarded good people, punished bad people, and managed the county well. He built a cabinet and the Prime Minister inscribed the words "Jingyan" on it as a tribute to him.

The main couplets of the Hui surname include: Meng Zhuang as a friend (Hui Shi); Classic and Historical Biography (Hui Shiqi). Name does not go straight (Hui Zhi); Action must follow the rules (Hui Ximeng).

[Celebrities] 10 cases of Wyeth were included in the Dictionary of Chinese Names, and 26 cases were included in the Dictionary of Chinese Names in Past Dynasties. During the Warring States period, there was a philosopher named Hui Shi who became friends with Zhuang Zhou; Jin had a high monk named Hui Li; In the Han Dynasty, there were Huizhuang and Chang'an Confucian scholars; During the Tang Dynasty, there were eminent monks named Huiri, Huili, and Huizhong; Dr. Hui Zhi, also known as Huichou, was born in Jiangyin during the Song Dynasty; During the Yuan Dynasty, there was Hui Ximeng, a native of Jiangyin, who wrote books; In the Ming Dynasty, there were Huimin, Mancheng people, and Jinshi during the Tianshun period; In the Qing Dynasty, there were scholars Hui Zhouti and Hui Dong, as well as Hui Shiqi, a literary figure from Wu County.

According to the seventh national census, there are 6617 people surnamed Hui in Shanxi Province, 680 in Linfen City, and 21 in Hongdong County.

The ancestral shrine of the Hui surname is enshrined in the No.1 altar of the Ancestral Hall on the Great Huai Tree.