Posthumous title is Hu. In the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Hu Gongman, a descendant of Shun Di, was sealed in the State of Chen, and was destroyed by the State of Chu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Later generations took Hu as their surname. According to historical records such as Yuan He's Compilation, the origin of Hu's surname can be traced back to the descendants of Yu Shun, an ancient sage.

In this way, the ancestor of Hu's surname should be Hu Gongman, who was named Chen's land more than three thousand years ago. Hu Gongman is the 33rd generation grandson of Zhou Wuwang's son-in-law Yu Shun, and he was named Chen Hou. It can be seen that the ancestors of Hu family in China are the orthodox descendants of Yu Shun and the descendants of the Yellow Emperor.

The migration of Hu surname:

There are two main sources of Hu surname: one is Huaiyang, Henan, and the other is Fuyang, Anhui. Hu takes the original point as the center and extends around. After several generations of reproduction, it reached Xincai in the south and Shanxi in the north, becoming the Hu family at that time.

During the Han Dynasty, he traveled to Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei and other places. Among them, the family that moved to Gansu became a prominent family in the later Han Dynasty, and later became the main source of Hu's reproduction in various places.

During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, Hu lived in Chen. Later, due to the "Yongjia Rebellion", the gentry of the Central Plains moved southward on a large scale and joined the other seven surnames in Fujian, becoming one of the "Eight Surnames in Fujian".