1 There was a fight in the Xia Dynasty, which was once crusaded by the king. He is the ancestor of Qu.

2, named after the fief, out of surname, its ancestor was Mo Ao of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chu Wuwang's son Mo Ao was under Ling Yin. Seal defects in (now Zigui, Hubei), and regard it as a city where defects eat. Therefore, history is called bending defect, or mo concave defect. The descendants of Qu Xian took the fief as their surname, hence the name Qu. During the Warring States Period, Qu, Jing and Zhao became powerful families in Chu.

3. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Qu Nan's and Qu Tu's were changed to Qu's. Later generations also called Qu.