Chinese surname · rank 257
鞠
鞠 is read as jū.
jū
Simplified and traditional 鞠
bow, bend; rear, raise, nourish
Earth
Time: Houji / Ju Tao mytho-historical tradition before 2070 BCE, with Western Zhou Lu Boqin layer, 1046-771 BCE
Place: Zhou ancestral Houji/Ju Tao tradition; Lu Boqin branch; Chu royal Mi-surname branch; later Shandong, Hunan, Gansu, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Ningxia, Hubei, and Hebei distribution contexts
Origin note
is presented as a layered surname. The main ancestor-name line is Ji-surname: Houji, son of Emperor Ku and ancestor of the Zhou lineage, had a grandson named Ju Tao, and descendants of Ju Tao used his name or style as a surname. A second line is also tied to the Zhou/Lu world: descendants of Lu Boqin are recorded with Ju, explained in 23mofang as a change or sound confusion from or related forms. A third line comes from the Mi-surname Chu royal clan, where some descendants also used Ju. These branches are kept separate because the sources describe multiple lineages rather than one universal ancestor.
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