Suo surname
The lineage was inherited by King Zhou of Shang, with the ancestor being Wu Geng. The ancestors of the Suo family, who immigrated to the Hongdong Great Huai Tree in the Ming Dynasty, were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other counties. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to migrate to other places in the Hongdong Great Huai Tree. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Shanxi, and other places.
The record of the surname Suo was first seen in the "Qian Fu Lun" of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
There are two main sources of surnames:
① Originating from the six tribes of the Yin people, the surname is based on the clan name. According to the "Dialectical Analysis of Surnames in Ancient and Modern Times", "Qian Fu Lun", and "Zuo Zhuan", in the early Zhou Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou conferred the title of Yin Marquis on Wu Geng, the son of the recently destroyed King Zhou of Shang, in order to inherit the lineage of Yin Shang. After King Wu's death, Wu Geng took advantage of King Cheng's young age to collude with the "Three Supervisors" to rebel. After the rebellion was suppressed by Duke Zhou, King Cheng moved the remnants of Yin Shang to live in the Luoyi area and granted them to several vassal states with the same surname as subjects. Marquis Lu Bo Qin was divided into the "Six Families of Yin," namely the Tiao, Xu, and Xiao clans. Shi, Suo, Chang Shao, and Ou Shao. Among them, the Suo clan was a craftsman who made ropes, and this clan later took the clan name Suo as their surname.
② Originating from the surnames of ancient ethnic minorities. In ancient China, the Hu ethnic minority in northern China had the surname Suo. During the Tang Dynasty, the guerrilla general Suo Yuanli was a native of Hu.
The county titles of the surname Suo mainly include Wucheng County and Wuwei County. Wucheng Commandery: In the first year of Emperor Kaihuang of Sui Dynasty (581 AD), Dingyang Commandery was renamed Wucheng Commandery, with its capital located in Dingyang County (now Jixian County, Shanxi Province).
The main hall names of the surname Suo include Fuyuan Hall. Fuyuantang: Suoban of the Later Han Dynasty, the official director of the history. Emperor Yuan of Han sent him to lead his army to settle in Yiwu and pacify the Western Regions. He used both virtue and power, and even Che Shi and Shanshan Wang surrendered to the Han Dynasty.
The Tang couplets with the surname Suo mainly include: the Gaoqi tribe (Suo family); Namezhong Wulong (Suojing). Northern Place Name Xian (Solufang); Dunhuang Noble Clan (Suo Shuche).
The "Chinese Dictionary of Names" includes 14 examples of Sox's names, while the "Chinese Dictionary of Names for All Dynasties" includes 24 examples. The historical figure surnamed Suo in the Han Dynasty had Suo Ban, who was the governor's history; Jin had Minister Suo Jing and Former Qin Fubo General Suo Ling; Tang Dynasty cruel officials demanded the Yuan ceremony; In the Song Dynasty, there was Suoxiang, a native of Yanshan, who served as a transportation envoy to Hebei; In the Ming Dynasty, there was Suo Shao, a Lingbao person.
According to the seventh national census, there are 12958 people surnamed Suo in Shanxi Province, 619 people in Linfen City, and 49 people in Hongdong County.
The ancestral deity of the surname Suo is enshrined in the fifth altar of the Great Huai Tree Ancestral Worship Hall.
In the 24th year of the Guangxu reign of the Qing Dynasty, Suo Shouli revised the "Suo Clan Genealogy". The Suo clan in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, recorded a generation as follows: "The Yuan court was loyal to the state, and during the time of guarding Mao, he was Shang Xiufu."
Migration: The ancestors of the Suo family in Raoyang migrated from the Da Huai tree in Hongdong, Shanxi to Dajia Village, Raoyang County in the late Ming Dynasty; The ancestor of the Suo family in Baodi moved from Guangji Temple in Hongdong, Shanxi to Dakou Tun Village in Baodi County in the third year of the Ming Yongle reign. The ancestor of the Zhangqiu Suo family moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Suojia Village, Zhangqiu City, Shandong Province in the second year of the Ming Hongwu era.