According to historical records such as Yuan He's Family Name Compilation and Ming Clan Draft, one of the descendants of the Yellow Emperor named Hou Ji was the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty. Abandoned child has a son named Tao. It is said that when he was born, the palm print on his hand was very similar to the word "Ju" in ancient China, so he named this son "Ju Tao".
Surname distribution
The ju surname ranks low among the hundred surnames, but the population is better than the ranking, with about 246,000 people, accounting for about 0.0 15% of the total population in China. Today, people of the Juzu are distributed in Liaoning, Jiangsu, Jilin, Guizhou, Henan, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Taiwan Province, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Chongqing, Anhui, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Yunnan.