前言

吴姓源远流长，历史悠久，是我国最古老的姓氏之一。初祖是中华民族的共同始祖黄帝。泰伯、仲雍兄弟是黄帝的26世孙。后来，泰伯、仲雍三让王位给幼弟季历，离开陕西歧山，披荆斩棘，来到当时还处于落后地区荆蛮——今天的江苏无锡梅村镇。他们入乡随俗，断发文身，跟当地百姓一起去捉鱼，教他们开荒种稻、桑麻，传授中原先进的农业技术，文化，得到当地数千户人民的拥戴，立为勾吴国。传到第四代，周武王（季历之孙）灭掉殷商，建立周朝，访寻泰伯、仲雍曾孙周章，正式封为吴国，从此吴姓子孙以国为姓，泰伯为吴姓始祖。泰伯品德高尚，春秋时代孔子盛赞：“泰伯其可谓至德也矣！”故吴姓堂号“至德堂”、“渤海堂”、“三让堂”。

The Wu surname has a long and distant source and an ancient history; it is one of the oldest surnames of our country. Its first ancestor is the Yellow Emperor, common ancestor of the Chinese people. The brothers Taibo and Zhongyong were the Yellow Emperor's twenty-sixth-generation descendants. Later, Taibo and Zhongyong thrice yielded the throne to their youngest brother Jili, left Mount Qi in Shaanxi and, cutting through thorns and brambles, came to the then backward land of the Jing barbarians, today's Meicun town in Wuxi, Jiangsu. They adopted local custom, cut their hair and tattooed their bodies, went fishing with the local people, taught them to clear land and plant rice, mulberry and hemp, and passed on the advanced farming techniques and culture of the Central Plains. Winning the support of several thousand local households, they established the state of Gou Wu. In the fourth generation, King Wu of Zhou (Jili's grandson) overthrew the Shang and founded the Zhou dynasty; he sought out Zhou Zhang, great-grandson of Taibo and Zhongyong, and formally enfeoffed him with the state of Wu. From then on the descendants took the state as their surname, and Taibo became the founding ancestor of the Wu. Taibo's virtue was lofty; in the Spring and Autumn period Confucius praised him: 'Taibo may indeed be said to have been of supreme virtue!' Hence the Wu hall names 'Hall of Supreme Virtue' (Zhide tang), 'Bohai Hall' and 'Hall of the Three Yieldings' (Sanrang tang).

泰伯开创的吴国，传至十八代寿梦，开始兴盛称王。他广揽人才，与中原各国通使交往，吸收中原先进文化。不久，成为兵强国富的大国。这时吴国又出现了另外一位让王——季札。寿梦有五子，以季札最贤德且多才多艺，从小受到父亲和兄弟的器重，寿梦死后，三个兄长都要将王位让给季札，季札三次辞谢不受。最后，离开首都无锡，躲到延陵农村去种田。孔子高度评价季札曰：“延陵季子，吴之知礼也。季札生于蛮夷，知礼识义，闻乐知政，究之观人情，深识国体，非学而知之，盖天性然也。”季札卒葬于延陵，孔子亲题其碑曰：“有吴延陵季子之墓”。从此，季札的吴氏一支又用延陵堂为堂号。门联喜用“延陵世泽，渤海家风”。

The state of Wu founded by Taibo passed to the eighteenth generation, Shoumeng, when it began to flourish and its ruler took the title of king. He gathered talent widely, exchanged envoys with the states of the Central Plains, and absorbed their advanced culture. Before long Wu became a great power, strong in arms and rich. At this time another yielding prince appeared in Wu: Jizha. Shoumeng had five sons, of whom Jizha was the most virtuous and accomplished, esteemed from childhood by his father and brothers. After Shoumeng's death his three elder brothers each wished to yield the throne to Jizha, and three times he declined. In the end he left the capital Wuxi and withdrew to the countryside at Yanling to farm. Confucius spoke highly of him: 'Jizi of Yanling is the one in Wu who knows the rites. Born among the barbarians, he knew ritual and righteousness, understood governance from hearing music, and grasped the nature of states by observing human feeling; this was not learned but innate.' When Jizha died he was buried at Yanling, and Confucius himself inscribed his stele: 'Tomb of Jizi of Yanling of Wu.' From then on Jizha's branch of the Wu also used Yanling as its hall name, and its door couplets favour 'the grace of Yanling through the generations, the family manner of Bohai'.

南宋丞相、民族英雄文天祥撰联高度评价泰伯、季札的高风亮节： 祥开梅里锦至德于齐留友让之家声不坠； 泽启延陵嗣高风于南粤忠孝之天性长存。

The Southern Song chancellor and national hero Wen Tianxiang composed a couplet in high praise of Taibo's and Jizha's noble integrity: Good fortune opened at Meili; supreme virtue left at Qi a family renown of friendship and yielding that never falls; Grace began at Yanling; a lofty spirit passed to the south a natural loyalty and filial piety that ever endure.

泰伯七十一世孙宣公字机蔡（公元874--950年），发扬泰伯的开拓精神，不顾自己是63岁高龄的老人，抛弃驸马爷的安乐窝，毅然率领全家人，从四川千里迢迢，跋山涉水来到江西南丰、临川开基创业。 后人有诗赞宣公： 不膺王爵孟家封，跋涉云山几万重； 来向江南为始祖，后人千古仰高风。 宣公一脉，今天是江西、四川、福建、广东、湖南、台湾、香港华南一带吴姓中最庞大的支派。

Xuan gong, styled Jicai, Taibo's seventy-first-generation descendant (AD 874-950), carried forward Taibo's pioneering spirit. Heedless that he was already an old man of 63, he abandoned the comfortable nest of an imperial son-in-law and resolutely led his whole family from Sichuan across a thousand miles of mountains and rivers to Nanfeng and Linchuan in Jiangxi, where he founded a new home. Later generations praised him in verse: He would not wear the royal title the Meng house conferred; he trekked through cloud and mountain, ten thousand folds deep; he came to Jiangnan and became our founding ancestor; for a thousand ages those after him look up to his lofty spirit. Today the line of Xuan gong is the largest branch of the Wu surname across Jiangxi, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and south China.

宣公9世孙英惠公，生于元末，少有侠义、富胆略，立志救民，响应明太祖朱元璋起义，积功封将军。洪武七年，奉命南征，屯兵顺德县，次年调长乐县，在该县下潭村定居。英惠公孙铭公于成化年间，再迁至黄龙乡青塘村。英惠公就是广东五华的开基祖。

Yinghui gong, Xuan gong's ninth-generation descendant, was born at the end of the Yuan. Chivalrous from youth, bold and resourceful, he resolved to save the people, answered the uprising of the Ming founder Zhu Yuanzhang, and through accumulated merit was made a general. In the seventh year of Hongwu he was ordered south, garrisoning Shunde County; the next year he was transferred to Changle County and settled at Xiatan village there. His grandson Ming gong moved again, in the Chenghua era, to Qingtang village in Huanglong township. Yinghui gong is thus the founding ancestor of the Wu in Wuhua, Guangdong.

英惠公曾孙瑚公，携子元光公、孙宗智公来到龙川县成田村开基立业。不久，瑚公年老，由元光公带回五华青塘。宗智公到成田至今四百余年，300余户，人口千余。

Yinghui gong's great-grandson Hu gong, with his son Yuanguang gong and grandson Zongzhi gong, came to Chengtian village in Longchuan County to found a new home. Before long Hu gong grew old and was taken back to Qingtang in Wuhua by Yuanguang gong. From Zongzhi gong's arrival at Chengtian to the present is more than four hundred years, with over 300 households and more than a thousand people.

富于开拓精神的吴姓后人，在数千年历史变迁中经历了无数的战乱、天灾和恶劣的地理环境等方面的考验，顽强地生存下来，他们的足迹已遍及全国各地，还有不少人走向我国邻邦如朝鲜、日本、越南、泰国、马来西亚、印尼、菲律宾，以及世界各地。他们为所在国家和地区的经济、文化进步作出巨大贡献，是举世瞩目的，全球各大城市都有至德堂宗亲会组织存在。吴姓是中国十大姓之一，据84年统计全国吴姓人口达到2500万以上。在海外华侨、华人中也是人数较多的一族。

Rich in pioneering spirit, the descendants of the Wu have survived countless wars, natural disasters and harsh environments through thousands of years of historical change. Their footprints cover the whole country, and many have gone to neighbouring lands such as Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and to every part of the world. Their contributions to the economic and cultural progress of the countries and regions where they live are recognised worldwide, and Zhide tang clan associations exist in every major city. Wu is one of China's ten great surnames; according to 1984 statistics the Wu population of the whole country exceeds 25 million, and among overseas Chinese it is also one of the more numerous clans.

盛世修史，自古皆然。为了适应社会发展，沟通海内外华人，增强民族内部凝聚力，以振兴中华，极需认真编修国史、地方志和各姓族谱，并把它作为爱国主义教材。为此1984年，国家教育部、档案局、文化部联合发出“关于协助编好《中国家谱综合目录》的通知”，这是非常切合时宜的举措，深得人心，全国各地都付诸行动。龙川县成田村吴姓支谱就是在这个号召鼓舞下的产物。

In a flourishing age histories are compiled; so it has always been. To keep pace with social development, to connect Chinese at home and abroad, and to strengthen national cohesion for the revival of China, it is essential to compile national histories, local gazetteers and the genealogies of every surname, and to use them as material for patriotic education. To this end, in 1984 the Ministry of Education, the Archives Bureau and the Ministry of Culture jointly issued the 'Notice on assisting the compilation of the Comprehensive Catalogue of Chinese Genealogies', a timely measure that won broad support and was acted upon throughout the country. The branch genealogy of the Wu of Chengtian village, Longchuan County, is a product of that call.

编纂《成田村吴姓支谱》，目的是使吴姓子孙知其根本，明其源流，敬祖睦族，承先启后，继往开来，继续弘扬中华民族的优良传统，否则数典忘祖，成为无根之本，无源之水。还望后世吴姓贤子贤孙，把支谱一代一代继续编下去，珍之，藏之。

The purpose of compiling the Branch Genealogy of the Wu Surname of Chengtian Village is that the descendants of the Wu may know their roots and understand their origins, honour their ancestors and live in harmony as a clan, carry on the past and open the future, and continue to uphold the fine traditions of the Chinese people; otherwise they would forget their ancestry and become a tree without roots, a stream without a source. It is hoped that worthy sons and grandsons of the Wu in later generations will continue to compile this branch genealogy generation after generation, treasuring and preserving it.

成田文角一世祖宗智公祠堂和新塘尼七世祖于鸾公祠堂，近几年先后修葺一新，现又将重修支谱敬献，上可告慰列祖列宗，下可传之后世，教育后代。

The ancestral hall of Zongzhi gong, first ancestor of Wenjiao in Chengtian, and the hall of Yuluan gong, seventh ancestor at Xintangni, have in recent years both been restored anew; now the branch genealogy is again revised and respectfully offered, so that above it may comfort the ancestors and below be handed to posterity to educate later generations.

祝愿吴姓子孙万世其昌！ 泰伯公、宣公开拓精神永垂不朽！

May the descendants of the Wu flourish for ten thousand generations! May the pioneering spirit of Taibo gong and Xuan gong endure forever!

泰伯公100世嫡孙吉周敬辑 一九九七年九月吉日

Respectfully compiled by Jizhou, hundredth-generation descendant of Taibo gong On an auspicious day of September 1997