The Situ (司徒) Surname: From a Zhou Court Office to the Wuyi Diaspora
A Name That Was Once an Office
The Situ (司徒, Sītú) surname is one of the few office-derived compound surnames (官职姓, guānzhíxìng) to survive from Chinese antiquity — it began as the Zhou-dynasty office of Minister of Lands and Education (地官大司徒, dìguān…
Plan Your Roots Trip: A First-Timer’s Guide to Taishan and Kaiping Villages
You’ve done the research. You know the village name. You’ve looked at the maps, traced the migration routes, maybe even found your great-grandfather’s immigration file.
Now comes the moment you’ve been waiting for — going home.
Planning a roots trip to China is…