Welcome to the Pu Family website.  Today is  and you are vistor #    to the site since it's inception on December 17, 2005.

Pu family is one of the oldest families in China.  Two to three thousand years ago, a tribe gathered at a place near a river named PU SHUI (濮水) in Shantung province.  This tribe then adopted the river's name as their surname - PU (濮).  Several hundred years later, this tribe moved to Wei-Hui, Honan province and adopted Wei-Hui as the origin of our family.

In the mid-12th century, during the Sung Dynasty, because of war our ancestors evacuated with the Sung government to south and settled down in Lishui, Chiangsu province.  Since then our ancestors registered Lishui as our family origin which we are still using today.

Like the majority of Chinese families, our ancestors made their living by farming, only a few who were well educated were appointed by emperors to be local officials to serve in different districts.  Almost all of them earned a good reputation.

Our family book started its record in 1856.  From that point on, a name pattern consisting of 16 Chinese characters (世守賢良思存方正敬承德蔭克振家聲) was set up for all generations to follow.  Each generation is assigned a character, in an endless continuing order, as part of each family member's name.  With this name pattern, each person could easily know which generation he (or she) belongs to and what relationship he (or she) is with other family members.

Sir Liang-Chou, also known as Chun-Tien, was the 4th generation from the time our family book was recorded.  He graduated from Nanking National Ho-Hai Engineering Institute in 1923, and married Madam Mei, Cheng-Hua, also known as Chu-Shan, in April, 1923.  They raised their family in such turbulent years through many different wars.  They retreated with the Nationalist Government to Szhchuan province during the Sino-Japanese War and to Taiwan in 1949 when the communists took over the mainland China.  Eventually, they immigrated with all their children's families, one after another, to the USA.

The main purpose of this web site is to serve the descendants of Sir Chun-Tien and Madam Chu-Shan, the first generation of Pu Family to move to the US.  It is anticipated that, by utilizing this site, our family members will be more closely connected as they multiply into future generations.