Duke Hu is honoured as the founding ancestor of the
Chen surname, which originated in the state of Chen. As of 2020, Chen is the 5th most common surname in China and 4th most common in the world, shared by 70 million people within the country and over 100 million people worldwide (in 2014, there were 54 million in China and 80 million worldwide). Duke Hu's descendants adopted his posthumous name Hu as their surname, and Duke Hu is considered the primogenitor of the
Hu clan, the 15th most common surname in China. Dozens of other surnames, including
Tian,
Yuan, and
Che, originated as branches of the Hu surname. The Chen clan would later found the
Chen dynasty of China and then the
Trần dynasty (陈朝), a golden age of
Vietnam. (Trần is the Vietnamese pronunciation of Chen). In 1400 AD,
Hồ Quý Ly overthrew the
Trần dynasty and established the
Hồ dynasty. Hồ is the
Vietnamese pronunciation for Hú (胡). He claimed to be a descendant of Duke Hu and Emperor Shun, and changed the name of Vietnam from
Đại Việt to Đại Ngu (大虞), or Great Ngu (Ngu is the Vietnamese pronunciation for Yú (虞), the legendary
pre-enthronement fief of
Emperor Shun). ==Tomb==