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The Lu clan of Wu (吳郡陸氏) was a notable Chinese clan politically active from the Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE) to the Tang dynasty (618–907 CE). Their ancestral home was in Wu Commandery, which is around present-day Suzhou, Jiangsu. They traced their ancestry to Tian Tong (田通), the youngest son of Tian Bijiang, a ruler of the Qi state in the Warring States period. Tian Tong, who received Lu District (陸鄉) of Ban County (般縣; southwest of present-day Laoling, Shandong) as his estate, decided to adopt Lu (陸) as his family name. Tian Tong's descendants then moved to Wu Commandery, settled there and made it their ancestral home. During the Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period (220–280 CE), the Lu clan was one of the four most influential clans in Wu Commandery and the surrounding Jiangdong region.