Exploring the origin of Yang surname

There are two centralized theories about the origin of Yang's surname, mainly from the royal family in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and also from Ji's surname, but it is generally accepted that it is based on the country name and city name.

1, Zhou Xuanwang's youngest son, Fu Shang, was sealed in Yang Di (now southeast of Hongtong County, Shaanxi Province) and established a small country called Yang Guo, whose Fu Shang is called Yanghou. Yang Guo was later annexed by the State of Jin. Later, the descendants of Yang took the country as their surname and became the earliest Yang surname.

2, from the state of Jin (after Tang Shuyu, Benji). After the Emperor Wu of Jin annexed Yang Guo, he gave it to his second son, Boqiao, as a fief, followed by a sheep's tongue (word uncle Xiang), which was a teacher. Sheep tongue also comes from Ji surname. Is the son of, eat me, take the city as the surname, call me, also known as Yang.

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Overseas distribution

In southern China, especially in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces, people surnamed Yang migrated overseas after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, especially after Zheng He's voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty. Mainly to avoid natural and man-made disasters and make a living overseas. The main areas of immigrants are Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other countries in Southeast Asia today.

From the Opium War to the beginning of the 20th century, the main areas where Yang people moved were facing the West, Europe and America, or seeking political asylum, or pursuing western science and technology, or seeking revolutionary truth, which was the second important period for Yang people to cross the ocean.

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