What is the origin of Yan?

Textual research on the origin of Yan family

Yan surname is another branch of Yan surname. According to the surname spectrum, there are two surnames, Yan and Yan. According to "Five Tones with Same Rhyme", Yan is "the same, sharing".

Yanshi comes from Ji surname and is a descendant of Ji Chang. There are three sources:

1. According to legend, the son of Taibo (according to Records of the Historian, Taibo was the eldest son of Zhou and the uncle of Ji Chang) was sealed in Yan Township, and later people took Yan as their surname, so they changed their surname to Yan.

2. According to legend, when the youngest son (the fourth king of the Western Zhou Dynasty) was born, he had a word Yan on his hand, so he was sealed in Yancheng by the third king of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and his descendants were also named Yan.

3. Ji Fa's son Tang Shuyu founded the State of Jin. When Jin succeeded in becoming Qi Huangong, Jin succeeded in giving a place in Yan State to his son Yi. After the demise of the Jin Dynasty, some of his descendants took Yan as their surname, so they also took Yan as their surname.

According to legend, he is a descendant of the Yellow Emperor, and Hou Ji, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, inherited the surname of Ji and was honored as the ancestor by Zhou people. It spread to the father of the twelve grandchildren, and (now Qishan North, Shaanxi Province) moved from Yizhou (now Binxian County, Shaanxi Province) to the foot of Qishan and was renamed Zhou, so Gu's father was called King Tai, and Ji Chang was the grandson of King Tai. The lineage is as follows: Xuanyuan clan of Huangdi-Jintian clan of Shao Hao-Gao E-Gaoxin clan of Di Ku-Hou Ji (ancestor of Zhou Dynasty, Xibo)-Zuoju-Gong Liu-Qingjie-Royal Servant-Fu Cha-Ruiningkui (Ruiningyu).

Yan surname first developed in Shanxi, Hubei and other places. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yan began to enter Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Yan began to gradually expand to the south and developed to Jiangsu, Hunan and other places. After the Qing Dynasty, it began to enter Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Mu Yan, a descendant of Yan Zhang (a native of Xingyang, Henan), moved to Han An, Brazil (now Sichuan) to take refuge, while Sun Yanfu, another descendant, was named Pinglehou in Wei Wudi and returned to Xin 'an, Henan. Fu's son, Puren, was the magistrate (now in Guangxi and Guizhou provinces). Pusheng praised him as the general of Jinci and the satrap of Hanzhong. Zan Shengheng is the satrap of western Liaoning. Ding Hengsheng was the magistrate of Beiping and was appointed as. Later, later generations moved to Henan, Tianshui and Dunhuang. (I should belong to this branch)

It took GOOGLE a long time, and finally it didn't waste time. I didn't expect that after I became emperor, the Yellow Emperor and King Wen were my immediate blood relatives. And I happened to find that Ji and Wu came from the same ancestor and had a friendly relationship with Jiang (a descendant of Jiang Ziya). Next time you go back to your hometown, you should pay attention to whether there are any bottles handed down from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

"Yan" comes from:

Yan (Yan Yanyan) wrote the word "Yan" with Jin Duojian as his surname. There are five sources:

1, from the surname Ji, after Hou Ji, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, took the fief as his surname. According to the origin of the surname, it is said that the surname of the empress is a descendant, inheriting the surname of Ji, and the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty respect it as the ancestor. 12 Sun Gugong's father is also called Wang Tai. He has three sons: Taber, Zhong Yong and Li Ji. Zhong Yi, the great-grandson of Taibo, was appointed to Yanxiang (now Anyi, Shaanxi). The descendants took the fief Yan as their surname.

2, from the surname Ji, later, also named after the fief. According to the genealogy, Wang Jixia's youngest son has a word "Yan" on his palm. So King Kang made him in Yancheng (now northern Shaanxi Province), and his descendants took the fief as their surname.

3, from the surname Ji, later, also named after the fief. According to the genealogy, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of Duke Chenggong of Jin was easily sealed in the Yan State and later destroyed by the Jin State. Yi descendants scattered in Heluo, and lived in Xingyang at the end of Han Dynasty. Their son and grandson were named after fiefs.

4. Change the surname from other nationalities. For example, Muzzi of Ya Bu in Manchuria changed his surname to Yan, and Yalz of Daur changed his surname to Yan. Others, such as Mongolia and Hui, have this surname.

5. Today's Yan surname simply writes the word "Yan". There is also a saying that Yan is Yan. According to the surname spectrum, there are two surnames, Yan and Yan. According to "Five Tones with Same Rhyme", Yan is "the same, sharing". Because Yan and Yan are of the same ancestry, they are both descendants of the Yellow Emperor and the dragon, so Yan and Yan's family names are Taiyuan, and their aristocratic families lived in Taiyuan County in ancient times (it is said that Yan's aristocratic family lived in Tianshui). Because Yan's "vulgarity" entered Yan, there were two surnames, Yan and Yan, so among the hundreds of surnames, the two surnames coexisted.

Ancestor: Zhong Yi. Yan surname comes from Ji surname. At the end of Shang Dynasty, Gu Gong, the head of Zhou clan? Father (also known as King Tai) has three sons: Taber, Zhong Yong and Ji Li. Ji Li, the youngest son, was quite talented, and gave birth to a son, Ji Chang (that is, Zhou Wenwang), which was quite favored by the king of Qi, and said, "I am a prosperous person in the world, and I am prosperous indeed!" The eldest son's wife, Bo, and the second son, Zhong Yong, fled to Sanwu in order to realize their father's wishes. After the destruction of business, in addition to sealing in Wu, but also sealing Tai Taibo's great-grandson in Yan township. Up to now, descendants take the city as their surname and regard it as the ancestor of Yan.

Second, migration distribution.

Jin Chenggong's son, Yi, was sealed in the Yan State and later destroyed by the Jin State, so most of Yi's descendants were scattered in Heluo (that is, the Yellow River Luoshui). Combined with the above, we can at least determine that Yan's birthplace is in three places, namely Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other provinces. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a doctor named Yan Ao in Chu State, which shows that Yan had settled in Hubei at this time. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, Yan moved to Gansu, Hunan, Shandong, Hebei and other places. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, a minister ordered Yan Zhang to live in Xingyang, and his son Chang Yan's eldest son Yan Xian was named Hou of Changshe (now Henan). Later, Yan Xian participated in the change of the royal family and was punished. His son moved to Brazil (now Sichuan) to take refuge, which was the beginning of Yan's entry into Sichuan. Mu Yan has a grandson named Yan Fu, who was named Pinglehou by Wei Wudi and lives in Xin 'an, Henan. Yan Pu, the youngest son, became a county magistrate and magistrate (now Guangxi and Guizhou) because of the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty. There is a son named Zan who lives in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. Zan had a son named Heng, who was the prefect of western Liaoning. Heng's son, named, moved to Beijing because of his official career, and later died in the trap of Liu Cong. Yan Dingzi, Chang Yanren, fled to Mayi (now Shuozhou, Shanxi), and later his grandson Yan Man moved to Henan, from which the tribes of Tianshui and Dunhuang in Gansu were derived. Yan Man's grandson Yan Shan moved to Lesheng, Yunzhou (now Tuchengzi, northwest of Guhe County and Linger County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region) because he was an official in Yunzhong Town. Five years later, Yan was forced to move south on a large scale. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yan was more widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Yan developed into a big family in Taiyuan. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, barbarians invaded the south, which made the Yan State, which was originally scattered in the south of the Yangtze River, further spread to Central China, South China and Southwest China. In the Ming Dynasty, Yan family in Taiyuan, as one of the surnames of Sophora japonica immigrants in Hongdong, also moved to Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Beijing, Tianjin and other places. So far, Yan surnames are distributed all over the country, and some Yan surnames have emigrated overseas. Nowadays, Yan surname is widely distributed, especially in Henan, Shandong, Hebei and other provinces, accounting for about 57% of the surname population in Han Yan. Yan is the 50th surname in China today, with a large population, accounting for about 0.4% of the Han population in China.

The name of a hall

You Xiangtang: In the Tang Dynasty, Yan Liben was good at painters and worshiped the right prime minister. At that time, Jiang Ke was appointed as the left prime minister for meritorious military service. At that time, it was praised as "Xuanwei Desert on the left and Danqing on the right".

Riyuetang: The name of Yanshi Ancestral Hall in Pei County and Feng County, Jiangsu Province is "Riyuetang", which means that Yan and his descendants will regain their sight instead of helping the Qing Dynasty.

In addition, the main surnamed tang surnames of Yan are Tianshui Tang, Henan Tang and Danqing Tang.

Clan characteristics

1, there is no strict boundary between Yan surnames. Although Yan surnames are different, they all got their surnames because they were sealed in Xiang Yan, and some genealogies compiled by Yan surnames themselves can't correctly distinguish where they came from, which shows that the early history of Yan surnames can't be verified.

2. Yan's surname originated in the north of China, and spread mainly in the vast area in the north of China. It is a typical northern surname.

3. Yan's genealogy is numerous and detailed, especially with ancient books as evidence. The most detailed ancient book describing the origin of Yan's surname is the Book of the New Tang Dynasty Prime Minister's Genealogy Table, which has thousands of words, which is really rare for his surname.

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Yanshi ancestral hall general association.

The four-character couplet of Yanshi Ancestral Hall

Originated in the Zhou Dynasty;

Overlooking Taiyuan.

-Anonymous writing Yan (Yan) surname Ancestral Hall General Union

The origin and prospect of Yan (Yan)' s surname are listed in the All-China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (see the introduction of "First, the origin of surname" and "Fourth, the number of county wangtang" above). Yan surname, like Yan surname, originated from Ji surname. The great-grandson sealed by King Qi of Zhou lived in Yan (Yan) township, later called Yan's family.

Qingping tailor;

Politeness and civility.

-Anonymous writing Yan (Yan) surname Ancestral Hall General Union

The couplet refers to Yan Zhongyu, a native of Longzhou in Ming Dynasty, and a scholar in Chenghua. In the early years of Hongzhi, he prepared troops for the Qing Dynasty. When his term of office expired, thousands of soldiers and civilians stayed in tears. After the official Prince Taibao, Ministry of War history. Be honest and be good at identifying talents. In the second part, when the alliance said the Three Kingdoms, Yan Xian of Shu Han ordered Mianzhu to influence the people with virtue. Someone went to pick up the brocade lost by others at night and sent it to the county government after dawn. He said, "The brocade I got at night is a gift from God." The man said, "There is a virtuous magistrate like you in the county. If I don't hand in what I found, I will be ashamed. "

Kill it all over;

It will last forever.

-Anonymous writing Yan (Yan) surname Ancestral Hall General Union

Quanlian Hall refers to the hall of Yan Heng, a famous person in Jin Dynasty. The supreme commander (general) of the Jin Empire was arrogant and extravagant when he was stationed in Mengcheng (now Shangqiu City, Henan Province), and he was cruel and unreasonable. Yan Heng, the former county magistrate of Liaoxi County (lulong county, Hebei Province), repeatedly suggested that Gou xi kill him. Yu Ming (Ming, surname), the chief of staff (engaged in middle rank), was ill at home and immediately went to meet him in a sedan chair. Xi was furious and said, "I killed Yan Heng. What does it have to do with others? You called in sick to scold me! " Yu Ming said, "Your Excellency treated me with courtesy, so I repay you wholeheartedly. Now, you are so angry with me, compared with your anger from far and near, what is it? As the son of heaven, he died of pride and cruelty, not to mention being a minister. I hope you calm down for a while and think about my words. " Ignore it. So people's grievances dispersed, plus famine and plague. As it happens, Xerox, the general of Emperor Dongzhen of the Han Dynasty, captured Yang Xia (Taikang County, Henan Province) and attacked Mengcheng (Shangqiu City, Henan Province), but captured Wang Gou and Sima Duan alive. Later generations praised Yan Heng for his integrity.

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Five-character couplet of Yanshi Ancestral Hall

Fu went all out;

Persuasion service comforts the people.

-Anonymous writing Yan (Yan) surname Ancestral Hall General Union

The first couplet refers to the Northern Zhou Dynasty, where Yan Qingshan caressed the foot soldiers and won every battle. The second couplet refers to Yan Jingceng's seclusion in Liangzhou, and the state animal husbandry built a fishing platform, and the people were miserable. He knocked at the door once at night and stopped it.

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Six-character couplet of Yanshi Ancestral Hall