Xie's life experience

There are two main sources of Xie surname: Ren surname and Jiang surname. Legend has it that Xie's surname has a history of at least 3500 years, and it was almost wiped out in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Xie, surnamed Jiang, has a history of 2,800 years. His ancestral home is Dongxi Village, Jinhua, Wancheng District, Nanyang City, Henan Province. Zun (surnamed Jiang) is the ancestor of Shen Bo (the last year of Western Zhou Dynasty).

Xie was first active in southern Henan. The Chu people destroyed Shen and moved the Xie clan to the upper reaches of Huaihe River. Since then, the Xie clan began the process of moving south. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xie clan moved to Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other places. During the Warring States period, it expanded to Sichuan and Guizhou and absorbed local ethnic minorities. During the Han and Jin Dynasties, Xie's family had spread to Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places.

From the Three Kingdoms to the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Xie family became one of the most famous families in the world. In the Tang Dynasty, Xie began to enter Fujian. In the Ming Dynasty, it entered Guangdong and developed into Taiwan Province Province, becoming the most popular name in Southeast China.

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Xie's family originated in Henan. After the application for World Heritage was destroyed by Chu, Chu moved a part of Xie's family to the middle and upper reaches of Huaihe River, and then moved a part to Jingshan Mountain in the southeast of Wudang Mountain in Hubei Province. After the death of Chu, Xie moved south to Xiaoshuiyu and south to Fuling, Chongqing.

During the Han and Wei Dynasties, Xie Yiwu made a fortune in Huiji Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and his descendants Xie Sunquan married his daughter, making his family a royal family. Xie Yuan in the Central Plains and his descendants are more important than Cao Wei.

During the Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, the descendant Xie crossed the river from north to south, represented by Chen Xia (now Taikang, Henan Province). Xie Heng, the ancestor of Dongshan Huiji School, moved to Huining in Huiji, his son Xie Kun moved to Zhang Yu (now Nanchang, Jiangxi), and Xie Bao, the younger brother of Xie Kun, moved to Yongji County as the magistrate.

This Xie surname was divided in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, represented by Xie An, Xie Shi, Xie Xuan and Xie Yan, and lived in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Wu, which made the Xie surname, which was originally divided into north and south, gain new exchanges. At the same time, another Xie moved to Kangle (now east of Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province), another Xie moved to Fengyi County, Shaanxi Province, and moved to Chengdu, Pengshui and Yongchang, Yunnan Province.

In Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Xie developed greatly on this basis. Among them, the descendants of Xie Yiwu and Xie Yuan further propagated and migrated in the southeast coast or the Central Plains. In Tang Xizong, a descendant of Xie Heng moved to Ningdu, Jiangxi. During the Song Dynasty, Xie Yiwu, who was in Huiji Mountain, moved to Changle, Shengxian and Shangyu in Fujian.

During the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Xie family in southern provinces developed much faster than that in the north, and many famous people and families were born. After Wen Tianxiang recovered Meizhou, Ningdu (the descendant of Xie Heng) in Jiangxi became the prefect of Meizhou, and his son Xie Tianyou settled in Fuxiang, Meizhou, and became the founder of Xie's family in Fujian and Guangdong.

Xie's arrival in Taiwan began in the late Ming Dynasty, and at the same time, some Xie clan members migrated to Luzon (Philippines) and other places in Southeast Asia. During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Xie family in Danshan, Nanhai, Guangdong moved to San Francisco, USA ... So far, Xie's people have spread all over the country.

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