The Origin of Zhangye's Surname in Hepu District

Zhang Qu Township, Hepu County, Beihai City, Guangxi

Guangdong Ye followed Ye Dajing as his ancestor. According to the Origin of Ye Family in Meizhou, Ye Dajing is the eighty-fifth grandson of Ye, whose real name is Bochang, and he was born in Bianliang (now Kaifeng, Henan). In the second year of Song Dynasty (AD 1226), he was a scholar and served as an official for more than 20 years. Song Xianchun was promoted to Fujian. In the second year of Song Deyou (A.D. 1276), Yuan soldiers marched southward on a large scale, and wars continued, so they resigned and settled in Zengjing, Meizhou (now the west of Meicheng, Guangdong) and became the ancestor in Meizhou.

Since Ye Dajing settled in Meizhou, the Ye family in Meizhou has developed rapidly, becoming a large local family with prosperous descendants, and constantly migrating to other parts of the province and neighboring Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces, and even Sichuan. According to Ye's family, it originated in Meizhou, Liu Qing, Longchuan, Boluo, Heyuan, Changle, Guishan, Xingning, Longchuan, Pinghai, Pingyuan, Zhenping and Yong 'an, and Ye's descendants were in Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Ruijin, Du Yu, Huichang and Xingguo in Huguang.

Another branch of Guangdong Ye family comes from Fujian, which is the descendant of Ye Yi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty. Taishan Ye said that he lived in Nanhai Garden instead of Fujian, so he was the ancestor of Guangdong Ye. There is a "Qingjie Academy" on Yonghan North Road in Guangzhou (now Beijing North Road in Guangzhou), which was built by Ye Yi's descendants to commemorate Ye Yi. Its descendants are mainly distributed in Nanhai, Xinhui, Huaxian, Heshan, Panyu, Huiyang, Dongguan, Longgang, Lufeng and Haifeng.

Ye () has four surnames: 1, which comes from Mi surname. After Ye Gong, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, he took the city as his surname.

According to "Customs and Renyi", "Tongzhi Imperial Clan takes the city as the surname" and other materials, Shen Zhuliang, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, is also known as Ye Gong, who was originally named Shen Zhuliang in the idiom Long Hao, and was the son of Sajima Shen Yinxu of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. He is outstanding in talent. During the reign of King Hui of Chu, he was appointed as the chief executive of the northern city of Chu, so he was called because Yin Tong of Chu County was called Gong. Ye Gong built a water conservancy project in Ye Yi, which greatly improved the local living environment. People in Ye Yi were very happy to wear it. He put down Bai Gong's rebellion, held an important position and did not love power. He bravely retired to Ye Yi.

Later generations took Yi as their surname, Ye Zudi and Ye Zudi as their ancestors.

2, from the leaf hanging pot. Yediao is an ancient country name, and his hometown is in Java or Sumatra in Indonesia today. In the sixth year of the Eastern Han Dynasty, envoys were sent to China to establish friendly relations. Most immigrants from Ye Diao's country came to China with Ye as their surname, which is called bamboo silk.

3. It comes from the ancient surname of China.

Yang Ye and Ye Dafu in China's ancient surname can't be seen today. According to the rule that two-character surnames and three-character surnames were changed to single-character surnames, the surnames of Dr. Ye were later changed to Ye's surnames.

4. Ye surnames with other origins and ethnic minorities: According to the research of surnames, there are many Ye surnames in Rinan County (now Viet Nam), an ancient southern ethnic minority in China.

For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Ye Xiong, a native of the State of Wu, was a descendant of the southern minorities.

The Nala, Ye and Hai nationalities of Manchu, and the indigenous, Yi, Mongolian, Tujia, Xibo, Baoan, Hui and Miao nationalities in Taiwan Province Province all have Ye surnames.

Zu: Ye.

In ancient times, Lu Zhong, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, had six sons, and the youngest son was named Ji Lian.

The descendants of Ji Lian used to be Zhou Wenwang's teacher, who was hunted by Zhou Chengwang in Jingshan (present-day western Hubei). When the People's Republic of China was founded, it was Jing, with Danyang as its capital, then moved to Ying, and changed its name to Chu.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu, our great grandson, was Yin of Shenxian County (now Linquan County, Anhui Province) when King Chu Ping was king, and his successor was Shen Shi.

Sakima, the successor of Chu, was respected by Chu people for his integrity and hatred.

In the eighteenth year (498 BC), he died heroically in the war with Wu Jun, so the king named his son Yin. Inheriting his father's footsteps, pacifying the white rebellion, benefiting the king of Chu, and making great contributions to Chu. He was named Nanyang people and Ye Gong, and the world respected him as Ye Gong. Later generations took the city as their surname and were honored as the ancestor of Ye. Because of its large font, later generations used to call it Gaoye.

◆ Migration distribution

1. After Ye Gong's death, during the Warring States Period, the State of Qin destroyed Chu. In order to avoid the disaster of genocide, one or several of his descendants changed Shen to Ye and respected him as their ancestors, and moved to Hejian, Hebei, Yongzhou, Shaanxi and Xiapi, Jiangsu. This is why Ye County is Ye's ancestral home, but there are not many Ye people, and most Ye in Henan moved south to return home.

2. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, because all ethnic minorities had won the Central Plains, some descendants of Ye who migrated to Shaanxi and Hebei moved south and some returned to the Central Plains. At this time, the concept of famous families represented by leaves was formed in Nanyang. 3. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, leaves migrated most frequently. This time, due to many branches, the migration is uncertain. Some of them avoided the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty, and some of them went south to be officials in the Song Dynasty. One of them moved from Ye County, Henan Province to Gushi, Guangshan and other places, which had a great influence on the migration after Ye.

Ye Ang, Ye Ting, who moved to Fujian at the end of the Song Dynasty, became the ancestors of Ye surnames such as An Bing, Foling and Lianxi.

Ye, who lives in Xiapi, also moved to Shuozhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, a large number of celebrities named Ye emerged, and Ye became a famous surname in the south of the Yangtze River.

4. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the rise of western industrial civilization, people with lofty ideals in coastal areas went overseas to develop, including many famous people.

Many people crossed the sea to Taiwan Province Province in the Ming Dynasty, and even more people went to Taiwan Province Province to start businesses in the Qing Dynasty.

It can be said that there is not a Hakka named Ye in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong who does not develop in the sea. Ye, who lives in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, is his descendant.

Ye has a population of more than 200,000 in Taiwan Province, ranking 20th among the major surnames.

5. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Ye descendants from coastal areas, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan began to develop in Southeast Asian countries, especially in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and other places, and Ye sages and elites also appeared in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. Ah Loy Yap, who lives in Malaysia, has become a big family in Malaysia. At present, Ye has experienced thousands of years of reproduction, and has already traveled all over the world.

Especially in Fujian, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places with the largest population and densest distribution.

Overseas, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines are the most, and the Chinese surnamed Ye have spread all over the world. Ye's surname ranks forty-ninth among the hundred surnames in China today, with a large population, accounting for about 0.4 1% of the Han population in China.

Clan characteristics

1. There is only one branch of the Han nationality called Ye, and Zhuan Xu is its legendary ancestor.

2. Ye inherited the virtues of his ancestors and took Dunmu, Pinger, Yongsi and Chongben as the Tang names to admonish future generations.

Among these people called Ye, many celebrities are prime ministers, painters and writers.

3. The lines are regular and the rhyme is far-reaching.

For example, in Ye Chengzhong's Ye Family Tree, there is a word behavior of Zhejiang Ye surname: Wang Zu, Cheng Qi Zhicheng.

The genealogy of Ye contains the word Ye in Jiangsu: Shuo De Myanmar is a philosopher, Hong Mo is a distant branch, he opened the south, he preached Shao Xiqi, and filial piety is an ancestor.

The main Tang names of Ye surname are: Dunmu Hall, Dianyi Hall, Xugu Hall, Jimei Hall, Bairentang, Tianxu Hall, Yongsitang, Yu Xiang Hall, Tianzhitang, Qingzhitang, Jimei Hall, Chongben Hall, Shuangliu Hall, King Hall and Xuzhitang.