The migration history of Yang family.

Yang's birthplace was in today's Shanxi Province, and was later destroyed by Jin. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period (770-22 1 year), some people surnamed Yang moved from Shanxi to Jiangsu and Anhui provinces and scattered in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Qin and Han dynasties, some moved to Hanoi and some moved to Fengyi (now Dali, Shaanxi). After Yang was destroyed by gold, it developed and spread westward. He first moved to Shaanxi, then moved to Huoxian county in the middle reaches of Fenshui River in Shanxi, and then spread to Henan.

By the Han Dynasty, the surname Yang had been widely distributed in most parts of northern China. Yang entered Sichuan at this time, mostly from Hubei and Shaanxi. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people surnamed Yang had moved to Jianghan (now Qianjiang, Hubei), and later, due to the growing influence of Chu, they were forced to move to Jiangxi in the southeast. At the same time, Yang people moved from Shanxi to Jiangsu and Anhui, scattered in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The Jin and Tang Dynasties was an important period for Yang to multiply north and south. Due to the Yongjia Rebellion in the late Western Jin Dynasty, the Anshi Rebellion in the period and the Jingkang Rebellion in the Song Dynasty, the society in the Central Plains was in turmoil, and many descendants of Yang moved south on a large scale to avoid the chaos, centering on Fujian. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, it gradually developed to Hebei, Shandong, Inner Mongolia, Anhui, Hunan, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi.

Since the Song Dynasty, the surname Yang has been widely circulated in the south of the Yangtze River. At the beginning of Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Gang, a big businessman, went south with Kang Wang and settled in Baisha, Baoshan, Henan. "He devoted himself to business, and businessmen were convinced of it and gathered into a city." At the end of the Song Dynasty, Yang Rong moved from Shangyu to Shanghai. Yang and Li paid separately to Fengxian coast. In the Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors of Yang Cheng, a native of Binzhou, Bohai, and Yang Daoheng, a scholar, moved to Qingpu from Hangzhou and Henan during Jiajing years. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Qiantang Liyang moved to Nanhui Xiasha; Famous poets Zhuji, Yang Weizhen, Huating and tianmashan.

In the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, people called it "Hongwu resigned". According to records, in Zhu Hongwu's "bloody Hunan" war at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Hunan aborigines suffered unprecedented catastrophe, especially in Changsha, Yueyang, Changde, Yiyang and Xiangtan. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the policy of "Jiangxi fills Huguang" in order to revive Hunan, so a large number of Yang clans in Jiangxi (including Zhejiang) moved to Huguang area.

In short, before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Yang's surname was not only concentrated in the three provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi, but also in Tianshui, Gansu, Hunan and Jiangxi until it spread all over the country.