The origin and genealogy of the Yang family in Western Sichuan

The birthplace of the Yang surname is in present-day Shanxi. After Yang was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, his descendants developed and multiplied westward. First, they moved to Fengyi (today's Dali), Shaanxi Province, and then moved to Huozhou, Shanxi Province, and then multiplied and multiplied to the present day in Henan. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people surnamed Yang moved to the Jianghan area (today's Qianjiang area of ??Hubei Province). Later, as the power of the Chu State continued to strengthen, they were forced to move southeast to the current Jiangxi Province area; at the same time, there were also people who moved from Shanxi to the Jianghan area. The Yang surname is from Jiangsu and Anhui, so the Yang surname is spread in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, people surnamed Yang had already moved to Sichuan, and Shangshu Pushe Yang Xuan moved to Kuaiji, Zhejiang. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, in addition to the famous Hongnong Yang surname who lived in Huayin, Shaanxi Province, and the Di ethnic group Yang surnamed who lived in Qiuchi, Gansu Province, many people surnamed Yang moved to the south of the Yangtze River due to social unrest, and many people immigrated to the south of the Yangtze River. The ethnic minorities who dominated the Central Plains changed their surname to Yang, and Yang Huigu, the tenth grandson of Yang Zhen, Hongnong, served as the governor of Taiyuan County. His great-great-grandson was Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, a large number of Yang surnames from the Central Plains moved southward again. During this period, some people with the Yang surname moved to the Korean Peninsula. During the Song Dynasty, Yang Wudi and Yang Ye lived in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and Yang Gui moved to Bozhou, Guizhou. It can be seen that by the Song Dynasty, the Yang surname had been distributed in the vast area south of the Yangtze River, with Fujian as the center of their migration. After the end of the Yuan Dynasty, with the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang as the original places of overseas immigrants, people surnamed Yang began to immigrate overseas on a large scale, and their migration places were mainly concentrated in Southeast Asian countries. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yunchuan, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, crossed the sea with the army to North Borneo (now Heba State, Malaysia) and married the daughter of a local chief. The princess later threw herself into the sea and died because of Yang Yunchuan's death, which became a local legend. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Yang Aqiu, a native of coastal Fujian, went to India to do business and built a China Town. After modern times, others surnamed Yang went to Europe, America or Australia to settle. Today, the Yang surname is widely distributed in our country, especially in the provinces along the Yangtze River Basin. The distribution pattern of the Yang surname originally spread from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the foot of Huashan Mountain to the surrounding areas, and from the north to the south. Overseas, it spread as follows: Mainly Southeast Asia. At present, the population of Yang surname ranks sixth in the country.