The origin of the surname Hepu Qu Zhangye

Quzhang Township, Hepu County, Beihai City, Guangxi

The Ye family in Guangdong followed the Ye Dajing as the ancestor. "The Origin and Lineage of the Ye Family in Meizhou" records that Ye Dajing was the 85th grandson of Ye Zhuliang, with the courtesy name Bochang and the name Fengchuan. He was a native of Bianliang (now Kaifeng, Henan) and became a Jinshi in the second year of Baoqing of the Song Dynasty (AD 1226). , served as an official for more than 20 years, and was promoted to Fujian envoy during the Xianchun period of Song Dynasty. In the second year of Song Deyou's reign (AD 1276), Yuan soldiers went south in large numbers, and the war continued. He resigned from his official position and settled in Zengjing, Meizhou (now the west district of Meicheng, Guangdong), and became the first ancestor of the Ye family in Meizhou.

Since Ye Dajing settled in Meizhou, the Ye family in Meizhou has developed rapidly and become a local powerful family with prosperous descendants. Migration from Sichuan. "The Theory of the Origin and Lineage of the Ye Family in Meizhou" states that Qingliu, Longchuan, Boluo, Heyuan, Changle, Guishan, Xingning, Longchuan, Pinghai, Pingyuan, Zhenping, Yong'an and other places at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, as well as Jiangxi The descendants of the Ye family in Ruijin, Yudu, Huichang, Xingguo, Hubei, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Huguang and other places are all "from the same lineage."

Another branch of the Ye family in Guangdong comes from Fujian and is a descendant of Ye Yi, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty. The Taishan Ye family said that Ye Yi lived in Dayu in Nanhai and did not return to Fujian, so he was the ancestor of the Ye family in Guangdong. There was once the "Qingjie Academy" on Yonghan North Road in Guangzhou (today's Beijing North Road in Guangzhou), which was built by Ye Yi's descendants in memory of Ye Yi. Their descendants are mainly distributed in Nanhai, Xinhui, Huaxian, Heshan, Panyu, Huiyang, Dongguan, Longgang, Lufeng, Haifeng and other places.

The surname Ye (Yèye) has four origins: 1. It comes from the surname Mi. After Zhuanxu's descendant Ye Gong, he took the surname of Fenyi as his surname.

According to "Customs and Customs" and "Tongzhi Clan Briefly Taking Yi as the Clan" and other materials, Zhuanxu's descendant Shen Zhuliang was also called Ye Gong. Ye Gong is the Ye Gong in the idiom Ye Gong Haolong. , whose original name was Shen Zhuliang and whose courtesy name was Zigao, was the son of Shen Yinxu, the left Sima of Chu State in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was an outstanding talent. During the period of King Hui of Chu, he was appointed as the chief executive of Yeyi, an important town in the north of Chu State. Because Yin Tong of Chu County was called the public, so Called Ye Gong. Ye Gong built water conservancy projects in Ye Yi, which greatly improved the local living environment, and everyone in the city appreciated it. He put down the Bai Gong rebellion, held important positions but did not care about power. He bravely retired and retired to Yeyi until his old age.

His descendants took Yi as their surname, Yeyi became the ancestral place of the Ye family, and Ye Gong became the ancestor of the Ye family.

2. From Ye Tiaoguo. Ye Tiao is the name of an ancient country. Its hometown is Java Island or Sumatra Island in today's Indonesia. In the sixth year of Yongjian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, an envoy was sent to China to establish friendly relations. Most of the immigrants who came to China from Ye Diao country took Ye as their surname and passed on the name Zhubo.

3. Comes from ancient Chinese surnames.

Ye Yang and Ye Dafu among the ancient Chinese surnames are no longer seen today. Following the rule of converting two-character and three-character surnames into single-character surnames, Ye Yang and Ye Dafu were later changed to Ye.

4. People from other origins and ethnic minorities have the surname Ye: According to "A Survey of Surnames", there were some people with the surname Ye in Rinan County, a minority ethnic group in southern China in ancient my country (in today's Vietnam).

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

Manchu Nala clan, Yehele clan, De'ang Hai clan, Taiwanese aborigines, Yi, Mongolian, Tujia, Xibo, Baoan, Hui, Miao and other ethnic groups all have the surname Ye.

The ancestor who got the surname: Ye Yegao.

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

The descendants of Ji Lian once served as the teachers of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty, and were granted the title of King Zhou Cheng in the area of ??Jingshan Mountain (today’s western Hubei Province). The country's name is Chu.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu, the great-grandson of King Zhuang of Chu, served as Yin of Shen County (now Linquan County, Anhui Province) during the reign of King Ping of Chu, and his descendants took Shen as their surname.

After Xu, he served as Zuo Sima of Chu State. He was an upright man and hated evil as much as enemies. He was deeply respected by the people of Chu.

In the eighteenth year of King Chu Zhao (498 BC), he died heroically in a battle with the Wu army. King Chu Zhao then named his son Shen Zhuliang as Yin in Ye. Shen Zhuliang inherited his father's ambition and once put down the rebellion of Bai Gongsheng to restore King Hui. He made great contributions to the state of Chu. He was granted the title of Nanyang and was given the title of Duke. The world respected him as Ye Gong.

So the descendants took Yi as their surname, and Shen Zhuliang was revered as the ancestor of the surname Ye. Because of his high surname, descendants also used to call him Ye Yegao.

◆Migration Distribution

1. After the death of Ye Gong, during the Warring States Period, when the Qin State destroyed Chu, in order to avoid the disaster of annihilation, one or several of his descendants changed their Shen was Ye, and he respected Shen Zhuliang as his ancestor. He moved to Hejian, Hebei, Yongzhou, Shaanxi, and Xiapi, Jiangsu. This is why although Ye County is the ancestral homeland of the Ye surname, there are not many people with the Ye surname. Most of the Ye surnames in Henan are those who later moved south and returned to their hometown.

2. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, as various ethnic minorities aspired to dominate the Central Plains, some of the descendants of the Ye family who migrated to Shaanxi and Hebei migrated south, and some returned to the Central Plains. At this time, a prominent family represented by the Ye family of Nanyang was formed. concept. 3. The Tang and Song Dynasties were the most frequent periods of migration for the surname Ye. This time, due to the large number of branches, migrations were irregular. Some were escaping the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and some were officials in the Song Dynasty and traveled south with the Song family. Among them, those from Ye County, Henan The branch that moved to Gushi and Guangshan had a great influence on the subsequent migration of the Ye family.

Ye Ang, Ye Zhu and Ye Ting, who moved to Fujian in the late Song Dynasty, became the ancestors of the Ye surnames in Anbing, Fuling and Lianxi.

People surnamed Ye, who had lived in Xiapi for generations, also moved to Kuozhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang in large numbers at this time. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people named Ye emerged in large numbers, and the surname Ye became a famous surname in Jiangnan.

4. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the rise of Western industrial civilization, people with lofty ideals in the coastal areas went overseas to develop one after another, including those named Ye.

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

It can be said that there is no branch of the Hakkas surnamed Ye in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong that has not gone overseas to develop. The Ye family currently living in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are all their descendants.

There are more than 200,000 people with the surname Ye in Taiwan, ranking 20th among all major surnames.

5. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the descendants of the Ye family from the coastal areas, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan began to spread to Southeast Asian countries, especially Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and other countries. The sages and elites named Ye appeared. Yap Ah Lai, who lived in Malaysia, and his descendants became a prominent clan in the Malay Archipelago. At present, the surname Ye has experienced thousands of years of reproduction and has traveled all over the world.

In particular, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places have the largest number of people and the most dense distribution.

Overseas, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines still have the most people. Chinese people with the surname Ye have spread to many places around the world. The surname Ye ranks 49th among the 100 most common surnames in China today. It has a large population, accounting for approximately 0.41% of the country's Han population.

Clan Characteristics

1. There is only one branch of the Han nationality with the surname Ye, and Zhuanxu is its legendary ancestor.

2. The surname Ye inherited the virtues of his ancestors, taking the titles of "Dunhu, Bairen, Yongsi, and Chongben" as his hall names to instruct his descendants.

There are many celebrities including prime ministers, painters and writers among the Ye clan.

3. The lines of characters are well arranged by generation and the characters have profound rhyme.

For example, the "Ye Family Genealogy" compiled by Ye Chengzhong contains a line with the surname Ye from Zhejiang: the prosperous lineage lasted for thousands of years, and the successors succeeded.

The "Ye Family Tree" compiled by Ye Qiuting contains one character of the surname Ye from Jiangsu: the sages of great virtue and Burma, Hongmo sent far-reaching branches, Zhenxiang opened the southern country, passed down the righteousness to Xiqi, and filial piety. Rope his ancestors.

The main hall names of Ye surname are: Dunmu Hall, Dianyi Hall, Xugu Hall, Jimei Hall, Bairen Hall, Tianxu Hall, Yongsi Hall, Xiangyu Hall, Tianzhi Hall, Qingzhi Hall, Jimei Hall, Chongben Hall, Shuangliu Hall, Guowang Hall, Xuzhi Hall, etc.