The surname Xian (Xiǎn wash) has a simple origin. It comes from one source:
It comes from the surname of the Gaoliang minority in the ancient south. According to "Looking for the Origin of Surnames": "There are many surnames of Xian (also pronounced as Xi, Xiǎn) in Panyu in the South China Sea, which is also the surname of the Gaoliang Yi chiefs." Note: Xian Jin joined the army in Guangzhou in the Jin Dynasty, and Xian Guang, a Jinshi of Hongzhi, and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty Xian Guiqi, a Jinshi, was both from Nanhai, Guangdong.
2. Migration distribution
The surname Xian comes from the surname of the Gaoliang minority in the ancient South. According to Wan Zhen's "Foreign Object Chronicles": "There is a thief in the south of Guangzhou called Sli. This thief is in the south of Guangzhou, in the center of the five counties of Cangwu, Yulin, Hepu, Ningpu and Gaoliang, thousands of miles away." This "number" The land of "Thousands of Miles" is located south of Xijiang River. During the Liang, Chen, and Sui dynasties, the indigenous residents in this area were mainly Li people, and there were also people later called Tong (Zhuang), Yao, Li, and Han people. Their cultures formed the Han people after intermarriage and integration. * The same belief worships the ancient ancestor named Panhu, who is honored as "Pan King". Panhu was the son-in-law of Gao Xin, a descendant of Shennong. According to archaeological discoveries, in the Yangchun area of ????the upper reaches of the Moyang River, there are more than 100 miles of limestone mountain belts with karst landforms from north to south. The Lingxiaoyan Scenic Area in the northern section of the Shishan Belt was named "Yangchun Lingxiaoyan National Geopark" by the Ministry of Land and Resources in 2004. More than 15,000 years ago, ancestor tribes lived in limestone caves and made a living by fishing and hunting. A large number of fossilized bones of various ancient beasts are buried in the cultural layers in the caves. Archaeologists excavated ancient human cultural sites from the Late Paleolithic in Dushizi Cave in Yangchun County. After identification by the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dushizi Cave has three cultural layers, an upper, middle and lower layer, which is 2.5 meters deep and dates back to 15,350 years ago. to 16650. After the ancestors of the Panhu tribe developed stone tools and relied on farming, fishing, and hunting as their means of livelihood, they left their caves and gradually migrated to the Moyang River and Jianjiang river basins to settle and multiply. They were called the "Goulang tribe" and the villages they lived in were all It was called "Goulang Village", and some of it was used after the liberation. Up to now, most of them have been renamed Gaolang Village, Gaoliangdong, etc. with homophonic pronunciation. The Li people in this area and the subsequent Tong (Zhuang) and Yao people all have Panhu as their ancestor, and their dog-headed human head as their flag. The Han people in the north call it "Gaoliang people". Qin Shihuang marched to unify Lingnan. The indigenous residents of Lingnan are called "Baiyue" people, and they are also called "Shanyue", "Ouyue" and "Luoyue" according to the area where they live. Among the garrison, there was Shen Xunei, a native of Zhending, Hebei Province. He was a descendant of Shen Ziguo and a fellow townsman with Zhao Tuo, the commander of the Qin army. Shen Rui (Ruì Yinrui) was recruited as her husband by the female leader of the Gaoliang tribe, who gave birth to children and developed a male-line clan. Shen Rui was named after the first surname "Xian" in the Lingnan area and was added next to "氵". The surname is Xi (pronounced Xiǎn), and Shen Ru's son is named Xiqi. From then on, he was called Xishi. Shen Ru and his wife Xi went to see Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, and they had a pleasant conversation. Zhao Tuo then ordered Xi to guard Gaoliang for the rest of his life. From Qin, Han to Jin, no records of the Xi family's lineage were left. According to legend, people with the surname Xi said: "Shen was changed to Xi. Don't ask why." In the Jichou Year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (the 48th year of Kangxi's reign, 1709), people with the surname Xian in Guangdong compiled the Xian family genealogy in Xijiangfang and began to write the surname "Xi" as The surname "Xian" respects Xian Jin from the Eastern Jin Dynasty as the ancestor. During the Yuanxing period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wu Yinzhi, a famous and honest official in Guangzhou, used his personality to influence the Gaoliang slangs and called his leader Xian Jin to lead his troops to join the army as soldiers in the Guangzhou governor's office. In the third year of Yuanxing in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the bandit Lu Xun led his troops to attack Guangzhou. Xian Jin led 500 powerful troops to fight. He was defeated and was captured. He scolded the bandit and died for not giving in. Liu Yu accepted the Zen throne of Jin and established the Song Dynasty (Southern Dynasty). Xian Jin, the general who died in Guangzhou, was granted the title of Marquis of Qujiang County, and Xian Jin's orphan Xian inherited the title. Chenglie gave birth to Chu Ai, Chu Ai gave birth to Wen'ou and Wenshu, Wen'ou gave birth to Qisheng, Qixian and Qihao, Wenshu gave birth to Qiji (Jie Yin), Qisheng's eldest son Xian Ting and his second daughter Xian Ying, Xian Ying She married Feng Bao, the governor of Gaoliang, and was called Mrs. Xian. She was the sixth granddaughter of Xian Jin. The Xian family has a long history of establishing Xian Village on the west bank of the Huangshi River in the west of Yangjiang. As far back as the sixth year of Yuanding in the Han Dynasty (111 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Nanyue and established Gaoliang County under Guangzhou. The county seat is in Gucheng Village, Daba Town, Yangdong County, north of Yangjiang City today, and Xian Village is in the north of Yangjiang City. . The jurisdiction of Gaoliang County includes the vast area from Enping, Yangchun, Yangjiang, Dianbai, Maoming, Huazhou, Wuchuan to Lianjiang. In the 25th year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty (220), Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu, sent Lu Dai as the governor of Jiaozhou to conquer the Gaoliang Li people. The leader of the Li people, Qian Fu (a homophone of Xi Fu), was defeated and surrendered because the Han people did not recognize the surname "Xi". According to "Three Kingdoms" "Written as "Qian Fu" in homophone. Lord Wu ordered the Xi tribe to move from Moyang Jiangdong to Moyang Jiangxi, and appointed Xi Fu as the "Captain of the West of Gaoliang", which was later changed to Gaoxing County (Yulue). The surname of Xian was Wangju Nanhai County (the Qin Dynasty established Nanhai County to govern Panyu, which is southwest of Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province today. Zhao Tuo built Nanyue based on the land. It was resettled during the Han Dynasty. Guangzhou was established in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In the Sui Dynasty, it was Fanzhou and Nanhai County), Gaoxing County (now Huazhou City, Guangdong Province).