The current situation of people with the surname Yan: In contemporary times, there are about 2 million people with the surname Yan, mainly concentrated in Hubei, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Sichuan and Zhejiang. The five provinces account for about 56% of the total population of the surname Yan. Among them, Hubei is the most populous province with the surname Yan, accounting for 18% of the total population of the surname Yan.
Yan Wu was a combatant who emerged during the Anshi Rebellion. He guarded Shu twice, quelled the rebellion in Shu, resisted Tubo's robbery, and performed better than Gao Shi in foreign wars. Yan Wu was also a good friend of Du Fu, and he provided many aids to Du Fu during his stay in Shu.
The origin and historical celebrities of the surname Yan
Yan Xinhou is a modern enterprise pioneer and a pioneer of the Ningbo business gang. He once opened China's first machine ginning factory and the first national Capital Bank and the first insurance company completed the modern transformation of Ningbo Commercial Bank. The surname Yan is a surname with many origins, mainly derived from the surnames Ji, Gui, Mi and Ma. The ancestor of the people with the surname Yan was Zhuanxu. His descendants settled in Wuyang City, so they took Di as their surname, and later changed it to Yan, which is regarded as the authentic surname of Yan.
In contemporary times, there are about 2 million people with the surname Yan, mainly distributed in Guangxi, Guangdong and Guizhou. The three provinces account for about 71% of the total population with the surname Mo. Among them, Guangxi is home to 36% of the total population with the surname Yan, making it the most populous province with the surname Yan. Yan Xuanqing was the first number one scholar in the Lingnan region and the youngest number one scholar in Chinese history. He was only 17 years old when he became the number one scholar. To this day, Yan Xuanqing still has great influence in Guangdong and Guangxi, and there is still a Zhuangyuan Temple in Fengkai County, Guangdong.
Yan Yuchou and Yan Youzhi are father and son, inheritors of Confucianism in Guizhou during the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Yan Youzhiqing was born out of blue and blue, and was known as a giant scholar in the southwest. He was a famous epigrapher, bibliographer, calligrapher and poet.