1. The surname Jin has many origins. (1) The earliest one originated from Emperor Shaohao in ancient times. It is said that Shaohao, the son of the Yellow Emperor, was revered as the Great Emperor of the West after his death. The Five Elements Theory is Chinese and Western If his zodiac sign belongs to metal, Shaohao will be called the Tian clan of Jin, and his descendants will have the clan name of Jin.
(2) According to legend, there was the Kingdom of Jin in ancient times. The people of the country took Jin as their surname, and Fu Xichen Jindi came after him.
(3) Given a surname.
For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty gave the son of King Xiutu of the Xiongnu the surname Rishishanjin.
(4) Changed surname.
For example, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu changed his surname to Jin to avoid Wang Mang's rebellion.
The founding king of Wuyue, one of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, was named Qian Liu. Because Liu has the same pronunciation as Liu, in order to avoid the taboo of his name, people with the Liu surname in the country all went to the Maotou knife with the character Liu and changed it. The name is Jin to show that the original surname remains unchanged, so there are sayings that "Liu and Jin are one", "Liu and Jin are not separated from each other", "Liu and Jin have no two surnames", and "Liu and Jin have the same origin".
2. The surname Jin in our village comes from the descendants of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Dynasty in Yiwu, and Liu Sheng, the ninth son of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty Liu Qi, Prince Jing of Zhongshan.
Jin Juan (1306-1382) was the ancestor of our village. His courtesy name was Deyuan, his name was Qingcun, and he was a native of Yiwu.
A well-known scholar and poet in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.
He lived in seclusion all his life and was not recruited. He sang about the water and the mountains, preached and taught, and was deeply respected by his time and later generations.
Jin Juan studied literature from Huang Shu, and he was able to write poems and essays horizontally; he studied classics from Xu Qian, and he was able to cover the history of classics.
Talented people are hard to match.
As the ancients said, "Those who excel in learning will become an official", but Jin Juan never became an official throughout his life.
While still in the Yuan Dynasty, Yu Ji and Liu Guan, who sometimes lived in the Hanlin Academy, recommended each other, but Jin Juan could not come out.
During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's classmates Song Lian and Wang Ye both served as presidents of "Yuan History". Song and Wang knew Jin Juan's intellectual foundation well, and they strongly invited Jin Juan to Beijing to co-edit it. "History of the Yuan Dynasty", Jin Juan still hasn't published it.
Not to mention the future establishment of the Chaozheng Mansion.
3. There are many talented people with the Jin surname, and there is no shortage of people in every generation.
In the Song Dynasty, there were Jin Wengang, a direct bachelor of Guanlong Tuge; Jin Yan, who was promoted by the imperial edict to be filial and honest, ranked first in the world, and was named "Jin family of Yimen" in the county.
In the Yuan Dynasty, there were scholars Jin Luxiang and calligrapher Jin Yuanju.
In the Ming Dynasty there were scholars Jin Wen and Sanqu master Jin Luan.
In the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, there was a famous literary critic Jin Shengtan who revised "Water Margin" and "The West Chamber".
In the Qing Dynasty, there was a calligrapher and painter Jin Nong. His official script was simple and thick, and his regular script had his own style. His paintings were creative and novel, and he was one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou".
Modern times include the former Director of the State Administration of Taxation and Minister of Finance Jin Renqing, the composer Jin Fuzai, and the famous writer Jin Xingyao (as famous as Ji Xianlin, known as "Southern Jin and Northern Season")