Origin of Yan surname Yan surname has three origins: 1, from the Western Zhou Dynasty, from Cao surname and Lv Hou. According to Liu Chen Custom Biography, Yuan He Shi Bian and Tongzhi Genealogy, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor is Zhuan Xu, and the great-grandson of Zhuan Xu is Lv Zhong. Lu had six sons in his life, and the fifth was Yue An and Cao Shi (one of Zhu Rong's eight surnames). With the help of An Shengsun, he was sealed in Zhu (the old city is in the southeast of Zou County, Shandong Province) and made Zhu a vassal of Lu State. After Yan, as for, the word Yan is also called. After the state of Chu destroyed Guo, some descendants took their grandfather's words as their surnames and called them Yan surnames. 2. It comes from the surname Ji, which originated from the Duke of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, after Boqin. According to the genealogy, the eldest son of Duke Zhou was sealed in Lu. Some descendants of birds are sealed in Yi Yan, so they take the sealed city as their surname and call it Yanxing. Zheng, the mother of Confucius, is the daughter of Lu Guoyan. His family changed his surname. Jin Nvzhen changed her surname Yan after completing Yan's family name; Manchu surname in Qing Dynasty, living in Daling River; Today, the aborigines, Maonan and Bai nationalities in Taiwan Province Province all have this surname. Yan surname, the ancestor of Zong clan.
Yan's ancestor in the biography of the ram: Yan, also known as Zhu Wugong after he acceded to the throne. Legend has it that Lu Zhong, the great-grandson of Zhuan Xu Emperor in ancient times, gave birth to six sons at a time, followed by Fan, Hui Lian, Lai Yan, An and Ji Lian. After the Battle of Zhou Wuwang, he tried his best to enfeoffment the vassal state, so he sealed a descendant of Lv Zhong, who was originally a vassal of Lu and later passed on to Yi Fu. Because of his word "Yan", the biography of the ram is called. After Chu destroyed the country, Yan's son and grandson took Wang Fu as their surname and called it Yan's surname. They respect their father as the ancestor of Yan. Yan surname-migration distribution
The main sources of Yanjia Temple in Anping, Jinjiang, all originated in today's Shandong Province. In the pre-Qin period, Yan's family mainly spread in Qilu area, but at this time, Yan's family had already lived in Henan. For example, according to historical records, in the twenty-seventh year of Zhou Aigong, he died in the battle of Ji because of Yan Zhuoju, and was inherited by his son Yan Jin. Yan's family in the Western Han Dynasty was different from Yan Anle, a native of Lu (now Xuecheng, Shandong Province) who moved to Jiuqing and worked as an official in Qixian County. It can be seen that Yanshi still mainly breeds in Shandong. There were Chu people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, indicating that people with Yan family names moved to Hubei during this period. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Yan, who lived in Langya and Donglu, was not affected by external turmoil. On the contrary, senior officials continue to have a large number of people, and it has developed to Langya, Yanshi, and Lu, Xianhe. Before the Sui Dynasty, a man named Yan moved from Linyi to Guanzhong. In the Tang Dynasty, when this surname Yan spread to Yan Shigu (the 37th generation grandson of Yan Hui), it began to develop and prosper. His sons are Yan Zhaofu, Sun Yan, Yan Weizhen, great-grandson Yan Gao Qing, Yan Zhenqing, Yan Yaoqing, great-grandson Yan, etc. This Yan surname was famous for a while and admired by the world. The fourth son of Zhenqing, Hong, joined the army in Tongzhou, and the official position was Jinling. The eldest son was named Yongxin (now Jiangxi), and the second son was named Pu. At the end of the Five Dynasties, it was named Quanzhou Dehua, so it was a family. Pu's eldest son moved to Yongchun Zhuopu, and his descendants lived in southern Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Yan entered Sichuan in the Tang Dynasty and was interested in Yan, from Chengdu county magistrate to secretariat. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Kang Wang moved south to Hangzhou, and Yan spread from Lu Yu Province to the south of the Yangtze River. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yan Wei, who lived in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Jiangxi, moved to Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan to avoid disasters. In the early Ming Dynasty, Yan, as one of the surnames of Sophora japonica settlers in Hongdong, Ming Dynasty, moved to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places. In the early Qing Dynasty, Yan entered Sichuan with Huguang, and then moved to Yunnan and Guizhou. During the reign of Kang Gan, Shandong people surnamed Yan invaded the three northeastern provinces. At this time, there were also people surnamed Yan who crossed the sea to Taiwan Province and then moved overseas. At the end of the Qing dynasty, people surnamed Yan had spread all over the country. At present, people with Yan surname are widely distributed all over the country, especially in Shandong, where Yan surname accounts for about 3 1% of the Han population. Yan surname-historical celebrity
Yan Hui: Lu, a sage in the Spring and Autumn Period, was a favorite of Confucius and the most wise of his disciples. Confucius told him, "Don't be angry and don't cross the line." He died young at the age of 32, and Yan Hui's Statue of Li Xian was later called Restoration of the Saints. Yan Fu: Shandong native, painter and official in Song Dynasty. The grandson of Yan Hui in the forty-eighth generation, the official to the doctor. Yan Gengdao: A native of Pingjiang, Hunan Province, was a scholar in the Yuan Dynasty. Bo Gu is good at poetry, especially at cursive writing and painting. Yan Hui: Lu Ling (now Ji 'an, Jiangxi) was a painter in Yuan Dynasty. He is good at drawing figures, Buddhism and Taoism, and also doing ghosts. He has a strange shape, but his brushwork is unique, and he is interested in eight aspects of business, which is the first in Wei Wu's paintings in the early enlightenment. There are the Hunting Map of Zhongshan and the Portrait of Li Tie handed down from ancient times. Yan Zong: a native of Nanhai, Guangdong Province, was a painter in the Ming Dynasty. A juren, a former Shaowu magistrate, was later a foreign minister of the Ministry of War. Be good at painting landscapes, integrate the northern landscape painting style into the southern landscape painting, and write more plain scenery, which is vigorous and unique. There is the "Lake and Mountain Plain Map". Yan Zitui: Zijie (AD 531-about 59 1) was born in Linyi (now Shandong Province). Writers in the Northern and Southern Dynasties first served as Sanshou Riding Assistant Minister in Emperor Liang Yuan, and the Western Wei Dynasty broke Jiangling. Therefore, they refused to accept Wei as an enemy of the country and defected to the Northern Qi Dynasty, where they served as Assistant Minister of Huangmen and Governor of the Plain. Later, when the Northern Qi Dynasty died, he defected to the Northern Zhou Dynasty and became an imperial sergeant. During the first year of Emperor Yangdi's reign, he was called a bachelor by the prince, and he was very polite and died soon. He has been running around all his life, suffering from troubled times and often being ashamed of a foreign country. Therefore, his poems are full of sadness and nostalgia. His book "Yan Family Instructions", with a total of 20 articles (see appendix: the 2nd-5th floor below Yan Family Instructions), expounds the way of managing the family, which has far-reaching influence since its publication and is regarded as the originator of China's family instructions monograph. Yan Shigu: A native of Jingzhao Wannian (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province), a scholar, exegetist, official and author of the Five Classics in the Tang Dynasty. Yan Zhaofu: Tang Dynasty official, scholar, official to assistant minister, Huazhou secretariat. Gong Zhuan, Shu and Cao Lishu are as famous as my brother-in-law, Yin Zhongrong, and I was once rewarded by my uncle for being an excellent scholar. Yan Zhenqing sacrificed his nephew in Tang Dynasty: Yan Zhenqing, a minister and calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. During the Kaiyuan period, he was a scholar, and he was tired of supervising the empire. Yang was demoted as the Taishou of Weishui for disobeying the orders of the Taishou. He expected that An Lushan would rebel, so he was prepared. In the 14th year of Tianbao (755), An Lushan rebelled. He and his brother Guo Qing * * * rose to respond to the nearby county 17. After the chaos, he entered Beijing as an official and was repeatedly slandered. Later, it was the minister of punishments, named Lu Gong, and the world called Gong. During Su Zong and Dai Zong, he was hated by the Minister of Justice several times. In Dezong, Li Xilie claimed to be the world marshal and captured Ruzhou. Yan Zhenqing was ordered to persuade, but he persevered and was finally killed by Li Xilie at the age of 76. Yan Zhenqing is good and upright, cursive, and his brushwork is calm and vigorous, which is treasured by the world and is called "Yan Ti". The Palace Museum has the ink of his 66-year-old Zhushan Ju Lian. Author of "Yan Wen Ji". Yan Bowen: A native of Dezhou (now Shandong), he was a painter and poet in the Northern Song Dynasty. When Hui Zong was a scholar, he was an official. He is good at figures as well as ink and flowers. His works include Luohan Tu, Cloud Out of the Hole, Wild Water Map, etc. Yan: Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu) was a painter in the Song Dynasty. He is good at painting figures, working on Xiao Zhuan, and writing "Collection of Ancient Zhuan Rhyme", Dr. Zhong. His son, Yan Ruxun, invited a doctor to the court and made a seal. Yan Guangmin: a native of Qufu, Shandong Province, was a scholar and an official examination worker during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Juvenile wisdom, nine-year-old cursive script, thirteen fairy poems, fu. In addition, the main names of Yan are: Yan Anle, a Confucian scholar in the Western Han Dynasty; Yan Gaoqing, a Wei Wei in the Tang Dynasty; Yan, a sage in the Ming Dynasty; and Yan Yuan, a thinker in the Qing Dynasty.