Historical sources:
One; Take the country name as the surname. According to the Records of Yuanhe Genealogy, Zhou Xuanwang enfeoffed his uncle Shen Bo to Xie Guo in tanghe county, Henan Province, and later generations took the country as their surname.
Second; According to "Old Tang Book". Biography of Wen Yuan; In Tang Dynasty, Xie Yan's grandfather, formerly known as Zhile, was a Xianbei native and later changed his surname to Xie.
Family celebrities
Xie An (320 ~ 385) was born in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The same name is rare, and the expedition is insufficient. He lives in seclusion in Dongshan and is in his forties. He began to play Sima in Zhou Huan. In the battle of Feishui, I conquered the viceroy, guided the planning, defeated the enemy, tired the official to Taibao, and gave a gift to Taifu, so I thanked Taifu in the past.
Xie Xuan (343 ~ 388), a famous soldier in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was Xie An's nephew, a native and a teenager. With 8,000 elites, he defeated the million-strong army of Fu Jian, the former Qin Dynasty, worshipped the former general, sealed the Lekang county magistrate, and sacrificed for the army.
Xie Lingyun (385 ~ 433), a writer in the Southern Dynasties and grandson of Xie Xuan, was nicknamed "Xie Ke". Gong, also known as Xie, attacked. Less studious, more devoted to painting and calligraphy, the beauty of articles and Yan Yanzhi are the first in Jiangzuo. Nature is good at mountains and rivers, with ease, and everywhere you go, you can achieve your meaning. His poems initiated the style of landscape realism. Qiu joined the army first, then moved to Guangzhou, and poetry was handed down from generation to generation.
Location: Chenliu County, Henan Province.
Re-examination of Xie's origin
Xie is a very old and prestigious surname in the history of China. In Nanyang, Henan Province, known as the ancient city of Xie, there are still descendants of Xie, who have lived here for generations and lived a peaceful and peaceful life.
Xie, Vice President of Xie Clan Association in Nanyang City: As early as 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, the upper reaches of Baihe River was the settlement of Nanzhao ape-man, and further south, the middle reaches of Huangshan Mountain was the site of Yangshao culture. Then go south to Dushan, whose real name is Xieshan, and along the banks of Baihe River, including Wancheng District, Wolong District, Tanghe and parts of Xinye County, a large number of people surnamed Xie live in compact communities. They lived here for a long time, and the population gradually increased, forming a national tribal country.
According to Xie's own genealogy, their ancestor was a man named Shen Bo, the younger brother of his queen. At that time, Shen Bo got a fief in Henan as a national uncle, which was called Xie Guo. Later, Shen Bo lost his title, and his descendants took Xie as their surname. The descendants of Xie, who live in the ancient Xie country, continue to multiply and become local rich households. Later, with the changes of the times, it continued to spread to various places. Among them, the Xie surname of Chen Jun (Henan Taikang) is very worth mentioning. Yang Xia is the main county of Xie surname, and outstanding figures such as Xie An, Xie Xuan and Xie Lingyun have emerged in Yang Xia.
There is an idiom called "Make a comeback", which tells the story of Xie An. Xie An, a talented person, didn't want to be an official at first. He made friends with calligrapher Wang Xizhi and others in Dongshan all day, without asking about state affairs. The court repeatedly summoned him and refused. Later, the country was on the verge of extinction, and Xie An, who was in his forties, decided to make a comeback. After coming out of the mountain, Xie An wooed the sage and appointed his nephew Xie Xuan to take command of the army and actively prepare for the war. Finally, he created a military miracle of defeating the strong with the weak and defeating the strong with the weak in the water war. On Bagong Mountain, idioms such as "all plants are soldiers" and "trembling" also came from this. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a group of ancestors surnamed Xie crossed the ocean from Guangdong and Fujian, boarded the island of Taiwan Province Province and settled in Tainan. Later, Xie moved into Changhua, Taipei and Miaoli. With the continuous expansion of the Xie family in Taiwan Province Province, the Xie family has gradually become a local family, and now it ranks as 13. Xie's descendants, no matter where they live, never forget their ancestral home in Nanyang, Henan.
Xie Haiting, Vice President of Nanyang Xie Clan Association: I have had many contacts with Mr. Xie Hanru. Mr. Xie Hanru is the president of the Xie clan association in the world. He lives in Taibei City, Taiwan Province Province, and has been to our mainland many times. Mr. Xie Hanru told us on many occasions that Xie's roots all over the world are in the mainland and he was born in Nanyang, Henan.
Fu Guangyu, director of Nanyang Overseas Chinese Affairs Office: In recent years, due to work reasons, I have received Xie clan relatives from eight countries and regions in the world. After they arrived in Nanyang, their feelings for their homeland were particularly deep. I saw with my own eyes that some of them were holding a handful of homeland, crying, and really felt at home. Many Xie clan relatives said that we really went home, and our roots were in Nanyang.
Many years ago, the descendants of the Xie family left their hometown with the glory and dreams of their ancestors. Today, many years later, a wanderer named Xie, who is wandering overseas, is full of nostalgia for his hometown and embarked on the road home.
Textual research on Xie's origin
Xie is ranked 24th in China and 13 in Taiwan Province province. Xie's family originated in Ren Shi, and there are two descendants of the Yellow Emperor. The Yellow Emperor has twenty-five sons, and the seventh is Ren. Renyi * * * established ten countries, the first of which was Xie Guo. At the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty, his uncle Shen Bo was named Xie. Before Shen Bo took office, he sent someone to kill Xie Guo, and some people named Xie Guo took the country as their surname, Xie. After Shen Bo came to power, he established the State of Shen, which was later destroyed by the State of Chu. Some people who live in Xieyi take the city as their surname and give thanks. In this way, Xie's surname is different from that of the Yellow Emperor and later. Evolution: Some Xie surnames come from ethnic minorities. For example, some people in Xianbei Music changed their surnames to Xie, Xie and Xie Qiu. Xie's family was distributed in southern Henan in the early days. In the Spring and Autumn Period, some people surnamed Xie migrated to Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other places. During the Warring States period, Xie's influence extended to Sichuan, Guizhou and other places, and was integrated into local ethnic minorities. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Xie family began to enter Fujian, Guangdong and Taiwan Province provinces in the Ming Dynasty. Xie's main settlements are: Tanghe, Nanyang, Fuling, Yongchang, Huiji, Xiapi, Jiujiang, Chenjun, Dongshan, Meixian, Tai Po and.