1, originated from the Western Zhou Dynasty, 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 Ansheng's grandson, 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.
Ancestor of surname: Yi Fu. Yan, also known as Gong, was called Zhu Wu Gong after he acceded to the throne. Legend has it that Lu Zhong, the great grandson of Emperor Zhuan Xu in ancient times, gave birth to six sons at a time, followed by Fan, Hui Lian and? , Lai Yan, An, 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.
Third, historical celebrities.
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, which was later called "restoring holiness"
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 broke Jiangling in the Western Wei Dynasty. Therefore, they refused to accept Wei as an enemy of the country and went to the Northern Qi Dynasty to serve as Assistant Minister of Huangmen and Governor of the Plain. Later, when the Northern Qi Dynasty died, he went to the Northern Zhou Dynasty as 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 "Family Instructions of Yan Family", with 20 articles (see appendix: Family Instructions of Yan Family, 2nd-5th floor below), 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: Minister and calligrapher of the 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.