According to historical records, there are three main sources of the Yang surname in China. The first is from the surname Ji. Zhou dynasty vassal Jin Wu Gong's son Bo Qiao sealed in Yang, called Yang Hou, his descendants then Eup for the surname, called Yang, which is the Yang's authentic, but also the mainstream of the Yang family in China. Secondly, it comes from the surname given to the Yangs. According to the "Chinese culture exposition", the three kingdoms, Zhu Geliang leveling mourning yi (Hunan, Guizhou bureaucratic branch), gave the local minority for Zhao, Zhang, Yang, Li and other surnames. The third family changed their surname to Yang. Wei book - official records, Northern Wei Xiaowen emperor Tuoba Hong moved the capital to Luoyang, the implementation of the Sinicization policy, there is a former generation of the northern three words of the surname Mo Hu Lu changed to Yang; the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Qiu Chi County (today's Cheng County, Gansu, northwestern Luogu Town), also has the name of the Yang; Meizhou, Guangdong, a Yang was originally Ninghua, Fujian, the Lin family name, moved to Meizhou, when the Yang family name. According to the Northern History, Yang Yichen was originally surnamed Yuchi, but later changed his name to Yang, and so on.
The main counties of the Yang surname in China are Hongnong County, Tianshui County and Hanoi County, among which Hongnong County is the most famous.
When did Danyang have the Yang surname? It is difficult to prove. Check "Qianlong Danyang County," "Guangxu Danyang County," and other local histories can be seen, the early Ming Dynasty has been Yang characters appear in the book, and thus, the Yang family name is very likely in the Song and Yuan period has entered the Euphrates, or perhaps earlier, and a number of branch sources. I recently studied the city south of ten miles Temple Yang A "Yunyang Yang genealogy" confirmed that, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, there is a Yang clan branch from the Jintan moved to this euphony.
Shili Temple Yang A, located in Danyang city south of ten miles, so the place was originally a land temple and named. "Guangxu Danyang County Records," said: "Ten Mile Temple, ten miles south of the county, the early Ming Dynasty hermit Yang Guanyi resting here, so built for the temple." The village is surrounded by green water, beautiful scenery, mostly for the Yang households. The village genealogy still exists in two books, woodcut version of the paperback, 30.3 cm long, 19.2 cm wide, inside the vertical edge of the page are printed "Yang's genealogy", the first title of the genealogy "Yunyang Yang's genealogy". According to the village 86-year-old old man Yang Lockben recollects, the genealogy is Yang A "four know the hall" Yang's re-modification of the genealogy, repaired in the Republic of China in the twenty-second year (1933), the genealogy of the printing of five sets of each by the big house, the second house, the third house, the fourth house, the fifth house to receive and collect. The existing two books have a distant lineage map, distant lineage table, sub-lineage map, the Yunyang Yang's inheritance and migration reflected quite clearly, invaluable.
According to the genealogy, Yunyang Yang originated from the family name of Ji, the distant ancestor for Bo Qiao. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the second son of Duke Wu of Jin, a vassal of the Zhou Dynasty, was named Bo Qiao, feudal lord of Yang, known as Marquis Yang, who was the founder of the Yang family name. The fifth grandson of Bo Qiao, Giggle, with the character Shu Xiang, was a famous politician at the time of Duke Ping of Jin, and was granted the title of Yang Shiyi (southeast of present-day Hongdong County, Shanxi Province) for his achievements. His son, Bo Shi (伯石), with the character 食我, was called Yang after his cognomen. In 514 B.C., Jin destroyed the Qiangzong Qi Clan, the Yang Shi Clan, and the children and grandchildren of the Food I fled to the Huashan Xian Valley, so they resided in Huayin (present-day Shaanxi) and became known as the Yang Clan. Subsequent open base all over the world, become the mainstream of Yang, known as Yang's authentic. It is the Shanxi Yang Clan. As Huayin belonged to Hongnong County in Han Dynasty, it was also called Hongnong Yang Clan. Passed to the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hongnong Yang out of an important figure, he is the "Yunyang Yang genealogy" as "Guanxi this ancestor" of Yang Zhen (?). --He was Yang Zhen (?), who was listed in the Genealogy of the Yang Clan in Yunyang as the "founder of the Guanxi sect". Guanxi refers to the west of the Tongguan Pass, so it is the Huayin Yang family.
Yang Zhen, with the character Boqi, was the 23rd grandson of Boqiao Gong. When he was a young man, he was educated by Huan Yu from Taichang "Ouyang Shangshu", and he had a good knowledge of history and economics, and he taught students for more than twenty years, with thousands of followers, and he was known as "Guanshi Husbandman". When he was fifty years old, he started to serve in the state and county, and General Deng Fung Ping raised him to be a great scholar, and he moved to be the assassin of Jingzhou, the governor of Donglai, and then to be the governor of Zhuo County. In the fourth year of Yuanchu (117), he was summoned to be the Imperial Servant. In the first year of Yongning's reign (120), he was appointed to be the chief of staff. In the second year of Yangguang (123), he was appointed lieutenant. Later, he was falsely accused by Fan Feng, the middleman, and was dismissed from his post and returned to his own county, where he drank hemlock and died on the way. He was one of the famous prime ministers of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who was frugal, upright and upright. When he was appointed as the governor of Donglai County, he passed through Changyi County (northwest of Jinxiang County, present-day Shandong Province), and the magistrate Wang Mi, in order to repay him for his recommendation, carried ten pounds of gold in his arms at night and said that no one would know about it in the darkness of the sky. Yang Zhen said, "Heaven knows, God knows, I know, son knows, what is not to know?" Wang Mi was ashamed and retreated. The story of Yang Zhen's refusal to accept a bribe has become an ancient tale, and it is also an allusion to the hall name "Si Zhi Tang", which is used by most of his descendants.
Hongnong Yang Clan since Yang Zhen opened the foundation, four generations of three dukes, illustrious to the extreme, for the Han Dynasty famous family. In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, there was Yang Jian, who established the Sui Dynasty, ending the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, passing on three emperors and ruling the world for 37 years. The Yang Jian branch of the Yang family name is descended from Yang Mu, the eldest son of Yang Zhen. During the Tang Dynasty, the Hongnong Yangs produced 11 more prime ministers who played important roles in the Tang political scene, all of whom were descendants of Yang Zhen's eldest son Yang Mu and his fifth son Yang Feng. Although the clan system gradually disappeared in the Tang Dynasty, the Hongnong Yang Clan, a traditional family with a strong sense of justice and righteousness, and a clean and scholarly family style, continued to flourish in the Song and Ming dynasties. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the Yang Family Generals, represented by Yang Ye, were one of the famous ones. In addition, in the south of Fujian, there is also a famous scholar, he is honored by the Yunyang Yang family as the first ancestor of Yang Yi (974 - 1020)
Yang Yi, the word Dainian, Yang Zhen's thirty-second grandson, living in Pucheng, Jianzhou (present-day Pucheng, Fujian Province). At the age of seven, he was able to write, and at the age of eleven, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty called for a test of poetry and fugue, which he accomplished with the stroke of a pen, and he was authorized to write in the Secretarial Department. In Chunhua, he was awarded the first degree of jinshi, and went straight to the Academy of Jixian. The real emperor became the throne, worship left main speech, participate in the repair of "Taizong real record", and also with Wang Qinruo repair "the book of Yuan Gui". His official position was Minister of Hanlin and Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. Zhenzong wind disease, Ding Pian and Zhang Xian Liu collusion trespassing, he and Kou Zhun plot to ask the Prince to supervise the state, the matter failed, to worry about death. Renzong posthumously awarded "Wen". He was upright and straight, still temperament, political support for Chancellor Kou Zhun against Liao, opposed to the real Emperor's massive construction, the immortal worship of the gods. Good life, learned and memorized, long in history and the system of rules and regulations, like to reward and promote the latter. Poetry, poetry, Li Shangyin, gorgeous words, the number "Xikun style". He was friendly with Wang Dan, Liu Yun and Xie Jiang. He was the author of Wuyi Xinji, Yang Wengong Tan Yuan, and Xikun Reward Song Collection. Among them, "Wuyi Xinji" was included in "Siku Quanshu".
Yang Yi is not only honored as the first ancestor of the Yunyang Yang Clan, but there is also a Yang Clan in Zhenjiang who worships him as the first ancestor. Dantu County, Xilu Xiban Village Yang in the Republic of China in seven years (1918) to repair the "Xiban Village Yang genealogy" listed in Qianlong twenty years (1755), Jiaqing four years (1799), Guangxu eighteen years (1892) of the successive re-revision of the genealogy of the preface, honoring Hongnong Huayin Yang Zhen as "Guanxi century ancestor", honoring Yang Yi as the "Runnan Xiban Yang". "Run Nanxiwan Yang ancestor". Jiaqing four years, "Runnan Xiwan village Yang renewed genealogy preface," said: "According to the Yang family from the billion Gong, the Ministry of Taizong ...... to the Gong abandoned the official not to serve. Traveled in the long mountains, see its mountains and rivers beautiful, scenic beauty, there are millions of years not dialing the sign, can not bear to go, so home. Is the ancestor of the Yang family for the West Bay also". Its hall number is also "four know the hall". The genealogy also records the migration. Yang Yi had a grandson named Ben Yu, passed the fifth to Qianwu Gong, in the high Zong Nandu after the Jinsha (now Jintan) Yangqiao, on the Yang, two Shiqiao, Wu Gan, Hexiang and Danyang Yangxiang, Lvcheng and other places. The genealogy of the Hongnong Yang Clan assigned to the residence of the examination, said: "Runzhou Danyang five houses" are "the fifth son of the Han lieutenant Zhen Gong Feng Gong after the Sung Hanlin scholar Yi Gong's descendants". Such a record and Yunyang Yang genealogy records compared with a big difference, but Yang Yi's descendants in the high Zong Nandu after the migration is more or less the same, many place names are also the same.
How did Yang Yi's descendants come to Danyang? The Genealogy of the Yang Clan of Yunyang has a very clear and explicit record. Yang Yi family since his great-grandfather Yang Shao official Shangshu moved to Pucheng, Fujian Province, until Yang Yi's grandson, Yang Benyu, has been six generations, because of Benyu as an official, began to move from Pucheng, Anhui Province, Fengyang. The fifth generation of Ben Yu to Chien Wu Gong, because the Jin soldiers invaded the south, the family with the Song Gaozong south, dividing in Jinsha (Jintan County) of the floor of the Zhuang, and Chien Si migrated to Ningguo, Chien 1, Chien 3 migrated to Gaochun, Chien 11 migrated to Jinsha of the Ugandan, and there are also some other clansmen who migrated to the Shang Yang, the second history of the bridge, and Hexiang, and so on. Among the great-grandchildren of Qianwu, there was Zhengbachi, who moved from Louzhuang to Yangqiao in Jinsha with his wife and children. Zhengha had a son named Xian San, who married Yu and had nine sons, among whom Gao Er and Gao San moved to Danyang. Gao Er moved to "Yunyang Shili Temple", Gao San moved to "Erling Yang Lane" (now belongs to the town of Rizhuang). From then on, these two Hongnong Yangs flourished in Danyang, and gradually became a prestigious family in the county.
The second name of Yang Ren, the word Leshan, lived in Jinsha Yangqiao. 1242-1310, lived in the period between Emperor Li Zong of Song Dynasty and Emperor Wu Zong of Yuan Dynasty, is the thirteenth grandson of Yang Yi. He was "excellent in both talent and learning, with outstanding moral character", but because of his distaste for the corruption of the Southern Song Dynasty, he "failed to be recruited time and again". Later, because of the Yuan chaos, the more firm not to serve, the rate of the son to move hidden in Danyang city south of ten miles, build a hut dividing, and then become the first ancestor of the Yang A move. Yang Ren has three sons: Guan Yi, Guan Er, Guan Wu. The first son of the Guanyi, the word a yuan, the number of Yat Zhai, 1266 - 1330 years in the world. According to the county records, the Ten Mile Temple was built because the hermit Yang Guanyi rested here, which shows that Yang Guanyi was a famous hermit at that time. Yang Ren relocated to Danyang after the sixth generation, has been Yang Yi's nineteenth generation, class generation word for "Qi", Yang A Yang's began to send out five rooms, respectively, the big room Qi three, two room Qi fifteen, three room Jane, four room Qi twenty-five, five room Qi ten, time about in Ming Chenghua and the Jiajing occasion. The distribution of the five houses, so that the scale of Yang A village is beginning to form. To the Zhong Zi generation (Yang Yi's 30th), the big house branch and Zhongbai, Zhongshan two people moved to live in Duanzhuang, another one moved to the neighboring village Caozhuang. Today, Yangjia Village has more than 100 households with a population of more than 350.
Yang Ren's younger brother, Gao Sanguo moved to Yangxiang, east of Erling, and settled in the village of Yangxiang, becoming the founder of the village of Yangxiang. Development so far there are more than 220 households with the surname Yang, population of more than 600, the size of the city than the south of Yang A is also large, formerly divided into six production teams, can be said to be thriving. The village originally also had a shrine, the hall number is also "four know", two into four rooms, enshrined in the high three Gong and other ancestors of the tablets, but unfortunately no longer exists today. The Yangs of Yangxiang Village were also divided into five houses. Due to the large population, there were several branches moved out to form new Yang villages. For example, the Yang family of the South Zuo Tomb Bridge in Erling Town and the Yang family of the Shijiaqiao Bridge in Rizhuang are all Yang villages that were formed by the Yang family name moving out from Yangxiang.
The years are long, the stars shift, these two branches of the Yang family in Danyang has been more than seven hundred years, melons and gourds, branches and leaves. And now mostly for Yang Yi's 32 - 35 generations. Most of them adhering to the ancestral style, or farming or reading, or work or Jia, live and work in peace and happiness.
Danyang Yang also famous people. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a literary scholar Yang Zhida, the word Ercheng, generous and negative temperament, high moral character. Authored "Liuxi outside the collection", "Lianshan set", "Mr. An Lou biography"; the Qing Dynasty poet Yang Jiashi, word Qinggu, genius and agile, in the event of righteousness and chivalry. With Jing Shaowu, Cuji, material Houqing, etc. **** knot gin society. Poetry is bold, winning place is close to Duling, in the Jia Dao between the very moment of human flourishing; contemporary famous painter Yang Qun (Yang Qin), fine calligraphy, seal carving, finger-painting, the creation of the "Jinshi chafing" charcoal and ink paintings, authored the "collection of paintings of Yang Qun", "Yang Qun seal carving selection" and "inscription and painting trekking; and the Zhengzhe Painting Academy President, a senior art master Yang Chao, his works have repeatedly exhibited and won awards in the country, authored the "National Exhibition". He is the director of Zhengze Painting Institute, a senior artist Yang Chao, whose works have been exhibited in many national exhibitions and awarded prizes, and is the author of Yang Chao Art Anthology and Yang Chao Hundred Goose Paintings. Yang Qun Yang Chao father and son hometown for Rizhuang Yang Lane, the Department of high three Gong's descendants.