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The surname Yang, one of the Chinese surnames, is said to have originated from the state of Yang in the spring and Autumn period (now Hongdong County, Shanxi Province). It is the surname of the Sui Dynasty and the Southern Wu Dynasty. It is a typical multi-ethnic and multi-source surname, mainly derived from the surname Ji and the surname change of ethnic minorities. Yang boqiao is the ancestor of the surname De.

The surname Yang ranks the 16th in the song edition of hundred surnames. As of February 2015, the total population of Yang was about 42.7 million, the sixth largest in China. Among them, Sichuan has a population of about 3.8 million, which is the largest province of the Yang family.

"Yang" means the sun, which is composed of "wood" and "wood". "Wood" refers to Fusang, also known as poplar, which grows in Tanggu (in today's Lianyungang Yunhe mountain) on the East Sea. "Wood" is the same as "Yang" in ancient times, which is the image description of "Risheng Tanggu". The ancestor of this totem is the ancient Yang family, which produced the family emblem of the Yang family and eventually formed the surname.

Historical development

Originator

The origin of Yang's surname mainly includes:

1. From Ji family name:

It comes from the royal family of the Western Zhou Dynasty after the Yellow Emperor. There are three versions, all of which originated from the royal family of the Zhou Dynasty.

① It originated from the grandson of King Wu of Zhou Dynasty, the second son of Shu Yu, the younger brother of the father of Hou Xie of Jin Dynasty. When Duke Wu of Jin Dynasty (the 11th grandson of Shuyu), he granted his second son to Yang and called him Marquis Yang. He was the ancestor of Yang people.

② It comes from the eldest father of Prince Xuan of Zhou Dynasty. During the period of King Xuan, Jijing, King Xuan of Zhou, granted his son's father to the state of Yang (now Hongdong County, Shanxi Province). He was Marquis of Yang. In the spring and Autumn period, Yang was destroyed by Jin, and his descendants took Yang as their surname.

③ It comes from boqiao, the son of Jinwu. After the destruction of Yang in Jin Dynasty, the land of Yang was granted as the food town of the senior official Yang Tongyu (Zi Shuxiang). The yangshe surname comes from the Ji surname. Because Tu, the grandson of boqiao, the second son of Duke Wu of Jin Dynasty, lived in yangshe at that time, he took yangshe as his surname. In the 12th year of Qinggong of Jin Dynasty (514 BC), the yangshe family was destroyed and my son Yang Dao fled to Huashan. He lived in Huayin, Hongnong. He took his ancestral fiefdom Yang as his surname. His descendants established their foundation all over the country and became the mainstream of Yang's reproduction and development.

2. From Yang

In ancient times, Yang Yang took the capital as his surname.

3. From the change of surname:

The change of Yang's surname is mainly composed of homology, refuge, avoiding hatred, adoption, adoption, giving surname and minority nationality's change of surname.

① Surname granted: Yang Yichen's original surname is weichi's, which is one of the eight surnames of nobility in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Wei chichong, the father of the righteous minister, and Daxi Changru, the general manager of the army in the early Sui Dynasty, fought against Turks and died. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty issued an imperial edict to grant a righteous minister the surname of Yang because he recalled Wei Chi's achievements. During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang gave the local minorities surnames Zhao, Zhang, Yang, Li and so on after calming down Ailao Yi.

② Adopted: Yang Feilong, the leader of the clan in the Western Jin Dynasty, adopted his nephew Linghu maosou and changed his surname to Yang. Yang Fuguang, originally named Qiao, was raised in Yang Xuanjia's family when he was young, so he changed his surname to Yang. Yang Shouliang was originally named Zi Liang. When Yang Fuguang pacified the Yellow nest uprising army in Jiangxi Province, he got Zi Liang and raised him as a false son. He changed his surname to Yang and changed his name to Shouliang.

③ Refuge: the Yang surname of kuanpu in Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province, was changed by the Ni surname. Ni Yong, the eighth grandson of Ni Ying, was a Bachelor of LongTuge in Song Dynasty. He was exiled to Xinzhou because he opposed Wang Anshi's reform. At that time, Ni Shunshang, the youngest son of Ni Xuan, was in his infancy, hiding in Pu's foreign home. When the government got rid of it, the maternal grandmother Meng's family changed to the younger brother-in-law and was saved. And Ni Shun grew up, mechanics are excellent, read foreign Yang's grace, changed to Yang.

④ Ethnic minorities changed their surnames: after Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved his capital to Luoyang, he implemented the policy of sinicization, in which mohulu was changed to Yang. In the Bai nationality, the surname Yang has always been the main surname, belonging to the Chinese surname.

Yang boqiao, also known as Wenshi, is the younger brother of Xiangong. Wang Xiang of Zhou Dynasty still granted Bo Qiao the title of Marquis of Yang, inheriting the title of Marquis of Yang and posthumous title of Xian Jing.

Migration communication

The birthplace of the surname Yang is in today's Shanxi Province. In the spring and Autumn period, when Yang was destroyed by Jin Dynasty, his surname developed and multiplied westward. He first moved to Shaanxi Province, then to Huoxian County in the middle reaches of Fenshui River in Shanxi Province, and then to Henan Province.

During the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, the Yang people moved to Jianghan area (now Qianjiang area of Hubei Province). Later, due to the continuous strengthening of Chu power, they moved southeast to Jiangxi. At the same time, some of the Yang people moved from Shanxi to Jiangsu and Anhui, scattered in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, some of the Yang family moved to Hanoi and some to Feng Yi (now Dali in Shaanxi Province), which was widely distributed in northern China. At this time, the Yang family moved to Sichuan from Hubei and Shaanxi.

During the Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the "Yongjia rebellion" in the late Western Jin Dynasty, the "Anshi rebellion" in the Xuanzong period of Tang Dynasty and the "Jingkang rebellion" in the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains society was in turmoil. Many descendants of the Yang family moved southward in order to avoid the chaos, with Fujian as the center.

In 1056 A.D. (the first year of Jiayou reign of emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty), Yang Hui, the ancestor of most residents with the surname Yang in Chaoshan, abandoned his official and went south in his later years. He came to guanxidu of Haiyang county (Xianqiao and Meiyun in Rongcheng District today) to settle down and create Chaqiao village. One branch of the Yang family propagated here and moved to Chaoshan.

Yangcuo of Fenghu is located in fengjiang Town, Jiexi County. Yangmeixuan, the ancestor of Kaiji, lived in Chaqiao Township, Jieyang, and later moved to duwaisha Township, Pengzhou, Jieyang (now Chenghai). In the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, he moved to the west gate of Mianhu village in Lintian to engage in business. Yang gongdao set up more than 3300 mu of grain fields and distributed them to the sons of Confucius. Yang meixuan, the great grandson of Zhengtong in the Ming Dynasty, moved to Fenghu and became a branch of the Yang family.

At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, a large number of Yang clans from Jiangxi and Zhejiang moved to Huguang area. Subsequently, the Yang family began to migrate abroad on a large scale, mainly in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other countries in today's Southeast Asia.

population distribution

During the Song Dynasty, there were about 2.1 million people with the surname Yang, accounting for about 2.7% of the national population, ranking behind Wang, Li, Zhang, Zhao, Liu and Chen, making it the seventh largest surname in the Song Dynasty. The largest province with the surname of Yang is Sichuan. In the whole country, the distribution is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Shanxi, which account for about 46% of the total population of Yang, followed by Henan, Hebei and Hunan, which account for 20% of the total population. The country has formed three large gathering places of the surname Yang with Sichuan and Hunan, Shaanxi and Shanxi, Hebei and Henan as the center.

During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 2.4 million people with the surname Yang, accounting for about 2.5% of the national population, which was the sixth largest surname in the Ming Dynasty. In the whole country, the distribution of the surname Yang is mainly concentrated in Zhejiang (11.1%), Jiangxi (10.7%), Jiangsu (10.3%) and Shandong (10.1%), which accounts for about 42% of the total population of the surname Yang, followed by Shanxi (9.4%), Sichuan (7.8%), Fujian (7.6%), Shaanxi (5.9%) and Hunan (5.5%), which accounts for 36% of the total population of the surname Yang. Zhejiang has become the largest province with the surname of Yang. In the 600 years of song, yuan and Ming Dynasties, the net growth rate of the national population was 20%. The growth rate of the population of Yang was slower than that of the national population. The total growth rate of the population of Yang was only 13%, with a net increase of 300000. The general distribution pattern of Yang's population also changed, and the population mainly migrated to the southeast. The whole country has re formed four large areas of Yang's population, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Hunan, with the center of gravity from the west to the southeast.

At present, the total population of Yang family has exceeded 40 million, which is one of the six largest family names in China, accounting for about 3.1% of the total population. In China, the distribution is mainly concentrated in Sichuan, Henan and Yunnan, accounting for about 30% of the total population of Yang, followed by Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Hebei. Sichuan is the largest province with the surname of Yang. There are two gathering areas of Yang surname in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Hunan, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and Hubei. In the population, they are distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, most of Sichuan, southern Chongqing, Western Hunan and Northern Guangxi. The Yang family generally accounts for more than 4.5% of the local population, some 13%, accounting for 13.6% of the land area, and about 23% of the Yang family live. In Shanxi, Hebei and Henan, Beijing and Tianjin, Shaanxi and Ningxia, most of Gansu, Eastern Qinghai, Northern Xinjiang, central and northeastern Inner Mongolia, Western Heiji, most of Hubei, central and Northern Hunan, Northwestern Anhui and central Guangxi, the Yang family accounts for 3% - 4.5% of the local population, covering 27.3% of the total land area, and inhabiting about 34% of the population.

Overseas distribution

It was after the end of the Yuan Dynasty, especially after Zheng He's voyages to the West in the Ming Dynasty, that Yang family members migrated abroad in southern China, especially in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other provinces. They made a living abroad mainly to avoid natural and man-made disasters. The main areas of migration are Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and other countries in today's Southeast Asia.

After the Opium War, until the early 20th century, the main areas where Yang people moved were facing the Western Europe and the United States, either because of political asylum, or in pursuit of Western science and technology, or in search of revolutionary truth. This was also the second important period for Yang people to cross the sea.

Young's in Sabah, Malaysia

This is the first step for people surnamed yang to travel all over Southeast Asia. According to historical records, Yang Yunchuan, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province in the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty (1403-1424), crossed the sea with his army to North Borneo, which is now Sabah, Malaysia. Yunchuan was detained here for a long time, but he fell in love with the daughter of the local Lushun chief and married. After the princess died in Yunchuan, she jumped into the sea for her husband, leaving the "widow mountain" as a tourist attraction. Later, Yang Yuanchao (1858-1925), a native of Changtai in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, arrived in Singapore in 1877 and boarded with his fellow countrymen

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