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Origin of Yan surname
Origin one
They are all from Ji's surname and descended from Ji Chang. According to the records in Contemporary Surnames Spectrum, there are two surnames: Yan and Yan. Yan is a descendant of Huangdi. In the contemporary hundred surnames, after being tampered with by later generations, especially after burning books and tampering with ancient books in the Qing Dynasty, the word Yan was interpreted as a simplified word called Yan.
In Shang Dynasty, Yan was deified as a nation beyond the ruling class. 17 generations of Yan clan chiefs gave five surnames, and the later owners gave five surnames to his five descendants, Zhao, Chen, Liu, Zhang and Wang, which were handed down to future generations.
1. It is said that Taibo Zengyi was sealed in Yan Township (Yishui area, Hebei Province), and later generations took Yan as their surname, hence the name Yan.
2. According to legend, when Wang's youngest son was born, he had a word Yan on his hand, so he was sealed in Yancheng, and later generations also took Yan as their surname and called him Yan.
3. Ji Fa's son Tang Shuyu, Zhou Wuwang, founded the State of Jin. Jin succeeded in becoming Qi Huangong, and named his son Yi in (now Xia County, Shaanxi Province). After the demise of the Jin Dynasty, some of his descendants took Yan as their surname, so they also took Yan as their surname.
Liu Yuan 2
From the secret surname, from the fief of the Chu royal family, it belongs to the name of fief. During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a branch of Chu called Xiong Bowen, which was sealed in Yan Yi (now Macheng, Hubei), followed by a doctor named Yan Ao. After the destruction of Chu, Yan Ao got Yin Quan. Among his descendants, one named Yan, who took the feudal city of his ancestors as his surname, was passed down from generation to generation.
Liu Yuan 3
After 1955, Mongolian Yan nationality is often mistaken for Yan nationality.
Origin four
Originated from other ethnic minorities, it belongs to Chinese culture and changed its surname to surname.
At present, there are members of Yan clan in the Hui, Tujia, Zhuang, Miao, Dai, Gaoshan and Li ethnic minorities, and their origins were mostly changed to the Han surname Yan in the policy of keeping people in the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and the movement of changing the land to streams, which was passed down from generation to generation. After 1955, it was mistakenly written as Yan.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Yan surname