Yan's name and totem:
Yan, or rather, is the place between the eyebrows. It is composed of Yan Yan and Page. Page refers to a person's head, similar to the initial consonant in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is used as a radical to represent a person's head. Yan, originally meant to be a wise man, has outstanding talents and virtues and is praised by people. Yan also refers to the richness of facial expressions, which means that there are many colors, which gradually develop and stand out. Commonly used in names of people, words and places.
The origin and evolution of Yan surname;
There are two main branches of Yan surname: Cao surname and Ji surname.
The first one is Cao. Zhuan Xu, son of the Yellow Emperor. Zhu Rong, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, and Ann, the fifth son of Lu Zhong, the son of Wu Hui, are all surnamed Cao. After the demise of Shang Dynasty, Cao, a descendant of Feng 'an, was trapped in Yan State, which is now the southeast of Zou County, Shandong Province. At first it was the vassal state of Luhou, and later it spread to the fifth, the father of Wu Gongyi. His name is Yan, and there is such a name in history. His son is sealed in the clouds, and his name is Xiaoyun. Yan Yan's descendants are named after their roles. This Yan family has a history of nearly 2700 years.
The second expenditure comes from Ji's surname. In the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was named Lu Hou. Because Duke Zhou assisted the royal family in Beijing, he made his eldest son the king of Lu. One of Birchin's sons was made a marquis in Yi Yan, and then took the fief as his surname.
Inflow of foreign genes:
The third one is foreign. Yan's extended family rarely blended into foreign blood, which did not appear until the Song Dynasty. The surname of Northern Jin was Wan Yan, and later changed to Han Yan. A Yan surname in Jiangxi came from Bo Yan, Jiangxi's envoy in Yuan Dynasty. All the Eight Banners in Manchu Dynasty were surnamed Yan Tashi, and later they all collectively changed their surnames to Yan. With the passage of time, most of these foreign Yan surnames assimilated into surnames.
The distribution and migration of Yan surname in history;
During the pre-Qin period, Yan people lived in Shandong. During the Han and Jin Dynasties, Shandong was still the center, with Hebei in the west and Jiangsu in the south. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they arrived in Yongjia, and Yan people crossed the Yangtze River and entered Nanjing. Soon, Yan was found in Anhui, Zhejiang and other places. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, Yan spread from Shandong, Hebei and Henan to Sichuan and Jiangnan. At the end of the Five Dynasties, Yan was introduced to Fujian via Jiangxi. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Yan's surname was more widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, and it entered the provincial capital of Taiwan Province during the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, there were about 90,000 people surnamed Yan, accounting for 0. 12% of the national population, ranking 123. The province with the largest Yan surname is Jiangxi, accounting for about 25% of the total population of Yan surname in China. In China, Yan is mainly distributed in Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Shandong, accounting for 63% of Yan's total population, followed by Fujian, Hubei, Guangdong, Anhui and Sichuan. Yan surnames in the whole country are mainly concentrated in a zone connecting Fujian with Shandong, Jiangsu and Jiangxi.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were about 65438+ ten thousand people surnamed Yan, accounting for 0. 1 1% of the national population, ranking 140. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the population of Yan surname hardly increased, because almost all surnames in the north were hurt by the war, and Yan surname was no exception. Throughout the country, Yan surnames are mainly distributed in Fujian, Shandong and Zhejiang, accounting for about 54% of the total population of Yan surnames, followed by Jiangsu, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangdong, and another 32% are concentrated in these places. Fujian has become the largest province of Yan surname, accounting for about 27% of the total population of Yan surname. During the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the overall distribution pattern of Yan surname changed greatly, and the population mainly migrated to the southeast and south, which was closely related to the people who migrated to the southeast because of the war in the Central Plains. The whole country and Fujian have re-formed the Yan population belt.
Yan's contemporary population is nearly 1.7 million, ranking 1 12 in China, accounting for about 0. 13% of the national population. During the period from 1000 since the Song Dynasty, the population of Yan has increased exponentially. At present, the distribution in China is mainly concentrated in Hunan, Guangxi and Hubei provinces, accounting for about 33% of Yan's total population, followed by Shandong, Fujian, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Taiwan Province, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, accounting for 48% of Yan's total population. Hunan is the hometown of Yan's total population 12% and the largest province in Yan. Form the distribution of Yan surnames around Hunan, Hubei and Guangxi.
Yan surname is widely distributed, but it is not balanced. The distribution frequency of Yan's surname in the population shows that Hunan, Guiqiong, Fujian and Taiwan, most of Guangdong, Jiangxi, southern Zhejiang, southern Hubei, most of Guizhou, southeastern Yunnan, northern Sichuan, eastern Qinghai, central and western Gansu, the border area of Su Ru and eastern Heiji account for more than 0.22% of the local population, and the central region can reach more than 2.2%, covering the above areas. In Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shanghai, northeastern Jiangxi, southeastern Henan, northern Hubei, southwestern Shaanxi, southeastern Gansu, western Ningxia, western Inner Mongolia, Yun Chuan, Chongqing, northwestern Guizhou, western Heilongjiang, and central Jilin, the frequency of Yan's surname in the crowd is between 0. 1 1%-0.22%.
Strict traditional culture;
Yanshi County is Langxie, Donglu and Jiangdu. Yan's important hall number is Tang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yan Hui, a disciple of Confucius, was named as the main hall of the "Hot God Pavilion". Yan Hui was poor and studious, never angry and never failed. Confucius and Mencius, a virtuous teacher, was later evaluated as ZTE. Confucius is the most sacred, Mencius is the most sacred, and Yan Zi is the most sacred.
Yan has four important couplets:
The door is studious; Wang Chengtu.
Fuyuan; Fengjie
Loyal brothers; The family advised their children and grandchildren.
Uncle won't lie to the darkroom; Filial piety is a town god.
Family precepts Yan family precepts should be Yan family precepts in Yan Zhitui in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. From what he heard, saw and suffered, he extracted an experience of settling down: fathers and brothers can't rely on them forever, and villages and countries can't protect them forever. Once displaced and sheltered, he should think highly of himself and write 20 articles to advise future generations from 0755 to 79000. This family motto, praised by later generations as "ancient and modern family precepts, taking it as the ancestor", has a wide range of contents and can be called an important educational classic in ancient China. He believes that parents' words and deeds have the greatest influence on their children. "Believe what they say and what they love; Walk with the same life and serve it. " Advocate loving children without favoritism, parents are dignified and kind, children are afraid of filial piety, and oppose "loving without teaching". It also advocates that brothers, friends and brothers should be polite and husband and wife should be obedient. The beauty of plundering people is not their own, and the wealth of plundering people must be brought to justice. Reading for yourself can make up for your own shortcomings, and reading for others can benefit the world. All these epigrams follow Confucianism and blend into Buddhist philosophy.
Celebrity frequency and family sages:
From 755 to 79000, * * has five names 1 1 person, accounting for 0.25% of the total number of celebrities, ranking 83rd in the celebrity surname list; Yan's famous writers account for 0.25% of the total writers in China, ranking 84th. Yan's famous doctors account for 0.09% of the total number of medical doctors in China, ranking 15 1. Master Yan accounts for 0. 18% of the total number of artists in China, ranking 93rd.
The important figures of Yan surname in history are: Yan Yuan, a disciple of Confucius at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period; Yan Anle, the pioneer of Yan Studies in the Western Han Dynasty: Yan Yanzhi, a poet in the Southern and Song Dynasties; Yan Zhitui, a writer and thinker in the Northern and Northern Qi Dynasties; Yan Shigu, an exegetist in the Tang Dynasty; Yan Zhenqing, a minister and calligrapher; Yan Gaoqing, a brother of Changshan; Painter Yan Hui at the end of Song and Yuan Dynasties; Yan Jizu, governor of Shandong Province in Ming Dynasty, and Yan Jun, representative of Taizhou School; Yan yuan