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The lineage belongs to the Boyi and Yan families, with the ancestors being Jiang Shang, Yi Zhong Nian, and Nian Fu. Ming Dynasty Hongdong Big Huai Tree Immigrant Nian Shi Shi Shi
Ancestors were from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other counties. In the early Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to concentrate on the relocation of the large locust tree in Hongdong to a different place,
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu
Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places.
The earliest record of the surname Nian can be found in the Ming Dynasty's "Genealogy of Ten Thousand Surnames".
There are four main sources of surnames:
① Derived from the surname of ancestors. According to "Searching for the Roots of Chinese Surnames", during the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of King Ling of Zhou, Nian Fu,
Due to the chaos in the Zhou royal family, his descendants took his name and year as their surname.
② Originating from the surname Jiang. According to the "History of Lu", there were descendants of Jiang Shang, the Duke of Qi, who had the surname Nian.
③ Derived from taking my grandfather's name as my surname. In the Spring and Autumn period, Duke Xiang of Qi was killed by Qi generals Lian Biao and others for his promiscuity, and was appointed as Qi Xiang
Duke's uncle, the son of Yi Zhongnian, was ignorant and became a ruler. One month after ascending the throne, he was killed again, causing a great chaos in the state of Qi. Fortunately, it continued
Duke Huan of Qi was wise and wise, which brought the state of Qi back to safety. The ignorant son was killed in just one month because his father was a ruler
Taking the name and year of my grandfather's Yizhong year as my surname.
④ Originating from the change of the Yan surname. According to the "Biography of Nian Fu" in the "History of Ming", in the early Ming Dynasty, the Minister of Revenue, Nian Fu, originally had the surname Yan,
To avoid the disaster of war, I changed my surname to Nian. His descendants took the year as their surname.
The county names with the surname Nian mainly include Huaiyuan County. Huaiyuan County: Established in the third year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (574 AD), with its capital located in Huaiyuan County (now east of Yinchuan City, Ningxia, on the west bank of the Yellow River).
The Chinese Dictionary of Names includes 4 examples of the Nian family, while the Chinese Dictionary of Names throughout the ages includes 5 examples.
Famous historical figures with the surname Nian in the Ming Dynasty were Nian Fu, Huaiyuan Ren, and the Minister of Revenue; In the Qing Dynasty, there was a neighbor named Ru, who lived in Yangzhou and followed the heavens,
He is skilled in painting mountains, rivers, bamboo, and stones, and has a long history of life. He was a member of the Han army who set the Yellow Banner, and his sons were mathematicians Nian Xiyao and Nian Gengyao.
According to the seventh national census, there are 599 people surnamed Nian in Shanxi Province, 11 in Linfen City, and 2 in Hongdong County.
The ancestral deity with the surname "Nian" is enshrined in the No. 1 sacrificial cabinet of the Ancestral Hall in the Da Huai Tree Scenic Area of Hongdong.
Migration: The ancestors of the Han Zhuangnian family migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Zhangjia, North of Hanzhuang Town, Henan Province in the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty; In the early Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of the Erqi clan moved from Hongdong in Shanxi to Qiliyan in Erqi District, Henan Province; The ancestor of the Gongyi Nian family moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Nanhedu Village, Gongyi, Henan Province in the early Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty; The ancestors of the Xinzheng Nian family migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Houzhuang Village, Xinzheng, Henan Province in the early Ming Dynasty.