Ancient poems about the surname Ye
◆Ranking of the surname Ye Currently, the surname Ye ranks 49th among the 100 common surnames in China, especially in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places with the largest number of people and the most dense distribution. Overseas, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines still have the most people. Chinese people with the surname Ye have spread to many places around the world.
◆Origin of the surname Ye (Yè Ye) has four origins:
1. It comes from the surname Mi. After Zhuanxu's descendant Ye Gong, he took the fief as his surname. According to the "General Meanings of Customs" and "Tongzhi·Clan Profile·Taking Yi as Clan" and other materials, Zhuanxu's descendant Shen Zhuliang, also known as Ye Gong, Ye Gong is the Ye Gong in the idiom "Ye Gong loves dragons", and his original name is Shen Zhu Liang, also known as Zi Gao, was the son of Shen Yinxu, the left Sima of the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period. He was an outstanding talent. During the period of King Hui of Chu, he was appointed as the chief executive of Ye Yi, an important town in the north of the Chu State. Because Yin Tong of Chu County was called "Gong", he was called "Gong". "Ye Gong". Ye Gong built water conservancy projects in Ye Yi, which greatly improved the local living environment, and the people in the city "were all appreciative of it". He put down the Bai Gong rebellion, held important positions but did not care about power. He bravely retired and retired to Yeyi until his old age. His descendants took Yi as their surname, Yeyi became the ancestral place of the Ye family, and Ye Gong became the ancestor of the Ye family.
2. From Ye Tiaoguo. Ye Tiao is the name of an ancient country. Its hometown is Java Island or Sumatra Island in today's Indonesia. In the sixth year of Yongjian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, an envoy was sent to China to establish friendly relations. Most of the immigrants who came to China from Ye Diao country took Ye as their surname and passed on the name Zhubo.
3. Comes from ancient Chinese surnames. Among the ancient Chinese surnames, "Ye Yang" and "Ye Dafu" are no longer seen today. Following the rule of converting two-character and three-character surnames into single-character surnames, Ye Yang and Ye Dafu were later changed to Ye.
4. The surname Ye comes from other origins and ethnic minorities:
① According to the "Text of Surnames", there were quite a few people in Rinan County (now in Vietnam) of the ethnic minorities in southern my country in ancient times. Those with Ye as their surname. For example, Ye Xiong, a native of Wu State in the Spring and Autumn Period, is a descendant of the southern ethnic minorities.
② The Manchu Nala clan, the Yehel clan, the De'ang Hai clan, Taiwanese aborigines, Yi, Mongolian, Tujia, Xibo, Baoan, Hui, Miao and other ethnic groups all have the surname Ye.
The ancestor who got the surname: Ye Yegao. In ancient times, Lu Zhong, a descendant of Zhuan Xu, had six sons, the youngest of whom was named Ji Lian. The descendants of Ji Lian once served as the teachers of King Wen of Zhou Dynasty. They were granted the title of King Zhou Cheng in the area of Jingshan Mountain (today's western Hubei Province). They founded the country as Jing and established the capital Danyang. Later, they moved the capital to Ying and changed the country's name to Chu. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Xu, the great-grandson of King Zhuang of Chu, served as Yin of Shen County (now Linquan County, Anhui Province) during the reign of King Ping of Chu, and his descendants took Shen as their surname. After Xu, he served as Zuo Sima of the Chu State. He was an upright man and hated evil as much as his enemies. He was deeply respected by the people of Chu. In the eighteenth year of King Chu Zhao (498 BC), he died heroically in a battle with the Wu army. King Chu Zhao then named his son Shen Zhuliang as Yin in Ye. Shen Zhuliang inherited his father's ambition and once put down the rebellion of Bai Gongsheng to restore King Hui. He made great contributions to the state of Chu. He was granted the title of Nanyang and was given the title of Duke. The world respected him as Ye Gong. So the descendants took Yi as their surname, and Shen Zhuliang was revered as the ancestor of the surname Ye. Because of his high surname, descendants also used to call him Ye Yegao.
◆Migration Distribution 1. After the death of Ye Gong, during the Warring States Period, when the Qin State destroyed Chu, in order to avoid the disaster of annihilation, one or several of his descendants changed the name of Shen to Ye, respecting all the people of Shen. Liang was the ancestor and lived in Hejian, Hebei, Yongzhou, Shaanxi, and Xiapi, Jiangsu. This is why although Ye County is the ancestral homeland of the Ye surname, there are not many people with the Ye surname. Most of the Ye surnames in Henan are those who later moved south and returned to their hometown.
2. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, as various ethnic minorities aspired to dominate the Central Plains, some of the descendants of the Ye family who migrated to Shaanxi and Hebei migrated south, and some returned to the Central Plains. At this time, a group represented by the "Nanyang Ye family" was formed. aristocratic family concept.
3. The Tang and Song dynasties were the most frequent periods of migration for the surname Ye. This time, due to the large number of branches, the migrations were irregular. Some escaped from the chaos at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and some served as officials in the Song Dynasty and traveled south with the Song family. Among them, one group moved from Ye County, Henan to Gushi and Guangshan, which had a great influence on the subsequent migration of the Ye surname. Ye Ang, Ye Zhu and Ye Ting, who moved to Fujian in the late Song Dynasty, became the ancestors of the Ye surnames in Anbing, Fuling and Lianxi. People with the surname Ye, who had lived in Xiapi for generations, also moved to Kuozhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang in large numbers at this time. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, people named Ye emerged in large numbers, and the surname Ye became a famous surname in Jiangnan.
4. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with the rise of Western industrial civilization, people with lofty ideals in the coastal areas went overseas to develop one after another, including those named Ye. A large number of people crossed the sea to Taiwan in the Ming Dynasty, and even more people went to Taiwan to start businesses in the Qing Dynasty. It can be said that there is no branch of the Hakkas surnamed Ye in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong that has not developed overseas. The Ye family currently living in Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan are all descendants of them. There are more than 200,000 people with the surname Ye in Taiwan, ranking 20th among all major surnames.
5. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the descendants of the Ye family from the coastal areas, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan began to spread to Southeast Asian countries, especially Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and other countries. The sages and elites named Ye appeared. Yap Ah Lai, who lived in Malaysia, and his descendants became a prominent clan in the Malay Archipelago.
At present, the surname Ye has experienced thousands of years of reproduction and has now traveled all over the world. Especially Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and other places have the largest number of people and the most dense distribution. Overseas, Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines still have the most people. Chinese people with the surname Ye have spread to many places around the world. The surname Ye ranks 49th among the 100 most common surnames in China today. It has a large population, accounting for about 0.41% of the country's Han population.
◆Historical celebrity Ye Shi: a native of Yongjia, Wenzhou (now part of Zhejiang Province), a materialist philosopher and thinker in the Song Dynasty, the master of the Yongjia School, an official to the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and the author of "Records of Study", "Collected Works of Mr. Shui Xin" etc.
Ye Xin: a native of Songjiang, Shanghai, a famous painter in the Qing Dynasty and one of the "Eight Jinling Painters".
Ye Xie: A native of Wujiang (now part of Jiangsu Province), he was a writer in the Qing Dynasty. He was good at theory and wrote books such as "Yuan Shi".
Ye Zi: A native of Yiyang, Hunan, a modern novelist. His works include "Harvest", "A Night in a Mountain Village" and "Star".
Ye Ting: a native of Huiyang, Guangdong Province, a Chinese proletarian military strategist and one of the founders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He led the "August 1st" Nanchang Uprising and participated in the Guangzhou Uprising. He later served as commander of the New Fourth Army and died in a plane crash.
Ye Renyu: A famous painter in the Song Dynasty. Most of the themes he painted were taken from the customs of Jiangnan merchants and Tianjia scenery. Ye Mengde: A native of Wuxian County in the Song Dynasty, he was a famous litterateur and an official to the Ministry of Household Affairs. He is the author of "Shilin Chunqiu Biography", "Shilin Jiankang Collection", "Shilin Ci", "Shilin Poetry" and other books.
Ye Xianggao: A native of Fuqing, Fujian Province today. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, he served as Minister of Rites and Dongge Bachelor. . Ye Xianzu: A native of Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, he was a dramatist of the Ming Dynasty. There are seven kinds of legends and twenty-four kinds of dramas in the works.
Ye Ziqi: A native of Longquan (now part of Zhejiang Province), a scholar of the Ming Dynasty and the author of four volumes of "Cao Mu Zi".
Ye Shaoyuan: a native of Wujiang (now part of Jiangsu Province), a writer of the Ming Dynasty. His works include "Four Types of Ye Tianliao" and so on.
Ye Yunlai: A native of Guangxi and a general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. While defending Anqing and fighting against the Hunan Army, unfortunately the city was lost and people died.