There is a consensus about the origin of Yuan, that is, "after Wu Ding". So, who is "Wu Ding"?

Wu Ding: Wang Yin's name. Pan Geng's younger brother, Xiaoji's son.

After Pan Geng's death, national strength declined. Wu Dingli, with Fu Shuo as the prime minister, was diligent in politics and gradually grew. He reigned for 59 years and was called Emperor Gaozong after his death. (Etymology -2, Commercial Press, p. 1980)

In addition, Yin Wuding's son was sealed in the garden first, and later thought it was his surname. See Tongzhi Erliu clan Erxia and the former Shang Dynasty. (Etymology -4, Commercial Press 1983, p. 264 1)

Thirdly, Pan Geng: the monarch of the Shang Dynasty, the son of the grandson of the ninth Tang Dynasty, and his half-brother Yang Jia ascended the throne. The royal family is in decline. Pan Geng led buddhist nun (now Qufu, Shandong Province) to move to Yin (now Anyang, Henan Province). Business revival. History is called Yin Shang. See Yin Ji in Historical Records (Etymology -3, Commercial Press, page 2 1983).

According to the above historical records, our ancestor was Wu Ding, the Emperor of Yin and Shang Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago. Emperor Wuding gave his descendants a seal in his garden. The emperor's garden was called Yuan, so all his descendants took Yuan as their surname. There are some objections here. It is mentioned that "the land is sealed in the garden", so it is more likely that the land is called "garden". )

For thousands of years, the noble and ancient surname "Yuan" has flourished in China. Widely distributed in Shandong, Shanghai, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Guangdong, Northeast China and other places.

According to legend, during the Ming Dynasty, Wu yuanshi county's family originally lived in Qingyuan County, Baoding. The original people have a large population, but they have not separated, so they are called big families. Because of his fame, he was framed by Yan Song, a traitor of the Ming Dynasty, and killed by four people. At that time, a very small number of people escaped specifically, and now there is no verification record.

Famous examples are He Ji of Qi Guoyuan, Yuan Kang of Eastern Han Dynasty, Yuan Zhangjun of Tang Dynasty, Fan Yuan of Ming Dynasty and lyna of Qing Dynasty.

It seems that Yuan's history is also very long. However, why are there not many people now, and why are they not included in the hundred surnames? This reason may not be easy to find, but from the legend recorded above, we might as well make a guess: Yuan's surname was inhabited by the ancients and concentrated in ancient times, while Hundred Family Names was written by a scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty, and they may not know anything about such a surname with a narrow range of activities. This explains why there is no Yuan surname in Hundred Family Names. And the number is small, it is estimated that it has something to do with the catastrophe, and it can also be felt from the legend above-living in a compact community is very vulnerable to fatal blows.

I finally got some answers to my questions, and I am full of pride in my last name. The following is the Yuanxing family legend recorded by Yuanxing netizens:

In the Ming dynasty, the prince of Yan swept across the north, and Yuan's family flourished with a large population. At that time, it was called "Qianjin Ding", but it was not separated. Sun Wangxing is not suitable for typesetting. So today's typesetting is different. At that time, everyone and the shopkeeper were under the age of twelve, and there was no need to be distracted when they got married after twelve. At that time, the minister of the DPRK was studying frontier fortress. I heard that the 12-year-old children of Yuan family were shopkeepers and led thousands of troops to come home to study and explore. He saw the shopkeeper say, I heard that you are only twelve years old, so I will give you a question and you can answer it. Say that finish, I took out three pears, let the manned to hordes. The shopkeeper thought about it, asked someone to chop the pears into mud, found several large vats, filled them with water, and then opened the pears. Then go back to your Excellency: please use it. Adults will blush after reading it. It is difficult for a small shopkeeper to eat jiaozi with hordes. The adults watched the children keep laughing, but the children were not too busy. They told Bao jiaozi, the maid, that after a while, all the tribes ate jiaozi. The adults don't understand, so they go to the kitchen to watch. If they don't look at it, they will get into trouble. Adults see the bright kitchen, and men go out to pack jiaozi plate by plate, wondering. I took a closer look, and it turned out to be the "cornucopia" creature at the entrance of my garden, which he fished. Adults are embarrassed to take people away. Later, he told Yu back and forth: Yuan family is known as the Golden Triangle, and there is a cornucopia at home. When a child reaches the age of twelve, it is unstoppable and will be reversed afterwards. Upon hearing this, the emperor ordered Yuan to seize the property, and all Yuan's children fled, and then Yuan separated. So now there are Yuan family members all over the country. This is handed down from the old man. My grandfather said that when our family fled, we didn't get the general book. He only said that he saw two or three words mixed with three generations, but the Yuan family was everywhere. In order to know about it.