At present, the total population of Yan in China is about 6 1 10,000. The surname is Yan, pinyin Yan, ān, 202 1 year. The total population of China is about 6 10000, which is a common surname in China, ranking 204th among the top 100 surnames in China. Today, people surnamed Yan are distributed in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, Pingyi, Shandong, Taiyuan, Jiangxi, Xiajiang, Yifeng and Liu Qing, Fujian.
The origin of Yan surname:
1, from the son's surname, called Jiang surname. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Yan, a doctor of the State of Qi, was enfeoffed to Yan, which is now Yancheng in the northwest of Qihe County, Shandong Province, so he took Yan as his surname.
His descendants also followed the surname Yan, forming a branch of the surname Yan. It is the son's surname. The unearthed uncle bow bell and uncle bow shovel record the food that was given to 3,000 people after Lai was destroyed, including the words "and synthetic soup". Duke Ling of Qi once planned to marry a woman to Yan Ying. According to the ancient principle of not marrying with the same surname, you can't be surnamed Jiang. In addition, after Wei Yan's death, Yan Ying mourned his father with the etiquette of Yin people.
Both Zhong and Zuo Zhuan confirmed that Yan was a descendant of King Shang Tang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wei Yan (Huan Zi), the great grandson of Song Mugong, moved to Qi State because of political asylum, and a large number of talented people came forth. His son, Yan Ying, is the pillar of the country, and Yan family has been carried forward in Qi since then.
2. He comes from a family in Luzhong and is a descendant of Yan Zian in Luzhong. Legend has it that the fifth son of the ancient emperor Zhuan Xu was named An Yang, and his descendants took Yan as their surname. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of Yan 'an came to establish Zou, so he was also the ancestor of Cao, Zhu and Zou. See Shi Ben, Historical Records, etc.
3, from Yanlong. Yan Long, a musician in the Tang Dynasty, is the earliest person surnamed Yan in history and is considered as the ancestor of Yan. Yan Long's father is Di Ku, and Di Ku's great-grandfather is the Yellow Emperor. See Shan Hai Jing.