Lineage of the 关 families of Taishan

Zhaozhi Art name Qi'an; called Jingqi Taigong Founding ancestor^[1][2][3][4][edit]

肇治 号器庵，称景器太公 始祖

At nineteen passed the metropolitan examination of the jiazi year, the 2nd year of Qiande under Emperor Taizu of Song, and was granted jinshi status; compiler of the Hanlin Academy, with the rank of Chengwulang; in the 7th year of Kaibao promoted to grand secretary of the Left Spring Palace, with the rank of Fengzhi Dafu; for answering the emperor out of order, demoted to assistant prefect of Gugang Prefecture

十九岁登宋太祖乾德二年甲子科会试，赐进士及第，翰林院修撰承务郎；开宝七年擢左春坊大学士，奉直大夫；因奏对失序，谪古冈州州同

Born at the chen hour of the 17th day of the 11th month of the jiachen year of Kaiyun under Emperor Chu of the Later Jin of the Five Dynasties (944); died on the 2nd day of the 2nd month of the 19th year of Emperor Zhenzong of Song; lived to seventy-three

生于后五代晋出帝开运甲辰年（944）十一月十七日辰时，终于宋真宗十九年二月初二日，享寿七十三岁

Originally from Gaoliang Township, Zhenning County, Jianning Prefecture, Fujian; after five years as assistant prefect of Gugang Prefecture, to which he had been demoted, resigned and chose to settle in Tanyali, Shibei du (today Siqian in Xinhui)

原籍福建建宁府甄宁县高梁乡；谪古冈州州同五年，辞官卜居石碑都谈雅里（今新会司前）

The Guan of Taishan come from Tanyali in Xinhui and honor him as their founding ancestor. He was the third of his brothers; his eldest brother Zhaoji came with him to his post and later moved to Jiujiang Township, Nanhai; his second brother Zhaoqiu came with him to his post and later moved to Huanglian Township, Shunde. His wife, née Zhan, was granted the title Chongde Yiren; she lived to sixty-five and is buried with him in the saddle-shaped stirrup grave site on Doudong Hill in Taishan. They had five sons: the eldest Keping, the second Keqin, the third Kejian, the fourth Kezhong, the fifth Keshu; Keqin of the 2nd generation founded the Jiujiang branch and lived with his uncle Zhaoji. Xiong Yuqun's article, citing the Kangxi-era “Genealogy of the Guan of Tuofu”, calls him Guan Jingqi, first ancestor in Guangdong.

台山关姓来源于新会谈雅里，奉其为始祖。排行第三，长兄肇箕随宦来，后迁南海九江乡；次兄肇裘随宦来，后迁居顺德黄莲乡。配湛氏，赠封崇德宜人，享寿六十五岁，与公合葬于台山斗峒冈马鞍形镫穴。生五子：长克评，次克勤，三克俭，四克忠，五克恕；二世克勤开支九江房，与伯父肇箕同居。熊育群文据康熙《驼驸关氏族谱》称其为入粤始祖关景器。

Sources differ: Name: the first paragraph of the government website article has “Zhaozhi,” while a later paragraph of the same article and the forum reprint have “Zhaoye”; the entry for the “Genealogy of the Guan of Tanya” has “Guan Zhaozhi.” Original home: this article gives Gaoliang Township, Zhenning County, Jianning Prefecture, Fujian; the genealogy entry gives Gaoliang, Zhenning County, Fujian; Xiong Yuqun's article gives Jianning County, Fujian. How he came south: this article says he was demoted to assistant prefect of Gugang Prefecture and that his eldest and second brothers “came with him to his post”; the genealogy entry says he “moved south with his two brothers in the Taiping Xingguo period of the Northern Song”; Xiong Yuqun's article says that in the Kaibao period of the Northern Song he was demoted to Gangzhou from the post of scholar of the Left Spring Palace in the crown prince's Eastern Palace. Where his second brother moved: this article has Huanglian Township, Shunde, and the genealogy entry Huanglian Township, Shunde, with a different character for lian. Birth year and examination: this article says he was born in the jiachen year of Kaiyun (944) and passed the jiazi examination of the 2nd year of Qiande “at nineteen”; jiachen and jiazi are twenty years apart, so the two do not agree.

名字：政府网首段作「肇治」，同文下段及论坛转载本作「肇冶」；《谈雅关氏族谱》条目作「关肇治」。原籍：本文作福建建宁府甄宁县高梁乡，族谱条目作福建甄宁县高梁，熊育群文作福建建宁县。南来经过：本文称其谪古冈州州同，长兄、次兄「随宦来」；族谱条目称其「北宋太平兴国间随二兄南徙」；熊育群文称其北宋开宝年间于太子东宫左春坊学士位上贬职冈州。次兄所迁之地，本文作顺德黄莲乡，族谱条目作顺德黄连乡。生年与登科：本文称其生于开运甲辰年（944），「十九岁」登乾德二年甲子科；甲辰至甲子相距二十年，两者不合。

Moved away to: Gaoliang Township, Zhenning County, Jianning Prefecture, Fujian 福建建宁府甄宁县高梁乡, Tanyali, Xinhui (today Siqian, Xinhui) 新会谈雅里（今新会司前）