Lineage of the 容 families of Taishan

Translated from the Chinese, each part followed by its Chinese original. Places in Taishan are given with their pinyin; the sources’ own words (Source text) are in Chinese.

Compiled from the sources listed at the end. Every generation and every branch gives its source, and “Source text” shows the source’s own sentences; one that gives none is marked “no source”. Where a source says generations are lost or unknown, a dashed line marks the gap; where sources disagree, both are given.

According to the "Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore" (as quoted in "Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song and the Development of Agriculture in the Pearl River Delta"), Yandao, the grand ancestor of the Rong of Zhaimen, moved from the Central Plains to Zhuji and died there; his sons Shanting and Yan carried his spirit tablet to Zhaimen and soon settled there as their ancestral home; Ting's descendants live at Zhaimen and Haiyanjie, and Yan's descendants at Nacen and other places; after the Ming, men of letters appeared one after another, and each village has an ancestral hall. At Nanting Village, Naqin, Beidou Town, is the Hall of Prefect Rong, built because the village produced the father and son Rong Weihan, a gongsheng of the Ming, and Rong Wenting, a juren; Beidou Town's famous sights also include the Canggu Rong Gong Ancestral Hall and the Rong Songshan Gong Ancestral Hall.^[1][2][3][4][edit]

据《台山县乡土志》（经《宋代珠玑巷迁民与珠江三角洲农业发展》转引），寨门容氏太祖严道由中原迁珠玑逝世，子山亭、子严负神主来寨门寻祖居焉；亭子孙住寨门、海宴街，严子孙住那岑等地，明后文人辈出，各村有祠。北陡镇那琴南厅村有容太守祠，因村里出过明代贡生容维翰、举人容文烶父子而建；北陡镇的名胜古迹中还有仓谷容公祠、容松山公祠。

• Founded a line Shanting 山亭
• Founded a line Yan 严

Lineage chart

Each box is a stretch of the line; a name leads to its entry and sources below. Each branch ends in the villages it settled - a linked one opens its village page. Scroll sideways when the chart is wide.

The line in detail

A place with a link was matched to its village page within the same town; the others are as the sources write them. See the villages of the 容 surname.

References[edit]

1. "Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song and the Development of Agriculture in the Pearl River Delta", section "The Xinhui Chongque Delta Area" (reprinted on the Zupu (Genealogy) website, April 14, 2014), quoting the "Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore" 《宋代珠玑巷迁民与珠江三角洲农业发展》「新会冲缺三角洲区」节（转载于族谱网，2014年4月14日），引《台山县乡土志》
2. Huang Renfu, "The Southward Migration of the Zhuji Lane People and the Origins of the Taishan People", "Xinning Magazine", 2014, No. 1, p. 17 (quoting the "Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore" as given in "Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song and the Development of Agriculture in the Pearl River Delta") 黄仁夫：「珠玑巷人南迁与台山人的来由」，《新宁杂志》2014年第1期，第17页（转引《宋代珠玑巷迁民与珠江三角洲农业发展》所载《台山县乡土志》）
3. "Nanting Village, Beidou Town: The Hall of Prefect Rong" (selected from "Beidou's Classic of Mountains and Seas"), in the "History and Culture" section of the Beidou Town People's Government website, Taishan, November 20, 2024 「北陡镇南厅村——容太守祠」（选自《北陡山海经》），台山市北陡镇人民政府网站「历史文化」，2024年11月20日
4. "Overview of Beidou Town", in the "Town Overview" section of the Beidou Town People's Government website, Taishan, April 2, 2026 「北陡镇概况」，台山市北陡镇人民政府网站「镇街概况」，2026年4月2日
5. "Zhao", in the "Taishan Surnames" column of the Taishan Municipal Government website, July 7, 2019 「赵氏」，台山市人民政府门户网站「台山姓氏」栏目，2019年7月7日 (archived copy)