Taishan surnames › The 岑 surname
Lineage of the 岑 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 "Genealogy of the Cen of Xinning" compiled by Cen Zanxun in 1883, the Cen of Xinning take Cen Peng of the Eastern Han as their founding ancestor; Cen Yaojun of the Song (taboo name Yiyou, courtesy name Zhengshu) left office and moved from the Central Plains to Xinhui Commandery, and is the first migrant ancestor of Xinning, Guangdong. An article by Cen Rongguang says that Yaojun later established his family at Cenbian Village in Xinning County (present-day Taishan City). According to villagers of Cenbian Village in Taicheng, the Cen of Guangdong all branched out and spread from Yaojun Gong of Cenbian Village.[1][2][3][edit]
据1883年岑赞勋编修的《新宁岑氏家谱》，新宁岑氏以东汉岑彭为始祖，宋代岑尧俊（讳一猷，字正叔）去官自中州迁居新会郡，是为广东新宁始迁祖；岑荣光文称尧俊后来基业于新宁县（今台山市）岑边村。据台城岑边村乡亲介绍，广东岑氏都由岑边村尧俊公开枝散叶。
- First migrant ancestor of Xinning, Guangdong Cen Yaojun 岑尧俊 (taboo name Yiyou, courtesy name Zhengshu, another courtesy name Yaojun, art name Xianjia)
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.
- Cen Peng 岑彭 Founding ancestordescendantCen Yaojun 岑尧俊 Founded a line
- Settled · 台城 Taicheng岑边村 Cenbian Village
- Cen of Cenbian Village, Taicheng 台城岑边村岑氏
- Settled · 台城 Taicheng岑边村 Cenbian Village
Where the surname lives, by town - the sources do not say which branch:
- The 岑 families by town
- 台城 Taicheng岑边村 Cenbian Village
The line in detail
Cen Peng courtesy name Junran Founding ancestor[1][edit]
岑彭 字君然 始祖
General Who Conquers the South of the Eastern Han; enfeoffed as Marquis of Wuyin; posthumous name Marquis Zhuang
东汉征南大将军，封舞阴侯，谥壮侯
His family lived for generations at Jiyang, Nanyang
世居南阳棘阳
The "Genealogy of the Cen of Xinning" takes him as its founding ancestor.
《新宁岑氏家谱》以他为始祖。
Cen Yaojun taboo name Yiyou, courtesy name Zhengshu, another courtesy name Yaojun, art name Xianjia First migrant ancestor of Xinning, Guangdong[1][2][4][5][edit]
岑尧俊 讳一猷，字正叔，一字尧俊，号献嘉 广东新宁始迁祖
Jinshi (palace graduate) of the Song; rose through office to Shangzhuguo Qing (Supreme Pillar of State)
宋代进士，历官至上柱国卿
Lived to the age of 81
享年八十一岁
Left office and moved from the Central Plains to Xinhui Commandery (genealogy); Cen Rongguang's article says that at 51 he left office and traveled as an official to eastern Guangdong, staying on the way at Zhuji Lane in Nanxiong, and later established his family at Cenbian Village in Xinning County (present-day Taishan City)
去官自中州迁居新会郡（家谱）；岑荣光文称他五十一岁时去官宦游东粤，途中住南雄珠玑巷，后基业于新宁县（今台山市）岑边村
Eldest son of Shiheng Gong; became a jinshi at 18. The genealogy calls him the first migrant ancestor in Guangdong; Cen Rongguang's article calls him the founding ancestor of eastern Guangdong. His tomb is at Henghu, Taishan. He married four wives, née Yin, Hong, Cui and Lin, and had five sons, Yanyong, Yanyuan, Yanfu, Yangui and Yanxi; most of the Cen of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, overseas, and southeastern Guangxi today are his descendants.
世衡公长子，十八岁中进士。家谱称他为广东始迁祖，岑荣光文称粤东始祖。墓葬台山横湖。娶尹、洪、崔、林四位夫人，生岩永、岩远、岩富、岩贵、岩熙五子；今广东、港澳、海外及广西东南部岑氏族人多为他的后裔。
Sources differ: Number of sons: Cen Rongguang's article gives five sons, Yanyong, Yanyuan, Yanfu, Yangui and Yanxi; the 23mofang website, relaying the "Genealogy of the Cen of Xinning", gives four sons, Yanyong, Yanyuan, Yanfu and Yangui, and says Yaojun came into Guangdong from the Central Plains in the course of his official career in the Xianchun period of the Song.
子数：岑荣光文作岩永、岩远、岩富、岩贵、岩熙五子；23魔方网站转述《新宁岑氏家谱》作严永、严远、严富、严贵四子，并称尧俊于宋咸淳年间自中州由宦入粤。
Settled: 岑边村 Cenbian Village
Source text (Chinese)
广东新宁始迁祖 : 宋) 岑尧俊,讳一猷,字正叔,一字尧俊,号献嘉.去官自中州迁居新会郡是为广东始迁祖.
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粤东始祖—正叔公
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岑公一猷，字正叔，别字尧俊。世衡公长子，生于宋，十八岁即高中进士
[2]
历官至上柱国卿（国务委员），后去官宦游东粤，时年五十一岁，途中住南雄珠玑巷，后基业于新宁县（今台山市）岑边村。享年八十一岁，墓葬台山横湖
[2]
正叔公共娶尹、洪、崔、林四位夫人，生岩永、岩远、岩富、岩贵、岩熙五子，之后开枝发叶，子姓蕃昌，今广东、港澳、海外及广西东南部岑氏族人多为正叔公后裔
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台城岑边村
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岑尧俊于宋咸淳年间自中州由宦入粤，生严永、严远、严富、严贵四子
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Cen of Cenbian Village, Taicheng[3][4][6][edit]
台城岑边村岑氏
Cenbian Village, Taicheng, more than 800 years old; the village elders say that when Cenbian Village was founded Taicheng did not yet exist, and there is a local saying, "First there was Cenbian, then there was Taicheng"
台城岑边村，已有800多年历史；村中老人说岑边村立村时还没有台城，民间有「先有岑边，后有台城」之谚
The village has an ancestral hall and a group of ancestral tombs of Yaojun Gong. An article introducing the ancestral halls and churches of Taicheng says that the Yaojun Cen Gong Ancestral Hall, the oldest surviving, is the spiritual center that holds the Cen of the surrounding countryside together, and that all clan affairs, large and small, are held in the hall. Villagers of Cenbian said in 2018 that there are 6 villages in Taishan where Cen is the main surname, about a thousand people, and that all the Cen of Guangdong branched out and spread from Yaojun Gong of Cenbian Village, gradually spreading to Nanhai, Shunde, Jiujiang, Guangzhou, Foshan and as far as Yangjiang and Yangchun, about two hundred thousand people.
村中有祖祠和尧俊公祖墓群。介绍台城祠堂、教堂的文章称：现存最古老的尧俊岑公祠是凝聚四乡岑氏相亲的精神中心，但凡宗族大小事务都在祠堂举行。2018年岑边村乡亲介绍：台山有6条村以岑氏为主要姓氏，大概一千人；整个广东的岑氏都由岑边村尧俊公开枝散叶，逐渐分布南海、顺德、九江、广州、佛山以至阳江阳春，约二十万人。
Settled: 岑边村 Cenbian Village
Moved away to: Nanhai 南海, Shunde 顺德, Jiujiang 九江, Guangzhou 广州, Foshan 佛山, Yangjiang 阳江, Yangchun 阳春
Where they live[edit]
Villagers of Cenbian Village, Taicheng, said in 2018 that there are 6 villages in Taishan where Cen is the main surname, with about a thousand people.[3]
2018年台城岑边村乡亲介绍：台山有6条村以岑氏为主要姓氏，大概有一千人。
Source text (Chinese)
台山目前有6条村以岑氏为主要姓氏，大概有一千人
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| 台城 Taicheng | 岑边村 Cenbian Village · Has an ancestral hall and a group of ancestral tombs of Yaojun Gong 有祖祠和尧俊公祖墓群[4] |
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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 岑 surname.
References[edit]
- "Genealogy of the Cen of Xinning", 2 volumes, compiled by Cen Zanxun, 1883; genealogy catalog of the Wangzu Jiapu website (whose compilers field also lists "University of Hong Kong - Repository") 《新宁岑氏家谱》2卷，岑赞勋编修，1883年；望族家谱网家谱目录（编修人员一栏并列「University of Hong Kong - Repository」）
- Cen Rongguang, "The Founding Ancestor of Eastern Guangdong", Zupu.cn · Yanhuang Cen Clan website, December 11, 2014 岑荣光：「粤东始祖」，族谱网·炎黄岑氏网，2014年12月11日
- Zhong Lingxiu and Fang Baolin (reporters for Taishan TV), "Not Many People in Taishan Have This Surname, but They Have Accomplished This Great Thing...", Taishan Rongmei WeChat official account, June 19, 2018 钟灵秀、方宝琳（台山电视台记者）：「台山这个姓氏的人不多，但他们完成了这件大事……」，台山融媒微信公众号，2018年6月19日
- "[City News] Yesterday More Than 2,000 People Gathered at Cenbian Village in Taicheng, and It Turns Out It Was for This...", Taishan Rongmei (Baifeng website) WeChat official account, October 10, 2016 「【城事】昨天，台城岑边村聚集了2000多人，原来为了这件事……」，台山融媒（百峰网）微信公众号，2016年10月10日
- "An Analysis of the Ancestral Origins of a Branch of the Cen Family of Guangdong" (relaying the "Genealogy of the Cen of Xinning" of Guangdong), 23mofang ancestry DNA testing website 「广东岑氏家族一支祖源分析」（转述广东《新宁岑氏家谱》），23魔方祖源基因检测网站
- "Jiangmen's Distinctive Architecture Is Far More Than the Kaiping Diaolou! Every Western-Style House in Taishan Has Endless Stories to Tell!", The Paper · Pengpai Account · Government Affairs (source: Jiangmen Tourism Comprehensive), November 12, 2018 「江门特色建筑何止开平碉楼！每一座台山洋楼都有说不完的故事！」，澎湃新闻·澎湃号·政务（来源：江门旅游综合），2018年11月12日
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