Taishan surnames › The 廖 surname
Lineage of the 廖 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 "Jiangmen City Gazetteer of Place Names", the forebears of the Liao of Changtang Jiuli, Shuibu, moved here from Nanxiong County in the 2nd year of Wanli of the Ming (1574) and founded the village; another account says the forebears were people of Zhuji Lane who went early to Guangzhou and moved here only in the Ming. Inside Changtang Primary School, Changtang Village Committee, there is a Qing-dynasty Liao ancestral hall. There is also a "Liao Genealogy" recorded and compiled by Liao Shumei (handwritten copy, 1986), which takes Liao Yongji as its founding ancestor; the clan's members live scattered in Chonglou Township, Taishan County, Burma and elsewhere.[1][2][3][edit]
水步长塘旧里的廖氏，据《江门市地名志》，先祖于明万历二年（1574年）从南雄县迁此建村，一说先祖是珠玑巷人，早入广州，明代才迁此；长塘村委会长塘小学内有清代的廖氏宗祠。另有廖淑梅记编的《廖氏族谱》（1986年写本），以廖永积为始祖，族人散居台山县冲蒌乡及缅甸等地。
- Progenitor of the surname Liao Shu'an 廖叔安 (Liao Shu'an, written with the old form of Liao)
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.
- Liao Shu'an 廖叔安 First ancestor
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
- Settled · 水步 Shuibu长塘 Changtang
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
- Liao Yongji 廖永积 Founding ancestor
- Settled冲蒌乡 Chonglou Township
The line in detail
Liao Shu'an Liao Shu'an, written with the old form of Liao Progenitor of the surname[4][edit]
廖叔安 飂叔安 得姓始祖
Enfeoffed with the state of Liao (written with an old form of the character Liao) in the Xia dynasty
夏朝时受封于飂（古廖字）国
A descendant of Emperor Zhuanxu. In the Spring and Autumn period the state of Liao was destroyed by Chu, and its people took the state's name as their clan name, the Liao surname; Liao Shu'an, as the first ruler enfeoffed there, is honored as the founding ancestor of the Liao surname.
帝颛顼的后裔。春秋时廖国被楚所灭，国人以国名为氏，称为廖姓；廖叔安作为始封国君，被尊为廖姓始祖。
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
The Liao of Changtang, Shuibu[1][2][5][edit]
水步长塘廖氏
In the 2nd year of Wanli of the Ming (1574), the Liao forebears moved from Nanxiong County to Changtang Jiuli, Shuibu, and founded the village (according to the "Jiangmen City Gazetteer of Place Names")
明万历二年（1574年），廖姓先祖从南雄县迁到水步长塘旧里建村（据《江门市地名志》）
Huang Renfu's article, retelling the same book, lists "the Liao of Changtang, Shuibu" as one of the surnames recorded in the "Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore" as having moved from Zhuji Lane, Nanxiong, to Taishan. Inside Changtang Primary School, Changtang Village Committee, Shuibu Town, there is a Liao ancestral hall, dated to the Qing, which in 2024 was included in the public notice of registered immovable cultural relic sites of Taishan City.
黄仁夫文转述同一部书，把“水步长塘的廖氏”列为《台山县乡土志》所载由南雄珠玑巷迁台山的姓氏之一。水步镇长塘村委会长塘小学内有廖氏宗祠，年代为清，2024年列入台山市不可移动文物登记点公示。
Sources differ: The same book records another account: the forebears were people of Zhuji Lane who went early to Guangzhou and moved here only in the Ming.
同书另记一说：先祖是珠玑巷人，早入广州，明代才迁此。
Settled: 长塘 Changtang
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
Liao Yongji Founding ancestor[3][6][edit]
廖永积 始祖
Qing
清
The "Liao Genealogy" recorded and compiled by Liao Shumei (handwritten copy, 1986, 16 pages, with lineage tables) takes him as its founding ancestor; the clan's members live scattered in Chonglou Township, Taishan County, Guangdong Province, Burma and elsewhere. The same genealogy as listed on the Gujishuku website makes him a man of the Qing, and also records a first migrant ancestor to Burma in the Republican era.
廖淑梅记编《廖氏族谱》（写本，1986年，16页，有世系表）以其为始祖，族人散居广东省台山县冲蒌乡及缅甸等地。古籍书库网所列同谱作清代人，另记有民国时的缅甸始迁祖。
Settled: 冲蒌乡 Chonglou Township
Moved away to: Burma 缅甸
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 廖 surname.
References[edit]
- "Migrants from Zhuji Lane in the Song and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta", section "The Xinhui Chongque Delta Area" (reposted on the Zupu genealogy website, April 14, 2014) 《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）
- "Public Notice on the Registered Immovable Cultural Relic Sites of Taishan City", Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports of Taishan, Jiangmen, April 25, 2024 「关于台山市不可移动文物登记点的公示」，江门台山市文化广电旅游体育局，2024年4月25日
- Catalog entry for the "[Liao Genealogy]" (recorded and compiled by Liao Shumei, handwritten copy, 1986), Yunjiapu genealogy website, June 23, 2020 《[廖氏族谱]》（廖淑梅记编，写本，1986年）书目著录，云家谱网，2020年6月23日
- "Liao (surname)", Chinese Wikipedia, accessed October 2026 「廖姓」，维基百科，2026年10月访问
- Huang Renfu, "The Southward Migration of the People of Zhuji Lane and the Origins of the People of Taishan", "Xinning Magazine", 2014, no. 1, p. 17 (quoting the "Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore" as given in "Migrants from Zhuji Lane in the Song and the Agricultural Development of 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》）
- Shandong Xiaoxinge, "71 Genealogies of Taishan City: Is Your Family Among Them?", Bilibili, October 19, 2023 (source given as the Gujishuku website) 山东小新哥：「台山市71部家谱，看看你家族是否在列？」，哔哩哔哩，2023年10月19日（资料来源注为古籍书库网）
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