Lineage of the 徐 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 Dynasty and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta”), Desan Gong, Grand Ancestor of the Xu of Dadan, came here from Zhuji Lane and had four sons: the fourth branch lives at Weimei Village, Yanzhong Township; the second son of the third branch lives at Dadan, Yanxi Township, and there are also descendants at Nanzhou and at Shabian and Beitou Village in Lianhe Township; the first and second branches live at Weimei Village, Yangjiang. On Yinglang Road in Taicheng is the Xu Ancestral Hall, whose foundation was laid in 1924 with money donated and raised by the forebears of the Xu kinsmen of the Four Counties of Jiangmen, and which was completed on the 11th day of the fourth lunar month of 1929.^[1][2][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），大担徐氏太祖德三公由珠玑巷来此，生四子：四房住宴中乡为美村，三房次子住宴西乡大担，又有南洲、联和乡沙边与北头村的子孙，长、二房住阳江为美村。台城迎朗路有徐氏宗祠，由江门四邑徐氏宗亲的先辈于一九二四年捐款筹资奠基，一九二九年农历四月十一日落成。

• Grand Ancestor Desan 德三 (Desan Gong)

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 徐 surname.

References[edit]

1. “Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song Dynasty and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta”, section “The Xinhui Chongque Delta Area” (reposted on the Zupu 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. Kaiping Fanglu Xu Gong Ancestral Hall Clan Fellowship Association (initiator): “To the Xu Kinsmen of the Four Counties of Jiangmen at Home and Abroad”, May 10, 2024; in “Xu News” on the Tianxia Xushi website, May 13, 2024 开平访卢徐公祠宗亲联谊会（倡议人）：「致江门四邑徐氏海内外宗亲」，二零二四年五月十日；载天下徐氏网「徐氏资讯」，2024年5月13日
3. Huang Renfu: “The Southward Migration of the Zhuji Lane People 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 “Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song Dynasty 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》）