Taishan surnames › The 杨 surname
Lineage of the 杨 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 Yang genealogy, the enfeoffed great founding ancestor of the Yang surname is Zhu Gong. The towns of Dajiang, Doushan, Chonglou, Guanghai, Duanfen, Longwen, Shangchuan, Xiachuan, Wencun, Shenjing, Nafu, Chixi, Tiantou and others in Taishan all have Yang founders of settlements, and Chixi has the most Yang. Most of the founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi came around the 11th year of Xianfeng, fleeing war and famine; according to the Yang genealogies, Shiting Gong, founding ancestor of the Yang surname in Taishan, moved from Xingning County to Niujiaoyou Village, Chonglou, Xinning County, and his second son Zixing Gong moved with his four sons to Wanxing (today's Dongyang) Village, Caochong.[1][2][edit]
据杨姓族谱考，杨姓受封太始祖为杼公。台山市的大江、斗山、冲蒌、广海、端芬、隆文、上川、下川、汶村、深井、那扶、赤溪、田头等镇均有杨姓的始基祖，人数以赤溪为最。赤溪杨姓始基祖大多在咸丰十一年间因战乱逃难、逃荒而来；据杨姓诸谱，台山杨姓始祖世廷公从兴宁县徙居新宁县冲蒌牛角尤村，其次子子星公携四子徙居曹冲万兴（今东阳）村。
- The enfeoffed great founding ancestor of the Yang surname Zhu 杼
- Founded a line The founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi 赤溪杨姓始基祖
- Founding ancestor of the Yang surname in Taishan Shiting 世廷
- Founded a line Zixing 子星
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.
- Zhu 杼 First ancestordescendantThe founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi 赤溪杨姓始基祖 Founded a line
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
- Shiting 世廷 Founded a line
- Settled · 冲蒌 Chonglou牛角尤村 Niujiaoyou Village
- sonZixing 子星 Founded a line
- Settled · 赤溪 Chixi东阳 Dongyang
Where the surname lives, by town - the sources do not say which branch:
- The 杨 families by town
- 赤溪 Chixi东阳 Dongyang大浪 DalangCaochong administrative district 曹冲管区
- 赤溪 Chixi护岭 Huling
- 赤溪 Chixi定丰村 Dingfeng Village
The line in detail
Zhu The enfeoffed great founding ancestor of the Yang surname[1][2][edit]
杼 杨姓受封太始祖
According to the Yang genealogy: when King Wu of Zhou died and King Cheng came to the throne, King Cheng cut a paulownia leaf in play with his younger brother Shuyu, and so enfeoffed Shuyu with the revenues of the state of Yang and made him a marquis; later Yang became the surname. The enfeoffed great founding ancestor of the Yang surname is Zhu Gong; the state of Yang whose revenues he held is today's Hongnong County, Chang'an, Shaanxi, and so some Yang use “Hongnong” as their hall name.
据杨姓族谱考：周武王崩，成王立，与弟叔虞翦桐叶为戏，遂封叔虞食采杨国，封为侯，后以杨为姓；杨姓受封太始祖为杼公，其所食采杨国即今陕西长安弘农县，故有的杨姓以「弘农」为堂名。
Ancestor of the 92nd generation The founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi[1][2][edit]
第九十二世祖 赤溪杨姓始基祖
Most came to Chixi around the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861 CE), fleeing war and famine; they made their homes wherever the hills allowed and opened up waste land to farm
大多在咸丰十一年间（公元一八六一年）因战乱逃难、逃荒来到赤溪，随山而寓，垦荒种地
Counting from Zhu Gong, the enfeoffed great founding ancestor of the Yang surname, the founders of the settlements in Chixi were then already of the 92nd generation; today it is the 103rd generation, and they have multiplied in Taishan for eleven generations.
从杨姓受封太始祖杼公算起，其时在赤溪的始基祖已是第九十二世祖；至今已是第一百零三世祖，在台山繁衍了十一代。
Sources differ: The same paragraph says both that most founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi came around the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861 CE) and that from the founders (92nd generation) to the present (103rd generation) they “have multiplied in Taishan for eleven generations, a history of some two hundred years and more”; the two do not agree. Also, according to the Yang genealogies, Shiting Gong, founding ancestor of the Yang surname in Taishan, is of the 99th generation, his son Zixing Gong of the 100th, and the present is the 106th (see Shiting Gong's line below), which differs from the 92nd and 103rd generations given here.
同一段既说赤溪杨姓始基祖大多在咸丰十一年间（公元一八六一年）到来，又说从始基祖（第九十二世）至今（第一百零三世）「在台山繁衍了十一代，约有二百多年的历史了」，二者不合。又据杨姓诸谱，台山杨姓始祖世廷公为第九十九代，其子子星公为第一百代，至今第一百零六代（见下列世廷公一支），与此处第九十二世、第一百零三世之数不同。
The line below: how it relates to the one above, its sources do not say.
99th generation Shiting Founding ancestor of the Yang surname in Taishan[1][2][edit]
第九十九代 世廷 台山杨姓始祖
First moved from Xingning County to Niujiaoyou Village, Chonglou, Xinning County (Taishan)
先从兴宁县徙居新宁县（台山）冲蒌牛角尤村
According to the Yang genealogies. Married a woman of the Ye family. Had two sons: the eldest, Zilong, married a woman of the Luo family, had three sons, and later moved to Longchuan County; the second, Zixing.
据杨姓诸谱。配叶氏。生二子：长子子龙，配骆氏，生三子，后徙居龙川县；次子子星。
Settled: 牛角尤村 Niujiaoyou Village
Moved away to: Longchuan County 龙川县
100th generation Zixing[1][2][edit]
第一百代 子星
Moved with his four sons to Wanxing (today's Dongyang) Village, Caochong (the Caochong administrative district of Chixi), opened up waste land, and set his mind on diligent farming
携四子徙居曹冲（赤溪曹冲管区）万兴（今东阳）村，垦辟荒税，志谋勤耕
Married women of the Ye, Yuan and Zhong families. His line has multiplied from Zixing Gong down to the present, now the 106th generation.
配叶氏、袁氏、钟氏。从子星公繁衍至今，已是第一百零六代。
Sources differ: The same text also says that the founders of the Yang settlements in Chixi are, counting from Zhu Gong, of the 92nd generation, and that the present is the 103rd, which differs from the figures here: Shiting Gong the 99th generation, Zixing Gong the 100th, the present the 106th; the text does not say whether the two are the same line.
同文又称赤溪杨姓始基祖从杼公算起为第九十二世祖，至今为第一百零三世祖，与此处世廷公第九十九代、子星公第一百代、至今第一百零六代之数不同；文中未说二者是否同一支。
Settled: 东阳 Dongyang
Where they live[edit]
The towns of Dajiang, Doushan, Chonglou, Guanghai, Duanfen, Longwen, Shangchuan, Xiachuan, Wencun, Shenjing, Nafu, Chixi, Tiantou and others in Taishan all have Yang founders of settlements; by population, Chixi has the most, and within Chixi, the Caochong administrative district. Because the Yang elsewhere have never kept in touch and have no clan publication to consult, the Yang population of all Taishan cannot be counted.[1][2]
台山市的大江、斗山、冲蒌、广海、端芬、隆文、上川、下川、汶村、深井、那扶、赤溪、田头等镇均有杨姓的始基祖；按人口分布，以赤溪为最，赤溪又以曹冲管区为最。其他地方的杨姓因向来并无联络，又无族刊可查，全台山杨姓人口无法统计。
Source text (Chinese)
鉴于台山市的大江、斗山、冲蒌、广海、端芬、隆文、上川、下川、汶村、深井、那扶、赤溪、田头等镇均有杨姓的始基祖，按现时人口分布，杨姓数以赤溪为最
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而赤溪又以曹冲管区为最
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至于居住在其他地方的杨姓，因向来并无联络，又无族刊可查，故在此不能一一叙述，全台山杨姓有多少人口，亦无法作大概的统计
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| 赤溪 Chixi |
东阳 Dongyang, 大浪 Dalang; Caochong administrative district 曹冲管区 · Yang are found in most villages of the two towns of Chixi and Tiantou; the two villages of Dongyang and Dalang in the Caochong administrative district are both Yang, with more than 500 people between them 杨姓遍及赤溪、田头两镇大部分村庄；曹冲管区的东阳、大浪两村均是杨姓，两村人口有5百多人[1][2] Source text (Chinese)
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| 田头 Tiantou (today 赤溪镇 Chixi Town) |
· Yang are found throughout the two towns of Chixi and Tiantou, living in most of their villages 杨姓遍及赤溪、田头两镇，人口分布大部分村庄[1][2] Source text (Chinese)
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| 赤溪 Chixi | 护岭 Huling · Tradition holds that the village was formed over 300 years ago as people from elsewhere moved in one after another; it has more than 20 surnames, the Yang and the Wu the most numerous (reported in the “Jiangmen Daily”, published on the Chixi Town government website in 2007) 据传300多年前外地人陆续迁徙而来形成村；姓氏有20多个，以杨姓、吴姓人数最多（《江门日报》报道，赤溪镇政府网2007年刊载）[3] |
| 赤溪 Chixi | 定丰村 Dingfeng Village · Part of the Tiantou Village Committee; the long-settled surnames are Wu, Luo and Zhong; in the Ming dynasty the ancestors of the Wu moved from Fujian to Xinning County, and afterwards the ancestors of the Zhong, Luo, Yang and other surnames also came here one after another from various parts of Xinning County and settled (2026) 属田头村委会；世居姓氏为吴、罗、钟，明代吴氏先祖从福建迁居新宁县，随后钟、罗、杨等姓先祖也陆续从新宁县各地来此定居（2026年）[4] |
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 杨 surname.
Genealogies on this site: 台山泽福杨氏族谱
References[edit]
- “Yang”, in the “Taishan Surnames” column of the Taishan Municipal Government website, December 19, 2017 「杨氏」，台山市人民政府门户网站「台山姓氏」栏目，2017年12月19日 (archived copy)
- Yang Lixun: “Yang”, in “Origins of Taishan's Surnames” (Volume 1), compiled by the Committee on Cultural and Historical Materials of the Taishan Municipal CPPCC; reposted on the Taishan Classmates website in the thread “[Share] Origins of Taishan's Surnames”, August 2007 杨理逊：「杨氏」，载《台山姓氏源流》（第一册），台山市政协文史资料委员会编；转载于台山同学网「[分享]台山姓氏源流」，2007年8月
- Xie Xiaomin: “Red July: Visiting Huling”, “Jiangmen Daily”; reposted in the “History and Culture” section of the website of the People's Government of Chixi Town, Taishan, December 29, 2007 谢小敏：「红色7月，走进护岭」，《江门日报》；转载于台山市赤溪镇人民政府网站「历史文化」，2007年12月29日
- Written by Zhu Yiguang, general editor Zhong Riping: “Overview of the Natural Villages of Chixi Town: Dingfeng Village, Tiantou Village”, in the “History and Culture” section of the website of the People's Government of Chixi Town, Taishan, May 19, 2026 朱奕光撰稿，钟日平总纂：「赤溪镇自然村落情况-田头村定丰村」，台山市赤溪镇人民政府网站「历史文化」，2026年5月19日
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