Lineage of the 萧 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 "Migrants from Zhuji Lane in the Song and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta"), the Xiao of Xiaocun take Xiao He as their founding ancestor; moved south from Zhuji Lane; had four sons: Tianxi, Tiancheng, Tianxing and Tianyou; the second branch lives in Tianhe, the third in Dongguan and the fourth in Zengcheng, and the descendants of Tianxi Gong spread to Xiaocun, Haiyan, which has four ancestral halls, of Fuping, Youfeng, Meng'an and Chongyu. The gazetteer's list of migrants from Zhuji Lane also includes the Xiao of Xiaocun.^[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），萧村萧氏以萧何为始祖，由珠玑巷南迁，生四子：天锡、天成、天兴、天佑；二房住天河，三房住东莞，四房住增城，天锡公子孙衍海宴萧村，萧村有富平、有凤、孟安、崇玉四位祖祠。乡土志的珠玑巷迁民名单里也有萧村的萧氏。

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 萧 surname.

References[edit]

1. "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), 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 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》）