Lineage of the 陈 families of Taishan

Mo Courtesy name Shichang First-generation ancestor of the Chongpan Chen^[1][4][6][7]

谟 字世昌 冲泮陈氏一世祖

Jinshi by provincial recommendation; appointed vice minister of justice but did not take up the post

乡举进士，授刑部侍郎，未就

Born in the 9th year of Qiandao of the Southern Song, a guisi year (1173); died in the renyin year of Chunyou (1242)

南宋乾道九年癸巳（1173）生，淳祐壬寅（1242）终

Born in Shashui Village, Zhuji Lane, Baochang County, Nanxiong Prefecture; in the 1st year of Kaixi (1205) moved from Nanxiong to Gugang Prefecture and lived at Duruan, Xinhui; later moved from Duruan, Xinhui, to Dexingli, Gugang Prefecture (present-day Chongpan, Sanba, Taishan), and lived there

生于南雄府保昌县珠玑巷沙水村；开禧元年（1205）从南雄迁来古冈州，住新会杜阮；后由新会杜阮迁古冈州德行里（即今台山三八冲泮）而居

The above follows the record left by Mo Weng (the genealogy Mo Weng wrote himself). His grave is on the third peak of Yaji Mountain, Ping'an jia, Taishan. His first wife was née Huang (second daughter of Huang Juzheng of Baochang County); he later married women née Zhang and née Zhu; at Duruan he had four sons: Wenshen, Wenzhen, Wenlong and Wenqi; Wenlong, styled the Thirteenth Lang, had a son, Tianjue; moved to Xiangshan (present-day Zhongshan City); when the Song and Yuan were at war, went off with the army. Chongpan has the Chongpan Founding Ancestor's Hall (Mo Weng Chen Gong Ancestral Hall). Generation names of the ancestor Mo of Chongpan at the first migration: Ji Feng Yu Jia Xiu, He Jing Fa Xian Liang, Wen Ming Ying Xian Da, Li Shi Yong Chuan Yang; new generation names of Chongpan: Da De Ming Jian Shou, Jia Bang Yao Yuan Guang, Guang Nan Xing Qi Ju, Yu Zun Zhao Qi Chang. The “Taishan County Gazetteer of Local Lore” says Mo had four sons, and “when moving they stopped wherever they met a stream, for near the sea one is sure to grow rich.”

以上据陈谟翁遗牒（谟翁亲撰族谱）。墓在台山平安甲丫髻山第三尖。元配黄氏（保昌县黄居正次女），后续娶张氏、朱氏，在杜阮生四子：文诜、文振、文龙、文起；文龙奉十三郎，生子天觉，迁香山（今中山市），宋元交战，从军而去。冲泮有冲泮太祖祠（谟翁陈公祠）。冲泮谟祖初迁时班派字：籍凤毓家秀，和敬发贤良，文明应显达，历世永传扬；冲泮新班派：大德铭兼寿，家邦耀远光，广南星起聚，育尊兆其昌。《台山县乡土志》称谟有四子，「迁时逢涌则止，以近海必富也」。

Sources differ: The Lujing “Genealogy of Ying Weng of the Chen” says that when the migration south from Zhuji Lane took place in the 1st year of Kaixi, Mo Weng and his brothers “still lived in their old home,” that Mo Weng “became a jinshi by provincial recommendation and rose to vice minister of justice, then went into retirement,” and that later he and Ying Weng “died in old age”; only in the 9th year of Xianchun did “the four sons of Mo Weng of the eldest branch come to Dexingli in Gugang and lodge there.” The government website article calls Mo Weng “first-generation ancestor of the Chongpan Chen,” and also calls each of his four sons, Wenshen, Wenzhen, Wenlong and Wenqi, a “first-generation ancestor.”

鹿颈《陈氏英翁族谱》称开禧元年珠玑巷南迁时谟翁兄弟「仍居故土」，谟翁「举乡进士，官至刑部侍郎，随隐焉」，后与英翁「耄而殒矣」；至咸淳九年才「长谟翁四子至古冈德行里寓焉」。政府网文称谟翁为「冲泮陈氏一世祖」，又称其四子文诜、文振、文龙、文起各为「一世祖」。

Settled: 冲泮 Chongpan

Moved away to: Duruan, Xinhui 新会杜阮

5th generation Tianxiang Courtesy name Congshan; the catalog entry for the “Duntou Chen Genealogy” gives his name as Yichang and his art name as Tianxiang First-generation ancestor of the Chen of the Six Villages of Duntou, Taishan^[1][4][10]

五世 天祥 字从善；《墩头陈氏族谱》著录名裔昌，号天祥 台山墩头六村陈氏一世祖

At the beginning of the Yuan (Duntou genealogy)

元开国初（墩头谱）

Moved from Shitou to Dongshanli, Shangge, Taishan (the Duntou genealogy has “Dongshanli, Shangge bao, Dongdu, Xinning”)

由石头迁台山上阁东山里（墩头谱作「新宁峒都上阁堡东山里」）

Had a son, Menglin. First generation-name couplet of the Chen of the Six Villages of Duntou: Zu De Ci Guang Yu, Ming Ting Zhuo Mao Liang; Xue Yi Zong Kong Meng, Hua Guo Yi Wen Zhang. Following generation-name couplet: Xing Lang Ju Qun Xian, Tang Gao Heng Zi Yao; Feng Ming Chang Yi Si, Yuan Yuan Nai Er Chang.

生梦麟。墩头六村陈氏首传班派字联：祖德赐光裕，明廷擢茂良；学宜宗孔孟，华国以文章。后续班派字联：星朗聚群贤，堂高恒自耀；凤鸣昌奕嗣，源远乃迩长。

Settled: 东山里 Dongshanli

Ying Courtesy name Shide Founding ancestor of the Chongjin Chen^{[1][4][6][11]}

英 字世德 冲金陈氏始祖

Xuanyi Dafu of the Song (Lujing genealogy: became a jinshi and was Xuanyi Dafu)

宋宣议大夫（鹿颈谱：登进士，为宣议大夫）

The “Gazetteer of Place Names of Jiangmen City” says that at the end of the Song and beginning of the Yuan (1265–1280) he fled south with his family from Zhuji Lane, Nanxiong, to Chongjin, Chixi, where they lived for five generations

《江门市地名志》称其宋末元初（1265—1280年）从南雄珠玑巷携眷南逃赤溪冲金，居五代

His virtuous wife, Lady Li, was the eldest daughter of Shi Li, the commandery governor (Junshou Gong) of Shashui Village; she bore four sons: Fa, Fu, Shou and Wu. Lujing genealogy: the ancestor Fu lived at Chaolian; the ancestor Shou lived at Huangchong. Generation-name couplet of the ancestor Ying: Xian De Kai Ji, Yong Dian Zun Chong Da Dian; Xiang Xian Zuan Rui, Yong Guang Qi You Hong You.

淑配李氏夫人，乃沙水村郡守公实李之长女，生四子：法、福、寿、悟。鹿颈谱：福祖居潮涟，寿祖居黄冲。英祖班派字联：先德开基，永奠尊崇大典；象贤缵瑞，用光启佑鸿猷。

Sources differ: The Lujing “Genealogy of Ying Weng of the Chen” says that Ying Weng and Mo Weng “were set on their old home and did not wish to move,” and later “died in old age,” and that only in the 9th year of Xianchun did his son, the ancestor Fa, move south with his uncles, brothers, sons and nephews. The government website article calls Ying Weng founding ancestor of the Chongjin Chen and records that his eldest son, Fa Weng, moving south, chose Chongjin to settle in, but does not say that Ying Weng himself moved. The “Gazetteer of Place Names of Jiangmen City” (as quoted in “Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta”), on the other hand, says that at the end of the Song and beginning of the Yuan Chen Ying “fled south with his family from Zhuji Lane, Nanxiong, to Chongjin, Chixi,” and that “Chen Ying, a Zhuji Lane migrant at the end of the Song, fled to Chongjin, Chixi, and lived there for five generations.”

鹿颈《陈氏英翁族谱》称英翁与谟翁「志在故土，不欲迁身」，后「耄而殒矣」，至咸淳九年才由其子法祖偕伯叔兄弟子侄南迁。政府网文称英翁为冲金陈氏始祖，记其长子法翁南迁时择冲金而栖止，未言英翁本人迁居。《江门市地名志》（《宋代珠玑巷迁民与珠江三角洲农业发展》所引）则称陈英宋末元初「从南雄珠玑巷携眷南逃赤溪冲金」，「宋末珠玑巷迁民陈英逃到赤溪冲金居五代」。

Settled: 冲金 Chongjin

Kai Courtesy name Shicheng First migrant ancestor of Wencun, Taishan^{[1][3][4][5][6][12]}

恺 字世诚 台山汶村始迁祖

Moved south with his whole family from Zhuji Lane, Shashui Village, Nanxiong, and founded the village of Wencun

由南雄沙水村珠玑巷举家南迁，到汶村立村

Married the daughter of Zhang Dade of Baochang Township, whose grave is on the plain of Hua'e Mountain; later married a woman née Jin of Gangzhou; the graves are both at Chaipilang, Shuangshui Commandery. Had four sons: Mengxiong, Mengqiu, Mengdou and Mengluan. All their descendants live around Wencun, Haiyan, in present-day Taishan City. The Chen brothers agreed together to “stop wherever we meet a stream, and live near the water.” First generation-name couplet of the Wencun Chen: Yi Mou Yan Yi, Chong De Xiang Xian; Jian Shun Zhong Zheng, Guang Hua Ji Mei. Following generation-name couplet: Shi Xue Mian Xiu Qi, Yun Shou Zu Zong Yi Xian; Ying Cai Hong Qi Di, Wei Wei Jia Guo Zhen Xiang. The “Gazetteer of Place Names of Jiangmen City” says: Wencun is one of the large villages among the county's “three cun and two shi”; Chen Kai came here from Nanxiong and founded the village; his brothers were military officers of the Southern Song who had been demoted and fled in secret; they agreed to live near water and that their descendants would not be military officers, and so Chen Kai named the village “Wencun.”

娶宝昌乡张大德之女，墓在华萼山之原；续娶冈州金氏，墓俱在泷水郡柴皮朗。生四子：梦熊、梦虬、梦蚪、梦鸾。子孙俱住今台山市海宴汶村一带。陈氏兄弟相约「逢涌则止，近水而居」。汶村陈氏首传班派字联：诒谋燕翼，崇德象贤；健顺中正，光华济美。后续班派字联：实学勉修齐，允守祖宗彝宪；英才宏启迪，蔚为家国祯祥。《江门市地名志》称：汶村为县内「三村两石」中大村之一；陈恺由南雄来此立村，其兄弟为南宋武官，被贬潜逃，相约近水而居，后代不作武官，陈恺因定村名为「汶村」。

Sources differ: Accounts of when he came differ: the Jiangmen Daily article (reprinted in 2009 on the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, under the subheading “Popular account: the village was founded in the Southern Song”) cites the stele inscription in the Sansheng Hall as saying that Chen Kai, founding ancestor of Wencun, settled here in the 9th year of Qiandao of the Southern Song (1173), and that “Wencun has a history of 835 years since its founding,” yet the government website article and the Lujing “Genealogy of Ying Weng of the Chen” both say his eldest brother Mo was born in the 9th year of Qiandao; the Lujing genealogy has “the fourth, Kai Weng, moved to Wencun, Haiyan” in the 9th year of Xianchun; Chen Sumin's 2012 article has the village founded “in the Southern Song period,” “more than 700 years” ago, and elsewhere in the article “a history of 730 years.” The “Gazetteer of Place Names of Jiangmen City” (as quoted in “Zhuji Lane Migrants of the Song and the Agricultural Development of the Pearl River Delta”) has yet another date: “in the 8th year of Xianchun (1272) Chen Kai came here from Nanxiong and founded the village.” Origin of the village name: Chen Sumin's article says it was named “Wencun” to commemorate Chen Wen, first ancestor in Guangdong, and their origin in Shashui Village, Nanxiong; the “Gazetteer of Place Names of Jiangmen City” says Chen Kai named the village “Wencun” because his descendants were not to be military officers.

迁来年代说法不一：江门日报文（中国非物质文化遗产网2009年转载，小标题作「民间说法：南宋年间立村」）引三圣堂碑文，称汶村始祖陈恺于南宋乾道九年（1173年）在此定居，「汶村立村已有835年历史」，而政府网文与鹿颈《陈氏英翁族谱》都说其长兄谟生于乾道九年；鹿颈谱作咸淳九年「四恺翁迁居海晏汶村」；陈素敏2012年文作「南宋时期」立村、「建村700多年」，文中又作「730年的历史」。《江门市地名志》（《宋代珠玑巷迁民与珠江三角洲农业发展》所引）又作「咸淳八年(1272年)陈恺由南雄来此立村」。村名由来：陈素敏文称为纪念入粤始祖陈文和南雄沙水村之源，故定村名为「汶村」；《江门市地名志》称陈恺因后代不作武官而定村名为「汶村」。

Settled: 汶村 Wencun Village