The legend of the ancestor who got the surname: Lin Jian. Lin Jian, the ancestor who got the surname, was the posthumous son of Bigan.
Because King Zhou of Shang was cruel and unjust, Bigan repeatedly violated Yan Qiang's advice and was killed. At that time, Bigan's wife Chen was pregnant with Liujia, so she fled to the woods and gave birth to a son, named Jian with the courtesy name Changsi. King Wu of Zhou defeated Zhou, and Bigan's wife brought Zijian to visit King Wu of Zhou. Because Jian was born in the woods, King Wu of Zhou gave him the surname "Lin" and worshiped him as a doctor.
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As the second most common surname in the South, the surname Lin originated in Henan and is now mostly distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan and other places. . ?Every year, many overseas Lin family members travel thousands of miles to Weihuibigan Temple to worship their ancestors. The first time they organized a group to worship, they attracted villagers from all over the country to watch, and once forced the trains on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway to stop.
In the opinion of Lin Xianzhai, president of the Henan Surname Culture Research Association, this is related to the continuous migration of the Lin family to the south in history. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Lin family in the Central Plains suffered political persecution, and more than 100,000 families of nobles and people in the Hehuai area migrated to the south of the Yangtze River at one time. After that, the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the late Western Jin Dynasty caused endless wars in the north, and a large number of scholars and people moved south.
The famous Lin family, the "Xiapi Lin Clan" and "Jin'an Lin Clan" were formed by the migration of people named Lin to the south during this period, and were more prominent in the south, especially in the coastal area centered on Fujian. Lin Lu once served as the prefect of Jin'an (now part of Fujian Province) and the king of Jin'an County. After his death, he was buried in Jiulonggang, Tuling, Hui'an County, which is one of the holy places in China for the ancestors of the surname Lin.
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