Yang Zaixi's Native Place and Genealogy Generation Ordering

Yang's birthplace is in Shanxi today. After Yang Weijin was destroyed, his descendants developed and multiplied westward. First moved to Fengyi, Shaanxi (now Dali), then moved to Huozhou, Shanxi, and then spread to Henan. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people surnamed Yang once moved to Jianghan (now Qianjiang, Hubei), and later, due to the growing influence of Chu, they were forced to move to Jiangxi in the southeast. At the same time, there are Yang surnames who moved from Shanxi to Jiangsu and Anhui, so Yang surnames are scattered in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, people surnamed Yang moved to Sichuan, and Shang Shu was a servant and moved to Huiji, Zhejiang. During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, except for the famous Hongnong Yang who lived in Huayin, Shaanxi and the Di nationality Yang who lived in Gansu, due to social unrest, many Yang people moved to the south of the Yangtze River, and many ethnic minorities who entered the Central Plains changed their surnames to Yang. In addition, Yang Hui, the tenth grandson of Hongnong Yang Zhen, was appointed as the chief of Taiyuan, and his great-grandson was Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, in order to avoid the Anshi Rebellion, Yang moved south again in large numbers. During this period, Yang moved to the Korean peninsula. In Song Dynasty, Yang invincible Yang Ye lived in Taiyuan, Shanxi, and Yang Guifei moved to Bozhou, Guizhou. Thus, in the Song Dynasty, Yang's surname had been distributed in a vast area in the south of the Yangtze River, and Fujian was the center of his migration. After the end of the Yuan Dynasty, people surnamed Yang began to emigrate overseas on a large scale, mainly in Southeast Asian countries, taking the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang as their original places of residence. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yunchuan, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, crossed the sea with the army to North Borneo (now Heba, Malaysia) and married the daughter of the local chief. Later, because of the death of Yang Yunchuan, the princess was thrown into the sea to be martyred, which is a story in the local area. During the Qianlong period, Yang, a coastal man from Fujian, went to India to do business and built China City. After modern times, Yang went to settle in Europe, America or Australia. Today, the surname Yang is widely distributed in China, especially in the provinces along the Yangtze River. The distribution law of Yang's surname began to spread from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and at the foot of Huashan Mountain in history, from north to south, and Southeast Asia dominated overseas. At present, Yang's population ranks sixth in the country.