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The Lan surname is the 260th surname in China today, with a large population , accounting for approximately 0.02 of the country's Han population.
The origin of "Lan"
1. It comes from the surname given. According to the "Lan Family Genealogy", the recipient of the surname Lan The ancestor of the surname is Changqi Gong. Duke Changqi was the eleventh grandson of Shennong, Emperor Yan, and the son of Yugong. 2. Comes from the surname Ying. According to "A Survey of Surnames" and "Chronology of the Bamboo Book", in the third year of King Hui of Liang, Qin Zixiang was named Lord Lan. Lan was Lantian (now part of Shaanxi), and his descendants took the land as their surname. 3. According to "Warring States Policy" and "Tongzhi? Clan Strategy", the ancestors of Lan Zhu, a doctor in Zhongshan, gathered food in Lantian, so their family name. 4. Comes from the surname Mi. According to "An Examination of Hundred Family Surnames", the Dukes of Chu gathered their food in Lanyi, and their descendants took Yi as their surname. 5. Today, Han, Zhuang, She, Hui, Manchu, Yao and other ethnic groups all have this surname, with the Yao ethnic group accounting for the majority. 6. The Lan surname is the most common in Guangxi Province, and most of the Lan surnames in Guangxi belong to the Yao ethnic group. They are distributed in Duan, Bama, Dahua and other counties and cities in Guangxi. Nearly one million people have the Lan surname of the Yao ethnic group. The Lan surname is from the Yao ethnic group. There are also many people with the surname Lan in Fujian who belong to the Yao ethnic group. According to the genealogy of the Yao people in Guangxi with the surname Lan, it is recorded that they migrated from Hunan to Fujian and from Fujian to Guangxi.
Multiplication and migration
After the Han and Wei dynasties, the surname Lan gradually spread around Zhongshan County, Dongguan County and Runan County. They migrated to the provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and some migrated south to Anhui, Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. The Lan surname moved southward on a large scale during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Among them, a Lan family from Runan County moved to Lanweiyi, Shanghang, Fujian. In the second year of Guangshun in the later Zhou Dynasty (952), its descendant Lan Youshan moved to Lanjiazhuang, Huitongli. The descendants moved to Qingliu, Shunchang and Shicheng. The Lan family also settled in Guangdong during the late Tang and Five Dynasties. Lan Jizong, a native of Nanhai, Guangdong in the early Song Dynasty, was a descendant of this branch. According to the "Lan Family Genealogy" of Wuhua, Guangdong: Wan Yilang, the 17th generation, moved from Chongshanfang, Jianning, to Huishibi Township, Ning. The nineteenth generation and Erlang moved to Zhangzhou in Ninghua during the Song Dynasty. In the 21st century, Lang Lang moved to Meixian, Guangdong, and was the ancestor of the Lan family in Meixian. Later, it spread to Xingning, Changle, Bao'an, Huizhou and Hangzhou, Zhejiang. ?Southern Fujian today was one of the prosperous places with the Lan surname during the Song Dynasty. "The First Collection of Guangzhou Lan Dingyuan's Journey" records the fact that the Lan family lived in Mingxi, Zhangpu, Fujian. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Lan surname flourished not only in Fujian but also in Guangdong. During the turbulent times at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a large number of Lan surnames moved to Guangxi. Of course, some also moved north to Hunan and Sichuan. In the early Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi Lan surname was one of the surnames of the people who migrated to Hongdong's large locust tree, and was moved to Shaanxi, Gansu, Henan, Tianjin, Beijing, Jiangsu and other places. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, some Lan people from the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong crossed the sea to Taiwan. There were also Lan people from Guangxi who migrated to Southeast Asian countries such as Yunnan, Guizhou, and Vietnam. During the Qing Dynasty, the surname Lan became more and more widely distributed, and now people with the surname Lan are also living in the three northeastern provinces. Today, the surname Lan is widely distributed across the country, especially in Guangxi, Guangdong and other provinces. The Lan surname in the above two provinces accounts for about 86% of the Han population with the Lan surname in the country.
Blue jade: A native of the Ming Dynasty, a native of Dingyuan (now Anhui), a general in the early Ming Dynasty, brave and good at fighting, Chang Yuchun's wife and brother, under Chang Yuchun's command, every day. He was the first to enter the battle, made many military exploits, and was named the Duke of Liang. He used his merits as the Marquis of Yongchang to become the Duke of Liang. Later, he relied on his merits to be arrogant and did many illegal things. In the end, he was punished for "treason" and the crime of the clan was implicated in the death. There are 15,000 people, known as the Blue Prison in history, and there are more than 20,000 heroes, civil and military officials, and even side soldiers.
Lan Rui: A native of Dengzhou, Henan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. He was a Zhengde Jinshi and served as the magistrate of Hanzhong until he resigned. He wrote "Risheng Pian", "Qiuren Lu" and "Tuannan Manuscript".