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Chapter One
Early History of the Yan Clan

Chronicle of the Yan Clansmen in Lu Kingdom

First Ancestor Yi Fu 3 Generation
rd
Fu was of the Yi tribal clan, a YAN SHUANG who became a lower
tungstic, nomadic and pastoral official to the king of Lu.
group of herdsmen, then occupying
the north-eastern corridor of China 4 generation
th
and using large bows and arrows for YAN LIEN
hunting. They established the initial
contact with the Chinese society in 5 Generation
th
this division of land. He became YAN AO
known as YI FU, under the styled or
assumed name of Count Yan. He 6 Generation
th
was posthumously known as the YAN U concurrently an upper official
Martial Duke of Chu district, a in service with the Lu government
small ancient state in Shantung
Province, granted to him as a vassal 7 Generation
th
subject to Lu kingdom. YAN YIN, whose appointment was
that of a Minister of Crimes.
2 generation
nd
His begotten son YU was separately 8 Generation
th
conferred with the title of a Viscount YAN YU
and given charge of the Chu political
district, a small, ancient state in 9 generation
th
Shantung province. YAN HSUAN
He subsequently adopted his
father’s stylistic name of YAN as a 10 Generation
th
clan name as his own surname. YAN CHIEN.
Since then, Viscount YU and his
descendents became a hereditary 11 Generation
th
family, holding official ranks from YAN HSIANG, who occupied himself
generation to generations as as a lower official in Lu.
subordinates, like the other in the
surrounding vassal states, to the Lu 12 Generation
th
kingdom in power. YAN HU

th
13 Generation
YAN CHING.