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7th Generation government as a high ranking
Son of ancestor Yan Yi, YAN KU official.
served the Lu government as a lower 13th Generation
rank officer. Son of ancestor Yan Hui, YAN KUEI,
served the Han government as a
8th Generation ranking officer.
Son of ancestor Yan Ku, YAN HSIEH,
styled Count Chung was engaged as 14th Generation
a ranking official in the Chin Son of ancestor Yan Kuei, YAN SZU,
Prefecture. styled Chi Ta was in service with the
Han government as a secretary, a
9th Generation post charged with secretarial duties.
Son of ancestor Yan Hsieh, YAN YU When he became an aged man with
became a palace secretary in a bushy eyebrows and hair turned
dormitory. white, he was promoted to become a
magistrate of Hui Chi Prefecture, but
Jin Dynasty (Three Kingdom) 220 he did not take up the offer. Instead,
– 265 AD he was engaged in compiling names
10th Generation Yan within the Four Books . All his
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Son of ancestor Yan Yu, YAN CHAN efforts to make a name for himself
performed duty of a scholastic and ended up futile. (Unfortunately no
moral nature with General Hsiang Yu details were available as to why this
I, warlord of Chu Kingdom, who was was so)
a well-known and famous figure in
the struggle for supreme power 15th Generation Yan
chronicled in the novel “Romance of Son of ancestor Yan Szu, YAN AI,
the Three Kingdoms”. Not long devoted himself to a task within the
afterwards, he followed his master ministry of public works and was all
and ended his life in anonymous along in service in a prefecture.
forested woodland.
16th Generation Yan
Han Dynasty Son of ancestor Yan Ai, YAN KAI,
11th Generation Yan styled Kuei Ching, established a
Son of ancestor Yan Chan, YAN YI name for his intelligence and
served Emperor Kao Tsu, dynastic scholarship for which Chang Yu
title of Liu Pang (206 BC - 219 AD) of repeatedly sponsored him with an
the Han dynasty as a ranking offer to become the magistrate of An
military officer. Cheng during the Han dynasty.
12th Generation 17th Generation Yan
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Son of ancestor Yan Yi, YAN HUI Son of ancestor Yan Kai, YAN SUI
was in the service with the Han styled Chin Shen was employed as
work's estimator in a Prefecture.
12 Not referring to the Founding Ancestor Yen Hui 13 See Appendix 3 for details about the Four Books
