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Chapter Six

Assorted Biographies
written and composed by Yan Shou, Magistrate in Ching County.

Preface in the old record of the Yan Family lineage at Tao Chang or Tao Yuan
Chang, (renamed Tao Yuan) Ta Tien County, Yung Chun prefecture

T Warring States (403-222B.C.), the
During the period of the
he forebears of the Yan clan
originated from a grandson of
Huang Ti, whose name was An
and surname Tsao. From his many Yan clan produced a general in the
person of Yan Shuai Shu.
descendants was born I Pu, who was When the Chin dynasty (879-
raised and installed into the nobility 221 B.C.) came to power, there was
as the martial duke of Chu, an Yan Chih Chen in service as a
ancient political region in the eastern government official.
part of Lu kingdom, with the stylistic Whereas, Yan I Yu, Yan An Le
title of count Yan. and Yan Fei Cheng gained favour
His son, I Yu was personally and were respectively raised up to
appointed by him as a viscount to serve the Han dynasty (206-219 A.D.)
look after the small state of Chu in in both civil and military capacities.
Shantung province. Thereupon, he The stylistic name of Yan Fei
adopted his father's title, Yan as his Cheng was called Shu Tai and he
clan's surname and changed his was the 24th generation descendant
name to Yan Yu. of ancestor Yan Hui. He was
From generation to generation, conferred with the title of viscount
his male descendants served the and charged with the responsibility
kingdom of Lu as high ranking of guarding and holding the internal
military officials. passes from enemy intrusion,
stretching and going through the two
Of the seventy-two (72) ancient political states of Ching and
disciples of the Confucius school, the Hsu, known currently as Anhui
Yan clan had eight members within province.
its rank. The most prominent and

loyal among the followers of Biography of Ancestor Yan Shang
Confucius was Yan Hui, who lived at Shu of Chin Chiang.
the capital of Ssu Ko. More
important than being a famous The accepted and correct version of
scholar, his greatest achievement the ancestral founder of the Yan clan
was that he became the founding originated from the duke of the
father and first ancestor of the Yan ancient political kingdom of Yan.
clan at eastern Lu.
Many generations elapsed before a