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Subsequent Revisions
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The 2 revision was carried out by a
nd
10th generation grandson named
Yan San Hsi during the 8th year
reign of Emperor Chun Hsi, Sung
dynasty.
The 3 revision was accredited to a
rd
14th generation grandson who called
himself ancestor Sheng and
presented on the 15th year in the
reign of Emperor Hung Wu, Ming
dynasty.
The 4 revision was conducted by a
th
16th generation grandson Yan Chun
Kao in the reign of Emperor Cheng
Hua, Ming dynasty. He commented
that by this time, the branches and
cliques of the Yan clan from the
Eastern Lu Ancestral Hall were very
long and numerous like cotton.
The 5 revision was the work
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commissioned to a writer Wang I of
Tsang Wu, Yin Tung and completed
on the 11th year reign of Emperor
Cheng Te, Ming dynasty.
The 6 revision was the joint
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composition of Yan Tien Yuan, 23rd
generation grandsons, presented on
the third year of the reign of Emperor
Yung Cheng, Third Emperor of the
Ching dynasty. They enumerated
that the Yan clan owed its origin to a
member of the frontier tribe in Yan
kingdom, one of the nine ancient
political divisions, which occupied
6 In historiography, historical revisionism is the
reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence,
motivations, and decision-making processes
surrounding a historical event. Though the word
part of Shantung and Hopeh
Provinces. Offsprings born of this
line were attributed to be the
grandsons of the Duke of Eastern Lu
prefecture. His future descendants
were called upon to become pioneers
crossing the vast plain in Central
China in search of open space in the
south for new settlements to be
established and agricultural industry
set up. They were to lay the
foundation in Szu Pin which served
as the gateway to the new frontier
where virgin lands were opened up
and cleared, making way for the
building of hamlets, villages, cities
and development of farm lands in Fu
Chien and Kuang Tung.
Of the early seventeen generations,
the racial origin of the Yan clan can
be traced from its frontier tribal
source to its assimilation into the
Chinese society. From the 18th
generation onwards, the Yan family
clan expanded by leaps and bounds
with numerous sons born within the
clan. No sooner was one generation-
line completed another one had to be
drawn up in order to number the
generation-lines in accordance with
their various seniority rows and
ranks.
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The 7 revision was jointly drawn up
by three grandsons representing the
28th, 29th and 30th generations
namely, Yan Yun Chang, Yan Pang
Tso and Yan Wei Pang on the 16th
year (1891) of the reign of Emperor
revisionism is sometimes used in a negative way,
constant revision of history is part of the normal
scholarly process of writing history.