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number of generations that separate legitimate wife was a maiden, chosen
both of them was not known. from the Chen clan. From this
Forefather Yan Chieh Ko moved marriage union, a son was produced
his household from Hsia Hsing, Tung by them and was given the birth
Chun, Ta Pu district to reside name of Yan Chueh Yu.
permanently at a new farm, known On their demise, forefather Yan
by its local name of Hsia Hsing in Li Yung Cheng and his legal wife were
Jen village, Chao Chih both buried in a garden in front of the
administrative unit, 8 capital, ancestral lodge at Ting Tou hamlet,
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within the bundry of the same Li Jen village, Chao Chih
county. administrative unit, 8 capital in
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With the acquisition of the new Yung Chun County.
farmland in Hsia Hsing and retention
of its oldern name continued to be According to the two cliques founded
used, the property was developed in Ting Tou hamlet and Kung nei
and transformed into a new estate hamlet, both groups accorded
and, thus, the new settlement of Hsia ancestor Yan Hsien as their
Hsing hamlet came into existence die patriarch, naming him as the
to the efforts of the venerable number one generation in rank and
ancestor. venerated him as the first ancestor in
the family shrine.
At a later date, the Kang family was Whereas in an earlier clan record,
accepted as an alliance of the Yan forefather Yan Cheng carried out a
clan and a parcel of vacant fresh revision of the ancestral
residential land in Hsia Hsing hamlet registers, held in the Hsia Hsing and
was sold to members of the new Chiang Yu conjugal houses, and gave
household to build their homes. his conclusion by combining both
With the money thus acquired, the households into one patrilineal line
sum was utilized towards the and sharing ancestor Yan Chi as
purchase of eight plots of arable their common progenitor.
farmland in Chiang Tien, Liu Keng, In this case, forefather Yan Jen
by ancestor Yan Yung Cheng, Kuei, who was the third son of
ensuring his future descendants ancestor Yan Chi, was named and
with amply supply of food and placed in the first generation rank of
finance from the collection of the seniority and his descendants were
annual harvest of the land, cultivated to multiply and reach out to other
by the tenants on a fifty-fifty basis. places of abode in Yung Chun
County.
Yan Wen Tzung and Yan Ying Yuan He had six sons and they were:-
of two separate conjugal houses were 1. Yan Pi Kou established the
directly descended from ancestor foundation of the Yan clan at
Yan Cheng. Shang Chang walled-town, Wu
Li Chieh district, Yung Chun
Born of a later generation was County. Its location was
forefather Yan Yung Cheng, whose formerly under the jurisdiction
