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clique, who chose to move his family A third group came out from Chien
out of the traditional Yan homestead Chia hamlet, Li Chao I village,
to live elsewhere in the southern part southern Tung An county and Hou
of Tung An county. The name of this Tang hamlet, Ho Hu village and went
new place of residence was Chien over to found new homesteads in
Chia hamlet, Li Chao I village, Wu Chang Chou county, Pi His hamlet,
Chiang administrative unit. Feng Tang village, Chuan Chou
county, and lastly, Pan Tou hamlet,
Next it was the turn of forefather Yan An His county.
Tung Yuan, a descendant of the 12
th
generation rank, to leave Wu Chiang Later on, a small in-flow of migrants
administrative unit and take up came over from Hui Chou county,
residence in Hou Tang hamlet, Ho Kuangtung province, to live in their
Hu. ancestor’s place of domicile in Yung
After settling down in Ho Hu, Chun County.
another move was made to take up
permanent residence in Kang Tou From Chien Shu hamlet, the
hamlet. Some of his children returnees later moved to settle down
returned back to the traditional in Shan Yao hamlet, Yung Chun
ancestral mansion in Pu Tou and County.
Pan Tou.
Another group from Ho Hu went over Additional chronicle table or
to live in Kuangtung province, stayed generation cycle, containing a list or
there for sometime before making couplet of Chinese characters and
their way back to Chien Shu hamlet, showing the order of seniority, in
Yung Chun County. They finally accordance with birth-right and
settled down in Shan Yao hamlet. family standing of one’s kinsman
with each other.
Forefather Yan Cheng Feng of the
13 generation rank was the third With the coming and going of the
th
member of the Yan clan who moved migrants in and out of Wu Chiang
out from Wu Chiang administrative administrative unit, Tung an county,
unit, Tung An county, and went over the 20 generations’ chronicle table
th
to his own conjugal house in Pu Tou came into close scrutiny to determine
hamlet, Min Kang village, Mu Jen the seniority rank of those clansmen
administrative unit, 23 capital, of the earlier generations, whose
rd
Yung Chun county. biographies were not recorded and
handed down.
Following after the footsteps of their
earlier contemporaries, a second The families of the Yan kinship were
wave of former Wu Chiang residence unanimous in placing ancestor Yan
lifted up their roots spread out and Pi Ho as the first generation ancestor
scattered their seeds to Pang Hu and and prolific progenitor of the Yan
across the sea to Tai Wan Island.
