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Chapter Eleven
Yan Ssu Lang
The Preface to the record of the Yan clan at Pi His hamlet, Feng Tang village,
Chuan Chou County
T unit, Yung hamlet, Kuei Te Chang, Te Hua
he Yan clan expanded in Ta Pu
administrative
County, Fu Chien province.
Chun county and spread out
was
into Chuan Chou prefecture, with During the Tang dynasty (618-907
AD),
ancestor
Yan
Tsao
the arrival of forefather Yan Ssu admitted into the civil administrative
Lang, known also as Yan She, when service and, on becoming a senior
he staked a claim for a homestead in government official, served through-
Pan Tou hamlet, An His county. out his career in the region of Kuei Te
Chang, Te Hua County, Chuan Chou
Similarely, the 10 direct issue of prefecture. The Yan clan had already
th
forefather Yan Pu Chi, founded a established the family’s homestead
separate branch at Feng Tanf and farmland at Shih Che hamlet in
hamlet, Pi His village, Chang Chou the same county.
prefecture. On his retirement from
Forefather Yan Yan, with the help government service, he obtained a
of his legal wife contracted with the piece of land in another county and
Pao clan, became the first ancestor of move his household to stake a claim
this conjugal house at Ching Chiao hamlet, Chih Shan,
Chien Chou Wei, Lung His county,
Chang Chou prefecture.
Junior in rank, his new
The last Yan development area to be establishment was considered as a
established in Fu Chien province. lower house under the Jen (meaning
“Man”) category and, he and his
The first ancestor of the Yan clan to descendants became known as the
found a conjugal house in the newly Ching Chiao clique personnel.
developed Lung His County, in the Another plot of land was, similarly,
interior of Fu Chien was forefather acquired first to build the family
Yan Tsao. He was a fifth generation shrine and, what was left of the land,
descendant of ancestor Yan Jen Yu, to turn it into a family burial ground.
who was, in turn, the 7 son of first The property was located at nearby
th
ancestor Yan Chiao Hsien. His Ni Shan, Hsia Tien hamlet, Fei Feng
place of residence was in the village, 12 & 13 capital, Lung His
th
th
ancestral mansion in shih Che County.
