Year (ni á n) surname

It belongs to the Chengboyi and Yan families, with its ancestors being Jiang Shang, Yi Zhongnian, and Nianfu. The ancestors of the Nian family who migrated to Hongdong Dahuai Tree during the Ming Dynasty were people from Pingyang Prefecture, Hongdong County, Zhaocheng County, and other places. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, they were ordered to move to other places in Hongdong Dahuai Tree. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, their descendants were distributed in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shaanxi, Gansu, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places.

The earliest record of the surname Nian can be found in the Ming Dynasty's "Genealogy of Ten Thousand Surnames".

There are four main sources of surnames:

① Originating from taking ancestral names as surnames. According to the book "Tracing the Roots of Chinese Surnames", during the Spring and Autumn Period, the son of King Ling of Zhou, Nianfu, was killed due to the chaos within the Zhou royal family. His descendants took his name Nian as their surname.

② Derived from the surname Jiang. According to the "History of Lu", there were descendants of Duke Taigong Jiang Shang of Qi with the surname Nian.

③ Derived from taking my grandfather's name as my surname. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Xiang of Qi was killed by Qi generals Lian Cheng and others for his debauchery, and the son of Duke Xiang's uncle, Yi Zhongnian, was appointed as the ruler. He succeeded to the throne for a month and was killed again, causing chaos in the state of Qi. Fortunately, Duke Huan of Qi, who succeeded to the throne, was wise and enabled the state of Qi to turn danger into safety. The ignorant son took the name of his grandfather Yi Zhongnian as his surname because his father was killed in just one month as a ruler.

④ Derived from the surname Yan. According to the Biography of Nian Fu in the History of Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty, the Minister of Revenue, Nian Fu, originally surnamed Yan, changed his mother's surname to Nian to avoid war. His descendants took the year as their surname.

The county lords with the surname Nian mainly include Huaiyuan County. Huaiyuan County: Established in the third year of Jiande in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (574 AD), with its capital located in Huaiyuan County (now east of Yinchuan City, Ningxia, on the west bank of the Yellow River).

[Celebrities] The Dictionary of Chinese Names includes 4 cases of Nianzi, and the Dictionary of Chinese Names of Past Dynasties includes 5 cases. During the Ming Dynasty, there were historical figures with the surname Nian, including Nian Fu, a person from Huaiyuan, and the Minister of Revenue; In the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Rulin who lived in Yangzhou and was in harmony with heaven and man. He was skilled in painting mountains, waters, bamboo, and stones. He also had a young age and was a member of the Han army's Yellow Banner. His sons were mathematicians Nian Xiyao and Nian Gengyao.

According to the seventh national census, there are 599 people with the surname Nian in Shanxi Province, including 11 in Linfen City and 2 in Hongdong County.

The ancestral shrine of the surname Nian is enshrined in the No.1 altar of the Ancestral Hall on the Great Huai Tree.

Migration: One of the ancestors of the Han Zhuangnian family migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Beizhangjia, Hanzhuang Town, Henan Province during the early Ming Hongwu period; In the early Ming Dynasty, the founder of a branch of the Erqi clan moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Qiliyan, Erqi District, Henan Province; The ancestor of the Gongyi Nian family migrated from Hongdong, Shanxi to Nanhedu Village, Gongyi, Henan Province during the early Ming Hongwu period; The ancestor of the Xinzheng Nian family moved from Hongdong, Shanxi to Houzhuang Village, Xinzheng, Henan Province in the early Ming Dynasty.