Xīnyuán / Hsin-yüan
One tradition derives the surname from descendants of Bi Gong Gao who were enfeoffed at Xinyuan, around present-day Yuanqu in Shanxi, and adopted the fief's name. Another traces it to a lineage from the state of Song that adopted Xinyuan after settling there.
During the Warring States period, the Wei guest general Xinyuan Yan entered Handan under orders to persuade the king of Zhao to recognize King Zhaoxiang of Qin as emperor. The episode appears in both the Shiji and the Zhanguo Ce.
Reference: “新垣”这个姓是怎么来的？_澎湃号·湃客_澎湃新闻-The Paper
The Western Han diviner Xinyuan Ping gained an audience with Emperor Wen through aura divination and became involved in calendar-era changes and imperial rites. After his deceptions were exposed, he and his three kinship groups were executed.
During the Hongwu era of the Ming, a Lin lineage from Linpu in Min County, Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian, migrated with the Thirty-Six Min Families to Chuzan in the Ryukyus. The later surnames derived from this Ryukyuan Lin lineage included Xinyuan.
One tradition holds that members of the Xinyuan clan gradually adopted the surname Liang. On that basis, some Liang families ancestrally associated with Kaifeng have been tentatively linked to Xinyuan, but the connection is only a possibility.
Xinyuan is a compound surname indigenous to China. Its precise origin is no longer ascertainable, though historical analysis places its emergence no later than the early Western Zhou period.
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