Surname Overview
The Ye surname (業, yè) is currently uncommon. It is found in Songjiang of Shanghai, Pingyi and Dongping of Shandong, Taiyuan of Shanxi, Lushi of Henan, Xinhui of Guangdong, and Hekou of Yunnan, among both Han and Lisu people.
Ye Surname
Population reference (not a current census): 59Ye / Ye
Origins
Occupational Origin
The surname is connected with an ancient office responsible for major enterprises, and the surname was adopted from the office.
Historical Records
Documentary Attestations
The surname is recorded as early as the Southern Song work Gujin Xingshi Shu Bianz h e n g; Zhongwen Da Zidian, citing Zhengzitong, also includes it, as does Xingshi Kaolüe.
Commanderies and Clan Halls
Commandery and Ancestral Worship
The Ye surname's commandery prominence is Wei Commandery. Its ancestral spirit tablets are enshrined in Cabinet No. 6 of the Dahuaishu Ancestral Hall.
Migration and Distribution
Migration of the Jiangning Branch
Ye Xu was the twenty-first-generation descendant of the Ye lineage. At the end of the Northern Song, he crossed the Yangtze southward with Emperor Gaozong and first settled around Zhongshan in Nanjing, later withdrawing to Hengshan in Jiangning because of warfare; his descendants formed the Jiangning Hengshan Ye lineage.
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