Yin / Yin
The Yin lineage traces its remote ancestry to the Yellow Emperor and its founding ancestor to Xie. Xie was enfeoffed in Shang and later moved to Bo; after Shang fell, his descendants adopted the state name as their surname.
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One lineage derives from the Zi surname and Shang descendants who adopted the state name; another derives from residence, with inhabitants of Yin Water in Yingchuan adopting Yin as their surname.
The earliest record of the Yin surname is found in the Zhou-era Shiben; the Records of the Grand Historian, Basic Annals of Yin, gives a detailed account of the Yin lineage.
The principal commanderies associated with the Yin surname are Runan and Henan; a principal hall name is Baiyan Hall.
Before the Qin period, Yin activity was widespread, with Henan remaining its principal area for a long time. From the Qin and Han periods onward, branches moved toward the Huai River and Jiangnan; by the Tang and Song periods, a major lineage had formed in Jiangsu, and by the Ming period the surname was distributed nationwide.
According to a Republican-era manuscript of the Yin Genealogy, one Yin branch from Yuanyang, Henan, used the generation-name sequence “Shou An Mu Yi, Xian Zong Xiang Li, Gao Huan Liang Mei, Sheng Zhang Chun Wei.”
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