After many investigations and repeated discussions, Lian's original place of residence and birthplace should be Lianban and Lianpu villages in Cangshan District, Fuzhou, and Lianjiang, a small tributary of the Minjiang River in the village, should be the "Lianjiang" recorded in Lianjia genealogy.
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1. The "Lianbanqiao" historic site has been preserved so far, and it is now a district-level cultural relics protection unit. Lianban Bridge is located in Ganquan Shandou, Lianban Village, Chengmen Town, Cangshan District. North-south strike, length 15m, width1.41m. There are unilateral stepped abutments on both sides of the bridge, and there are two Liang Shi bridges between the abutments. Liang Shi wrote a line: "When the border is full, we will build a bridge for our parents with Mrs. Lin Sixteen Niang, and hope that the country and the people will be safe. We will share the land with Zhanli Road, which was completed on August 3, 19 1 1." Shangyuan is the year number of Tang Suzong Hengli (760 ~ 76 1). However, the year number of Shangyuan was only two years of Gengzi and Xin Chou, and Xinhai should be six years of Dali. Although the record is wrong, it is more than 1240 years ago. This ancient bridge is the evidence of Lianban Village, Nantai Island, Fuzhou in the mid-Tang Dynasty.
Secondly, according to the Records of Three Mountains compiled by the Song Dynasty, in the ninth year of Tang Xiantong (AD 868), Min County people were even promoted to be scholars. In the Song Dynasty, there were four people from Min County 1 1, four people from Houguan County, and four people from Huai 'an County, all of whom were honored in the scholar list. According to the Annals of Ganquan Temple in Lianban, Fuzhou, in the year of the Reform Movement of 1898, Huang Chao was trapped in Fuzhou and Ganquan Temple was a soldier. Liren even raised funds to repair Ganquan Temple. " According to the genealogy of Huang family in Lianban village, its ancestor was the daughter of Lian (grandson) at the end of Song Dynasty. It is said that in the Song Dynasty, most people in this village lived in Lian's family and built luxurious houses. In modern times, when building a house, someone found a large stone strip under the homestead, which is estimated to be the former site of the ancient Lianjia. The "centipede" stone road funded by Mrs Lian Taishou was not destroyed until the Great Leap Forward in 1958.
Third, Lianban Village was originally in Kaihuali, Min County. Kaihuali in Gu Min County is located in the northeast of Nantai Island, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with staggered river networks, facing Gushan across the Minjiang River. Local place names all have the word "Lian" or the homonym of Lian. There are Lianban Village, Fulian Village, Lianjiang Village and Linpu Village (formerly known as Lianpu, renamed Lianpu and Linpu after the decline of Yeshilian in Ming Dynasty), and the rivers in the village are called Lianjiang. "Lian" and "Lian" are homophonic. These place names are consistent with the record of "naming place names after their names" in Lian Family Tree.
It can be inferred from the historical data of the above-mentioned cultural relics that Lian's first residence was Kaihuali in Min County in the middle of Tang Dynasty. Lian settlement was formed in Song Dynasty, where villages, mountains and rivers and cultural relics were all named after Lian or its homophonic "Lian", with obvious surname marks. The rivers of Lianban and Lianpu crisscross, and even clan people live a life of fishing, farming and reading. During Tang Xianzong's reign, he joined the ranks of scholars. In the Song Dynasty, Zhu gave lectures at Lianjiang Academy, and the atmosphere of reading and educating people became stronger. In the examination, 65,438+05 scholars were awarded 7 titles, among which grandchildren, uncles and brothers were all scholars, and even became local famous families. As these officials went to various places to serve as officials, Lian's sages moved from Lianban and Lianpu to settle in and out of the province, so that Lian's descendants spread to several southern provinces, as well as Taiwan Province Province, Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. For example, Lian Heng, the author of General History of Taiwan Province Province, is the grandfather of Lien Chan, a politician in Taiwan Province Province today. His ancestors moved to the capital for the 27th time from the Mazaki Society in Wansongguan, Longxi County, Zhangzhou Prefecture (now Mazaki Society in Zhoucun, Buwen Township, Longhai City) during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. Tracing back to the source, his ancestors moved from Datian County. Lianyin, the ancestor of Datian County, was the fifth grandson of Lianyou in Minxian County. At the end of the Five Dynasties (about 960), he moved to Kuicheng Village in Datian County to settle down. This branch of Lian's descendants has been divided into Longyan, Zhangzhou, Shaxian, Shunchang and Jianning. In the early Song Dynasty, Lian Guangyu, the descendant of Lian You, became an official in yingshan county, Hubei Province, and settled in Yingshan after becoming an official. Its descendants are distributed in Zhejiang, Fujian, eastern Fujian, Guangdong and other places. During the Song Dynasty (1174 ~1189), Lianjiang was the right prime minister and general to protect the country. After he became an official, he retired to Xianyou County, and his place of residence was also called "Lianban". His descendants are distributed in Hui 'an and Dehua.
Historical data of cultural relics prove that Lianban and Lianpu are the birthplaces of Lian surname. Why are there only more than 30 families with even surnames in Fulian Village now, and all the boat people have settled ashore? In order to solve this mystery, the author has researched the reasons why Lian Cong Lian Ban and Lian Pu families disappeared hundreds of years ago, which may be related to the following two facts:
First, it is related to the killing of regime change. In the year of Bingzi (1276) in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Zhao and Song royal families, who favored even-numbered families, were driven out of Lin 'an by Wen Tianxiang, the Yuan Army, and the young emperor was surrounded by courtiers. They fled to Minjiang Estuary by sea via Yongjia (now Wenzhou) and landed at Lianpu Wharf. On the first day of May, Duanzong Zhao Yu proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou. At the end of May, Wen Tianxiang also arrived at Lianpu, and the emperor appointed him as the right prime minister and commander-in-chief of the Privy Council. Wen Tianxiang recruited soldiers in Lianpu, and practiced the amphibious forces day and night. For a time, Lianpu became the national anti-Yuan center. In July, Wen Tianxiang went to Nanjianzhou (now Nanping) to fight the Yuan Army, and then moved to Fujian and Jiangxi. In October, the Yuan army besieged Fuzhou by land and water, and the emperor fled from Lianpu to the South China Sea. In the second year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1279), after the Yashan Sea War, the whole army in the Southern Song Dynasty was wiped out, and the emperor jumped into the sea and committed suicide.
In the meantime, most of the young and middle-aged Lianpu and Lianban joined Wen Tianxiang's anti-Yuan amphibious army, and died in the battlefield and buried at the bottom of the sea for the Southern Song Dynasty. After the Yuan army occupied Fuzhou, "Lianban, Lianpu and other places were severely punished by the Yuan soldiers" (Fuzhou Lianban Ganquan Temple Records) became the target of the Yuan soldiers. In order to avoid the pursuit of Yuan soldiers, some clan members moved from mountain roads to other places, and some fled to isolated islands by boat. Legend has it that people with Lian surname fled to Langqi Island at the mouth of Minjiang River by boat in Lianban village, and a place name called "Lianlike" is still preserved, which means "moved from Lianban". Because they lost their homes, Lianban and Lianpu, who lived and worked in peace and contentment, they were unwilling to be ruled by foreigners and set foot on the "Yuantu". Since then, they have been boating in rivers and ports and become boat people. Therefore, along the Yangtze River in Fuzhou and along the eastern coast of Fujian, many original boat people with even surnames may be their descendants.
Second, it is related to the legend that "Feng Shui is broken, so we should choose another auspicious place". Legend has it that in the second year of Duanping in the Southern Song Dynasty (1235), she was the wife of Lian Po Sun, the satrap. Please ask Mr. Feng Shui to find a good Feng Shui, give him a big reward and support his life. Mr. Geography lives and eats in Jia Lian, and looks for the "Phoenix Cave" for Mrs. Taishou every day. Once, the slave picked up the drowned chicken that fell into the cesspool and cooked it for Mr. Geography, thus offending Mr. Geography. This gentleman suggested that Mrs. Taishou build a stone road to do good deeds and accumulate virtue. As Mrs. Taishou said, she invested in the construction of an "elevated road" in Lianban: a row of stone slabs was laid vertically in the middle of the road, and two rows of stone slabs were laid horizontally on both sides. It is half a foot above the ground and winds for miles. This stone road looks like a centipede and is called "centipede road". Centipede Road greeted not even the prefect's return home, but a coffin with a different head. The reason is that Yuan soldiers went south, attacked the city, and even the prefect was beheaded. At that time, even the people panicked, and then they killed Yuan Bing in China. Many people were killed and people had to run for their lives. On the bloody day when the country was ruined and the family died, even clan members blamed the "centipede road" for breaking the "Phoenix Cave" and had to go away to make a living.
At this point, it is not difficult to see that the kindness of Emperor Zhao Song made the Lian family of Lianban and Lianpu have a temporary glory, while the Lian family of Lianban and Lianpu also suffered an unprecedented disaster with the demise of Zhao Song, and was chased by Yuan soldiers. They had to abandon their homes that had been passed down from generation to generation for more than 500 years and fled around with their families. Now even Ban and Lian Pu can't find the descendants of Shi Lian who live in the world. However, "wildfire never quite consumes them, the spring breeze is blowing high", and the Lian family continues to thrive, with Lian Ban and Lian Pu's descendants spread all over five continents. Fortunately, Huang Wu, who was recruited as a son-in-law by Lian Taishou, quickly developed into a rich boy because he inherited part of Jia Lian's rural property. The Huang family has never forgotten their in-laws with Lian family, and many stories about the rise and fall of Lian family are still circulating.
There are 22 villages in Quangang County, Fujian Province, where Lian lives. They are Shangliu, Shicheng, Xiadun, Houcuo, Xiwu, Liu Shan, Wubian, Molin, Tiandun, Caitouqiao, Ando, Shetang, Qianpu and Houcuo.
According to historical records, Lian's ancestral home is Shangdang in Shaanxi. According to the genealogy of Feng Alian in Xianyou County and the genealogy of Batou Lotus, Lian's surname entered Min Zu with the word. He lives in Gushi County, Gwangju, and is a doctor in Changzhou and Zhou Ye, Jiangsu. In the middle of Tang Dynasty (88 1 ~ 885), he abandoned his official position and went to Fujian to serve his parents, and settled in Fuzhou County, Fujian Province. It was extended to the ninth Lian Zhi, whose name is Guo Bin and whose name is Ansu. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Xiaozong appointed the right prime minister and general. Because of the minister's rebellion, he refused to accept the three suggestions and retired to Yunding Mountain in Xianyou County, Xinghua, where he was named Lian Ban. His grandson, whose real name is Lian Ban, moved to Hui 'an County in Quanzhou, once occupied the tail in Qidu, and is the originator of Lian's family today. More than 800 years ago, during the Jiatai period of Ningzong in the Southern Song Dynasty (120 1 ~ 1204). & ltbr & gt Zhanghequan is the most frequent place to travel through Taiwan Province, and many of them moved here from. According to Yang's textual research on the number of surnamed tang in Taiwan Province Province, in 1978, there were 283 18 consecutive surnames in Taiwan Province Province, ranking 74th among surnames in Taiwan Province Province.