In the history of our country for thousands of years, there have been many famous big people, and there are many very powerful big families, such as the Longxi Li clan and the Qufu Kong clan, these families are all famous for a while, so that tens of millions of people admire, but no matter how powerful these people are, we have an old saying in China called the rich but not three generations, but there is a family inheritance from the Western Han Dynasty to now more than a thousand years, which shows its vitality in the past life, and its descendants are angry.
This enduring family is the Hongnong Yang clan, and if you want to understand the Hongnong Yang clan, you must know what kind of thing Hongnong is. Hongnong is actually a county in the Western Han Dynasty, the scope of this county is very large, including most of the area south of Henan, as well as the nearby rivers through the basin belong to the jurisdiction of Hongnong County, Hongnong Yang clan is developed in this place, it is because of the Hongnong Yang clan, so that many people with the surname Yang want to trace back to the source, can fundamentally this big family has a little relationship, even if there is no relationship, go out to brag that others will still listen.
The first generation ancestor of the Hongnong Yang clan was the early Western Han Dynasty Minister Yang Chang, no matter which dynasty in ancient China, the power of the Minister was very large, but to say that the power of the Minister was the greatest, or the Han Dynasty, because that time was the time when the power of the Xiang and the monarchy were just separated, not as much as those later emperors thought, trying their best to restrain the power of the Prime Minister, so Yang Chang's power can be said to be under one person, above ten thousand people, such a person also led the entire family, creating an extraordinary beginning of this family.
The phrase "rich but not three generations" said by our ancients is certainly not applicable in the Yang family, because Yang Zhen, the third generation of Yang Chang, is a figure who is famous in the world, and he has become one of the three dukes as an official: Tai Wei. Yang Zhen's children and grandchildren have all achieved the position of Tai Wei, to know that the official position at that time is not hereditary, want to be an official, no real ability is not OK, but this time is not the peak of the Yang family, to say the peak period, then we have to mention the big man Yang Jian we are familiar with.
Yang Chang is the prime minister, Yang Zhen and others are lieutenants, Yang Jian is even more powerful, became the emperor, created the Sui Dynasty, reunified the whole country, and created an immortal rule of the kai emperor, although this dynasty is not long, but the impact on future generations is very large, such as the artificial excavation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has made China's river transportation rise a grade, Yang Guang's founded imperial examination system has even been passed down to today, but we now call it the college entrance examination. These things founded by the Yang family have also been used by Li Tang since then, especially the imperial examination system, which has a very significant impact on Li Tang's official pattern.
Although the Sui Dynasty fell, but the Yang family still has a certain social status in the Tang Dynasty, and many large families are married, even Li Tang does not dare to move the Yang family casually, and later there is a Yang Guifei, who is fascinated by Tang Xuanzong, it can be said that the Yang family also contributed to the demise of the Tang Dynasty. Of course, there are not many Yang Guifei's sons and daughters, there are people who can write and fight, and the later patriotic poet Yang Wanli of the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the invaders who do not like to fight the last drop of blood, these people have made great contributions to the inheritance of our country.
To this day, the Hongnong area is still circulating such a sentence "the world Yang clan out of Hongnong, Hongnong Yang clan all over the world", from the Western Han Dynasty to the present, more than a thousand years of time has passed, but the Yang family has been inheriting, their descendants have never forgotten the various things their ancestors did, I hope they can inherit the excellent qualities of their ancestors, continue to make their own contributions to the construction of our country, but also hope that this Yang family can always be inherited, immortal.