China has had a family concept since ancient times, and the genealogy has even penetrated into the bone marrow of everyone. There were many families in ancient China, but if we talk about the prosperity of the family, there is no right of these six major families, and today I will take you to understand the six famous families in the history of our country.
The Longxi Li clan is a great prosperous family in ancient China, and its family prosperity can be called the most common surname in China. The Longxi Li clan came from the aftermath of the Tang Dynasty and Gao Tao, whose family lived in today's Gansu region, and in history, the Longxi Li clan also produced many famous generals, and even the descendants of the family later established the Tang Dynasty.
It is well documented that the Li clan of Longxi was very dazzling as early as the Qin Dynasty. His ancestor Li Xin was a general of the Qin Dynasty, and he made important contributions to the unification of the Six Kingdoms by Qin Shi Huang. During the Western Han Dynasty, the family produced a number of famous generals of the Western Han Dynasty, such as Li Guang, Li Gan, and Li Ling, and during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Li Huan established the Western Liang State in Liangzhou. In the last year of the Sui Dynasty, Li Yuan, the leader of the Li clan in Longxi, founded the Tang Dynasty, which truly became a large family that ran through ancient and modern times.
In addition to the Li clan of Longxi, the Hongnong Yang clan is also an imperial professional household family. The Hongnong Yang clan is also known as the Huayin Yang clan, and the family is also very dazzling in history. During the Western Han Dynasty, Yang Chang, the ancestor of the Yang clan of Hongnong, served as the Minister of The Western Han Dynasty, and later in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yang Zhen, a descendant of Yang Chang, also became a famous minister of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Hongnong Yang clan was also the founder of the Great Sui Dynasty, and the Sui Wen Emperor Yang Jian and the Sui Emperor Yang Guang came from this family. There are many celebrities in this family, and Yang Biao, Yang Xiu's father and son during the Three Kingdoms period, and even the warlord Yang Feng are also from this family.
The Taiyuan Wang clan is another gatekeeper in ancient China.
The ancestor of the Taiyuan Wang clan was the crown prince Jin of the Eastern Zhou Zhou Ling King, and after Ji Jin's death, his descendants moved to Taiyuan and took the Wang clan as their surname. The Taiyuan Wang clan is also a family of famous families, and the Qin Dynasty generals Wang Qi, Wang Ben, and Wang Li are from this family. After the Qin Dynasty, the Taiyuan Wang clan produced more literary talents, and the Tang Dynasty poets Wang Changling and Wang Zhizhuo, the Northern Song Dynasty prime minister Wang Anshi, and the Ming and Qing thinkers Wang Yangming and Wang Fuzhi all came from this family.
Similar to the Li clan of Longxi, the Lanling Xiao clan is also an imperial professional household family.
The ancestor of the Lanling Xiao clan was Xiao He, the founding minister of the Western Han Dynasty, xiao He was the three masters of the Western Han Dynasty, and he himself made important contributions to the establishment of the Western Han Dynasty. After Xiao He, his family had more emperors, and during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the descendants of the Xiao clan of Lanling established the Southern Qi and Liang Dynasties, and the founding emperor of Southern Qi, Xiao Daocheng, and the founding emperor of the Liang Dynasty, Xiao Yan, were also from this family. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Xiao Milling, a descendant of the Xiao clan of Lanling, established the Liang clan in Jiangling, which competed with Li Yuan for the world, which was later eliminated by the Tang Dynasty.
The Yuan clan of Runan is also a major family in ancient China.
The legend of the Yuan clan in Runan is that after Yu Shun, during the Western Zhou Dynasty, the descendants of the Yu clan established the State of Chen, and later the State of Chen was destroyed for the Chu State, and the family moved to Runan, forming the Yuan family. The Yuan clan of Runan was very dazzling in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the middle and late period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were many people who came and went from the family, and Yuan Tang, Yuan Kui, Yuan An, etc. all came from this family. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the flocks of heroes were chasing deer, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, descendants of the Yuan clan of Runan, each led a region to divide a territory, and they competed with Cao Cao for the north, which once became the biggest obstacle to Cao Cao's unification of the north. After Yuan Shao's death, his sons Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan were discordant, and later Cao Cao took advantage of the void to enter, and Yuan Xi and others were destroyed.
The Langya Wang clan is a branch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, but this family is also very dazzling.
The ancestor of the Langya wang clan was Wang Yuan, and after Wang Yuan, his family moved to Langya. The Langya Wang clan was most famous during the Two Jin Dynasties, and the Western Jin Dynasty metaphysicians Wang Bi and Wang Yan were among the representatives. When the Jin Dynasty Emperor Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jiankang, he was also the Wang Dao and Wang Dun brothers of the Langya Wang clan who contributed the most, and at that time, there was a rumor within the Eastern Jin Dynasty that Wang and Ma were in the same world, which showed the long of the Langya Wang clan. The Langya Wang clan is also a family with a concentration of calligraphers, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi are also from this family.