For the family clan in the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, you are very knowledgeable and will be able to say a lot of things casually.
But if you want to ask the most famous, I guess it is mostly the Yuan clan of Runan, that is, yuan shao's branch, the fourth and third dukes.
Perhaps influenced by the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, or Yuan Shao spared no effort to publicize it, so that "Four Dynasties and Three Dukes" became synonymous with the Yuan family.
In fact, the "Four Dynasties and Three Dukes" are not unique to the Yuan family, if discussed, the Hongnong Yang Clan is enough to stomp the Yuan family under their feet.
(In order not to fight, let me first explain that what this article refers to is simply measured by official positions, and does not include influence, etc. The Yuan family is not only famous for the fourth and third dukes, mainly because its protégés are all over the world, and the Yuan and Yang families are still relatives)
The so-called four generations and three dukes refer to four generations in the family who have successively held the position of "three dukes".
The Three Dukes, namely Taiwei, Situ, and Sikong, began with the Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu's change of Sima to Taiwei and ended with Cao Cao's removal of the Three Dukes.
Let's first look at the Yuan clan of Runan:
From the perspective of Yuan Shu, Gaozu Yuan An was Situ; great-uncle Yuan Chang was Sikong; grandfather Yuan Tang was Taiwei; and father Yuan Feng was Sikong.
Yuan Shao's direct great-grandfather Yuan Jing was Yuan Chang's second brother, and although his fame was much greater than Yuan Chang's, he had no intention of pursuing a career and did not have the position of Third Duke.
As for Yuan Tang, he did the three positions of Tai Wei, Situ, and SiKong over and over again, and the reason why he only said Tai Wei was because the three dukes at that time were first of the Tai Wei, followed by Situ, and Si Kong again.
That is to say, the order of promotion and migration within the three dukes is Sikong, Situ, and Taiwei.
So what about the Hongnong Yang clan?
From Yang Xiu's point of view, Yang Zhen, the ancestor of Gaozu, was a lieutenant; his great-grandfather Yang Bing, was a lieutenant; his grandfather Yang Ci was a lieutenant; and his father, Yang Biao, was a lieutenant.
Did you find that? Yang Xiu's family, not only the fourth and third dukes, but also the fourth taiwei, that was the first family in the late Han Dynasty besides the royal family.
Therefore, Yang Xiu's personality is easy to understand, of course, this is also one of the reasons why he was executed.
The yuan and Yang families mentioned above are relatives because Yang Biao married Yuan An's great-granddaughter, that is, Yang Xiu wanted to call Yuan Shu "uncle".
The Yang family's place of origin was Huayin County, Hongnong County, probably in present-day Weinan City, Shaanxi Province.
, is the Jinguo Gong clan of the Yang Tongue clan, taifu uncle Xiang, Shu Xiang's real name is Yang Tongue, because the food is in Yang, also known as Yang Jiao, his mother-in-law is very famous, is one of the four beauties of the Spring and Autumn Period - Xia Ji.
The "Zuo Biography" records a story, which roughly says that due to the "wife swap case" of two of the Qi family's courtiers, Yang Jiao's son Yang Zhiyi was killed, and then the clan was exterminated. It is also said that Yang Dao, my son Yang Dao, fled to Mount Hua and lived in Hongnong Huayin, taking the ancestral fiefdom as his surname, which coincided with what the New Book of Tang said.
To tell a feudal superstition: On the day I was born, his grandmother learned that it was a boy and was very excited to see it, but when she ran to the door, she heard the child's cry, turned her head and left, saying only that this was the voice of the jackal, and that in the future the Yang Tongue Clan would suffer because of him. This old lady listened to the cries and discerned people, which was really powerful.
The first ancestor of the Hongnong Yang clan was Yang Chang, who was given the title of Chancellor during the Han Zhao Emperor's reign.
Yang Chang's name is not very loud, but his father-in-law is very famous, that is, the famous historian who left the "History of History", which is "the masterpiece of the historian, the rhyme of the rhymeless "Departure""--Sima Qian.
In addition to Sima Qian, there was also a great celebrity related to the Yang clan, that is, the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history, Wu Cao, that is, Wu Zetian, her mother, who was the daughter of Yang Da, the Marquis of Shi'an County, Sui Dynasty, and the Hongnong Yang clan of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er.
There is also an interesting story here (I will only say the folk version), because Wu Zetian's father, Wu Shiyan, funded Li Shimin's meritorious service, so he wanted to take the daughter of the famous door as his wife and ask Li Shimin to marry him, but the Yang family despised the merchant status of Wu Shiyan, and under the pressure of Li Shimin, they were only willing to marry the forty-four-year-old girl to him, and as a result, the girl gave birth to three beautiful women in a row, the second daughter of which was Wu Zetian.
Of course
In any case, the Hongnong Yang clan, which was a big family that flourished from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the reason why it failed to become a high-ranking family such as Wang and Xie was perhaps that there were more people who were not contentious and too contentious.
For example, Yang Xiu, after he was killed, the Yang family underwent a brief repression, until Sima Yan, the emperor of jinwu, made Yang Bing's daughter Yang Yan and Yang Jun's daughter Yang Zhi empress, and the Hongnong Yang clan once again reached the peak.
However, due to being too ostentatious, Yang Jun and others were killed by Jia Chong's daughter Jia Nanfeng, the empress of Sima Zheng, the emperor of Jinhui, and joined forces with Sima Wei, the king of Chu, to kill and destroy the three tribes.
Of course, the destruction of Yang Bing's branch does not mean the decline of the Hongnong Yang clan, and there are still many people in high positions until Yang Jian unifies the world.
Yang Jian is the fourteenth grandson of Yang Zhen, the Lieutenant of Han, so who is Yang Zhen?
In fact, having said all this, Yang Zhen is the most respected one in the Yang clan of Hongnong, and the world calls him "Confucius of Kansai".
Yang Zhen's father, Yang Bao, was a great Confucian, just like the later Water Mirror Mr. Sima Hui, a hermit, who had refused Wang Mang's conscription, and was also considered a Han Zhongliang.
Either because of avoiding disasters or not wanting to enter the career, Yang Zhen refused many recruitments and did not serve in the state until he was fifty years old, but because of his fame, the speed of promotion was really amazing.
Yang Zhen was an upright official, unyielding magnate, and repeatedly wrote to bluntly explain the shortcomings of current politics, so he offended Fan Feng and many other villains. Once in a "star change", Fan Feng used a vision to unite with the general Geng Bao to jointly falsely accuse Yang Zhen of being dissatisfied with the emperor's rule, and Emperor An of Han cut Yang Zhen's officials in anger.
"When the earthquake traveled to the Yang Pavilion in the west of the city, it was generously said to his sons: 'The constant division of the dead.' I am blessed to live in the superior, the treacherous minister is cunning and cannot be cursed, the evil woman is chaotic and cannot be forbidden, how to see the sun and the moon again! On the day of death, the coffin was made of miscellaneous wood, and the cloth sheet was cut in the shape of a foot cover, and it was not returned to the tomb, and a shrine was set up. He died of drunkenness at the age of seventy. ”
Hongnong taishou moved Liang liang to Fan Feng and others, ordered people to expose Yang Zhen's coffin to the side of the road, and ordered Yang Zhen's sons to go around like postmen to deliver letters, and the people who passed by were all in tears.
It was not until The Han Shun Emperor Liu Bao ascended the throne and Fan Feng and others ambushed him that Yang Zhen's grievances were revealed. It is said that "after more than ten days of burial, there were big birds tall and tall, before the earthquake was mourned, they bowed down and mourned, and the tears touched the ground, and after the burial was finished, they flew away", Liu Bao wept after hearing this, so that taishou Cheng used the middle prison to sacrifice, and the people also erected a stone bird statue in front of Yang Zhen's tomb to commemorate him.
During the reign of Emperor Ling, Liu Hong asked Yang Qi, a descendant of Yang Zhen and his attendant at the time: Who is better between me and Emperor Huan? Yang Qi only "educated" Liu Hong with Yao Shun, and Liu Hong said angrily: After you die, there must be big birds on the grave. It is borrowed from this story of Yang Zhen, but the reference is not to say how good Yang Qi is, but to curse him to die early.
This is the story about the Hongnong Yang clan.
In history, it is not as prominent as the Pengcheng Liu clan and other clans, in people's hearts, it is not as famous as the Ru'nan Yuan clan and other large clans, but as one of the famous and prestigious clans in Chinese history, its influence can not be described as small.