Hu surname (62) | Hu Yao family: Hu Yan's descendants are scattered in the Jianghuai area, with a total of eight branches

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Hu Yu's descendants were scattered in the Jianghuai area, with a total of 8 branches in Jiangsu Hailing, Rugao, Huaiyin, Zhejiang Jinhua, Wucheng, Wuxing, lanxi and so on.

Statue of Hu Yan in Suzhou Middle School (file photo)

Hu Yu's descendants in Rugao were his sons Hu Zhikang

Hu Yu's descendants in Rugao were his sons Hu Zhikang. The "Song Poetry Chronicle Supplement" records that Hu Zhikang, the character Yongning, was a jinshi in the 6th year of the Qing calendar (1046) and an official to Yongzhou Zhizhou.

Hu Yan's grandson, Hu Di, once recalled Hu Yan's strict tutoring. Hu Yu once stipulated that the women of the Hu family should marry someone stronger than the Hu family; the men of the Hu family should marry a family that was inferior to the Hu family.

Why is this stipulated? Hu Yu's reasoning was that after the women of the Hu family married, they would "be disciplined and abstained" in their daily lives; the wives they married would "follow the way of women" when interacting with their husbands' families.

Hu Dawei, a descendant of Hu Yi in Jinhua, has the excellent qualities of benevolence and mutual assistance

Hu Yu's descendants in Jinhua, during the Northern Song Dynasty Xuanhe, there were two brothers, Hu You and Hu Wen, who died in battle against fang la's peasant army and were buried together, known as the Hu Family Tomb, for which Lu You once wrote an epitaph.

In the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, this Hu clan produced Hu Dazhi, with the same character, studied Confucianism, inherited the ancestral industry, and married the 7th granddaughter of Fan Zhongyan.

However, Hu Dawei, like his ancestor Hu Yan, had bad luck and failed to pass the imperial examination many times. Later, Hu Dayi was selected and transferred to the Jingde Liquor Official of Ningguo Province, acting as Zhi County, and his administrative performance was very good. ”

Hu Daweiguan to Congyi Lang has the good qualities of benevolence and mutual assistance, and as long as it is beneficial to others, he likes to do it.

After Hu Dayi's death, Wei Yiweng, a famous scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty and a native of Pujiang County, Sichuan, wrote an epitaph for him.

Hu Yu's descendants in Huzhou migrated from Rugao

Huzhou, Zhejiang, was called Wucheng during the Qin Dynasty, later renamed Huzhou, wucheng county during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and abolished into Wuxing County (present-day Wuxing District, Huzhou City) during the "Republic of China". In Wucheng, Hu Yu had a descendant who had migrated from Rugao.

In the 14th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1536), Liu Jun of Huzhou Zhizhou ordered his men to repair the tomb of Hu Yan, and Hu Yan's descendant Hu Lianfang in Wucheng specially donated more than 16 acres of land as a cemetery field, and the lu she land was 0.8 mu.

The descendants of Hu Yan are most famous and influential in later generations by the Wuxing and Lanxi tribes

Among Hu Yan's descendants, the most famous and influential were the tribes of Wuxing and Lanxi (present-day Lanxi, Zhejiang).

Earlier, when we talked about the Shangshu Hu clan of Jixi in Anhui, its ancestor Hu Qing moved from Wuxing.

The lanxi tribe migrated from Wuxing, around the time of the chaos of the late Yuan Dynasty.

This Hu clan, passed down to the fifth generation, there was a man named Hu Fu, the character Kuan'an, who did business with his brothers, he was upright, kept his promises and commitments, and it became more and more difficult to do business, "the family is getting poorer and poorer." ”

Hu Fu's son Hu Fu (胡僖), the character Bo'an, the word zi-like, the number Gongquan. Perhaps hu fu wanted his son to be a doctor, and Hu Xi began to read medical books such as "Su Qing" and "Lingshu Jinkui" from an early age.

Hu Xian read darkly, his mind was swollen, and he knew that he was not the material for studying medicine. One day, he suddenly woke up, why do he have to study medicine? Wouldn't it be better to find your way through the imperial examination?

Therefore, Hu Xi resolutely gave up the medical book and looked at the Four Books and Five Classics. Soon, he qualified as a child and began to take xiucai.

Hu Xi's article made Tang Long, who was then the ZhiXian of Lanxi County, very appreciative, and sent someone to call Hu Xian.

At that time, Hu Xian had just turned 20 years old, because his family was poor, his clothes were shabby, and his feet were straw shoes, but he was energetic and personable, and the whole person was full of spirit.

Tang Long was very fond of Hu Xi and almost gave his daughter Xu to Hu Xi. Although he did not become Hu Xi's father-in-law, Tang Long has always been very kind to Hu Xi and often greeted him warmly, which made Hu Xi feel a strong warmth.

Hu Xi was kind-hearted, and it is said that when he participated in the township examination, a magical thing happened.

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【Special Thanks】

Mr. Hu Chuanhuai, an expert in literature and history of Pengxi County, Sichuan.

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