Anhui Tongcheng Mei's source flow examination
Mei Tie Shan
There are about 7,000 or 8,000 people in the Mei clan in Tongcheng, mainly living in Daguan, Kongcheng, Jinshen, Huangjia and other places. According to the "Genealogy of the Mei Clan of Tongcheng" (The Second Revision Edition of the 30th Year of the Qianlong Dynasty), the "Records of the Origin of the Mei Clan" records that the Mei clan of Tongcheng originated from Xuancheng, and the ancestor Le'an Gong (Shengyi) was the seventh grandson of the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen.
According to the genealogy, the lineage of the Tongcheng Mei clan and the Xuancheng Wanling Mei clan is as follows: Yaochen Gongsheng Zeng, Qi, Qi, Tan, Tan Sheng, Ren Sheng Ji Ming, Ji Ming Sheng Tai Qi, Zhen Shi Tai (Note: Xuancheng Wenfeng Mei Qian ancestor). Shi Taisheng had three sons, the eldest eighty-four, the second ninety-two, and the second hundred and second. Eighty-four had four children and lived locally. Ninety-two births di nine, victory one, victory two, victory four. One hundred and two have no heirs, and their brother Sheng Er is the son. Di Jiu had four sons and lived in Xuancheng. After Katsuichi, he was renamed Zongyi (樂庵公), a jinshi of the Song Dynasty, a jinshi of the Song Dynasty, a governor of Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi, and a new an Wuyuan. Nine sons of the Duke of Le'an: Liangyi, Lianger, liangsan, Wuyuan, Liangsi, Tongcheng Huangpengzui, Liangwu, Liangliu, Lujiang, Liangba, Yangshuwan, and Liangjiu. In summary, the ancestors of the Tongcheng Mei clan are the Fourth Duke of Liang and the Eighth Duke of Liang, and the twelfth grandson of the Mei clan of Wanling in Xuancheng.
According to Kao, the "Genealogy of the Mei Clan of Tongcheng" was first repaired in the 36th year (1687) of the Qing Kangxi Ding, the second repair of the 30th year (1765) of the Qing Dynasty, the third repair of the 13th year (1808) of the Qing Jiaqing Pengchen, the fourth repair of the 9th year of the Qing Tongzhi Gengwu (1870), the fifth repair of the 30th year (1904) of the Qing Guangxu Jiachen, and the sixth repair of the 37th year of the Republic of China (1948). There are 22 surviving fragments of the Four And Five Cultivation Genealogies, as well as a complete set of six Cultivation Genealogies, which can be consulted for reference.
Tongcheng Mei clan ranked in the first generation, from the eleventh generation: "article Chengyongze, Shili jijiasheng, Xiufa Xiangguangyuan, Qianchun Lotus Pet Glory" a total of two crosses. For example, Mr. Mei Linggao, who held an important position in the central government of the National Government and played a key role in the genealogy of Liu xiu Tongcheng, is the "Li" character, which is the seventeenth generation of the Tongcheng Mei clan and the twenty-eighth Mei clan of Xuancheng Wanling. Among the branches of the thousand-year-old Wanling Mei family, Mr. Mei Linggao's rank is very high, three generations higher than Mr. Mei Guangdi, a famous humanistic scholar who integrates China and the West, and Mr. Mei Guangdi of the Wanling Mei clan Zhang Wuwang.
Note: According to my comprehensive examination of the thousand-year-old Wanling Mei branch, Wenfeng Mei is a descendant of Mei Yaochen from Shu Meicheng. During the Jiatai period of the Southern Song Dynasty, Mei Cheng's eldest son Liangchen (also known as Jing) supported Mei Shitai (太七公, wanling Mei IX's grandson) to avoid war and chaos, and moved to the area around the Baifeng Pass at the foot of Wenling Mountain at the junction of Xuan and Ning, so it was called "Wenfeng Mei", also known as "Yamaguchi Mei".
June 18, 2012
Note: In the "General Genealogy of the Wanling Mei Clan", the next collection of "Xinzhi", Chapter 5, "The Continuation of the Genealogy of the Ancestral Temple", the third section, "Tracing the Origin" (p. 1164).