閻氏圖騰釋義

• 【釋義】 閻的本義為里巷中的門。引申有巷里、胡同之義。

• 【起源】 出自姬姓，有兩支：

  1. 西周初，周武王姬發將其堂祖父的曾孫虞仲封於閻鄉（即夏墟，今山西平陸），虞仲的子孫以邑為氏。

  2. 春秋時，晉成公（姬姓）之子懿被封於閻邑（今山西安邑）。晉國於公元前 4 世紀中葉滅亡後，懿的子孫散處於河、洛（今河南洛陽、鞏義）一帶，後居滎陽，以封邑為氏，即閻氏。

• 得姓始祖： 仲奕

• 始祖地： 山西平陸、河南洛陽、滎陽

• 郡望堂號： 天水、河南、太原；右相堂

• 當今排序／人口： 第 77 位／約 360 萬

• 宋版百家姓排序： 第 327 位

• 現存家譜： 33 部

Interpretation of the Yan (閻) Clan Totem

Definition of the Character: The original meaning of "閻" (Yan) is the gate of a residential lane or alleyway (lixiang). By extension, it carries the meaning of the neighborhood or the alley itself (similar to hutong).

Origin: The surname originates from the Ji (姬) royal surname and has two primary branches:

• 1. At the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King Wu (Ji Fa) enfeoffed Yu Zhong, the great-grandson of his grand-uncle, at Yanxiang (located at the ruins of the Xia Dynasty, modern-day Pinglu, Shanxi). Yu Zhong's descendants adopted the name of this fief as their surname.

  2. During the Spring and Autumn period, Yi, the son of Duke Cheng of Jin (also of the Ji surname), was enfeoffed at Yanyi (modern-day Anyi, Shanxi). After the State of Jin fell in the mid-4th century BC, Yi's descendants dispersed across the Yellow River and Luo River regions (modern-day Luoyang and Gongyi, Henan), later settling in Xingyang and adopting the name of their fief as their surname.

• Ancestral Founder: Zhong Yi

• Ancestral Homelands: Pinglu (Shanxi); Luoyang and Xingyang (Henan)

• Prefectural Seats and Hall Names: Tianshui, Henan, Taiyuan; Youxiang Hall

• Current Rank / Population: 77th most common / Approx. 3.60 million

• Song Dynasty "Hundred Family Surnames" Rank: 327th

• Extant Genealogies: 33 volumes