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Yang〔The approximate English pronunciation is .〕 () is the transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the sixth most common surname in Mainland China. The Yang surname members adopted many local sounding and customizable western style or another language beside Mandarin Chinese last names with even neutralization name and changes rapidly through generations, but some still preserved Mandarin Chinese character name as secondary name beside the legal name, and appear a lot in some countries likes Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, etc.〔''http://www.familytree.com/surnames/Yang, retrieved 16 September 2014''〕〔''http://www.indiachildnames.com/surname.aspx?surname=Yang, retrieved 16 September 2014''〕 Some examples of it are Karen and another names at Thailand.〔''Kuhn, Philip A. ''Chinese Among Others: Emigration in Modern Times'', Lanham, MD/Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.''〕 The Yang clan was founded by Boqiao, son of Duke Wu of Jin in the Springs and Autumns Period of the Ji (姬) surname, the surname of the royal family during the Zhou dynasty (c. 8th to 5th Centuries BC) who was enfeoffed in the Yang kingdom. Yang can also be the phonetic translation of a very rare Chinese family name 羊 and of another surname pronounced ''Yang'' (揚), written with a "hand" radical rather than the "wood" radical. The two characters were used interchangeably in ancient times, which is the Chinese character for Goat or Sheep. == History == Four proposed and linked historical origins are: # Direct descendants of Huang Di (Yellow Emperor) of Hua Xia during Xia Dynasty, also many sons and grandsons of Yu the Great, have taken Yang as surname, some of its sub-domains are the prominent Yang Jian of Zhou which take role as a Heavenly Marshal take his colony to seek peace after Zhou Dynasty win and erected his colony peacefully. And also Yang Ren is known through the title of Grand Counselor. Which appear at Fengshen Yanyi or Investiture of the Gods, novel accordingly to the historical founding of Zhou Dynasty. # The Yang clan was founded by Boqiao (later become Yang Boqiao, with Yang as usually duchy courtesy name) son of Duke Wu of Jin in the Springs and Autumns Period of the Ji (姬) surname, the surname of the royal family during the Zhou dynasty (c. 8th to 5th Centuries BC) who was enfeoffed a vast land, the Yang Kingdom, with its central in at ancient's Shaanxi. # Yang Tang, the first historical ancestor of the Jeju's Yang clan was a Shilla figure, but according to another source, his distant ancestor was one of three men who ascended from a cave on the north side of Cheju Island’s Halla Mountain, Jeju’s Tamnagook kingdom which build the Yang Clan at there. # Yang Shi, senior advisor of Jin, During the Warring States period (403–221 bc) his descendants fled to escape destruction by the conquering the Qin, and simplified their surname to Yang. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yang (surname)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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