"Yimen Family", namely Yimen Chencun Village, Cheqiao Township, Dean County, Jiangxi Province, was the largest, most typical and rare feudal family organization in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. Its village was built 320 years earlier than Fan Zhongyan's Suzhou Yizhuang, and its genealogy was revised earlier than Ouyang Xiu's and Su Xun's New Genealogy, with the population ranking first in China. From 73 1 year to 73 1063, it lasted for 332 years, and the court expressed righteousness many times.
Investigating the origin of Chen's surname, it has been 3 109 years since Chen accepted his surname, which is about 1 122 years BC. After negotiating with Shang and Shun, he got (full name) and was given a daughter, Tai Ji, and was sealed in Chen (according to the name of an ancient country, its capital was Wanqiu, which is now Huaiyang, Henan). Later, the descendants of the founding monarch took "Chen" as their surname. Thus, it became the first life of Chen, the ancestor of Wanqiu School. After that, Chen Zai's successor has gone through 23 generations. In the forty-second year of Zhou Dynasty (478 BC), King Hui of Chu killed Chen Minggong, and Chen's descendants were scattered in all directions. After the downfall of Chen, the Chen family began to decline. In the eighties, I worshipped Prime Minister Zuo and Chen was resurrected. The 42nd Sean became an important member of the Party, and Chen declined. 7 1 Sean moved to Xianyou County, Quanzhou (now Putian County, Fujian Province) to avoid chaos in the world.
Ma Zong's friend, Chen Xiangzi Bo Xuan, visited the Longtan Nest in Kuanglu, loved its quietness and tranquility, and was reluctant to leave for a long time. He married Tan, the son of Hong. Chen Tan lived in Longtanwo with his father, married Zhang and gave birth to Wang, Xiao and Diao. In April of Kaiyuan 19 (AD 73 1 year), he moved to Yongqing Village, Taiping Township, Putangchang, Jiujiang County (now Yimen Village, Cheqiao Township, De 'an County, Jiujiang City) and was the ancestor of Chen, the Yimen of De 'an. Since then, Chen Da has reached its peak. Wang Chen and his sons and grandchildren managed the family with filial piety, wrote family laws and built academies, which made the Chen family prosperous day by day.
In seven years (A.D. 1062), the Chen family in Yimen has lasted for 322 years, with more than 3,900 households and more than 300 granges. At that time, at the suggestion of Wen Yanbo, Bao Zheng, Fan Shidao and Lu Hui, the method of "killing two birds with one stone" was adopted to analyze the Chen family in Yimen. First, suppress the phenomenon that the Chen family in Yimen is too concentrated and the ruling and opposition parties are too prosperous; The second is to take Yimen Chen family as a model of feudal family and educate farmers all over the country to maintain the feudal dynasty. So on the third day of July of the same year, the transshipment of Jiangnan West Road made Xie Jingchu lead the officials and ordered the guards to analyze the Yimen Chen family. It was not until March of the following year that the division of villages was agreed. According to the 12 faction given by the imperial court, the villages were divided into 29 1 faction (the genealogy of Yimen Chen contains the surface of dividing villages), and the villages of various roads, States and towns were moved by lot. This 29 1 new feudal family organization of Zhuang nationality is spread all over the country. Since then, Chen, who was analyzed from Yimen in De 'an, has a plaque of "Yimen Family" in the capital of Yimen, from which the legend of "the world is old and Yimen" has flowed out.