The Yeongsan Sin clan or Yeongsan Shin clan () is one of the

Korean clans Bon-gwan (or Bongwan) is the concept of clan in Korea, which is used to distinguish clans that happen to share the same family name (clan name). Since Korea has been traditionally a Confucian country, this clan system is similar to ancient Chinese ...

. Their

Bon-gwan Bon-gwan (or Bongwan) is the concept of clan in Korea, which is used to distinguish clans that happen to share the same family name (clan name). Since Korea has been traditionally a Confucian country, this clan system is similar to ancient Chinese ...

(clan location) is in

Changnyeong County Changnyeong County (''Changnyeong-gun'' 창녕군) is a county in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. In the early Three Kingdoms period, Changnyeong was the seat of Bihwa Gaya, a member of the Gaya confederacy which was later conquered by S ...

South Gyeongsang Province South Gyeongsang Province ( ko, 경상남도, translit=Gyeongsangnam-do, ) is a province in the southeast of South Korea. The provincial capital is at Changwon. It is adjacent to the major metropolitan center and port of Busan. The UNESCO World ...

. According to some of the most recent research as of 2015, the number of members in the Yeongsan Sin clan was 187426.

Origin

The founder of the Yeongsan Sin clan was Sin Gyeong () via the Xin sect (). Sin Gyeong was a descendant of Yu Shen (), the son of King

Qi of Xia Qi () was a Chinese king, the son of Yu the Great and the second sovereign of the Xia dynasty. He ruled for roughly nine to ten years.戴逸, 龔書鐸. 002(2003) 中國通史. 史前夏商西周. Intelligence press. . p. 40. Biography ...

. Hailing from the

Longxi Commandery Longxi Commandery (Chinese: trad. , simp. , ''Lǒngxījùn'') was a commandery of imperial China in present-day Gansu, named due to its location west of Mount Long (the southern portion of Mount Liupan). Qin dynasty Established ...

, Sin Gyeong entered

Goryeo Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificati ...

as one of the Eight Scholars () of the

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. He passed the

Imperial examination The imperial examination (; lit. "subject recommendation") refers to a civil-service examination system in Imperial China, administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy. The concept of choosing bureaucrats by ...

in 1138 and was appointed as ''Jinzi Guanglu Daifu'' () and ''munha sirang pyeongjangsa'' (). Sin Gyeong settled in

Yeongchwisan Yeongchwisan is a mountain of Jeollanam-do, southwestern South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with Nor ...

(), in

, where he founded the Yeongsan Sin clan.{{Cite journal , author=Jin Guanglin , author-link=:ja:金光林 (歴史学者) , date=2014 , title=A Comparison of the Korean and Japanese Approaches to Foreign Family Names , journal=Journal of Cultural Interaction in East Asia , volume=5 , via=

Society for Cultural Interaction in East Asia A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societi ...

, url=http://www.sciea.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/03_JIN.pdf , page=20

References

Korean clans of Chinese origin Clans based in South Gyeongsang Province

Origin

See also

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