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Two of the six, the Yeongsan Shin clan and the Geochang Shin clan, both trace their origins back to China. Members of the various Shin clans can be found throughout the Korean peninsula . As with other Korean family names , the holders of the "Shin" family name are divided into various clans, each known by the name of a town or city, called bon ...
Not all Koreans with the family name Shin belong to the Pyongsan Shin clan; only about 600,000 (about 70%) hail from this clan. Others belong to other unrelated clans, such as the Goryeong Shin clan, who produced 19th and 20th century notables as Shin Chae-ho. Painting by Sa An-do : Sin Sung-gyŏm hitting a goose with an arrow above Pyongsan ...
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Geochang Shin clan (Korean: 거창 신씨; Hanja: 居昌 愼氏) is a Korean clan. Their Bon-gwan is in Geochang County, South Gyeongsang Province. In a 2015 survey, the Geochang Shin clan was reported to have 51,153 members. [1] The clan's founder was Shin Su , who came from Kaifeng during the Song dynasty.
The founder of the Yeongsan Sin clan was Sin Gyeong (辛鏡) via the Xin sect (莘氏).Sin Gyeong was a descendant of Yu Shen (于莘), the son of King Qi of Xia.Hailing from the Longxi Commandery, Sin Gyeong entered Goryeo as one of the Eight Scholars (八學士) of the Northern Song dynasty.
However, a clan name is not treated as a part of a Korean person's name. [ citation needed ] The bongwan and the family name are passed on from a father to his children, thus ensuring that person in the same paternal lineage sharing the same combination of the bongwan and the family name. [ 1 ]
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