Dé'ān

De'an lies south of the Yangtze in northern Jiangxi, a county of Jiujiang Prefecture under the Ming and Qing. In its countryside lived the Chen lineage of Yimen, celebrated in traditional accounts for generations of shared household life. The family established rules for its members and maintained a school. In 1062 the Song court ordered its large estate divided and branches of the family moved elsewhere. Later descendants continued to recall De'an as the ancestral home of a widely dispersed lineage.