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{{Short description|Chinese clan in the Spring and Autumn period}}
The '''Fàn Clan''' ({{zh|t=范氏 |p=Fànshì}}) established itself as one of the six most powerful clans within the [[Jin (Chinese state)|State of Jin]] during the [[Spring and Autumn period]] of ancient China. The clans were collectively called the ''[[Six Titled Retainers of Jin]]'' ({{zh|c={{linktext|晋|国|六|卿}}|p=Jìn-guó Liùqīng}}).  These six aristocratic families dominated Jin in the late Spring and Autumn period, basically using the ruling duke as a figurehead until Jin was split into three separate states.<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Kiser|Cai|2003|p=520}}</ref>
Shi Hui (士会), posthumously called Fàn Wuzi (范武子), great-grandson of [[Du Bo]] Duke of Tangdu is considered the founder. He  distinguished himself by defeating the neighbouring tribes as Commander in Chief of the Jin army and was ennobled as [[Duke of Sui]] and [[Duke of Fan|Duke of Fàn]]. He gains the title Fàn Hui(范会), and is rewarded with lands south-east of Fàn (now [[Fan County]] Fànxian 范縣 in [[Henan]])<ref name="Ancestry® 2016">{{cite web | title=Fan Name Meaning & Fan Family History at Ancestry.com | website=Ancestry® | date=2016-12-25 | url=https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=fan | access-date=2017-06-25}}</ref><ref name="Sk Chunjiang 2013 p. 37">{{cite book | last=Sk | first=L. | last2=Chunjiang | first2=F. | title=Origins of Chinese Names: | publisher=ASIAPAC BOOKS PTE LTD | year=2013 | isbn=978-981-317-033-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=518EDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 | access-date=2017-06-26 | page=37}}</ref><ref name="www.chinaknowledge.de 2012">{{cite web | title=The House of Fan 范 (www.chinaknowledge.de) | website=www.chinaknowledge.de | date=2012-10-26 | url=http://www.chinaknowledge.de/History/Zhou/personsfan.html | access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref><ref name="裕 都 軒- Yutopian Chinese Culture Page (中國文化網頁)">{{cite web | title=Origin of the surname Fan, Fang | website=裕 都 軒- Yutopian Chinese Culture Page (中國文化網頁) | url=http://www.yutopian.com/names/09/9fan61.html | access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref>
In 497 BC a dispute broke out between the Zhao clan, and the Fan and Zhonghang clans. The Fan and Zhonghang forces attacked Zhao,but were defeated and forced to retreat to the city of [[Zhaoge]] as the other three other clans (Han, Wei, and Zhi) came to Zhao's defence. Seven years later, in 490 BC the combined Jin forces decisively defeated Fan Jishe and Zhonghang Yin, leaders of their respective clans, forcing them to flee to the [[State of Qi]].<ref name="shiji">{{cite web |url=http://www.guoxue.com/shibu/24shi/shiji/sj_039.htm |script-title=zh:晉世家 |trans-title=House of Jin |work=[[Records of the Grand Historian]] |author=Sima Qian |author-link=Sima Qian |language=Chinese |accessdate=12 April 2012}}</ref> Later the Han, Zhao, and Wei clans would grow stronger leading to the partition Jin from 481 BCE into the new states of Han, Zhao, and Wei and finally destruction of the Jin State in 386 BCE.<ref>[[Sima Guang]], "[[Zizhi Tongjian|Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government]]"</ref>
The line of descent is as given in the table below:
{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Personal name  !! [[Posthumous name]] !! Period of Reign
|-
|Shi Hui (士會 or 隨會)
|Fàn Wu Zi (范武子)
|593 BC-?
|-
|[[Shi Xie (Eastern Zhou)|Shi Xie]] (士燮)
|Fàn Wen Zi  (范文子)
|?-575 BC
|-
|[[Shi Gai]] (士匄)
|Fàn Xuan Zi (范宣子)
|574 BC-547 BC
|-
|Shi Yang (士鞅)
|Fàn Xian Zi (范献獻子)
|546 BC-?
|-
|[[Shi Jishe]]  (士吉射)   or [[Fàn Jiyi]] (范吉射)
|Fàn Zhao Zi (范昭子)
|?-490 BC
|-
|}
== See also ==
* [[Fan (surname)]].
==References==
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===Works cited===
* {{citation |last1=Kiser |first1=Edgar |last2=Cai |first2=Young |year=2003 |title=War and bureaucratization in Qin China: Exploring an anomalous case |journal=American Sociological Review |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=511–39 |doi=10.2307/1519737 |jstor=1519737}}
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