In recent years, genealogy has quietly warmed up. In Hubei, genealogy is in the ascendant. The Chang family in China spent nearly one million yuan, and it took six years to compile an eight-volume genealogy, dating back thousands of years. Behind the emotional surge of seeking roots and ancestors, people are seeking recognition of clan culture.

Mr. Chang Qingxu is the deputy research librarian of Hubei Library, the editor-in-chief of China Chang Family Tree, and the deputy secretary-general of the second China Family Tree International Conference. "Speaking of genealogy, a little older people are no strangers. However, many people may not know that the genealogy history of China people is almost as long as our written history. " Mr Chang told reporters that China people had a family tree as early as Shang Dynasty. "As we all know, the oldest writing in China is Oracle Bone Inscriptions. It is found that some Oracle Bone Inscriptions specially records the characters and lineages of a family. For example, the genealogy of Er in Oracle Bone Inscriptions more than 3,000 years ago and Wuding period of Shang Dynasty, in which Er is the surname of Ni. This is also the earliest recorded genealogy in China. "

Chang Qingxu believes that genealogy is based on consanguinity, and genealogy is compiled to construct a pedigree with the same blood source. "Although the patriarchal clan system has long died out, a clan has experienced the evolution of migration and scattered reproduction, but ethics is immortal, and human relations always exist objectively. Therefore, when people talk about clans today, it is more of a spiritual attachment. " With the prosperity of life, people gradually germinated a strong sense of "seeking roots" and local culture, which revived the genealogy.

Obviously, genealogy is not only conducive to the construction of local harmony, but also of great significance to enhancing national cohesion. Mr. Chang believes that with the reproduction of lineage, blood relationship has become very thin in genealogy, and the revision of genealogy is more about finding cultural identity. The clan network established through the revision of the spectrum has also become another kind of personal network. It is reported that a student named Zhan unfortunately got leukemia, but because his family was poor and had no money to treat him, Zhan's relatives raised tens of thousands of yuan within a week after learning about it. Such a poverty alleviation society exists in all surnames.