China's genealogy has a long history. Before the Republic of China, the compilation of genealogy continued, and from the Republic of China to the present, the compilation of genealogy also experienced several important periods. First, during the Republic of China, due to the advocacy of the Kuomintang, there was a climax of arranging music, and many important members of the Kuomintang also arranged music at this time. Second, the 1980s and 1990s after the founding of the People's Republic of China also ushered in the climax of music revision. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, genealogy was regarded as a symbol of feudalism and was seriously damaged. However, after the reform and opening up, people have a new understanding of genealogy and began to compile it. After entering the new century, music editing is more frequent.
Chiang Kai-shek's inscription when the family of senior officials in the Republic of China revised the score.
However, the revision of genealogy in the new century is very different from the previous revision, and there are many problems to be solved. The first is the issue of funds. Different from the clans in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the funds for compiling musical scores were deducted from the clan property. At present, the first thing to be solved in compiling genealogy is the problem of funds. Then there is the compilation of lineage, how many people have been added, and what lineage it is, especially as the topic owner said, if the old spectrum is lost, it will be more difficult to compile the new spectrum. So how to solve these two problems?
Proposal for the revision of modern music (here, only part is taken to protect privacy)
First, the issue of funds. At present, the main sources of funds for music editing are donation and equal sharing, which is generally a combination of the two.
Donations are mainly made by people with sufficient funds or high social status in their families, which is also an important source of funds for music editors today. Of course, in order to encourage people to donate, the genealogy often indicates how much so-and-so donated. If you donate more, family photos and the glorious deeds of family members will be recorded in detail in the genealogy.
Sharing is relatively simple, that is, every household has to pay a certain amount of money, and different clans adopt different methods, some according to the family, some according to everyone's donation, and usually the second one is adopted. The specific payment amount varies from region to region, ranging from per capita 10 yuan to per capita 20 yuan. Of course, whether to pay or not is voluntary, but it will not be included in the family tree, so it is still an indirect coercive measure.
Second, the arrangement of lineages.
Interviews are inevitable. Music revision needs to interview every household to determine the specific population of the family. This is an extremely complicated job, so people with a certain reputation are usually chosen to take it. And if possible, it needs to cross different counties and cities or even different provinces.
However, there is a problem mentioned by the subject. If you have an old genealogy at home, you can say anything, as long as you follow the previous pedigree interview arrangement, but what if the old genealogy is lost?
The interview is definitely necessary, and it should be carried out carefully, including several generations above the home owner, and try to organize it as much as possible. We can also interview the elders of the clan and make a summary according to their oral historical materials.
It is also very necessary to find literature. The literature here includes many kinds, such as local chronicles, anthologies, old newspapers and so on. However, it is necessary to pay special attention to two kinds of documents. First, the ink spectrum, the so-called ink spectrum, is different from the traditional genealogy. Traditional genealogy is published or engraved, and ink spectrum is unpublished. It is generally difficult to preserve the ink spectrum, but some clans will keep it. Second, inscriptions, inscriptions in Ming and Qing dynasties will record the family lineage relatively completely, which is also very important historical materials.
In addition, other methods can be used for textual research. Such as genealogy. Generally speaking, every family will have a source of migration. By visiting the migration site, there is also a certain chance to find the previous genealogy. On this basis, interviews and summaries can form a new family tree.
Of course, if we really can't find relevant records, when we revise the genealogy, we should first sort out the existing genealogical data that can be verified, and then verify the unclear parts later.
Of course, the new revision of genealogy is a complicated process, and usually a revision Committee is formed to make overall distribution, such as chief reviser, accountant, interviewer and so on.
More complicated. It depends on how long it takes to lose it. We can push it from modern times to see if it is related to the old spectrum (the details recorded in the old spectrum are better). Which branch do you belong to, which village do you live in, how many brothers do you have in each generation? (This information is recorded in the old genealogy), and communicate with the older generation and generations. At present, the population is highly mobile, and it is more difficult to continue the spectrum because of frequent migration. You can write clearly in the biography where you used to live in the village and where you live now (the address should be written clearly). Nowadays, young people don't pay much attention to arranging music, but they still have to do it once in twenty or thirty years, which requires people who are enthusiastic about public welfare at home. Where there is a will, there is a way. My uncle is a retired teacher. He ran alone for four years and dozens of villages. He perfected the genealogy, wrote biographies and documents, and compiled the genealogy, which made contributions to his 5,000 people and the regular family in Bengbu, Anhui. 20 17 September, I made up my mind to find the genealogy record of 187 1 year (1992) by various means. ) moved to Gulou District, Nanjing. Recently, two or three generations have lost contact with their hometown for decades. Nanjing participated in the music revision of 20 17 alone, and completed the dream of reuniting with their relatives in their hometown!
China people attach great importance to genealogy, cautious pursuit of the future and orderly inheritance. The phenomenon of genealogy loss is also very common, the distant cause is war and disaster, and the near cause is the breakdown of capitalism and the acceleration of population flow.
My family tree was also burned during the Cultural Revolution. After my father retired in 2000, it took seven or eight years to reorganize. His methods mainly include the following:
1. Memory. My grandfather died in 1978, and around 1976, my father asked his old man to recall his family tree. After our branch settled in the local area, it was passed on to my grandfather as the seventh generation. It has been a long room since my grandfather, and my family tree and memorial tablet (sacred pillar) have been kept in my house. Although it was broken into four old ones, my grandfather's memory was excellent, and his dictation was recorded by my father, which was basically complete (missing some birth and death dates and female spouse's surname). My father went back to the village many times to ask the old man for advice and enriched and revised some contents. This is the most important way to restore the family tree.
2. visit. There are nearly a thousand natural villages in the county, and there are more than 200 villages named Lu. My father rode an electric car and visited them one by one in 1978 (some villages visited them four or five times). On the one hand, he sorted out the ins and outs of the surname Lu in the county, on the other hand, he enriched and revised our genealogy (because he was helped in some closer branches). According to the investigation data in recent years, my father wrote tens of thousands of words about the origin of Lu surname in * * city, which provided convenience for future generations to study it in depth. This is the second important means.
3. Consult local chronicles. This method can provide some help on big nodes, but it is not helpful in details.
You can find the clan association with your surname online, and you can also get something.
The most difficult thing is the surname Li, and there is no unified word generation. I am 47 years old, surnamed Li, according to the old family tree. From 20 15 to 20 17. Finally, the whole village was unified. Go on. The old spectrum was placed under the windowsill in Qing Dynasty, and the wall was preserved with mud. Later, one of my great grandfathers kept it. Grandpa died at 200 1. He had been studying music for more than 60 years. I am a rural doctor, and I use rural people to participate in the file management of cooperative medical insurance. I continue to write genealogy through the computer! I feel very gratified. It's really tiring to continue writing genealogy. I didn't ask my people to spend a penny. ! ! ! By the way, my family moved from Jiangsu to Donghai to Juyi, Shandong in Jingtai, Ming Dynasty in three years!
It is appropriate for me to answer this question, because our Down family is also preparing to rebuild the genealogy. As mentioned in the title, our family tree has also been lost.
First of all, why do you want to fix the score and continue?
Towering trees must have roots, and rivers in Wan Li must have sources. The descendants of the Chinese people in the world come down in one continuous line, saying that lineage, Taoist clan, arguing between relatives and friends, and extending the clan's way. State-owned history, county outlook and ethnic pedigree are the same.
This is the original intention of modifying and continuing the spectrum.
In the past, every family had its own genealogy, which was revised and standardized, passed down from generation to generation and preserved for a long time.
But after that time, the genealogy was destroyed, the ancestral hall was destroyed, and the ancestral tablets were also destroyed, which led to the confusion of family figures.
In this peaceful era, everyone realized the importance of music editing, and many families began to do it again.
However, the genealogy has been destroyed and lost. Where should we start?
Let me talk about our practice, and the topic can be used as a reference.
First, interview the old people in the clan and collect the lineage information of the general branch from house to house. Second, collect physical evidence, such as finding the address of the old ancestral temple and seeing if there are any stone tablets. It was on the ruins of the old ancestral temple that we found the memorial stone tablet a hundred years ago, and the handwriting on it is still debatable. Let's extend the words on the stone tablet and sort them out.
Third, although the genealogy of the family has been damaged, there must be reserved tablets of gods in some families of various branches of the family. We also collected some God cards during our home visits.
Through these methods, we have sorted out several generations of ci schools, which can be compared with family ci schools with the same surname in other places to see if we can find consistent or similar ci schools, so as to find the source of this branch.
After these investigations and interviews, we sorted out the earliest word generations that entered Sichuan and updated the new word generations.
The continuation of genealogy is still in progress, which requires a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources.
Generally speaking, it requires the joint efforts of the whole people, and they are rich and powerful.
In order to trace back to the source, carry forward the legacy of our ancestors and inherit the traditions of our ancestors, we should all do this well.
I'm Fei Shuai from Langzhong. I look forward to your comments in the comments section, and we will discuss them together. Help: A branch of Wu surname in Hubei lost contact with its ancestral home, and its ancestral home was Xinjian County in Nanchang, Jiangxi. Before 1890, every generation went back to build new ancestral houses. After 120 years, no one went back, and both genealogy and ancestral hall were building new ancestral houses, among which genealogical figures had a long history. I wish your family happiness!
Every revision will print many sets, unless they all disappear. As long as there is a set, you can continue the spectrum.
Regardless of whether the genealogy used to exist or not, it is mainly recorded in detail among families and circulated in an orderly manner. Once there are traces of traceability, strict textual research and mutual reference between the same surnames, a complete blood inheritance file will be established. A hundred years later, the bones and achievements are gone, leaving only the first place. If we can't remember our names, our lives will be gone.
Generally speaking, it's ok.
It's just harder.
Some may be unsustainable.
But the spectrum has this processing skill.
Doing is a hundred times better than regretting. There is really no old family tree. Just ask the old man to recall his family lineage and try to make it clear. It doesn't matter if there are some mistakes, as long as you don't make mistakes in your work. You start making genealogy now, and you are the hero of the family.