This county is the fief of our ancestors. Before the Tang Dynasty, the population of China was relatively small. When recording a person's native place, people often take the county, birthplace, place of residence and the position at that time as a person's identity. For example, Kong Rong, a writer in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was called Kong Beihai by the world. This is because Kong Rong's fief in the Eastern Han Dynasty was Beihai, and he was the prime minister at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, so people called him Kong Beihai in order to show respect, which is actually a definition of native place.
The hall number is the name of family ancestral temple memorial tablet, and the ancestral hall is a family culture that flourished in Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, the population of China was already very large. At that time, in order to refine the relationship between the family and the collateral branch, every time the collateral branch of the family moved to other places, a branch ancestral hall was established, and the hall number was also used to distinguish the kinship relationship from the distance of family ancestral temple. This culture was handed down in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Word generation is the arrangement of several generations in the family, and it is often called school. There will be a special ritual system in China's naming culture for thousands of years. This ritual system is the generational spectrum of names, that is, in which generation, the name of that generation must have corresponding words.
County name, hall number, word generation, etc. It's all confirmed. You can consult the libraries of various provinces and cities. General libraries have genealogies of various families, and we can find our ancestral home by consulting the corresponding genealogies through the information we have learned. Although this process seems simple, it is still very complicated to determine the corresponding information. In this process, everyone must be patient.