In front of the hundred family names, Zhao Ju, the source of the heavenly water flows for thousands of ancient whirlpools. Half of the Analects rule the world, and the plains are dissolved. Reading dedication to the family and the United States, accumulating virtue and benevolence. Zhao's children and grandchildren are striving to advance, and their grand plans are to show Ji Yuanyuan. --Ji Yuanyuan
From ancient times to the present, our country has been a country that attaches great importance to blood relations. In order to reproduce their families and record some important people, people created such things as family trees or genealogies, also in order to defend the same bloodline of the big family. Genealogy has existed since ancient times and represents a different kind of literature in a sense. It is a material with a long history and civilian characteristics in China's history. From the perspective of history, folklore, population, and social economy, it has a strong sense of inquiry.
Nowadays, there are many "rich second generations", "second generation officials" and "demolition of the second generation" in our lives, which shows that the inheritance of the father's business by sons has become extremely common in today's society. There are also some people who have been sheltered for generations by the glory of their fathers or ancestors, some people say that Cao Cao's descendants have held a recognition conference, and some experts have concluded that Cao Cao is a native of Mizhou after DNA comparison and some research.
Today we are talking about an incident that happened in the last century, after two local men in Hunan claimed to be descendants of the emperor and caused people to laugh at them. They even turned over their own genealogies, and after expert identification, they determined that what they said was the truth.
An unexpected discovery of moving
It happened in the early 1990s, when there was a piece of Wangcheng District in Changsha, Hunan Province, to be relocated, and two of the brothers were also sorting things out for the relocation. The brothers moved all the furniture they had to take away into the yard, but in the process of moving, they saw a cabinet that was old and broken.
This cabinet is completely different from other cabinets, the paint of the cabinet itself is almost completely removed, and the damage in the corners is also very bad. But it was this broken cabinet, and the lock on it was kept intact, as if there were some valuables here. The two brothers were very curious, and the two looked at each other and wanted to open it. The cabinet was opened and all that could be seen was a thick collection of old books.
The books in the cabinet look like a long time ago, and after so many years have been oxidized, some of the words on the books have degenerated, and Zhang is also tattered, feeling that there is no use. The two carefully flipped through the rest of the books, and the more they looked at them, the more wrong they became, and they realized that this might be the family tree, and all that was recorded in the book was the story of the Li family that happened a long time ago and some important people.
As the two flipped through it, one of the names in the book surprised them. Originally, the family tree also recorded Li Dingchang as a person, with the title of "Guogong", or the ancestor of the Li family. Speaking of Li Dingchang, this person is not small. According to historical records, Li Dingchang was a descendant of the Li clan of the Tang Dynasty and was the 32nd grandson of Li Yuan. Li Dingchang was born in Longxi during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, and his original place of origin was in Longxi. After that, due to the constant war chaos, Li Dingchang's family was forced to move to Liuyang, Hunan. Later, he settled in Changsha West Zhuzichong, and now it is Wangcheng Jinshan Bridge Street, facing Jianshan Mountain.
Passed down from generation to generation, the Lee family has also become a famous local family. In addition to Li Dingchang, there is also a very well-known and important person in the Li family. There were once six gentlemen of Wushu who appeared during the change of the Law of Wushu, and one of them was a man named Tan Sitong, who was his father-in-law Li Huangxian. During the Qing Dynasty, Li Huangxian's position in the dynasty was still very high, and he was not only a jinshi, but also a colleague behind Zeng Guopan's scenes.
The two brothers looked left and right, and finally found the time of recording the family tree. It turns out that this genealogy has been available since the eight years of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, with a total of 23 volumes. Here is a detailed description of the origin of the Li family, the changes that have occurred later, and the area where each clan is located, and one by one is very clear. In general, the number of Li clan people has exceeded one million, both at home and abroad. It is also found in some parts of The Yuanjiang River in Hunan and Jiangxi in Guizhou.
Be ridiculed, ask an expert to identify
After reading these old books, the two brothers were suddenly stunned. They could not have dreamed that they were actually the descendants of the Tang Emperor, but the family tree in front of them could not be wrong. After trying to understand, the two brothers began very much, and quickly told their relatives and friends about this great news, but everyone's reaction was unexpected by the two brothers.
Ben thought they would be happy too, but everyone took this as a joke and mocked the brothers. Saying that the two brothers were daydreaming, they didn't believe that good things would fall on him. In the face of everyone's questioning, the two brothers were very angry, and they wanted to share their happiness with everyone, but they even caused a bunch of trouble. The two of them thought about it and simply took out the family tree to prove that they were not laughing.
When the family tree was shown to everyone, some people believed that what they said was indeed true, and after that, the matter spread all the way to the local antiquities bureau. The Cultural Relics Bureau hurriedly asked the experts to confirm the authenticity of the matter, and the experts found the brothers. When the brothers learned of their purpose of coming here, they generously laid out the family tree for the experts to study. Among them, the director of the Hunan Library Literature Research Institute, who participated in the identification, said that the genealogy began to record information about the Li family more than 200 years ago, and from the description of the content, it can be determined that these two people are descendants of the emperor.
The so-called family is a large family formed by the blood connection between people. These people live together, and their lives have given birth to generation after generation, passing on the traditional Chinese culture. The family tree is a record manual to witness the growth of the family, and it is one of the most influential and long-lasting books in the history of our country.
The genealogy of the two brothers in Hunan is not only a family tree, but also a cultural relic of historical changes in a certain sense. After the experts confirmed its true appearance, the brothers decided to hand it over to the state. On the one hand, it is to make it protected and perpetuated, and on the other hand, experts can study history according to it.
The brothers' approach impressed everyone. The experts also praised them, and the municipal government also made a pennant specifically for their selfless dedication. In fact, for now, the identities of the two brothers and the royal family are useless, and the glory of the ancestors has also dissipated. Since the late Tang Dynasty, the life of the Li clan has no place, moving around, making a living everywhere. Afraid of being hunted down and killed, most of them chose to change their names and surnames.
epilogue:
In addition to those who changed their names, there were a small number of people who did not change, and they went to Hunan Province with Li's name. In order to prevent the chaos brought about by the war, they lived the life of ordinary people. For so many years, they abandoned their royal status.
If it weren't for the accidental discovery of the two brothers while sorting things out, it is estimated that the descendants of the Li clan in the whole village thought that they were ordinary people, and the mystery of their lives would never be solved.
References: "Tang Dynasty Li Clan Genealogy", "Hunan Cultural Relics Bureau Documentary --101 Issue"