Genealogy (or genealogy) is a special genre of books in the form of a table genealogy that records the lineage reproduction of a family and the deeds of important people with blood relations as the main body. Genealogy is a unique cultural heritage of China, one of the three major documents of the Chinese nation (national history, geographical records, genealogy), is a precious humanistic material, for the history, folklore, demography, sociology and economics of in-depth research, have its irreplaceable unique function.
The structure of the family tree varies widely, but with the development of society, which old cumbersome framework structure, there should be a trade-off, as a modern family tree, there are the following six parts is enough.
(1) Preamble
The preface is very important, and each revision has a preface, which is almost a symbol and façade of the score, which reflects the guiding ideology and values of the revision. This genealogy is mainly viewed through the eyes of another person or several others. The preface is usually written by the editor-in-chief, but it can also be written by a person of high moral standing or knowledge. The new order is in front, and the old order is also included side by side after the new order.
(2) Introduction
Even for their own families, there are not many people who can fully understand, so they need to first introduce their own families, and the contents that can be mentioned are: the background of the family history of this revision; the basis of this code; the overall situation of the family, historical changes, current distribution and number of people; the sect and generation of the family, that is, the rules for recording the naming of each generation; the location of the ancestral grave, the distribution map of each generation in the ancestral tomb; and the examination and examination of ancestral affairs. The persons and time involved in the engraving of the genealogy and the creation (revision) of the genealogy
In short, this is not specific to a single person, but only to the whole family as a whole.
(3) Character history
In fact, a family tree itself is a person record, but usually, the family tree will record one or more excellent typical people or groups. When these outstanding figures are recorded, they are often in a variety of formats, including biographies of the person, manuscripts of articles he wrote, meritorious names obtained, official names, pictures, portraits, and inscriptions. What needs to be noted here is that historical celebrities with the same surname must not be forcibly compiled into their own family trees, even if they are small tips. Because when future generations continue to write the score, they will often spread false rumors because they believe it to be true this time.
(4) Genealogy chart
Lineage is the most important item in the family tree, the simplest family tree, sometimes only a genealogy chart. A genealogy chart is a record of the relationships of each person in the family. When a family is large and numerous. There will be more complicated phenomena of heirs leaving and leaving (through adoption, adoption, and giving- away), and moving in and out.
(5) Table of Genealogy
A genealogy is a table that records the curriculum vitae of each clan member in a lineage chart. It is the text of the family tree, compiled according to the order of each person listed in the genealogy chart, and introduces each person's font size, father's secret, line order, era, official, knighthood, death date, death date, nickname, marriage match, etc. These introductory texts, the elder is more than 50 words, the short one is only two or three words, in fact, it is a small biography of the character; the genealogical table may not be able to achieve that everyone has a complete resume, but at least it should have: my world number, scientific name, generation, genealogy name, breast name, main place of life and work, wife name, wife's marriage place, wife's father's name, wife's resume, children's name, daughter's marriage place, and the name of the person to be married. In this way, not only can the wife's family tree be found through the family tree, but the family can also check the daughter's family through its own family. My work resume, merits and demerits should be commented on by all my children in their own sketches, and others are allowed to speak!
(6) Afterword
Write some impressions in the postscript.
1, the most taboo thing about compiling genealogies is to scribble ancestors, scribbling ancestors is meaningless, but also makes future generations believe in the truth. I think that it is better to try to find out who their ancestors are than to write about the excellent people of modern times and let future generations know themselves. Of course, it is difficult to write about people now, it is difficult to reconcile, no matter how to write, there will usually be someone satisfied, someone dissatisfied
2. Compiling the genealogy, the ancestors in ancient times highly summarized its significance as "respecting the clan". "Respecting the ancestors" is of course respecting the ancestors; "receiving the clan", in addition to not omitting the meaning of each clan, it is more important to form a centripetal force among all the clans through this revision, strengthen the family concept of all the clans, and make everyone under the same value concept. Therefore, when revising the score, we must not leave out every clan, but we must mobilize the broad participation of the whole clan, work together, and plan together.
3, the revision of genealogy is a major event in the development of the family, generally about thirty years for a revision cycle, so this work must be fully prepared, the establishment of the "compilation of genealogy committee" is a very important measure, this is not an organ of power, nor a permanent institution, it is just a deliberative body, generally with the ancestral hall as the place of deliberation (office), convened by the patriarch, representatives of each room and celebrities to participate in the joint discussion of the genealogy preparation of the investigation, editing, summary, draft, Printing and other work, the Editorial Board has the following positions:
Editorial Board Director: 1 person, usually the patriarch
Editorial Board: Several people, usually the longest of each room
Editor-in-chief: 1 person, selected by the ethnic group as an outstanding person with certain organizational ability and deep knowledge in ancient literature
Editors: Several, nominated by the Editor-in-Chief
1, the descendants, indicating the family generation of the word, commonly known as the pie. It means to cultivate one's own family. Govern the country with peace and prosperity. For example, Gansu Dingyuan Li clan characters: Guangzong Yangzu, Longsheng Rongchang, Zhengjia ruling the country, xian filial piety and pure liang, talent gain, morality is deep, long-lived Insidious, Yongshao Shuxiang; Ganxiang Ehui clan: Si, Wen, Bing, Gong, Liang; Xue, Xian, Shou, Qing, Gao; Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang for his descendants to set the character generation, Zhu Yuanzhang considered that the descendants will have the phenomenon of duplicate names, so he gave him more than twenty sons and a nephew each of the descendants of a set of characters, and then made a stipulation, their descendants in addition to the use of the fixed characters, The third word in the name must also be determined in the form of five elements. His sons were all next to the wooden characters, so his grandsons began to use fire as a side, so they reciprocated in the form of wood fire, earth and gold water, and zhu Rongji, the former prime minister of the country, was the king of Min, Zhu Quan (next to the wooden characters), a series of characters who were "Hui Yin Yi Yan Yu, Ding Gan Qi Yu Yong, Chongli Yuan Zhen Yuan, Kuan Rong Xi Ben Cong." "Zhu Rongji is a generation of characters, next to the characters of the earth, so in fact, it is a double generation.
2. "Genealogy name": Each family has its own unique character, and people of the same generation take the same word to show the sign. These words, which are used as generations, are generally a poem or aphorism. According to the name of the character generation, it is called "spectral name".
If the census object is a person who has been loaded with the old score, of course, it should be filled in, if it is a person born after the old score, it cannot be filled in, and the name of the spectrum will be uniformly taken by the editor-in-chief after the census is over. This way, no duplication occurs. Of course, some people have proposed to the editor-in-chief what kind of genealogy name he wishes to take, as long as it does not duplicate the name and there is no conflict, the general editor-in-chief can meet his requirements.
For the occurrence of the same pronunciation of the score name, it is necessary to use homophone substitution, the principle of substitution is that the old score has been taken without changing, the change to the old score has not been born, the same are after the repair of the old score to take the same name, change the younger, do not change the older, and so on
3, scientific name and milk name: after everyone is born, parents will take a name for you, called milk name; the name that you will give when you grow up and enter the school is called the scientific name, which will also be the main title in your daily work.
4, Shi ita number: the traditional generation number is too simple, the use value is not high, I think the world number code is more practical, valuable, the world number is like each of our ID card number, to clarify the father and son room share Guan itin principle, with the number of generations plus the number of rooms to express. For example, 2 (3-1) 3 (5-5) 4 (3-2) 5 (3-1) indicates that he himself is the eldest of the three fifth-generation brothers, the second son of the three fathers and brothers, and the fifth son of the five brothers of his grandfather. Only by analogy can we find the direct ancestors in the Guan Ito of my own bloodline. It is a digital representation of the Shizhi Map.