Traditional Culture

The ancient and modern books are as vast as the sea of smoke. One of them is a unique book, which has touched the feelings of countless children of the Yellow Emperor. This book, through the ancient and modern, writing life, compiled hundreds of thousands of years, still renewed long new. The authors of this book, that is, there are ancient literati, as well as contemporary township Yan family show, the family elite. They crossed the distance of history, piety, dialog with each other; pen writing Banmei, *** with the inheritance.

What kind of a book will this be?

The name of this tome is called genealogy.

The family tree has always been compiled from generation to generation. The rules of writing are an important part of genealogy. Including the genealogy of the word norms, the face of a very wide range of generations of clansmen, revered, renewed the genealogy Linwen, follow each other, so that the genealogy has become a unique historical books.

For example, there are a large number of special words to address the characters. Especially for men of the first concubine, the heir of the division and women's family status and marital status, genealogy of the word has a strict regulation.

Such as the old genealogy in the writing of the heir, the original spouse was born for the first born, the side room was born for the concubine, can not be confused. Another example is the book "heir" that the son of the clan for the heir, the book "Nadeshiko" that the heir of the establishment of the son of a different family name, the book "send a son" that the mother's son of a different family name and did not set up the heir, each with its own meaning. The name "Nadeshiko" is used to indicate that the heir is a son of a different family name.

The word "配" in the genealogy is used for the marriage of a man. When the genealogy of the match and marry and use a genealogy, "match" that is, the first match, that is, the other party is unmarried, the book "with a certain place, a woman surnamed". "Marry" means that the other party is a remarried woman, also known as the Jiao woman. The book is "marrying a woman of a certain surname in a certain place". In the match and marry two words and used in a genealogy, with and marry the meaning of the word is different, a word difference, the meaning is not the same, so do not casually change the old genealogy of the match to marry. A small number of genealogies only write marry or only write with, this case is a different matter, referring to men's marital status in general. Individual genealogies also have other derived meanings, such as "with" for the wife passed away, "married" is the wife is alive, this phenomenon will generally be noted in the general rules. The term "remarriage" refers to the death of a former wife and marriage to a later wife. The term "remarriage" refers to the marriage of a former wife to a later wife after she has been divorced. "Hire" refers to the betrothal of a man, where the relationship between husband and wife has been established, but the marriage has not yet been consummated. The old society attaches great importance to the betrothal, once the betrothal, the woman is the husband's family. Therefore, there is "unmarried death, buried somewhere" of the record. Now the genealogy, generally do not write the recruitment, but the marriage shall prevail, nearly fifty years of unmarried, can write "not married".

Writing women in the tribe also has a set of special words, has been married to the book "suitable", promised to book "word", not promised to book "to be word", and the wife's and there are "with", "continue", "side room" and other status differences.

In the burial and the expression of life and death, the same is also true. For example, children and grandchildren from the ancestor, the father of the burial book "worship", the wife from the husband burial book "together", brother and brother buried with the book "and" or "the same". The same" is also used for the burial of a brother and a sister. The death of ordinary people in the clan book "death", disobedience and unfiliality, the bandits and thieves, incest and animal behavior, the book "death" to show that the punishment. These special words with the distinction between inferiority and superiority and moral praise and blame, have its specific object, writing can not be wrong.

There are also some calligraphy simply to distinguish between similar situations. For example, to move out of the clan, in the same province of the book "move", the book of different provinces "migration", so as to distinguish between the near and far.

Corresponding to the special words, genealogy in the expression of the status of the characters, seniority and a certain situation, there is a specific form of writing.

For example, some clans stipulate that "a woman who remarries is not written", that is, her husband's name is not written under his name to imply that he cannot "keep the honor". If there is a child, then under the child's heir, with small letters, "a certain out of", to show that "the child can not be without a mother". This format of noting "from a certain family" in small letters under the children's heir is limited to remarried women with children, and is an alternative way of dealing with the problem of "a woman who remarries without a book". These expressions, the form of simple and clear, easy to grasp, easy to comply with.

In addition, the compilation of genealogy, there is an important writing rules, that is, the order of the contents of the record has a certain chapter. Such as the name of the character, the general provisions of the "name of the first book, the second book line, the second book word". The Qing dynasty scholar Ji Yun compilation of genealogy of the family when the division is more detailed, the order of the book name book word, in different categories in the order of difference, the lineage of the atlas in all the first book of the name, "anonymous word, anonymous word is the next (row)", but in the text of the statement such as the preface, biographies, etc., it is "all the book of the word, the anonymous word is name

The traditional Chinese calligraphy of the word ""。

Traditional genealogy, a variety of writing rules, reflecting patriarchal constraints and moral and ethical norms, we need to carefully read the vanilla, in order to fully understand the content of the genealogy, to understand their own family history.