Chapter 39: Seeking Roots and Asking Ancestors
Lianhu Township!
Two off-road vehicles and a bus drove into the town in the early morning and finally stopped at the entrance of the cultural center in Lianhu Township.
Three old men got off the first business car, one was dressed very exquisitely, dressed in a Tang costume, and knew that he was a successful person when he looked at the clothing and temperament, while the other old man was wearing a white shirt and glasses, dressed as a scholar.
The last old man who came down was a little weird, wearing a straw hat, and his skin was also dark, although it was normal to wear a straw hat to prevent heat stroke in summer, but now it was only seven o'clock in the morning, and the sun had just risen.
This is not the most special place, the old man is wearing black long-sleeved trousers, but a pair of straw sandals under his feet, this kind of dress is a bit like an old farmer, but the old man in Tang costume has a lot of respect for this old man.
From the second business car, two young men got down first, and then a young girl came down, the girl was very beautiful, wearing a T on the upper body, and a pair of jeans on the lower body, full of youthful and beautiful atmosphere, which attracted a lot of attention.
However, the eyes of more than a dozen men who got off the bus behind did not stop at the girl, but turned their eyes to the door, and under the gaze of these people, a pair of straight and slender jade legs stepped out of the door.
This is a tall woman, almost 1.7 meters tall, with long hair fluttering in the wind, a long white dress, and a cold and beautiful face that makes people dare not approach, like a fairy who has strayed into the mortal world.
"Sister, are we here at our destination?"
Chen Xin looked around, there doesn't seem to be anything special about this township, it hasn't been a day since her sister went home, and she came here early in the morning.
"Miss Chen, there is no destination yet, but you have to socialize with the people in the town, after all, some things still need the help of the locals, like some small rural places, sometimes you tell them some reasoning and laws or something, they may not necessarily listen, most of the people in the village only recognize people, and it is easy to do anything if you have acquaintances. Before Chen Jie could answer, a young man who got out of the car earlier was the first to answer with a smile.
"What you said is a bit too much, now the rural people also understand the law, and it is not the previous era. ”
Chen Xin didn't believe it, the most important thing was that she was dissatisfied with this boy, and she kept talking all the way in the car, saying that he was so knowledgeable that he didn't just want to show off in front of his sister, but didn't he see that his sister didn't pay much attention to him?
"Lin Gongzi, the current rural people are not the same as before, they also understand the law, and they will now play with the technology products that young people play, not to mention anything else, in recent years, many of the tombs found in many places have been discovered by farmers, you said that if they don't understand the law, they can take the things from the cemetery and leave, instead of notifying the cultural relics department. ”
Another young man spoke, and her words made Chen Xin nod in agreement, that is, why look down on rural people and farmers, and go back to their ancestors for four generations, who is not born as a farmer.
"That's because you didn't hear Diao Min. ”
Lin Huai's face was a little unbearable, he secretly glanced at Chen Jie, and found that the other party's expression had not changed, so he felt better, to be honest, he would come with him this time, and it was completely for Chen Jie.
When he saw Chen Jie in the capital, he was fascinated by Chen Jie, he didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful girl in this world, but it was a pity that Chen Jie had always had a cold attitude towards him, which made him a little annoyed.
Knowing that Chen Jie was in the Department of Archaeology of Beijing University, Lin Huai was moved, and this summer vacation happened to learn that his grandfather was going to find his roots and ask his ancestors, and he also contacted the local archaeology and cultural relics department, so he told Chen Jie about this matter, and invited Chen Jie to participate together, but he didn't expect the other party to agree.
Chinese pay attention to a fallen leaf to return to the roots, but also pay attention to a search for roots and ancestors, especially after the beginning, every year there will be many news reports that a successful person embarks on a journey to find roots and ask ancestors.
If you are developed, finding your ancestors is a matter of honoring your ancestors, otherwise you look at those ordinary people, how many people are looking for their roots and asking their ancestors, and they can't keep their livelihoods, so how can they have time to find out who the ancestors are and where they come from.
"Is it Mr. Lin?"
"You're the sound curator, aren't you?"
At the door of the cultural center, Yin Yi was already waiting at the door, and when he saw the old man in Tang costume, he greeted him with a smile, as early as a few days ago, he received a notice from above, saying that a foreign chamber of commerce had come to the village to find the ancestor of their family.
For those who go to the township to find their ancestors, Yinyi is no exception, because he has seen a lot, although Lianhu Township is not famous, but a village under its jurisdiction is one of the four major immigration places in the country.
The big locust tree in Hongdong in Shanxi, the Waxi Dam in Poyang in Jiangxi, Yangliu Lane in Nanjing and Ninghua in Fujian are the four famous places of immigration in China.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, because of the war, Hubei, Anwei and most of Henan were uninhabited, while the Raozhou area was far away from the war-torn land, backed by Huizhou and the fertile land of Poyang Lake, and the population was extremely prosperous.
Therefore, after the end of the war, the imperial courts of the two dynasties took the Waxi Dam of Poyang Lake as a gathering place, and immigrated to Hubei, Anwei, Henan and other places on a large scale, and it is no exaggeration to say that the ancestors of nearly 200 million people in the country have gone out from the Waxi Dam.
Over the years, many successful people have come to Vasiba according to the genealogy to look for their ancestors, and Yinyi has also received a lot of batches, but the people he received were privately found by friends, like this directly arranged by the leaders above, so that he clearly knew that the origin of this old Mr. Lin was not ordinary.
What's more, this old Mr. Lin is also accompanied by the experts of the Cultural Relics Bureau above, although the experts can't control him, but he can invite the experts and let the leaders above say hello, and the sound can only be to treat the other party as a big Buddha and offer it well.
"According to the genealogy provided by Mr. Lin, I visited all the current families in Vaxiba, compared with the family genealogy of these families, and finally found the ancestral lineage of Mr. Lin, and there are still more than 30 people in the Lin clan in Waxiba. ”
Yinyi, as the director of the cultural center, according to the genealogical information sent to him by Mr. Lin, he had already gone to search in advance, and finally determined who the ancestors of Mr. Lin's lineage were.
Of course, the ancestors must not have been there, when the Vasiba migration, but not all the people migrated, many families left a branch here, for fear that the migrating clansmen would be accidentally wiped out.
In ancient times, because of wars, many families would be forced to leave their hometowns, and even far-sighted families would divide the family into several branches, and how to recognize the descendants of the family at that time, many families also thought of a way, that is, to use genealogy and characters.
Genealogy can understand the family situation, and the character generation can determine which generation they are in, and the general family is almost 20 years to repair the family tree, because every 20 years there are almost just one generation.
In ancient times, large families were almost planned in advance within eighteen generations, so that even if the family was scattered due to natural and man-made disasters, they could find their ancestors with their respective genealogies and generations.
The situation of the Lin family is actually similar.
According to the information provided by Mr. Lin, the branch of the old man Lin of the Lin family migrated out of Huaxiba two hundred years ago, and the first ancestor recorded in the genealogy of the old man Lin was the first ancestor after the migration, which belonged to the Changzi generation.
Yinyi found the genealogy of the Wasiba Lin family, and also found the generation of Changzi, and after comparing the two family genealogies, it turned out that Mr. Lin's generation was three generations higher than the oldest person in the current Vasiba Lin family.
"Curator Yin, I'm sorry for you. ”
"Where, like Mr. Lin, you are looking for your roots and asking your ancestors to come to our Lianhu Township, this is the honor of our township, so let's set off now?"
Yinyi didn't let people sit in the museum, first, because the town cultural center didn't have anything to see and visit, and secondly, to see that the posture of the people was probably to find the ancestors as soon as possible, otherwise would they be able to get here so early in the morning?