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Ancestor hunter

By Liu Zhihua ( China Daily ) Updated: 2014-10-14 07:29:02

Ancestor hunter

Members of the Hus clan gather at a village in Jilin city, Jilin province, to renew their jiapu in 2012. [Photo by Xiang Mingchao/China Daily]

Ancestor hunter

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With two colleagues, he starts each job by asking clients, mostly through Skype and e-mail, to gather what they already know and have - old pictures, passports and other documents.

Armed with those resources, Lie's small team acts like detectives to figure out where a client's original village is located.

Overseas Chinese affairs offices or associations at the country or city level, which are government-supported organizations, often help Lie's team, because they are able to tell where a clan of Wangs or Xies has probably lived for hundreds of years.

Then the researchers will visit the village, talk to locals and examine jiapu to make sure it is actually the ancestral village.

"Nothing is more important than jiapu in the whole roots-seeking process," Lie declares.

Unlike in Europe and the United States, where governments and churches keep most records of births, marriages and deaths, in China, families have used jiapu as their own documentation of family history.

Such an ancestry book often stretches across centuries and sometimes can go back thousands of years.

It is also more than a family-tree record. The top 100 Chinese family names account for most of the Chinese population, and jiapu are critical in tracking the growth of a clan's members with the records of their political, military and academic achievements.

There are often biographies of prominent people, and jiapu also records important events that have happened to the clan, such as where and when the clan moved from one place to another, and why.

But because of the language gap and loss of information during translation, or because of the difference between a formal name that has been written down in jiapu and a nickname that is used in daily life, it is sometimes very hard to identify a client's roots, Lie says.

Besides, many jiapu have been destroyed or lost during China's transformation from an agrarian to an industrial society, and during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76).

Lie always copies jiapu whenever possible, hoping to help preserve the jiapu legacy.

 
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