Reading order
The genealogy is orderly. Generally, it will introduce the history of family changes and development, the time of compiling music, the personnel who compiled music, why compiled music, and the ancestors of surnames. After reading the genealogy, you can roughly understand what it is recorded, when it was recorded, why it was recorded, and who recorded it.
Look at the bloodline
Start with your father and ancestors, trace back vertically, and define a line of ancestors. Then take the first line of the family as the starting point and the horizontal integration line to gather the same clan into one family. The third is based on a branch, horizontal integration, and integrated into a family. In this way, we can clearly understand the relationship between lineages, and we can also distinguish the main pulse from the branch pulse.
Correct terminology for reading genealogy.
The characters recorded in genealogy are generally different from ordinary written language. For example, when a man marries a wife, the genealogy says "suitable", not "married". There is also a word "hanging line" for women in the genealogy, which means to include women in the lineage table. You can consult ancient books or genealogy books, such as Quarterly Genealogy Culture, Guidelines for Revision of Genealogy, China Genealogy Culture, Genealogy and Local Culture, Changzhou Ancestral Hall and other monographs to learn more about proper nouns in genealogy.
How to read biographies and history?
Read all kinds of biographies and master the elite history of clan characters. In the process of reading the genealogy table, you may see the elite of your family's direct ancestors. Some handed down from generation to generation, some orderly, and some both handed down from generation to generation. According to this, you can search by room and number of times in the biography column. If you have a good foundation in Chinese studies, you know the content like the back of your hand, even if it is classical Chinese and traditional Chinese characters, there is no punctuation; If the foundation of Chinese studies is a little poor, you can read more, try to figure it out and understand it. Some families may have more than one elite ancestor.
Read pictures
Images in genealogy are generally used to help people understand genealogy. You can look at them more to help them understand genealogy better.