As follows:
1. Dongjia, Hongdong
Dushu Village, Hongdong County, Shanxi, is a village destined to be famous and have a history. For five hundred years since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Dong family of Yongle Fort in Dushu Village, a distinguished family with calligraphy and rites passed down from generation to generation, and a family with hairpins and tassels, has occupied all the outstanding people in the land. The Dong family has lived in Hongdong since the middle of Ming Dynasty, and has passed down calligraphy and etiquette from generation to generation.
The names of the Dong family were once closely associated with these names: Weng Tonghe, Zuo Zongtang, Zhang Zhidong... To this day, even if they have no chance to calligraphy and painting, Taiyuan people who have visited Jinci Temple still have a deep appreciation for Mr. Dong Shouping. It’s no stranger—the Dong Shouping Art Museum of Jinci Museum has a collection of more than 200 masterpieces by the master.
They are immersed in the great beauty of traditional culture and the innocent feelings of people with traditional Chinese culture - and this is also a more precious gift left to future generations by the Dong family.
2. Shouyang Qi family
In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the Qi family in Shouyang, Shanxi was a prestigious family, as famous as the Weng family in Changshu, and was called "Southern Weng and Northern Qi" . The representatives of the former are Weng Xiancun and Weng Tong; the latter are Qi Yunshi, Qi Zao and Qi Shichang. Compared with the Weng family, although the Qi family does not have the honor of being the "number one scholar", it still has the reputation of being the "emperor's teacher". Among the three generations, the Qi family has been a member of the Imperial Academy.
The fact that the Qi family is truly known to the world should be attributed first to Qi Yunshi (1751-1815), a famous historical and geographical figure. Qi Yunshi, courtesy name Hegao, was a Jinshi in 1778. He was later appointed editor and editor of the Hanlin Academy, and served as branch officer of "Si Ku Quanshu" and editor of the National History Museum.
3. The Feng family of Daizhou
The Feng family of Daizhou began in Fengsheng. The Feng family of Daizhou has now multiplied to 26 generations. There are seven descendants in Fanzhi and Dai counties alone. Eight thousand people. In 2017, the Feng Culture Research Association held a meeting in Dai County. In addition to family members, there were also representatives of Dai Feng who had migrated from seven or eight provinces. There is no statistics on how many tribesmen they represent.
But Dai Feng was already a big family, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were many talents and sages, making it the most prestigious family in the country in the Qing Dynasty.
4. The He family of Lingshi
The He family of Lingshi Liangdu in Shanxi Province is a family that has been famous for imperial examination for hundreds of years in the Qing Dynasty. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Lingshi He family flourished, with famous people from generation to generation. As the He family continued to develop, the ancestors gradually noticed the importance of economic foundation and emphasis on culture and education to the development of the family, and put it into practice.