A few days ago, Taiwanese girl Lai Lai posted a message on social media that with the help of netizens and relatives, she successfully found her ancestral home in Xintiangong Village, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian through an address from the Qing Dynasty period.
2022 Mid-Autumn Festival , Lailai told her family that she would travel to Zhangzhou and Xiamen during the holidays. Her father gave her an address from the Qing Dynasty and asked her to see her ancestors' homes.
In the "Lai Family Genealogy", this address is Shentian Luxi Club, Pinghe County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province.
"This address from three or four hundred years ago was not found on the Baidu map, so I put it on the Internet for help." Lai Lai said.
netizen "Chen Buer" told her that according to the Qing Dynasty Kangxi version of Pinghe County Zhiqing, it can be seen that the "township community system" was implemented in some periods of the Qing Dynasty, with townships under the county and a community in the countryside, and a community led the village.
Because "Shentian" is the pronunciation of "Xintian" in , Minnan language , so "Shentian" should be Xintian Township (or Shentianbao) in Pinghe County, Qing Dynasty. Xintian Township is roughly in the current Banzai Town domain. It is speculated that Luxi Club was the village club at that time, but it is no longer possible to verify it because of its long time.
According to the genealogy of the Lai family, most of the Lai families who went to Taiwan were Xintian Lai families in Pinghe County, so it is recommended that she go to the Xintian Palace built by Xintian Lai family in Banzai Town to inquire and visit her ancestors.
Finally, Lai Lai went to Xintian Village, Zhangzhou during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. In the records of Xintian Village migrating Taiwan's ancestors, he found the name of their family's first ancestor to Taiwan.
"The moment I met the name, I was really touched. The line that had been broken for more than 300 years, and it was connected again in an instant..." she said.
On September 16, netizen "Chen Buer" told Jiupai News that he is 22 years old and is from Luxi Town, Pinghe County, but he has lived in another place since he was a child. I saw the information posted by Lai Lai on the Internet and saw that my Taiwanese compatriots had been thinking about their hometown. I was very moved, so I helped her find out where she was from.
"It took a total of 4 hours to query. , , southern Fujian, attaches great importance to the ancestral home records and the genealogy records are also very complete, so I checked the county annals and their family genealogy on my mobile phone." Chen Buer said that he is not doing historical research, and he is now engaged in economic work. He has never studied these things normally, but was moved by the Lai Lai family's desire for ancestors, hoping to help her.
He said that Taiwan has always had deep ties with Fujian, especially Zhangzhou, where many relatives and friends are in Taiwan. Fujianese are warm and hospitable. They hold some reunion activities during festivals and welcome wanderers to go home to find the root of visit.
According to Red Star News , the hospitality of local residents and relatives also left a deep impression on Lai Lai.
She said that her father has always been concerned about (searching ancestors), and told her, "Be careful to pursue the whole world and know where your roots are." She plans to take her family back to her hometown to worship her ancestors after the epidemic improves.
Xintian Village Lai Family Temple Fair Director Lai confirmed that Lai Lai's ancestral home was indeed in Xintian Village and moved to Taiwan during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. "If Lai Lai's family will come to Xintian Village to seek roots and worship their ancestors in the future, they will provide corresponding help."
Jiupai News reporter Gu Zixuan
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