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I feel calm and start to sort out the family past.
Today, let’s first popularize the origin of our Xitou Chen family. Unlike most northerners, our Chen family lineage does not come directly from the bottom of the big locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province. We come from Jimo County, Shandong Province, which is now Jimo District, Qingdao City. According to legends left by our ancestors, our first ancestor was three brothers and blacksmiths who made irons. The three brothers came to Hebei in the late Qing Dynasty because of fleeing famine. After the three of them broke up in , Cangzhou, . It is said that one of them went north and the specific location is unknown. The other two brothers came west from Cangzhou. Among them, our first generation ancestor settled in Shahe Bridge and took root in our current Chenliangwang Village, thriving and scattering, so we have a large family of more than 300 people. The other one of the two brothers continued to walk westward. According to legend, the old people settled in the north of the city of Hejian and . The specific villages are not licensed to be verified.
Regarding the identity of the first ancestors, according to the old people's recollection, until the 1960s and 1970s, the anvil used by the old people to make irons was still retained.
In that era, people like blacksmiths and bricklayers belonged to the working people at the bottom of society and could not afford to go to school. Most of them were illiterate. Therefore, the origin of our ancestors, the names and deeds of our ancestors from generation to generation are all passed down by word of mouth. Therefore, the specific address of our hometown in Jimo, Shandong and the ancestors who were in their hometown are no longer available to be verified. According to the memories of the elderly people of our tribe who are alive, there are three tombs on the old tomb of our Chen family, above the ancestors of the character "ting" (the ancestors of this generation and later, our branch has detailed records).
According to our local funeral culture, the tomb at the front should be the Mingtang, and the tomb should be the tablets of Shandong ancestors buried by the first generation. If we infer this way, the word "ting" generation should be our third generation ancestor. According to the memories of my fathers, the information about the ancestors of the "Ting" generation is relatively clear. In this generation, there are seven brothers in our Chen family (brothers or uncles and uncles), and these seven brothers are the seven courtyards of the Chen family in the west.
