After zhu yuanzhang built during the Ming dynasty, according to the regulation through the ages, also compiled the royal family tree, known as jade die, the court has special official management, according to those mansion, record the lineage of the royal family members.Because of the war, Ming dynasty jade die not only.

Compiling of genealogy was the event of every tribe, the chus: genealogy compilation generally 20 or 30 years of time, called spectrum.Compiling genealogies, the imperial clan or administration of the whole family to set up, main genealogy compiling spectrum east, a person who is in charge of the financial accounting said silver east, the following branch set up a branch, the branch also has a spectrum of east east and silver.Each room will send someone as entries, remittance copy and proofreading.Branch is responsible for fill in the number of families, religious mouth, birth, marriage, charge some handling fee accordingly.Administration office of material to assembly, please written compilation, rigid printing., when I get the spectrum of the whole nation to place to celebrate the feast, near the family and the rulers also send people to congratulate.A volume of genealogy, every household must be properly kept.In order to ensure the accuracy and correctness of genealogy, every several years for test spectrum, presided over by the heads of the test spectrum, investigate the situation of family genealogy collection, damage to the tree, to be heavy.

Fix the spectrum

Zhu in history, like other Chinese family name, also attaches great importance to the editing of native name of history.When the earliest zhu clans protection.in the generation, insufficient information);But as the oldest and the huge builting southeast gate garrison, zhu multiplication, genealogical existing home.

Sui and tang dynasties of the world, genealogical study of daxing.When this, zhu genealogical not only in private, and the collection to the nation, and even public spread all over the world.So poets in ouyang xiu from the new tang book · prime minister genealogy table ", to the prime minister Zhu Jingze levon countries clarify zhu's lineage.Tang dynasty baobao "yuanhe surname code", should also be consulted their genealogical and released from the article "zhu".

Neo-confucianism master zhu xi also attaches great importance to the study of family history.After he became famous, who led fujian people to anhui wuyuan roots to visit them, and personally editing the wuyuan tea house zhu clans, and write spectrum sequence.His attitude of the emphasis on family history, zhu's set an example for later generations.

Of the Ming and qing dynasties, zhu spectrum wind more prosperous, and produced such as nanhai jiujiang zhu zhu ji such masters spectroscopy.Ji zhu times on the basis of inheriting the achievements of predecessors' spectroscopy, put forward the system of compiling, emphasis on heavy empirical spectral method, with a typical text of the qing dynasty genealogical "nanhai jiujiang zhu's family tree", has been hailed as a "developing a genealogical study in the qing dynasty people" (see the third series of genealogical studies contained er-kang feng wen genealogical scientist zhu in the qing dynasty "march").

After liberation, the mainland zhu spectrum was interrupted, but there is still a Hong Kong, Taiwan and carved or private Yin zhu clans.Today, the wind of repairing the spectrum in the mainland and sadly arisen, as far as I know there are several zhu in the newly built family tree.As at pingkiang, hunan CenChuan ziyang 1991 # 9 "zhu's genealogy", 1993, hubei YingCheng ziyang hall "chu clan", which is representative of newly built family tree.

The content of the tree

Zhu's genealogical, its style classification is differ, how many contents should also vary, but are basically the same.General zhu clans, mostly have several contents: (1) spectrum, the spectrum sequence, (2) (3) directory, (4) notice, RongLu (5), (6) portrait, like praise, and (7) WuFu figure, (8) : French, (9) of a lineage, lineage biographic sketches of (10), (11) as a house, (12), family CiYu (13), (14) of tombs, art (15), (16) production, (17) language, (18) after colophon, (19) led spectrum size, (20) miscellanea, etc., a total of about 20 classes.Visible, the family tree is a annals, its content is extremely rich, it describes the source of the native name, lineage, ethnic migration, marriage, life, economic conditions, funeral, sacrificial rites, house rules French literature, etc.A family tree is, as it were, the traditional Chinese clanism culture encyclopedia.

Spectrum name, the name of the zhu family tree has said "clans" zhu, has called "zhu's family tree".In addition, some said "spectrum", also some said "genealogy" or "spectrum".Some genealogy on the name specify the region or branch, as time ji zhu "nanhai jiujiang zhu's family tree", and as "the ziyang zhu's sussing out spectrum", "the ziyang zhu's wulin genealogy.

Spectrum sequence

Spectrum sequence, is of great value in genealogy.A genealogy tend to have more preamble, they mostly by the native famous origin relations such as family and friends with the native scholars, politicians have written.Spectrum sequence, its content is mostly discussed the importance of family tree, native of history, the native name origin.Preserved in history is shown in each clan spectrum or zhu zhu clan spectrum sequence in the corpus, the number of very much.One of the most famous and the most widely circulated first zhu xi made the wuyuan tea courtyard flower's preface to the spectrum.The spectrum sequence is also called "the xin zhu's preface to the spectrum, is shown in most of the zhu family tree.

The preservation of the family tree

The Chinese attitude towards the family tree is a very sacred, name of all nationalities tend to native genealogy collection as holy, zhu is no exception.Zhu's love in the family tree from stagnation RenShen ziyang in hunan hall carried by the journal of chu clan spectrum of led spectrum house rules are reflected.

"Led spectrum house rules"

Spectrum is a nation are seen also.Fathers name of Ulysses, burial of the mountain of Ulysses sent.Number to, must when regarded as treasure.Who occupy the spectrum, we should wash their hands of incense, wipe a few seats, and then out of the spectrum, the eye with the watch.Never put off till tomorrow what you can see the count number, along with the spectrum storage box.Gouge do not need to add ink pollution by him, and shall not be spread to Ying recruited and recruited people to copy.Winter solstice every year, each holding genealogy, qi to the ancestral hall;Ancestor worship salute, preach housekeeping, the spectrum of the identified.If led spectrum pure spectrum is less than, namely, sell zong jing progenitor.In addition to the domestic discipline punishment, choose another wise closed tube.Fill the gouge out filth, all five two silver into the temple.Test genealogical, shall be fair and check for prime bank, also do not have to make a rape legacy, offenders together discuss punishment.This make up set "sacrificial rites of the ZuZe long lung, sun generates vibration sound" font size, order for fourteen books.Grass spectral pamphlets and made "the filial piety friends agree because of T-shirt" font size, according to each room type led to receive.Would like to name the other columns in the later, not each other easily, cause there is a heavy ignored to dry off.Be cautious, be cautious.

And so a large number of the fire of the zhu family tree from the "cultural revolution" and "capitalism" was rescued in the embers, for our today's roots and the research provides a very valuable information and basis.

Today, public and private collections and newly built at home and abroad of the zhu family tree, among them, the Beijing library collection of zhu family tree alone more than 72 units, the number of genealogy is the ninth in the surname, which is shown in "catalog of Chinese genealogy of the society of Utah genealogy of zhu family tree more, 88, ranked sixth in the name.And according to the shanxi people's publishing house out the catalog of Chinese genealogy records, shanxi academy of social sciences research center of Chinese genealogy data zhu family tree has 60 meter 771 of the more than 71652 pages.