What's the difference between native place and ancestral place?

There is only one difference between native place and ancestral home. Native place is household registration, and the household registration certificate is generally issued by the police station. My ancestral home is where my ancestors lived and where I was born.

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I. Native place

The permanent residence of someone's great-grandfather and paternal ancestors, also known as ancestral home or origin, refers to the long-term residence or birthplace of grandfather and paternal ancestors. The origin is the original origin.

According to the document of the Ministry of Public Security [1995]9 1, a citizen's native place should be his grandfather's place of residence (domicile) when he was born; If grandfather died, fill in the location of the household registration at the time of grandfather's death; If the grandfather has not left the permanent residence, fill in that the grandfather should leave the permanent residence; After a citizen registers his native place, if his grandfather moves his household registration, his native place will remain unchanged.

Second, ancestral home.

Ancestral place refers to the birthplace of an ancestor (traditionally called paternal ancestor) in a certain period recognized by a family and ethnic group. Some people who have left their ancestors' birthplace or hometown still trace their descendants back to their ancestors' birthplace or hometown (that is, ancestral home) as their birthplace.

In some areas, it is customary to take my grandfather's native place as my ancestral home, while in some areas, such as Taiwan Province Province, most people take the place where their ancestors lived in the mainland more than ten generations ago as their ancestral home, while overseas Chinese take the place where their paternal ancestors lived in China as their ancestral home.

Ancestral place is a traditional cultural concept of Han nationality, which can refer to the birthplace of grandfather or the birthplace of distant ancestors, that is, the place where a paternal ancestor of a family once lived for a long time.

It is particularly important to note that the domicile is not necessarily the person's ancestral home or native place, especially in economically developed areas and some new places that began to be built after the founding of New China. A large number of people's ancestral home is not where their household registration is located. These people generally moved here from other places according to the distribution of the country at that time after China's reform and opening up and the planned economy era.

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Baidu encyclopedia ancestral home

Baidu encyclopedia native place