The Seventh Root-seeking of Kang Family in Hongze District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province: A Clan Study.

At present, the Kang family in Hongze District, Huai 'an City, Jiangsu Province has lasted for eight generations, with more than 500 descendants directly surnamed Kang. The known genealogy of generations is: world-court-eternity-longevity-well-righteousness-greatness-Ming, among which the word "Ming" has not been circulated.

Accordingly, according to China's traditional genealogy, the following information is reflected:

First, there are three possibilities for this generation's word spectrum, which are arranged according to the five clothes of human relations: first, "the family will live forever-the well is aboveboard", second, "the XX family will live forever-the well is aboveboard", third, "the XXX family will live forever" and "the great light (inheritance)" will be the follow-up.

Second, this generation of five-character spectrum is more likely to be a round. Because the five words "the world is forever" all contain the meaning of hoping the clan will continue and prosper, "well" is inheritance, and "aboveboard" is an idiom. Accordingly, our descendants' continued word spectrum should also continue according to this intention.

The third kind is upward root-seeking, which can be traced back in the same or similar years according to this word spectrum. There are two possibilities: one is to find a four-character word with the word "pavilion" at the end, and the word "harmony" at the beginning of the word "pavilion", followed by the word "tongshou", which should be of the same lineage, and the words after the word "harmony" can be different, indicating that there are branches behind it; If the first word after the word "court" is not "forever", it means that it is branched from the word "court", and there may be collateral blood relatives under the word "court".

According to this method, the following explorations have been made:

First, the nearest branch of the ancestors of immigrants.

Check Jiangsu Province. There are many descendants of Kang surname in Suzhou and northern Jiangsu who are the same as "Tongshou Jingzheng". For example, Huaiyin District, Huai 'an City, has a bright future, and their current generation spectrum of Kang surnames is consistent with ours; There is a well-developed village in Huangpu (Bao and Dian), 5 miles north of the west bank of the Baoying Grand Canal. Kang's current generation is also consistent with my family. These should be my immediate family members starting with the word "forever".

So why are these immediate family members scattered in these areas? Why is Suzhou called our hometown?

There are three reasons for this:

First, it is related to the fact that the Han people in the north moved south twice in history.

Because of the war in the north since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, our distant ancestors may have gone south with their families from Shaanxi and Shanxi, and arrived in Nanjing and Suzhou in Jiangsu via Henan and Anhui.

Second, it is related to the "Hongwu drive away" at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty.

When Hongwu was driven away, some of my distant ancestors in Suzhou were forced to move to northern Jiangsu, but the place where they first moved to northern Jiangsu was not in Hongze District now. This is because our Hongze family has been handed down for eight generations, with an interval of 20-25 years. We lived in Hongze District for less than 200 years, and we should have moved to Hongze District in the Qing Dynasty.

So when Hongwu was driven away, the place where we moved from Suzhou to northern Jiangsu may have sunk into Sizhou, which turned out to be Fengyang House at the bottom of Hongze Lake, or old counties and towns such as Fuling County, Suiling County and Hongze Town.

Third, it is related to the Yellow River taking the Huaihe River into the sea and forming Hongze Lake.

In the Ming Dynasty, when Hongwu was driven away, residents who were forced to move to northern Jiangsu were not allowed to return to their original places, and even relatives in this province kept their mouths shut. Therefore, in the process of the gradual completion of Hongze Lake, these immigrants need to move around the lake.

In the Qing Dynasty, due to the continuous deposition of sediment captured by the Yellow River, the Huaihe River and the Yellow River gradually flooded Fuling County, Suiling County, Hongze Town on the east bank of the Huaihe River and Sizhou and Xu Xian County on the west bank of the Huaihe River. After these original places sank to the bottom of Hongze Lake, these people were relocated and allowed by the Qing government to divert to three directions:

Some of them returned to Suzhou to settle down, as evidenced by some relatives in Suzhou.

Some of them returned to Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province, where their ancestors lived before going south. My grandparents and Yongzi's brothers did business in Xi 'an, leaving some children behind, which also proved this point. "Xi- Shaanxi-Henan-Anhui (Bengbu)-Nanjing-Suzhou" has always been the trade route of my ancestors. My ancestor Kang Yongqing died in Bengbu on the way back from Xi 'an, where there were more than 30 pawn shops.

Some people live in Huaiyin, Xuyi and Jinhu around Hongze Lake and Anhui and Henan to the west of Hongze Lake.

Due to the above three reasons, at present, my recent clans are scattered in Suzhou and other counties and districts in Huai 'an, and some clans have settled in An, and Suzhou is the origin of our clan from Suzhou to northern Jiangsu through the "Hongwu drive away", so Suzhou has always been called our hometown.

Second, adjacent lineages.

In the same or similar era, there are dozens of online search Kang genealogies, and the following branches may be close to the same family:

1, Family Tree of Kang Family in Zhoukou, Henan Province (Volume I)

From the first ancestor to the fifth ancestor, the names were lost and the music was out of order. Six generations of greetings, seven generations of lovers, seven generations of lovers, eight generations of field guards, and nine generations of politicians, politicians, and politicians (Wen Yao, Cai Wen, satellites, and Wen Zhuang moved out of silence) began from the thirteenth.

The order of the known word spectrum of generations is: XX Tianbaojia (culture), always cherishing glory and determined to cultivate light X.

2. Fuyang, Anhui Province: "The world is the same, (jade) inspires the same (dialect pronounced Dai), Yongqing calendar spring scenery, civilization shocks all countries (dialect pronounced strange)"

3. The Kang Family Tree of Dengjiazhai, Lushan County, Henan Province (Volume I)

The school of ci poetry is: there is (vibration) literature respecting the light, Hengqing Guanghua, Tiantai respecting the sage, and Changyan Guibaojia.

4. Genealogy of Shangnankang in Shaanxi Province (Volume I)

In the second year of Qianlong, the ancestor Kang Shunxiang led Kang Jiashi and Kang and his party from their hometown Daughter Street in Taihu County, jiangnan province to Huangnigou, Balong Temple in Shangnan County, Shaanxi Province, and then moved to Xiaozhaigou and Mazhai, and then moved from Xiaozhaigou to Wangjiazhuang, where they lived and worked in peace and contentment forever.

Old sects: Zheng Wen in Shunjiawan, Huaxing in Jianming, Xiangrui in Shengshi, Fu, Guangyaozu, loyal and virtuous, and the country is clear and stable, which will always inspire the family.

New school: inherit the business first, be kind and talented, be kind and auspicious, and open the North Campus by itself.

5. Kangs Genealogy in Ruzhou City, Henan Province (Volume I)

Kang Guangde, the first ancestor, moved from Shanxi to Henan in 1557 and settled in Kanggou Village (formerly Lishugou) more than ten miles west of Yichuan County.

It is known that the order of genealogy in past dynasties is: Yong Zan Wen is honest, talented people are virtuous, rich and beneficial to the people, and benevolent people are polite and wise.

6. shenxian county Kang Family Tree (Volume 1)

Cheng was born in Hongdong County, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province, and moved to Siyi during the Hongwu period (1386- 1392). Give birth to two sons, and when they grow up, they are complete, and they are complete.

It is known that the order of genealogy is: Yan was in the new dynasty and rose to the Spring and Autumn Period.

Textual research from these six genealogies is as follows:

1. In the case of similar times, the first four words "Yong" are in line with my family's personality spectrum, and the last two words "Ting" are in line with my family's personality spectrum. In particular, the first branch may be closer, because the times are similar and the generations are similar. The words "xxx defends the country and the sky-forever" and "defends wenyuan-forever" are related, which makes sense.

2. These six schools have a history of migration, and they are all in neighboring provinces of China, with similar regional cultures, and my family still retains northern dialects and customs. For example, the father's surname is Da, and the surname is Ou. And the usual headscarves and wedding etiquette are similar to those in Shanxi, Shaanxi.

3. Because there are no two words connected in the genealogy of these branches, they are adjacent collateral branches.

In Qing dynasty, a branch of our family found our ancestors from the north and settled in our present residence, which is similar to these branches.

5. These six branches are all descendants of the authentic Kang surname of the Han nationality in Shaanxi and Shanxi.

Based on these five considerations, looking for six branches on the above-mentioned network may be a distant neighbor lineage of our family.