Cui genealogy research

Genealogy can provide strong evidence for studying social changes and historical events. For example, the migration of Hongdong people in the early Ming Dynasty is recorded in the official history, but it is not very detailed, and it is also recorded in the genealogy (especially in Henan and Shandong today).

According to the genealogy of Cui Shi in Dacuigou, Mengjin County, Henan Province, Cui Shi originally lived in Hongdong, Shanxi Province, and later moved to Henan Province, according to legend; There are five Hengling Mountains in Hebei, one lives in Baisha, Gongxian, one lives in Youfang Street, Jin Meng, one lives in Taikoo Zhuang, and one lives in Dacuigou. Cui Gou's ancestral home is in Beiling, behind the village ... According to the Origin of Baisha Cui Shi in gongyi city, Henan Province, Cui Siyi, the ancestor of Baisha Cui Shi, has four brothers, and his ancestral home is Xingning Village, Zhangzi County, Lu 'an, Shanxi Province. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, there were wars and people scattered. After Ming Taizu and Dingding, Henan was sparsely populated, and the government organized immigrants. His eldest brother kept his ancestral home in Shanxi, and his third brother, fourth brother, Li Si and fourth brother moved to Tuowu Village in the south of wen county, Henan Province and Shahedian in suiping county respectively. The second brother moved to Baisha Village in Gongxian County in the fourth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (137 1) and became the ancestor of Baisha Cui Shi. The ancestors were divided into five branches and have now propagated for twenty-four generations. According to 1995 statistics, there are more than 6,000 descendants of Cui Shi in Baisha. The genealogy of Cui Shi in Luoning County, shenqiu county, Dancheng County, Yiyang County, Luoyang Suburb, yanshi city, yongcheng city, Puyang City, Juancheng County, etc. in Shandong Province, all recorded the civil migration of Hongdong in the early Ming Dynasty, and all of them took the eastward migration of Shanxi branch as their ancestors.