Tuesday, July 26, 2011

A bookstore owner to help people run from the autobiography repair genealogy "genealogy School"

In Beijing's Zhongguancun Haidian Book City, Pedestrian Street, a "culture of Chinese surnames tree" stands impressively in the window of a store. From the trunk to limb, more than 400 surnames flourish. Yanhuang two sides like ancestor, "Fu Xi Nu Wa mating map" with shine. A lot of people pointing at the front of the tree, looking for their ancestors. Tu Jincan quickly came up: "your name? I can help you to find."

In fact, this is a bookstore, it is coated Jincan owner of this bookstore, specializing in helping people out of his autobiography, written family history, genealogy repair. Famous mayor to come to a book, repair spectrum, there are many ordinary people in Memoirs of a place.

"A last name like a necklace ethnic group, family and well-known figure on the necklace is the pearl, I want to be the pearl 'string up' of the artisan." Painted Jincan with confidence.

The middle-aged bookseller, head is not high, kindly face. Native Xiaogan, he worked as a teacher, was a bookstore, he once traveling to Peking University, like Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", like folk literature. In addition to reading, he did not love the other, about someone else out of his autobiography, repair genealogy, on the shining eyes, enraptured.

Bookstore opened in the early to come to consult a book and pedigree of the people are doing. 7:30 am, his time to the bookstore to open the door, welcomed into the old waiting for a long time. Holding a thick yellow old manuscript, he was always the first hand-washing, towel dry, carefully took the old man's "hard work", display area and helped elderly people to biography, autobiography to give to explain the basic situation of the elderly.

Had participated in the Korean War more than 80-year-old Liu Fan Chi came from Hubei came out of this looking painted Jincan memoirs. When a company is only eight people alive out of the last pile of the front body, and now he is only one person alive. Elderly people who want to record that part of the storm of war, expressing nostalgia for the lost comrade in arms, can not always worry about their own level, wishes the delay is difficult to achieve.

Tu Jincan while chatting to accompany the elderly patient, to guide the old memories, while silently out of the book records. Several days later, a thick book of six in mind, the basic material and the general framework of the memoirs have, the elderly and take the time to add an "ordinary life" to describe a period of extraordinary history.

Most of the time, the guests brought autobiography draft, draft house of names, places, history, etc. had to be verified. "However, a technical information for live ah, you see I do not shop, it is to find information." He Hehedexiao Road. Near point, the Beijing Library classics department, gazetteers department one day be able to run several times. Distant point, Shanxi Academy of Social Sciences Research Centre, Chinese genealogy, Zhengzhou "Roots" magazine several times a month to go. Every time he save the piles of piles of questions before starting, like the New Year before the New Year rush Banqi all like, for fear of missing something.

Sister King manager, said: "No store guests, the boss will be a look at the books on display in his mouth from time to time muttering twelve: ah, this good, hey, time constraints, it also almost." Lot from the "family tree genealogy network "for information on people who also came to join in the fun bookstore. Tu Jincan led them wandering in a bookstore: "" teacher friends find recorded, "worth a look, this" Hu century family history "of the photo is also very sense of history."

Tianjin Jinghai of Wang's family asked him, to carry out major repair work spectrum. Send someone else, do not trust him, so in person at the local, one place, he got a big blackboard, "This is a branch spectrum, which is the score, must verify the accuracy of the information." Varsity field give the family tree project played a "vaccination." Through field surveys, statistics, catalog personnel information, access to local history, character profiles, and carefully compared the old spectrum, extended stay one month the successful completion of the final repair work spectrum. He has since become a royal guest of honor.

A genealogy is a history of changing times and a microcosm of society. In Xu's family pedigree, the usual spectrum of coated Jincan register to Alex, "we are now able to enter our ancestors pedigree woman has not?" Asked the hostess full of suspicion, he nodded energetically, will be carefully smiles: "That is, of course, ah, promote gender equality in modern society it! "

The world's most comprehensive Chinese genealogy mentioned in the Utah Museum of genealogy is concerned, he sighed and shook his head. In order to "catch up", he run from the "genealogy School," "family history, genealogy, biography writing bi-weekly training sessions," "clan surname exchanges", to encourage more people to participate in writing biography, pedigree.

Spirits come to consult with elderly repair spectrum, can not wait for the new spectrum Xiu, who has passed away. He felt pressed for time, "This thing can not be delayed, we have quickly developed a more professional pedigree software, can be considered to help the elderly to complete the final wish it."

Now, biography genealogy bookstore already outstanding reputation, and someone else painted Jincan personal autobiography has been published up to 1000 copies in genealogy family tree has more than 50. Right now, he is an urgent matter Tu's score will be revised to honestly help themselves Renjieguizong. Yan Jiang Yu intern

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