Try To Analyze The Social And Cultural Significance About "Heroic Ancestors" Narrative On The Genealogy

Genealogy is a text that reflect a clan’s mental activity, and recently a enthusiasm about compiling genealogy have deeply relate to people` s living situations. Under this background, this context objective is related to the social and cultural significance of "Heroic ancestor" narrative in genealogy, the content includes the following parts: The first part,mainly look "Liao’s Genealogy" in North Guizhou as an example, and summarize the concept of "hero ancestors". The second part, analysis characteristics of the "hero ancestor" narrative in the genealogy. These features include:first of all, the heroic ancestor who has sanctity; Secondly, it describes the ancestor’s heroic deeds and fame; Finally, they traced the source about their ethnic ancestors and ancestral home in the genealogy. The third part is analysis ancestors who have function basis on characteristic of the "heroic ancestors" narrative: On the one hand it is because people back to source of ancestors and ancestral home, and make the people in different regions into their own ethnic group, which the group become to be larger, so as to achieve the of cross-regional cohesion role;On the other hand, because "heroic ancestors" has characteristics of merits,fame and sacred, so this kind of "heroic ancestors" who also has the function that blessed descendants and as a model for offsprings to learn.The fourth, mainly from the Chinese face culture to interpret why genealogy has generally appear the phenomenon of "Heroic ancestors". we can see that the face culture contains the emotional, instrumental and mixed relationship from the definition and connotation of face, and people trace theirs origin and descent in genealogy reflected mainly is the emotional relationship between members in a group. The relationship mainly includes "hierarchy and kinship", "The filial piety" and "emotional attribution", which embodies the role of "heroic ancestors" for ethnic groups. The fifth part is a summary of the article. First,as far as what is concerned the relationship between ancestors and descendants, ancestors has the function of protecting offsprings, and offsprings are willing to narrate "heroic ancestor" in genealogy,it is a cultural embodiment about gratitude and filial piety or it can be said that is a emotional attribution. Secondly,this great achievements are most conspicous in the narrative of "heroic ancestors" increased in “face” for descendants, so "face" become a personalistic trait of Chinese.