The Modern Changes Of Huang 's Family In

The Huangs is settled down near Chuansha earlier in the Southern Song Dynasty.In the late Ming and early Qing period, the Huangs has already had the family traditions of adoring literacy and advocating friendship. For example, the grandpa Huang Zhongsong and his grandchildren Huang Lie and Huang Yuanji have an in-depth study on Confucian classics. Huang Yu,Huang Peiyin and Huang Yirong have literatures spread to the later generations. Huang Sheng, Huang Xizhou and so on are very benevolent to bring benefits to the locals. However, at this time, the Huangs is just a local family whose influences are only restricted around Chuangsha. With the introduction of the western education mode and the cultural concepts in modern times, there are many nation-wide influential clansmen turn up from the Huangs such as the educator Huang Yanpei, the revolutionary martyr Huang Jingwu, the irrigationist Huang Wanli and the musician Huang Zi and so on. These famous people raise greatly the status of the Huangs in Chuansha from a regional family to a huge countrywide influential family.The Huangs have made outstanding contributions to the development of Chuangsha local affairs. For the culture, the Huangs on one hand develop local education actively and on the other hand, organize people to compile Chuangsha local chronicles. For the industry, the Huangs take part in the construction of Shangchuan railway and set up a rural promotion association in Chuangsha. This plays an important role in rural economy. The influence and contribution of the Huangs in Chuansha are not achieved by one single clansman but by many clansmen leaded by people like Huang Yan pei and so on. Such kind of mutual cooperation stems from the Huangs ’ strong family cohesion which needs to be maintained through establishing family organizations and compiling the genealogies. The Snow Community established by the Huangs is a blood-tied organization and its management has the modern communities characteristics. In terms of the compilation of genealogy, the new one written by Huang Yanpei adds numbers,English letters and different kinds of graphic symbols. It also perfects the clansmen’seducation background, career and the record of addresses to make it easier for the clansman to communicate with and help each other. This increases the practicability of the genealogy. In order to highlight the equality of men and women,Huang Yanpei also attempts to use the method of men and women double lineage to compile the genealogy.For the family education, the modern Huangs attempt to change the big family education into small home education. This is certainly inseparable from the miniaturization trend of Chinese family since modern times.The Huangs give priority to teach by their own examples and treat verbal instructions as an assistant. They pay much attention to the guide of the clansmen career and the cultivation of their patriotism.Through the development of Chuan Cha Huangs since modern times, we can see that the modern times is the fast rising stage for the Huangs family status. This is not only closely related with the Huangs strong family cohesion, good family traditions and family education but also have a connection with the Huangs family concept.This concept is the one that combines the traditional family resources with the society modern culture and mixes together the concepts of equality, democracy and so on at the same time sticks to the traditional family mode. Because of this, there are lots of influential and famous clansmen come from the Huangs family. And they not only keep pace with the times along with the society development but also affect the changes in society through their own activities.