“慎终追远”,中国历来是重视的。慎终不谈,从追远说,百姓有家谱,皇家有玉牒,合而谓之谱牒。谱牒的功能,即是追家族远祖,录家族后裔,使男丁的传继史有以为证。对这种宝贝,旧有专学,研之习之,传之布之,以至于几乎每个家族离之不得。这当然方便了考据的人们。前时我看到报上说,某某是张飞的后代,某某是包公的传人,就都是从其家谱上有张飞、包公来判断 “Cautious chase far”, China has always attached importance. After all, from the chase far, people have genealogy, the royal jade, together with the spectrum of that 牒. Spectrum 牒 function, that is, chasing the ancestor of the family clan, descendants of the family, so that the male follower of the history of evidence. To this kind of treasure, the old special school, studying the study, the spread of cloth, so that almost every family can not help but. This of course facilitates the test. Before I saw the newspaper said that certain is the offspring of Zhang Fei, a certain is Baogong’s descendants, are from their genealogy Zhang Fei, Bao Gong to judge