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Can Family Tree Renewal and Ancestral Hall Repair Provide a New Identity for Today’s Clan Society?

——The Case of Douzhuang Village in Huaibei City

Authors
Manman Dou1, *
1School of Literature and Journalism & Communication, Shandong University, Jinan, China
*Corresponding author. Email: mandy7985@sina.com
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Manman Dou
Available Online 29 October 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_33How to use a DOI?
Keywords
village; clan society; Family Tree; Ancestral Hall; identity
Abstract

Chinese people have always had a strong sentiment of searching for their roots, and the renewal of the Family Tree and the repair of the Ancestral Hall are manifestation of this sentiment. Family Tree and Ancestral Hall, both for individuals and groups, are important issues related to self-identification. This study takes Douzhuang Village in Shitai Town, Huaibei City, Anhui Province, as a field research site, and takes the village’s Family Tree renewal in 1992 and Ancestral Hall repair in 2006 as a starting point. Based on the author’s visits and interviews in Douzhuang Village during October 2022, the study attempts to use autoethnography and character interviews as methodologies to look into the issues of clan relations and identity therein. This paper concludes that the renewal of the Dou Family Tree and the construction of the Dou Ancestral Hall have different meanings for villagers of different identities, ages and genders, and that different people either find, or never have an identity in them. The situations vary. The study of this clan sample in Douzhuang village is of reference and empirical value for the realistic function of family trees and Ancestral Halls in the present day.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2023 2nd International Conference on Public Culture and Social Services (PCSS 2023)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
29 October 2023
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10.2991/978-2-38476-130-2_33
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2352-5398
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