中国族谱地区存量与成因

The amount and cause of Chinese genealogy kept in different parts of China

中国族谱是中国历史文献的重要组成部分,在中国历史发展过程中,它与正史、方志构成中国古代史籍的三大支柱,而且数量之多、影响之广,为其它文献所不能比拟。然而,各地区纂修的族谱数量极不平衡,留存于今的中国族谱,江、浙、皖、湘等地的数量远远超过了其他地区。本文以历史人口为切入点,分析认为,各地区经济发展的差异是其根本原因,同时,各地的谱牒文化及修谱机制等方面的落差,也是导致族谱数量悬殊的重要因素。

Chinese genealogy constitutes an important part of Chinese historical documents. In the process of the Chinese history, the genealogy forms one of the three main pillars of the Chinese ancient historical documents together with official history volumes and local records, and, moreover, its amount and influence are larger and greater than that of the other documents. However, the genealogy compiled in one place is not equivalent to that of other regions in number, and the existent Chinese genealogy compiled in provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Hunan greatly surpassed that of the other parts of the country. From the perspective of population in the history, this article gives an overall analysis of the cause of the phenomenon and argues that the regional difference in economic development remains the fundamental reason and that the regional differences of the customs and the process and methodology of compiling genealogy become the important factors in leading to the great disparity in numbers of the genealogy in different regions.