Reconstruction of the clan and genealogy in North China in the Late Ming Dynasty——taking the Revised Xing Genealogy of Qingzhou as example

Xingshi in Shandong Qingzhou was farming family.After Xing Jie became the officer when passing imperial examination,the clan became the official and the distinguished family in the local.From Xing Jie in the period of Wanli to Xing Tong-ting in the period of Chongzhen,they constructed the clan,draw up and practice the system of clan.The clan became systematism.Xingshi was deeply influenced by the clan ideology of Cheng Yi and Cheng Hao.Xingshi revitalized the patriarchal clan system from zonghui(宗会).This was the most important pattern of clan systematism after the Song Dynasty,neglected by the before clan researcher.Xingshi had compiled the genealogy,had ancestral hall,took the sacrifice field given by the emperor as the clan field,set up clan school and public granary,and clan elders was zongzheng(宗正) in fact.Xing Jie was greatly influenced by Su Xun's methods of compiling the genealogy and the position of remaining harmonious clan.With a view to remaining harmonious clan,the Xing genealogy included a lot of documents of the clan system.So the content of the genealogy were very abundant.The genealogy became the very important folk documents.In the Late Ming Dynasty not only the clan but also the genealogies were reconstructed establishing the basis form of the clan and the genealogy in modern China.