Tag Archives: Genealogy
The Immigration Legends and Genealogy books of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China
The Immigration Legends and Genealogy books of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China
西南少数民族的移民传说及族谱
余志清
The immigration legends, which are also described as “the legends about the ancestors from the same place”, tell us from where our ancestors emigrated. There are many popular immigration legends among the Han people, and the most representative ones are the Immigration Legend of [...]
“The Mu Clan’s Genealogy” and Mu Gao’s Poem Written on the Rock
“The Mu Clan’s Genealogy” and Mu Gao’s Poem Written on the Rock
He Baolin Lijiang Dongba Institute
It is recorded in “the Mu Clan’s Genealogy” that Maizongabao, a former head of Mu clan “ knew characters without learning and created a local writing system ”. Hence, he is regarded as the creator of the Dongba pictographs. Mugao, [...]