Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Su family tree (26 volumes)

Could this contain the information about our ancestors???


This is where I found about the existence of a 26 volume Su genealogy:

I hope I can contact the blogger who posted this information.

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Qingyang Mountain Village 青洋山村

Qingyang Mountain Village is the Ancestral home village of the Su (Tô) family. Qingyang is located in the Puning county, Guangdong province, which is here.

Qingyang village is a village 15 km east of Puning city. The area of Qingyang contains 3316 acres of land, of which 2731 acres of arable land and 585 acres of mountain. The village is divided into 6 districts and has a total population of 13,592 inhabitants. The industrial and agricultural output value was 25 million Yuan in 2009. The main agricultural products are rice and sweet potatoes. There are 139 Communist Party members. Source: http://bbs.chaoshanren.com/thread-501117-1-1.html

Some pictures of Qingyang village (from www.panoramio.com)


           





The village seems to be inhabited mainly by "Su" people. At least there are many Su people living there. There's also a Su Ancestral Hall where the Su ancestors are being worshipped. This is an image of people in front of the Su Ancestral hall, who just held a ceremony for the Ancestors there:


Since they held a ceremony for the Su Ancestors, most likely these people are uncle's and cousins of my wife. This image was taken from a movie I found on the internet. Here you can see the complete movie with our distant relatives performing the ceremony. There are 3 movies, which I think should be displayed in this order:





The movies show the Su Ancestral Hall (movie 1), the ceremony being performed (movie 2) and people eating, drinking, talking (movie 3).

A friend of mine found another interesting blog which seems to appear a Zupu of the Su family. This could be an interesting document. Hopefully I can get in contact with the person who posted this document.

Here are the 3 photo's from the zupu:



The next step will be to get in touch with someone in the village, hopefully someone speaking English, who can look up some names (like Su Khai Zhen) in the available Zupu's...