Benutzer:Shi Annan/Jigan
Jiguan, Zuji oder Laojia bezeichnet in der Chineischen Kultur den Ahnensitz oder Stammsitz (engl.: Hometown, ancestral home, chinesisch 籍貫, 祖籍, 老家, Pinyin jíguàn, zǔjí, lǎojiā), also den Heimatort oder Herkunftsort der Großfamilie. Dies kann, muss aber nicht der Geburtsort sein.
Zum Beipiel sind sowohl der Physiker Tsung-Dao Lee (Nobelpreisträger für Physik 1957) als auch Charles Kao (Nobelpreisträger 2009) in Shanghai geboren, aber als Jiguan wird Suzhou, beziehungsweise Jinshan (früher eine eigenständige administrative Einheit) angegeben.[1] angegeben.
Definition[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
Als ein subjektives Konzept ist das person's ancestral home could be the birthplace of any of their patriline ancestors. Su Shi limited it to five generations, i.e. it refers to the home of one's great-great-grandfather. Even more broadly, an ancestral home can refer to the first locality where a surname came to be established or prominent. Commonly, a person usually defines their hometown as what their father considers to be his ancestral home. In practice, most people would define their ancestral homes as the birthplace of their patriline ancestors from the early 20th century, around the time when government authorities began to collect such information from individuals.
Moreover, a person's ancestral home can be defined in any level of locality, from province and county down to town and village, depending on how much an individual knows about their ancestry.
Implications[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
The Chinese emphasis on a person's ancestral home is a legacy of its history as an agrarian society, where a family would often be tied to its land for generations. In Chinese culture, the importance of family and regional identity are such that a person's ancestral home or birthplace plays an important social role in personal identity. For instance, at a university, students who hail from the same region will often become members of the regional/hometown society or club for other people with the same background. Discussion of personal or ancestral origins is typical when two people meet for the first time. In recent years, the root-seeking (尋根 xúngēn) movement has led to greater interest in ancestral hometowns, especially among overseas Chinese.
Ancestral home is an item to be filled in many documents in the People's Republic of ChinaVorlage:Cn-span
Taiwan[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
National ID cards issued in Taiwan by the Republic of China government formerly carried an entry for "home citizenship" (本籍). Citizens would usually have their ancestral home (defined through the patriline) stated on these documents, despite — as in the case of many Mainlanders born in Taiwan to refugee parents — having never set foot in their ancestral home. This practice was abolished by the government in the mid-1990s amid the Taiwan localization movement.
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Einzelnachweise[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]
- ↑ ? (Originaltitel: zh:历史沿革). Government of Jinshan District, Shanghai, archiviert vom am 28. September 2018; abgerufen am 27. September 2018 (chinesisch (China)).