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Yan clan in Shih Chieh. His sons in Joint reconciliation of the clan record
the generations that followed began which contained happenings in the
their career away from this past, conducted by Yan Chin Tang,
th
prefecture. a 28 generation grandson, was
th
carried out on the 16 year (1927) of
To take care of the old homestead in the Republic of China. Of academic
Eastern Lu was the task of ancestor interest, mention was made of the
Yan Wen Li. Besides a respectable second-generation forefather,
career in Szu Pin, ancestor Jen Yu ancestor Yan Wen Li and the 11th
acquired merits in Kuei Te “.....like generation forefather, ancestor Yan
trees in the forest.” Tzung Chi.
Upon reaching the seventh year of
the twentieth generation-line, Reconstruction of the Records of
ancestor Yan Lei Ti committed
offences for breach of benevolence the Yung Mao Ancestral Hall at
and filia piety towards the family. Shih Chieh, Szu Pin, Kuei Hua
The elders amongst the ancestral administrative unit , Te Hua
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grandfathers gathered together County .
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promptly to discuss this moral issue
after message of approval was his task was undertaken by
received from the various families T Tung Tsai, a 24th
Yan
everywhere to take appropriate descendant on the 15th year in
action. As a result, an order was the reign of Emperor Chien Lung,
issued for the future generations to Ching dynasty.
follow strictly as an on-going law of
the Yan mansion. It was forbidden Yung Mao shrine was the common
for later descendants to have social and authorised assembly place for
contacts and marriage links with the the three migrant groups to turn up
daughters of the Wang clan in San and pay respect to the long line of
Huai Cheng and the sons of the Tou past ancestors in the Yan clan. The
family in Wu Kuei Jung. customs and practice nearly came to
an end at the time of ancestor Yan
Reconciliation of the second preface Chun Kao when thieves broke in,
in the family record was undertaken ransacked the place and burned
by Yan Lu Tai, 30th generation down the ancestral mansion,
grandson in the 16th year (1927) of reducing it to ashes.
the Republic of China. Two years later, work began
once more to rebuild the family
mansion and ancestral shrine.
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autonomous regions, four municipalities two special administrative regions.
under the direct jurisdiction of the Central 9 A county is a geographical region of a country used
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