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((Short description|Place of origin of one's extended family))
((expand Chinese|topic=cult|date=October 2016))
((refimprove|date=May 2009))
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In [[Chinese culture]], an '''ancestral home''' is the place of origin of one's extended family. It may or may not be the place where one is born. For instance, two people may both be born in [[Shanghai]], but the hometowns of their ancestors may be different.

== Definition ==
A subjective concept, a 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 [[Chinese surname|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 ==
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 lineages are an important part of Chinese business culture as it plays a central part of negotiating ''[[guanxi]]''. It can also have implications in other areas like politics. See: [[Shanghainese people in Hong Kong#Influence on business|Shanghainese people in Hong Kong]] for an example of how ancestry and lineage systems play a part in business practices.

Ancestral home is an item to be filled in many documents in the [[People's Republic of China]]((cn-span|text=, as well as in pre-1997 [[Hong Kong]].|date=February 2015)) Forms that required listing of "ancestral home" (籍貫) included school handbooks to be signed by the parents of schoolchildren.<ref>((cite book |title=Language and Culture: Reflective Narratives and the Emergence of Identity
|editor1=David Nunan |editor2= Julie Choi |author=Alice Chik |chapter=Nonghao, I am a Shanghai Noenoe: How do I Claim my Shanghaineseness |publisher=Routledge |date=May 7, 2010))</ref>((better source needed|date=February 2021))

== Taiwan ==
[[Republic of China National Identification Card|National ID card]]s 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 having never set foot in their ancestral home. This practice was abolished by the government in the mid-1990s amid the [[Taiwan localization movement]].

== See also ==
((Portal|China))
* [[Ancestral shrine]] and [[ancestor tablets]]
*[[Bon-gwan]]
* [[Chinese ancestor worship|Chinese ancestral worship]]
*[[Chinese kin]]
*[[Family register]]
*[[Hukou system]]
*[[Place of origin]]
*[[Registered domicile]]

==Footnotes==
((reflist|group=nb))
== External links ==
*[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/words/7225/ 籍貫 (zik6 gun3 | ji2 guan4) : ancestral land; native place - CantoDict]

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[[Category:Family in China]]
[[Category:Filial piety]]

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