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2026年10月27日
客家祠堂门楼与牌匾(真实照片)

Nostalgia Written in Hall Names: Junwang, Tanghao and the Root-Tracing Code of East Asian Surname Culture

From the “Longxi Hall,” “Jiangxia Hall” and “Xingyang Hall” plaques on ancestral shrines to the surname order in the Hundred Family Surnames, junwang and tanghao form the “geographic coordinates” of Chinese identity. In 2026, a renewed wave of surname culture has brought the migration histories and genealogy traditions behind hall names back into public view.
2026年9月29日
湖北第十七届晒谱活动开幕式现场

“Roots of Jingchu, Family Records for a Thousand Years”: Hubei’s 17th Genealogy Display Opens with Digitization and AI Root-Seeking

On 28 September 2026, Hubei's 17th genealogy display (shaipu) opened at the Hubei Provincial Library under the theme “Family Records for a Thousand Years, Roots of Jingchu,” featuring rare collections, an AI genealogy application and interactive root-seeking installations. The library now holds 3,223 genealogies in 33,463 volumes, with 2,976 digitized, forming a dual-track preservation system of print and digital.
2026年9月17日
《孙氏世乘》书页(1755年编修,宁波家谱数据库)

Ningbo Genealogy Database Goes Live: A Digital Gateway to 325 Genealogies and 102 Surnames

Launched in mid-September 2026 by the Ningbo Library together with ten district and county libraries, the Ningbo Genealogy Database debuts with 325 genealogies from Ningbo and its vicinity covering 102 surnames, offering full-text search, pedigree-tree lookup and multi-dimensional filtering — a digital gateway for people of Ningbo origin to trace their roots.
2026年8月20日
竖排族谱与现代数字工具融合概念图(AI生成)

OpenZupu: An Open-Source Genealogy Platform That Brings Vertical Chinese Clan Books Back to Life

OpenZupu (Kaiyuan Zupu), an OpenAI Build Week 2026 project, is an open-source collaborative digital genealogy platform supporting Su-style vertical lineage charts and Ou-style registry text, geospatial migration timelines, Y-DNA/mtDNA haplogroup mapping and MRCA calculation — with plans for AI photo-to-tree extraction and Classical Chinese translation — aimed at clan councils, local archives and historical researchers.
2026年8月6日
家谱文本、基因与影像多模态融合概念图(AI生成)

From Private Scrolls to Shared Heritage: A Peking University Core Journal Article Proposes “Text–Gene–Image” Multimodal Genealogy Development

Issue 3, 2026 of Shanxi Archives (a Peking University core journal) publishes “Development and Utilization of Genealogical Archives in Root-Seeking and Social Services” by Li Xiao'ang, proposing a digital humanities approach to build a “text–gene–image” multimodal genealogy resource system for precise root-seeking, cultural tourism and grassroots governance, transforming family genealogies from private scrolls into shared social resources.
2026年7月23日
族谱古籍与数字化世系图结合概念图(AI生成)

Cross-Strait Genealogy Big-Data Project Launches in Xiamen: Root-Seeking Shifts from “Ten Years of Asking” to “Instant Access”

On 18 July, a cross-strait genealogy exchange event was held at the Zhuzi Academy in Tong'an, Xiamen, launching the Cross-Strait Genealogy Big-Data Cultural Project — the first of its kind — signing the Cross-Strait Genealogy Culture Alliance, and releasing 44 newly compiled genealogical volumes covering five surnames and nine editions.
2026年7月14日
河洛文化大模型推介会主视觉

China’s First Heluo Culture AI Model Debuts: Making the Root-Seeking Journey to “Hometown Henan” a Conversational Experience

On 10 July 2026, China's first AI large model devoted to Heluo culture was launched in Zhengzhou: 15 core cultural threads, more than 77 million vector data points and 56 specialized agents, with a kinship-roots section covering 170 major surnames and over 3,000 genealogies originating from Henan, enabling intelligent surname tracing and root-seeking route recommendations.
China’s First Heluo Culture AI Model Debuts: Making the Root-Seeking Journey to “Hometown Henan” a Conversational Experience
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