need another help

hays · Post by **hays** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:20 pm

Hi,

I got a request from an old friend of mine about wooden plaque with chinese character on it. He said that older people from his family said that it is their genealogy list. He can not read chinese and received it round 10 years ago when their ancestral home was about to be sold and the family planned to burn those things.

My friend is asking me what the meaning of all the writing since first he asked some other friend which understand mandarin but they couldn't understand by saying that the writing is an old writing.

There are 3 of them, this is the first part :
http://www.haryono.net/misc/sincie-1.jpg <-- upper part
http://www.haryono.net/misc/sincie-2.jpg <-- under part

If it is indeed a genealogy of his family, his family name is Zheng (Tay or in Indonesia is THE).

Thank you,
Steve

duaaagiii · Post by **duaaagiii** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:00 am

It is a tablet that's similar to a gravestone that is placed indoors, such as in a shrine at home, in a temple, etc.

Like a traditional gravestome, it has the names of a husband and wife and their descendents.

duaaagiii · Post by **duaaagiii** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:01 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_tablet

hays · Post by **hays** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:23 am

Hi Duagiiii,

Can you make translation of that ? to know the name of his ancestors ?

Thank you,
Steve