May 13 2008
Circa 1930, Grandma Qingpei Kong 孔庆佩, 字 玉贞(1902 Hefei - 1977 Taipei) and Grandpa Jingzong 景宗, 字 续堂 (1902 Jinan - 1935 Jinan)
义良朋乾坤后福寿门
善耕耘习文武荣国鳌
玉如石怀景常在 (Dabo Changfa said it’s 玉汝士懷景常在)
家传孝友万世存
Those two sets of couplets were my paternal family’s genealogy. It’s kept at Zhang’s shrine in Donge County, Shandong Province in China. Each word identified a single generation. [...]
May 13 2008
Tianjin is the backyard of the capital, few notches below in many ways, even their dialect sounds 土, uncultured. But my last visit there was actually very pleasant, the tranquility was what missing in Beijing.
May 13 2008
21 Changde Dao 常德道 21号 located in Heping District (和平区), Tianjin, the former British Concession. The four semi-attached two-story villas and a three-story row that housed four more loosely makes up the compound owned by 三爷 Third Grandfather as Dad calls - my great grandfather’s kid brother. Dad spent few years in Tianjin in [...]
May 13 2008
21 Changde Dao 常德道 21号 located in Heping District (和平区), Tianjin, the former British Concession. The four semi-attached two-story villas and a three-story row that housed four more loosely makes up the compound owned by 三爷 Third Grandfather as Dad calls - my great grandfather’s kid brother. Dad spent few years in Tianjin in his grandfather’s estate on 徐磨街 in the Japanese Concession. His [...]
May 11 2007
周慰曾 Zhou Weizeng (1920 - ; Tianjin -)
A businessman prior, and retired as a teacher, he’s the Zhou’s de facto patriarch now, zealously defends the truth and writes prolifically on the Zhous. He’s my mother’s second cousin, and is particularly close with us than other Zhou branches because Popo grew up in the same house with his [...]