徽州地区宗族社会历来十分重视纂修家谱,《临溪吴氏宗谱》具有重视史实考证、注重家谱的教化功能的编纂特点,同时其对徽州家谱体例结构和断限问题的研究使得该谱成为一部具有代表性的家谱,其创立的家谱编修体例影响了后世两百多年徽州地区的修谱体例,对梳理明代徽州家谱体例的发展脉络,全面展现明代徽州家谱体例的继承和发展状况有十分重要的作用。
Huizhou's lineage society always pays a lot of attention to composing genealogical trees. The Linxi-based Wu Family's genealogy was featured in composition with the emphasis on textual research about history facts and on the edification effect of the genealogical tree. Meanwhile,studies on the stylistic structure and starting- ending time of genealogical trees in Huizhou region have made the Wu family's genealogical tree a very representative one. This genealogical tree created a composing style that influenced later styles of genealogical tree in Huizhou for two hundred years,so it has very important significance in terms of sorting out the development process of the styles of genealogical tree in Ming Dynasty and presenting an all- round status of the inheritance and development of the styles of genealogical trees in Huizhou region.