徽州是中国宗族组织较为发达的区域社会之一,大量存世的族谱正印证了徽州宗族往日的繁盛.族谱是对祖先确认与追忆的凭藉,修撰族谱是宗族的首要大事,也是宗族对其成员实现控制的重要途径.它既可敬宗收族,笼络族众,形成基层权力中心;又可以进行道德宣讲,规范族人的社会生活,协调与国家权力的关系.对族谱撰修的研究有助于我们对传统中国的认识,然家谱文本往往将撰修过程资料排除在外,而民国12年《绩溪洪川程敦睦堂统系谱》则详细记录了这一宝贵的历史过程,通过对其解读,基本复原了一部家谱从筹备到分谱的整体过程,为我们展现了徽州宗族生活的丰富场景.
Huizhou is one of the lineage organizations more developed area society in China, a large num- ber of known examples of genealogy is proved the prosperity of huizhou clans in the past. Genealogy is con- firmed to ancestors and resources of remembrance, fix from family tree is the principal thing in this clan, and clan control of its members to achieve an important way. It is worthy of close family, netting, form power at the grass - roots level; Ethnic and moral preaching, specification of the social life, coordinate the relations with state power. The study of genealogy written repair help us understanding of traditional Chinese, but gene- alogy text often exclude information from repairing process, and 12 years of the republic of China "jixi Hong- ChuanCheng's promoting hall system pedigree" are detailed records about the valuable historical process, through the interpretation of the basic recovered a gen process, showed the rich scene of huizhou clan life for ealogy from preparation to the spectrum of the whole US.