Reverend Shi Wenzhuang, the ancestor of our clan, was founded in Shijiadong, Shi 'an Township, ningyuan county in the Ming Dynasty by Ejingtang, Taihe County, Jiangxi Province, because of his official move to Hunan. His clan is distributed in Jingangdu, Jianghua Shiweitang and Baihuying in Qiyang. It has been passed down for more than 20 generations, with about 5,000 men and women. The ancestral hall is located in Shijiadong National School and other places. We hereby fill in the application form in duplicate, together with the preface.

In addition to your meeting, please put the names of our ancestors and various sequences in advance when compiling the Hunan provincial chronicles (clans) project to avoid omission and mounting.

Hereby!

Representative of Shi:, Shi Youqiu, (sealed separately) Address: Shijiadong, Shi 'an Township, ningyuan county.

Head of Shi 'an Township, ningyuan county: Shi Youqiu (seal) reported to Hunan Cultural Committee in 1937.

Note: 1948, Hunan Cultural Committee asked all parts of Hunan to hand in clan registration materials and compile Hunan clan records. The above materials were written by Shijiadong people in ningyuan county, and were signed by three representatives of Shijia: Shi Zhongying (teacher of Huangpu Military Academy, colonel rank), Shi Youqiu, and Shi Youqiu, head of Shi 'an Township, ningyuan county, presented the official seal of ningyuan county. The materials submitted include: Preface to Shi's Genealogy, Six Pictures of Shi's Preface, Records of Historians and Gentlemen in Past Dynasties, Various Documents and Materials on Stone (including four inscriptions and postscript of celebrities in Laihe Academy), special edition of Shi Jiu's Doubtful Pictures, and Shi Chonghan's book After Hunan Provincial Examination, etc. The manuscript is now in Hunan Library in Changsha (supplemented by Shi Xianhui)