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Generation Name - Generation Poem
... The sequence of generation is typically prescribed and kept in record by a generation poem (banci lian 班次聯 or paizi ge 派字歌 in Chinese) specific to each lineage ... While it may have a mnemonic function, these poems can vary in length from around a dozen characters to hundreds of characters ... Each successive character becomes the generation name for successive generations ...
... The sequence of generation is typically prescribed and kept in record by a generation poem (banci lian 班次聯 or paizi ge 派字歌 in Chinese) specific to each lineage ... While it may have a mnemonic function, these poems can vary in length from around a dozen characters to hundreds of characters ... Each successive character becomes the generation name for successive generations ...
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“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
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