Mum's long Family-tree

I started to read "Falling leaves" cause I quite enjoy the prequel of "Chinese Cinderella." The author started talking about her grandfather from his dad side and the history of her family. I started asking my mum the chinese proverbs in which the author had used which slowly lead to my mum's family line which is so confusing yet so interesting. 

My mum has come from a line that had quite a lot of money and quite a bit of significance in chinese history. For example, my mum told me that the first rail way lines and ships (i think this is the correct translation) was constructed and made from someone from my mum's long family line. I was so interested in learning about my mum's amazing history about my grandfather and about his father and his grandfather and so forth. The family line just goes on into the one of the ast dynasties and maybe even further. It is just so interesting to find out about the history of china and main reason why I am so intrigued in reading "Falling leaves" well I haven't gone further than the first few pages but so far very interesting. 

I had been listening to my mum talk about her father and grandfather and great-grandfather for over an hour. It was so confusing to understand my great-grandfathers family tree cause he had around about 6 wives each having a few children of them own I think. In addition my chinese is not so good therefore all the names used to call each person was quite unfamiliar to me making it so much hard to understand. But I feel so proud and honour and happy to learn that I have come from a line that has so much history and a few significance in chinese history. Apparently my mum's grandmother for her dad's side or maybe it was the grandfather. Anyway, the "Tang" family (my mum's last name) had quite a few people chosen to study overseas cause of the time-frame in where they need people to learn some of the western ways so China can further develop and adapted to the modern society from where new advance technologies have been developed. 

It is just so interesting (@>v<@). I want to learn more about it.