在隋唐以前,官府有专门机构修志、研究谱牒,朝廷选人用人亦是凭借谱牒。故续修家谱可以起到“聚其骨肉,以系其身心”的作用。而谱牒在革命烈士传记文学中,尤其是那些为创建共和而英年早逝的烈士传记中,是不可或缺的直接证据或间接证据史料。笔者在创作“蔡以忱传”的过程中,就感同身受。蔡以忱是第一次国共合作时期的风云人物,历任中国国民党第二次全 Before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the government has specialized agencies Chi Chi, study spectrum 牒, the court also employs people with spectrum 牒. Therefore, the renewal of pedigree can play “gather their flesh and blood in order to protect their body and mind ” role. In the biographies of revolutionary martyrs, especially in the biographies of martyrs who were premature to create republicanism, spectral records were indispensable historical or indirect evidence. The author in the creation of “Cai to pass ” in the process, feel empathy. Cai Yichen was the man of the first co-operation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. He served successively as the second full-time Chinese Kuomintang