85-year-old Mr. Zhang living at Gulou District in northern Jiangsu's Xuzhou took "stemmata" photos with soldiers who are about to retire from the army on Nov. 15. Since 15 years ago, soldiers of the Armed Police Xuzhou garrison have been taking care of Zhang voluntarily. When the soldiers were about to retire, Zhang would take photos with them. He calls those photos with the exserviee in the past 15 years his "stemmata." This "stemmata" records 65 members in 26 family names.

(Chinanews.com November 16, 2005)