One night, the old man slept soundly on the kang of his dilapidated adobe house. Suddenly, the dog suddenly got up from the side, bit the old man's clothes with his mouth like crazy, and dragged the old man from the earthen kang and dragged him to the door, and then continued to drag it to the yard, which really made the old man anxious, he struggled to get up, ready to scold the dog loudly, at this moment, suddenly felt that the sky was shaking, it was an earthquake! Before he could react, the dilapidated house collapsed, and the old man stood in the yard in a daze, and only after a long time did he come to his senses, and then hugged the dog and cried.

Many people died in that earthquake, and the reason why the old man didn't die was because of this dog.

When the leading soldiers of the unit heard about this, they were also very moved, and they also specially allocated personnel and funds to build a new house for the old man.

After having this dog, the old man seemed to have more warmth and dependence at home. Many years passed in this way, and the troops were completely dismantled from that area as a result of redeployment and redeployment. The old man and the dog seem to have suddenly become motherless children, and they can only be self-reliant.

After another period of time, the old man's body deteriorated rapidly, and finally he was so strict that he couldn't get out of bed, except that the dog often brought him food, and almost no one cared about him, and soon after, the old man died desolately, and in the last moments of his life, there was no one around him except this dog.

The old man has a distant nephew, who is a well-known ruffian in the village, who is lazy and lazy, mercenary, cheating, abduction, etc., and has all five poisons. He had been thinking about this dog for a long time, and as soon as the old man died, he and a few fox friends secretly caught the dog with a net and locked it to his house with an iron chain.

From then on, the dog went crazy, and anyone who came near it would pounce and bite wildly. And the old man's distant nephew, the reason why he left this dog, is that he has his own little Jiujiu. He gave the dog some medicine, knocked him unconscious, and then found a male dog to mate with the dog, and the dog soon had puppies, and gave birth to eight in one litter.

This nephew of the old man, under the guise of "good breeds of military dogs", sold these puppies at a very good price. He was also proud of his plan, feeling that the dog would bring him a lot of money as long as he had a few more litters. But to his surprise, the dog was forced to give birth to its first litter and then went on a hunger strike. I didn't eat or drink, and I didn't even look at the fragrant meat specially prepared for it. Within a few days, the dog starved himself to death, and the old people in the village said that they had never seen a dog that died on a hunger strike at such an old age, and they had never seen such a decent dog.

This nephew of the old man did not spare even the last valuable thing on the dog's body. This dog is big and has smooth fur, so the dog skin should be able to sell for a good price, and in order to ensure the quality of the dog skin, he specially found an experienced Zhang butcher to handle it.

But it doesn't end there. A few years later, the old man's nephew once went to the county to run an errand, and suddenly a very large dog pounced on him and bit his throat at once, and the guy struggled on the ground in pain for a while before he breathed.

It was later found out that the dog that bit him to death was one of the eight puppies under that dog.

The question is, after these eight puppies were born, they were given away for feeding not long after, how could it remember its mother's "enemy"? How can you remember your mother's experience?

The answer may only be the memory of that that was passed on to her children.

Can memory be inherited?

To answer this kind of question, the best candidate is, of course, Yang Hui. When I sent him this question, as usual, he quickly replied to the email, and as in the past, his answer was still well-cited and well-founded, and after reading it, I gained a lot of knowledge.

Yang Hui said that in a sense, human memory is of course hereditary. For example, almost every one of us has such nightmares of being chased by something, or falling from a height; Why do we have such nightmares with such similar contents?

This is because, in the early days of human beings, our ancestors often encountered these situations when they were chased by some wild beasts or fell from trees.

This experience is deeply implanted in the minds of our ancestors, and it is passed on from generation to generation through guò genes, so although most of us have not personally experienced being chased and falling from a height, this terrible and deadly experience of our ancestors will be passed on to us through guò genes. And in dreams, this memory will reappear.

Between relatives, there is also a way of transmitting memories, which is through guò telepathy. There was a case in the United States:

There is a boy whose father died early and has always been dependent on his mother, so the relationship between the two is very deep. Later, the boy grew up and went to the army. Although he was thousands of miles away, his mother missed him very much at home.

One night, the mother had a dream that her son was camping in the woods, and when he slept until midnight, it was stormy outside the tent, and the wind was blowing more and more fiercely, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier.

Suddenly, a big tree next to his son's tent was slowly toppling in the storm, and the direction of the fall happened to be the tent where his son lived. Seeing that it was about to crash on her son's tent, she screamed in a hurry, and woke up, and found that it was just a dream, so her heart slowly settled down.

She thinks about it every day and dreams, and she feels that the reason why she has such dreams is only because she misses her son too much. So I didn't particularly care about this dream.

A few days later, a letter came from my son, telling about an extraordinary experience he had.

The letter said that one night he was camping in a tent on the edge of the woods, and it was very stormy outside. Just as he was asleep, he suddenly seemed to hear his mother calling him outside the tent, he got up and ran out without hesitation, and at the moment when he ran out, a big tree next to him just fell down and smashed into his tent!

The mother was amazed to find that the date of the incident mentioned in her son's letter coincided with the date of her dream! Memories between relatives, sometimes such interesting psychological inductions.

Combined with what Zhang Tuhu saw and heard and Yang Hui's email, I guessed that the special memory scene that I broke out in that "special moment" was probably the personal experience of one of my ancestors, which was passed on to me through guò genes.

In addition, in Zhang's family, don't there be recurring nightmares with the same content? That is the most painful memory of Grandpa Zhang, and then passed down from generation to generation.

But this kind of mine is very different from Zhang Butcher's, he has the same nightmare almost every day, and for me, when that strange, same scene comes to mind, not in a dream, but at the climax of cheating in public.

If this strange memory was the personal experience of one of my ancestors, it is likely that my grandfather, father, or uncle would have had this similar memory. Except that my grandfather has passed away and there is no way to get information from him, because this particular memory involves "sex" and "cheating". So it's not good to ask my father and uncle directly. I can only rely on my own research and discussion.

In fact, "cheating" is very common in rural areas, which village does not have a few romantic affairs? Some anthropologists, after carefully studying the tradition of marriage and love in China's agricultural society, believe that many of these practices, which seem to be "feudal" and "conservative", are actually very much in line with modern science. For example, why don't you advocate free love, but "parents know their fate, and matchmakers say it"?

This is because, in an agrarian society, people's life circle is very small, and the person who has the most contact with the opposite sex is often related to himself. Therefore, if free love is allowed, it will often lead to a large number of consanguineous marriages, which is very detrimental to the development of human beings, and the marriage introduced by the matchmaker and the consent of the parents can avoid this kind of "inbreeding" to a large extent.

Many human behaviors may seem taken for granted, but if you look closely, you will find that these behaviors are of great significance from the perspective of species continuity.

For example, if humans are carnivores, why don't they eat human flesh? In fact, human flesh is not substantially different from other meat commonly eaten by humans. This is because if people eat human flesh, many deadly germs of human beings will be quickly infected, and the human race will perish, and in the history of biology, there have been many similar creatures that eat the same kind of creatures, but they will soon become extinct.

For example, why are humans more afraid of strangers? Because in the early days of human society, outsiders who were not from their own tribe often carried a lot of germs, which led to the epidemic of diseases.

Therefore, human beings have survived and developed for so long without becoming extinct, because of their own survival wisdom and their unique mechanism. As for the stories about cheating, I will hear some intentionally or unintentionally, but such things about the older generation will generally be annihilated in the long river of time and gradually unknown to future generations.

If you want to know if the ancestors have a history of cheating, of course, you can only ask the older people in the village. But if I inquire about my ancestors in person, it is still not very convenient after all, and after thinking about it, I feel that I can ask Zhang Butcher to help me find out.

Whenever the Chinese New Year, Zhang Butcher slaughtered pigs and sheep for almost every family, so he should be the most widely traveled in the village, and with his familiarity with the villagers, I think he is the best person to help me investigate this kind of thing. Butcher Zhang readily agreed to my request.

One evening a few days later, he came to me in a rage and said that what I had entrusted him with had come to fruition. I was a little excited, so I quickly let him into the house, made tea, lit a cigarette, and eagerly asked him what he had learned.

The three old men he asked were all the oldest in our village, but their minds were still relatively clear. Of course, Zhang Butcher didn't ask directly, he was very strategic to make up nonsense, he heard a feng shui gentleman say that there is a problem with the feng shui in our village, and above our village, there is a peach-colored mist, so in the last few generations, there must have been a very strict cheating incident, and he asked the three old men if it was true.