"Dad, why is my surname Gao?"

"Because my surname is Gao, and you are my child, then you will also have the surname Gao. ”

It's also impossible for a child who is just four years old to ask very complicated questions, so as a general rule, my daughter asks a question and I answer hers, then this question and answer should be over.

But this time it was different, because my daughter asked a new question again without thinking.

"Then Dad, why is your surname Gao?"

"Because my father's surname was Gao, and our ancestors' surname was Gao, we all had the surname Gao. ”

"Then why did our earliest ancestor have the surname Gao?"

I really checked the origin of my surname, so I told the child

"The earliest ancestor of our surname Gao is called Gao Yuan, he was a minister under the emperor, he was the first person to invent the house, because he built the earliest house, so he took Gao as his surname, and then his descendants also had the surname Gao. ”

But apparently, the child's 'why' is endless, and just when I thought it was going to end, she asked me another question.

"Why did the first person who built the first house have the surname Gao? Why didn't the first person who built the house have the surname Fang, why didn't he have the surname Lou?"

There was no ready-made answer this time, but after searching for information for a long time, I finally found the answer that I thought was correct on the oracle.

So, I hugged my daughter, pointed to an oracle bone inscription on the computer, and said to my daughter: "Look, this is an oracle bone inscription, and the oracle bone inscription is a pictograph, do you think this high character is like the shape of a house? That's because Gao originally represented a tall building, and said that the text ......."

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