Tempus fugit.

In the blink of an eye, hundreds of years have passed.

In Dong Zhongshu's hometown, Dong's family in Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County.

According to the rules left by our ancestors,

After the people of the Dong family completed the ancestral worship at the ancestral tomb of the Dong family, they placed tributes under the big locust tree near the ancestral hall.

Then, the descendants of the Dong family are worshipping the big locust tree.

At this time, the Dong family of Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County, was still a descendant of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao.

Since Mr. Dong Zhongshu has stipulated that the descendants of Dong Yiren, Dong Aiyi, Dong Sanli, Dong Sizhi and Dong Wuxin are divided into five branches...... After each branch had to marry the son-in-law of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao's descendant, Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao's descendant, the man had six wives.

Because, although the descendant of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao, has six wives, he also gave birth to many children.

After all, Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao's descendant man, has six women, a woman gives birth to two children is 12 children, a woman gives birth to three children is 18 children, a woman gives birth to four children is 24 children, and a woman gives birth to five children is 30 children.

In ancient times, it was not unusual for a woman to give birth to four or five children.

Therefore, the descendants of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao, have become more and more famous local families.

After all, there are really many women in the descendants of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao, so the opportunity to marry with other families is natural.

And so it goes. Almost all the larger families in the eight towns are women with the Dong family.

It seems that the Dong family, presided over by the descendants of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son Dong Liuxiao, also has a feeling of being in full swing.

However, the fly in the ointment is that the descendants of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao, don't know why, there is only one male in the generation.

Therefore, according to the regulations of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, the descendants of Dong Yiren, Dong Aiyi, Dong Sanli, Dong Sizhi, and Dong Wuxin are divided into five branches...... After each branch had to marry the son-in-law of Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao's descendants, Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao's descendants, all had six wives.

The current head of the Dong family in Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County is the sixteenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu.

Now Dong Guan is already an old man who is "seventy years old".

The so-called seventy ancient rarity means that seventy-year-old people are rare since ancient times. It means that it is not easy to enjoy a long life. The Tang Dynasty stipulated that officials were seventy years old, that is, you could retire when you were seventy years old. But with the average life expectancy of ancient people's level of hygiene. And how many of them will live to be seventy years old. Seventy years of life are rare, and I am lamenting that life has reached the state of seventy. Tang Xiujing at the time of Tang Zhongzong was rehired in his eighties and appointed as the young master of the crown prince. During the Qingming Festival in the fourth year of Jinglong, Zhongzong organized a tug-of-war competition in the garden. There are 10 civil officials in the first grade. Three generals. The two horses participated (recorded in the history books) Tang Xiujing fell to the ground and couldn't get up for a long time, Tang Zhongzong and Empress Wei laughed so hard that they couldn't stand up straight. Learn to write and martial arts, and the goods are in the emperor's house. Especially in the era of the Tang Dynasty, when the generals were in the prime minister's time, it was not uncommon to live seventy, Di Renjie, Liu Gongquan, Guo Ziyi, and other important ministers of the court were not allowed to retire until they reached seventy. Life is rare for 70 years, and in the final analysis, it is still respect for the elderly - this elder, not just the elderly. Life is rare in seventy ancient times, in addition to the explanation that there are not many people who know, it is said that in a certain period of time before the Sui Dynasty had implemented a short calendar, this calendar has half a month and 20 days, that is, a month has 40 days, so calculated, seventy years old is equivalent to the current hundred years old, 100 years old is a very remarkable thing in ancient times, which shows people's feelings about life and reverence for the elderly. Later, because this calendar was not fully adapted to the agricultural time, it was replaced by the current calendar.

"Seventy Ancient Rare" comes from Du Fu's "Two Songs of Qujiang", which returns to Japan and spring clothes in the second dynasty, and returns drunk every day. Wine debts are commonplace, and life is rare for seventy years. Wear flowers and butterflies to see deeply, and fly with water. The scenery of the rumors flows together, and there is no contradiction between the temporary appreciation. Du Fu (712-770), known as Zimei, was a native of Gongxian County, Henan Province (now Gongyi City, Henan) in the Tang Dynasty, and called himself Shaoling Yelao, a great realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Bai was collectively called "Li Du". In order to distinguish it from the other two poets Li Shangyin and Du Mu, that is, "Little Li Du", Du Fu and Li Bai are also known as "Big Li Du", and Du Fu is often called "Old Du". Du Fu's influence on classical Chinese poetry is very far-reaching, and he is called the "poet saint" by later generations, and his poems are called "poetry history". Later generations called it Du Shiji, Du Gong Department, also known as Du Shaoling, Du Caotang.

Dong Guan's son is Dong Yu, the seventeenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu.

Dong Yu is a middle-aged man who is half a hundred years old.

Dong Yu's son is Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu.

Speaking of Dong Tianci, there is also an allusion.

Nine generations of single transmission means that there is only one son in about nine consecutive generations.

This situation was already a very dangerous thing in ancient times, when the importance of inheritance was valued.

After all, it's very, very easy to cut off children and grandchildren if this goes on like this.

If you don't pay attention, that generation didn't have a son, and this kind of inheritance was interrupted.

So there's really a bit of hanging.

However, compared with the vein of Dong Liuxiao, the sixth son of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, the nine generations of single biography is actually just a small meaning.

I don't know why, starting from Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixth son Dong Liuxiao, Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixth son Dong Liuxiao has always been a single lineage.

However, the most thrilling is the generation of Dong Yu, the seventeenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu.

Although the other generations of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixth son, Dong Liuxiao, were passed down from generation to generation, no matter what, the son was born before the xth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's grandson was thirty years old.

Therefore, although the predecessors of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's seventeenth generation Sun Dong Yu seem to be in crisis, they are actually as stable as Mount Tai.

Only in the seventeenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's grandson, Dong Yu's generation, Dong Yu did not give birth to a son when Dong Yu was thirty years old, and Dong Yu still did not give birth to a son when Dong Yu was forty years old.

So, those women from the Dong family of Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County were also in a hurry, after all, in ancient times, the status of women had a great relationship with their mother's family.

Therefore, those women from the Dong family of Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County, burned paper and incense everywhere to ask God for hexagrams.

I don't know if it's the result of those women from the Dong family in Yonglejiang Township, Benjiang County, Suxian County, burning paper and incense everywhere to ask God for hexagrams, when Dong Yu, the seventeenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, was forty-two years old, Dong Yu's son was finally born.

Dong Yu's father, who is also the sixteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, recalled that it was not easy for this grandson to come.

Therefore, the sixteenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's grandson, Dong Guan, named his grandson Tianci.

Heavenly gift is the meaning of God's gift.

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth generation grandson, Dong Guan, means that this grandson is a gift from God.

Since then, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu is called Dong Tianci. (To be continued......)