This year, Mr. Dong Zhongshu's eighteenth generation grandson, Dong Tianci, was eight years old.

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.

Seeing that after the adults completed the ancestral worship at the ancestral tomb of the Dong family, they placed a tribute under the big locust tree near the ancestral hall, the eighteenth generation grandson Dong Tianci of the eight-year-old Mr. Dong Zhongshu was very curious, and the eight-year-old age was also a curious age.

So, after the worship, Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, asked...... Grandpa, who is also the sixteenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, said, "Grandpa, grandpa, why do we worship the big locust tree?"

Yes, why do you want to worship the locust tree?

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth generation Sun Dongguan also likes his grandson Dong Tianci indescribably, after all, this can go to the ATM in the Netherworld by himself.

So, Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth generation grandson Dong Guan stretched out his hand and touched his grandson Dong Tianci's head and said, "Come, listen to grandpa's story." ”

Dong Zhongshu, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, immediately sat next to his grandfather Dong Guan obediently.

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth generation Sun Dongguan began to tell the story.

In China, there is a very big lake called Dongting Lake.

Dongting Lake was known as Yunmeng, Jiujiang and Chonghu in ancient times, and was known as "Eight Hundred Miles of Dongting". The name of Dongting Lake began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It was named after Dongting Mountain in the lake (now Jun Mountain) and has been used to this day.

To the south of Dongting Lake is called Hunan.

There is a city in Hunan called Suxian County. Suxian County got its name because there is a Taoist temple of Suxian Temple within the area. Su Xianguan is named because this Taoist temple used to be a Taoist temple inhabited by Su Tan's Taoists. Su Tan is also Su Xian, and Su Xian is the honorific title of Su Tan after Su Tan became an immortal.

There is a county in Suxian Prefecture called Benjiang County. Benjiang County is named because there is a river called Benjiang within the regional limits.

There is a township in Benjiang County called Yonglejiang Township. Yongle River Township is named because there is a small river called Yongle River within the regional area.

In the place where Yonglejiang Township meets the neighboring counties, it is a mountainous area. This piece of mountain land is called Wanyang Mountain. There is a legend about the name of Wanyang Mountain. Legend has it that the gods who manage the heavenly sheep in the sky let 10,000 heavenly sheep secretly come to Wanyang Mountain because of a moment of negligence. When the gods who managed the heavenly sheep found that the 10,000 heavenly sheep were missing, the gods who managed the heavenly sheep looked for the heavenly sheep and came to Wanyang Mountain. The immortals in charge of the Heavenly Sheep in the sky originally just wanted to drive these 10,000 Heavenly Sheep back to the sky. Who knows? These 10,000 heavenly sheep refused to return to heaven because they coveted the beautiful scenery of Wanyang Mountain. "This ...... It's been turned upside down......!" The gods in the sky who managed the heavenly sheep were naturally smoked by the seven orifices of the ten thousand disobedient heavenly sheep. The immortal who was in charge of the heavenly sheep by the anger of the heavenly sheep came down with an immortal method, and all the ten thousand disobedient heavenly sheep turned into some stones shaped like sheep, which were distributed on the land within the geographical range of the current Wanyang Mountain. This is the origin of Wanyang Mountain (it is said. Even now. In Wanyang Mountain, people can still see stones shaped like sheep from time to time,...... ）。

In the mountains of Wanyang Mountain, there is a natural village called the Temple of Heaven. Temple of Heaven Village. As the name suggests, it is a village that is close to the shape of the Temple of Heaven. It's just a village with raised flats.

Not far from the Temple of Heaven Village. There is a small stream called the Muzi River. The Muzi River is because there is a large Muzi forest next to the Muzi River.

On the other side of the Muzi River, on the opposite side of the Muzi Forest, there is an extremely wide stone wall. This extremely wide stone wall is called Wanzhang Wall by the people of Tiantan Village.

There is a huge natural stone cave on top of the stone wall of Manjobi. This huge natural stone cave on the stone wall of Wanzhang Wall is called Lao Tzu's Nest by the people of Tiantan Village. According to the legend of the Temple of Heaven Village. On the stone wall of Wanzhang Wall, this huge natural stone cave called Lao Tzu's Nest by the people of Tiantan Village is the birthplace of Taishang Laojun Lao Tzu.

In the lower reaches of the Muzi River, not far from Laoziwo, there is a small village called Dongjia.

Hearing this, Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, couldn't help but say to his grandfather Dong Guan, "Grandpa, grandpa, Dong family?

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth-generation Sun Dongguan nodded, and praised his grandson Dong Tianci, and Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth-generation Sun Dongguan continued to tell the story.

One day, on the road leading to Dong's house in Yonglejiang Township, there were father and son from Guangchuan County, Han (now Dadong Ancient Village, Guangchuan Town, Jing County, Hebei).

This father and son from Guangchuan County of the Han Dynasty (now Dadong Ancient Village, Guangchuan Town, Jing County, Hebei Province), the father is called Dong Gong Yanshi, and the son is called Dong Gong Yanyuan.

Dong Gong is secret?

Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, opened his eyes wide.

After a while, Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, finally couldn't help but ask his grandfather Dong Guan, "Grandpa grandpa, Dong Gong's affair and Dong Gong's fate, isn't it our ancestor?"

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth-generation grandson Dong Guan nodded, stroked his grandson Dong Tianci's hair, and asked, "Didn't you ask why we worship the big locust tree?"

Dong Gong and Dong Gong are actually directors and Dong Yuan, but the story is told by the sixteenth generation of Mr. Dong Zhongshu's grandson Dong Guan, the director and Dong Yuan are the ancestors of the Dong family, and the title of the ancestors must be inserted in the middle of the name to show the respect of the younger generations for the ancestors. Gong is the old honorific title for male elders or the elderly. In ancient times, it was the name of a deceased emperor or elder.

Dong Tianci, the eighteenth generation grandson of Mr. Dong Zhongshu, nodded.

"Because the reason why we want to worship the big locust tree is because it has a great relationship with the two ancestors of Dong Gong and Dong Gong. ”

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's eighteenth generation grandson, Dong Tianci, seems to understand whether he understands or not.

Mr. Dong Zhongshu's sixteenth generation grandson Dong Guan continued to tell the story again.

Dong Gong and Dong Gong Yuan, father and son, came back from Guangchuan County (now Da Dong Guzhuang, Guangchuan Town, Jing County, Hebei) this time to return to their ancestors.

Atavism refers to the genetic phenomenon of certain traits of ancestors that occur by chance in some organisms. For example, the hind wings of diptera insects have generally degenerated into balancing sticks, but individuals with two pairs of wings occasionally appear. In humans, it is common to see children with short tails, hairy people, women with many nipples, and so on, indicating that the ancestors of humans may have been animals with tails, long hair, and many nipples. So atavism is also a kind of evidence of biological evolution. Modern genetics has two explanations for the atavistic phenomenon: one is that two or more genes that have been separated during speciation and are necessary to determine a certain trait are recombined through hybridization or other reasons, so that the ancestral trait can be re-manifested; second, the genes that determine this ancestral trait have long been blocked by histone-dominated repressor proteins in the process of evolution, but for some reason, specific non-histone proteins are produced, which can bind to histones and cause the repressor protein to fall off, and as a result, the blocked genes are reactivated, re-transcribed and translated, and show ancestral traits。 Anatism is a less common phenomenon of biological "degradation". As we all know, domestic chickens, ducks, and geese have long lost their ability to fly after long-term domestication and cultivation by humans, but in the flock of domestic chickens, ducks, and geese, sometimes there will be a chicken, duck, and goose with particularly strong flight ability, and the chicken, duck, and goose are due to the atavistic phenomenon on their bodies, so that their flight ability has been restored. The atavistic phenomenon is also reflected in human beings, for example, the hairy child who is born with hair on the body is an atavistic "degeneration" phenomenon of human hair tissues and organs, the ears can move very large and can be classified as the atavistic "degeneration" phenomenon of the nervous system, and the atavistic "degeneration" phenomenon of people born with tails can be classified as atavistic organs, which shows that the location of the atavistic phenomenon is uncertain. (To be continued......)