My memory of my ancestors begins with my grandma.
When I was a child, my grandma told me about the past in Longxi City, Gansu Province, and I learned that our ancestors were once a wealthy family and had high prestige and influence in Longxi City, Gansu Province. My grandma’s surname was Li. She said that she also came from a wealthy family in Longxi. Later I learned that Longxi, Gansu is the hometown of the Li family of the Chinese nation. My grandma has been optimistic all her life. From her words, I could not hear the hardships and vicissitudes that Longxicheng had suffered. All of them sounded like stories that I yearned for and that I was proud of. But my father is different. Perhaps because of the suffering and grievances he suffered in childhood, he is full of fear and sadness about Longxi City and our ancestors. This kind of past glory and suffering of our ancestors has formed the complex family cultural characteristics of our family, such as perseverance, endurance of hardships, respect for culture and integrity, optimism and worry, caution and awe.
My great-great-grandfather’s name is Dong Zheng. According to legend, his ancestral home is Dongjia Lane, Chenghuang Temple, Tianshui, Gansu Province. He was born in the 10th year of Xianfeng. According to the feudal and agricultural society of the past, there is a high chance that he moved to Longxi City for the reason of "learning well and becoming an official", but this cannot be verified. But our Dong family has a large number of medical books with written records. In the past, traditional Chinese medicine was mainly used to treat diseases and save people. It was logical to run a traditional Chinese medicine shop "Zhonghe Tang" on East Street in Longxi City, Gansu Province, and settled in the courtyard of Cangmen Street, Gongchang Town, Longxi Province. This has created a tradition of practicing medicine to save people from generation to generation in our family. Traditional Chinese medicine mainly treats typhoid fever, and diagnoses based on the color and pulse. My great-great-grandfather is proficient in gynecology and has high medical ethics, and is respected and loved by people.
? ? Our Dong family started our own family culture with the "righteousness" of our great-grandfather, and also continued to spread and inherit it with righteousness. In my grandfather's generation, in addition to curing diseases and saving people, he also began to educate people. inheritance. My grandfather Dong Tingyang, named Qingquan, not only taught but also inherited the medical skills from his ancestors. He also liked calligraphy and wrote many good poems and articles. He was an upright man with high medical ethics. This was an amazing ability and achievement in that era. From then on, the traditional cultural characteristics of the Dong family were established: advocating literature and being upright, practicing medicine and being good at writing, good calligraphy and being moral. It is not difficult to see from my grandfather's poems that he liked to make friends and was free and easy. After finishing each poem, he did not collect it and let the poems scatter in the wind. This kind of freedom and ease will quietly flow into the blood of our younger generations, so that they will not be hindered by fame and fortune. Later, it was naturally revealed from my fathers. My uncle, who was over seventy years old, still yearned to travel all over the mountains and rivers of the motherland. My uncle Hongwen suffers from high blood pressure. That night we walked into the Drum Tower Square together, still talking and laughing with people, playing with guns and swords...
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