In memory of my great-uncle

Uncle, dad is mom's own uncle. We call our elders uncle and dad like dad here, so my mother asked us to call her uncle, uncle and dad, uncle and dad, uncle and dad.

At that time, under the persuasion of my grandmother, my mother married back to the village where my uncle lived, saying that relatives should take good care of each other. It's just that my father's family and my uncle's family are just close neighbors and have no blood relationship.

When I was a child, I always went to school and played with my neighbor's cousin. He has a radio at home. At noon, there are always folk songs such as Biography of Yue Fei, Yang Jiajiang and Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties. I went to his house after lunch and waited for him to go to school together, while listening to these songs. If I don't understand, I ask my cousin. I understand many stories of loyal subjects, adulterers and heroes and villains. Suddenly I like reading comic books, because I admire these heroic deeds.

My uncle has a lot of comic books and a room full of thread-bound books. I think there must be some wonderful stories in this book that I don't know. My uncle and father used to be the head nurses in our village and have seen the world. Every time I go to his house to read comic books, I will hear many stories outside comic books in my spare time, which is fascinating.

After finishing farm work at home during holidays, I like to go to my uncle's house whenever I have time. Listen to his stories and read by yourself when you are busy. I once took a thread-bound book with pictures on it. That is a Book of Changes with Fuxi on it. I don't know, so I asked my uncle and father. He patiently told me these stories from Zhou Wenwang to Jiang Ziya. I asked him if he was Jiang Ziya in the ballad "Romance of Gods", and he said yes, and praised me for my love of learning and thinking!

I went to my great-uncle more often, and I became familiar with him. Maybe he thought I liked reading, so he told me the knowledge in the Book of Changes. He said that Fuxi founded innate gossip and innate gossip represented people's cognition of the world at the beginning of the birth of the universe. Later, after King Wen was trapped in Youli City, he innovated and invented the acquired gossip. He also put the learned gossip in the palm of his left hand and showed it to me. He held out his left hand, put dry hexagrams at the root of the ring finger, kangua at the root of the middle finger, hexagrams at the root of the index finger, hexagrams at the middle of the index finger, apostrophes at the fingertip, deviant hexagrams at the middle fingertip, Kun hexagrams at the nameless fingertip and antithesis at the middle of the ring finger. He also found pictures in the book, as shown below.

So the whole gossip is under your control. He also told me that the day after tomorrow I would gossip about the map in my palm and use formulas to learn. The formula is: "Count the number of columns, count Kun, count three earthquakes, five in the palace, six in the trunk, seven against eight, nine out of the door." It is not only convenient to remember, but also can correspond to the number of nine palaces, so that there is another pair of nine palaces in the palm of your hand. He also talked about the wisdom of the ancients. You can also associate the Eight Diagrams with the heavenly stems and earthly branches and the Zodiac, so that a divination disk can tell the future and the past, and can also help people to tell fortunes and see the geography of Yin and Yang. At that time, I was very confused, but I also understood that this is a magical world that can be mastered through learning.

Later, I will go to the county to study, and when I come back from vacation, I will ask my uncle and father for advice and study, and I also like to listen to his stories in the book. Later, I was admitted to the university and went to study further away from home. Last semester of Grade Two, my mother called to tell me that my uncle had passed away. Left us forever, I was in tears, and I was haunted by his image in the palm of my left hand, demonstrating the algorithm of gossip the day after tomorrow.

That summer vacation, I went back to my hometown and went to my uncle's house. The house where he lives has only some furniture and beds, and there are no books in one room. I heard that I had my uncle burn it on my uncle's grave. How valuable are these rare books of ancient books for academic research? How much can they sell if they are preserved until now!

Every time I recall these things, I always feel sad inside, and I haven't left a book or two to remember my uncle and father. Thank him for opening the door to knowledge for me. Thank him for letting me know a lot of easy-to-learn knowledge and the profound historical origin of traditional culture. Therefore, I want to use this article to commemorate my uncle and father. May he still have a book with him in heaven. Let's talk about it.