But naming wasn't even the strangest rule in their family. The strangest rule of the Dong Family was forbidding ancestor worship.
This was irrelevant to cultural rituals. Just two generations back, the younger family members already didn't know where the graves were located.
His parents never took him to pay respects at his grandparents' graves. He didn't know where they were buried. When his grandfather passed away, he was just one year old, but when his grandmother passed away, he was already twelve, yet his parents still didn't take him to his grandmother's burial site.
His parents only went once during the burial and never visited again afterwards.
This 'estrangement' from deceased ancestors had already become a habit in their family, or perhaps it was the effect of years of subtle influence and leading by example?
