Huanggang ⁽³⁾

They say that once people reach a certain age, they take an interest in opera, genealogy, and hometown culture; in the second half of life we cannot help wondering where we came from. I think I have reached just such a turning point. Two or…

Sima Daoxin was a native of Yongning County (also known as Guangji County; present-day Meichuan Town, Wuxue City, Huanggang Prefecture, Hubei Province). His father, Sima Shen, was the first county magistrate after Yongning was established; the family ancestral home was Wen County, Henan. The county…

My grandmother believed in Buddhism all her life; at seven I began teaching her to recite the sutras, reading from pinyin. She often went to temples to worship the Buddha and brought back many hand-copied sutras; the monks told her that reciting them would bring…