On the Path to the Great Dao

【From the author of ''!】 My grandfather is very peculiar. Every day, he lights incense for himself and eats candles in front of his own ancestral tablet. The villagers are all terrified of my grandfather. I’m scared of him too. Later, I realized they weren’t afraid of him—they were afraid of me. My grandfather is also afraid of me. … My name is Chen Shi. Chen as in “honest,” and Shi as in “sincere.”