Our family tradition of names dates back centuries, to the Song dynasty, with every generation's name taking a different character from a poem Ming-Chong-Shu (ph), and, in my generation's case, Te.

我们家族的名字传统可以追溯到几百年前的宋朝，每一代人的名字都从某首诗中取一个字，我们这代人是“德”。