I. Filial Piety Moves Heaven
Yu Shun, the son of goze Filial Piety Moves Heaven
The son of ɡǔ sǒu (ɡǔ瞍). He was very filial in nature. His father was stubborn, his mother was clamorous, and his younger brother, Xiang Ao, was arrogant. When Shun ploughed in the Calendar Mountain, elephants plowed for him and birds worked for him. His filial piety was so great. When Emperor Yao heard of this, he gave him nine men and two women as his wives, and then he let the world go to him. The team plowed elephants in the spring and cultivated grass and birds in succession. The emperor Yao ascended to the throne, and his filial piety moved the heart of heaven. Shun, one of the five ancient emperors, was surnamed Yao, Chonghua, and Yu, and was known as Yu Shun in history. According to legend, his father, Goze, and his stepmother and half-brother, Xiang, tried to kill him many times: when he was asked to repair the roof of a barn, he set fire to the barn and escaped by jumping down from underneath it with two bucket hats in his hands; and when he was asked to dig a well, Goze and Xiang filled in the well with earth, and Shun escaped by digging a tunnel. Afterward, Shun did not feel any resentment, but remained obedient to his father and compassionate to his brother. His filial piety touched the Heavenly Emperor. When Shun was plowing in Li Mountain, elephants plowed the land for him and birds hoe the grass for him. Emperor Yao heard that Shun was very filial and had the ability to handle political affairs, and married his two daughters, E Huang and N Ying, to him; after years of observation and testing, he chose Shun to be his successor. When Shun ascended to the throne of heaven, he visited his father, still respectful, and made Xiang a vassal.
II. Playing colors to entertain relatives
Zhou Lao Lai Zi, to filial piety, serve two parents, extremely sweet and crispy, line seventy years old, the words said old. Often dressed in colorful clothes, for the baby play on the side of the relatives. He also tasted water on the hall, fraudulently fell to the ground, as a baby crying, in order to entertain his parents. Lao Lai Zi, a hermit of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period (Eastern Zhou Dynasty), farmed at the southern foot of Mount Meng to escape from the chaos of the world. He was filial to his parents and tried his best to choose delicious food for them. At the age of 70, he did not say he was old, but often wore five-color clothes and played like a child with a rattle in order to amuse his parents. Once for both parents to bring water, pretending to fall, lying on the ground as a child crying, the two old people laughed. The two old men laughed when they learned how to play and dance like children, and the spring breeze moved their colorful clothes. The two parents opened their mouths and laughed, and the court was filled with joy.
Three. His parents were old and both of them suffered from double vision, and they wanted to eat deer's milk. Tantan Zi was dressed in deer skin, went to the mountains, into the deer herd, to take deer milk for his parents. The hunter saw it and wanted to shoot it. Tantanzi told him his feelings, so he was spared. Tantan Zi was a man in the Spring and Autumn period. His parents were old and suffered from eye disease, which needed to be cured by drinking deer's milk. So he went into the mountains in his deer skin, and entered a herd of deer, squeezed the milk from them, and offered it to his parents. Once to get milk, hunters saw him thought it was a moose, want to shoot him, Tantanzi hastily lifted up the deer skin out of the present, will squeeze deer milk for his parents to heal the truth to inform the hunters, to avoid the danger of being mistakenly killed. The old man was thinking of the deer's milk, and he was wearing a brown fur coat. If he did not speak loudly, he would have returned to the mountain with an arrow.
Four. A Hundred Miles of Rice
Zhou Zhongyu (周仲由), known as Zilu (子路), was a poor man. His family was poor, so he ate a lot of quinoa and patchouli, and carried rice for his relatives for a hundred miles. When his parents died, he traveled south to Chu, where he took a hundred rides in a car, accumulated ten thousand bells of corn, sat in a row of tripods, and sighed, "Although I want to eat quinoa and patchouli, and carry rice for my parents, I cannot do it." Zhong Yu, the word Zi Lu, Ji Lu, the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Lu, Confucius's favorite disciple, straightforward and courageous character, very filial. In his early years, when his family was poor, he used to pick wild vegetables for his own meals, but he carried rice home from a hundred miles away to serve his parents. After the death of his parents, he became a great official and was ordered to go to the state of Chu, where he was accompanied by a hundred carriages and horses and accumulated ten thousand bells of grain. Sitting on the stacked brocade mattresses and eating sumptuous feasts, he often missed his parents and lamented, "Even if I want to eat wild vegetables and go negative rice for my parents, where can I get it
again?" Confucius praised him, saying, "You served your parents, so you can be said to have done your best in life and missed them after death!" (Confucius's Family Words: Zhisi) I would rather be a hundred miles away than to carry rice for a sweet purpose. I have been honored by the death of my parents, but I still think of the old price charged (qú).
V. The Finger of Pain
Zhou Zeng Sen (周曾参), a man with the character ZiYi (子舆), served his mother with great filial piety. When a visitor came to his home, his mother did not know what to do, but looked at him and refused to return. His mother was at a loss for words, and when she saw that Sen was not coming back, she gnawed on his finger. When he returned, he knelt down and asked why. His mother said, "There is an urgent guest coming, so I am going to gnaw on my finger to understand you." Zeng Sen (曾参), known as ZiYi (子舆), was a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and a favorite disciple of Confucius, known as Zeng Zi (曾子), who was famous for his filial piety. When he was a young man, his family was poor and he used to go into the mountains to fetch firewood. One day, when there was a guest in the house, his mother, not knowing what to do, bit her finger with her teeth. Suddenly, Zeng Sen felt his heart ache and knew that his mother was calling him, so he quickly returned home with the firewood on his back and knelt down to ask the reason. His mother said, "A guest has suddenly arrived, and I am biting my finger in hope that you will come back." The mother said, "I bit my finger and hoped you would come back." Zeng Sen then received the guest and bit his finger in pain
They treated him with courtesy and respect. Zeng Sen, a learned man, once put forward "my day three times to save my own body" ("Analects - Xue而")的修养方法, according to legend, he wrote "University", "filial piety scripture" and other Confucian classics, later Confucianism honored him as "Zong Sheng". The mother's finger is only just meshed, but the child's heart aches with pain. I'm not too late to return with my paycheck, but I'm very much in love with you," he said.
VI.
Zhou Minxian, Ziqian, lost his mother at an early age. His father married his mother and gave birth to two sons, who were clothed in cotton wool; he was jealous of his mother and clothed her in reed flowers. The father made the loss of the car, the body cold, lost traces (zhèn). The father found out the reason for this and wanted to get rid of his stepmother. Loss said: "Mother in a son of cold, mother go three sons single." The mother heard this and repented. Min Lian (闵损), with the character Ziqian (子骞), was a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and a disciple of Confucius, who was known in the Confucius Sect for his virtues and behavior alongside Yan Yuan. Confucius once praised him, saying, "Filial piety, Min Ziqian!" (Analects - Advanced). His birth mother died early, and his father took a stepmother and had two more sons. His stepmother often mistreated him. In winter, his two younger brothers wore winter clothes made of cotton, but he was given "cotton clothes" made of rushes. One day, when his father went out, Min Loss was shivering from the cold when he was leading the car and dropped the rope on the ground, he was reprimanded and whipped by his father, and the rushes flew out with the broken seams of his coat, and his father realized that Min Loss was being mistreated. The father returns home and wants to banish his wife. Min Lian knelt down and begged his father to forgive his stepmother, saying, "If I leave my mother behind, I will only be cold, but if I leave my mother behind, all three of my children will be cold." The father was very touched and obeyed him. When his stepmother heard this, she repented of her mistake and treated him like her own son. Min's wife had a good son, and she never complained about her late mother. The third son was saved from the storm by the presence of his mother.
VII. His birth mother, the Empress Dowager Bo, the emperor was raised without negligence. Mother often sick, three years, the emperor's eyes do not cross the eyelashes, clothes do not wear, soup and medicine is not the mouth personally taste not into. His benevolence and filial piety were well known in the world. Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the third son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was born to Empress Dowager Bo. He became the emperor in the eighth year of the reign of Empress Dowager Bo (180 years before the reign of Emperor Gao). He was famous for his filial piety and never neglected to serve his mother. When his mother was sick for three years, he often did not look at her and did not wear her clothes; he tasted the medicines she took before letting her take them. He reigned for 24 years, emphasizing the rule of morality, rituals, attention to the development of agriculture, so that the Western Han Dynasty social stability, prosperity, economic recovery and development, he and the reign of Emperor Jingdi of the Han Dynasty is known as the "rule of Wenjing". Benevolence and filial piety reign in the world, and he is the most powerful king in the world. The Mo Ting is a good mother, and she must taste the medicines herself.
VIII. Pick up mulberry outlet
Han Cai Shun, less orphaned, mother to filial piety. By the Wang Mang chaos, years of shortage is not given, pick up mulberry, to the different ware of the. Red eyebrow thieves see and ask. Shun said: "The black one served mother, the red one self-food." Thieves pity its filial piety, to white rice two bucket cow hoof a with. Cai Shun, the Han Dynasty Runan (now belongs to Henan) people, young people lost his father, mother very filial. At that time was at the time of Wang Mang's chaos, and encountered famine, firewood and rice expensive, only to pick up mulberry mother and child hunger. One day, he met the Red Eyebrows Army, and the Red Eyebrows soldiers asked, "Why did you put the red mulberries and black mulberries in two separate baskets?" Cai Shun replied, "The black mulberry is for my mother to eat, and the red mulberry is for myself." The Red Eyebrows took pity on his filial piety and gave him two buckets of white rice and a cow's hoof as a token of respect. The black mulberry is served to the daylily exam, crying hunger tears full of clothes. The Red Eyebrows know filial piety, cattle and rice to give you back.
9. Burying a child to serve his mother
Burying a child to serve his mother
Han Guo Ju, the family is poor. When his son was three years old, his mother reduced his food. He said to his wife, "I can't provide for my mother because of my poverty, and my son is the only one who can provide for my mother, so why don't I bury my son? The son could be born again, but the mother could not get it back." His wife did not dare to disobey him. Ju then dug a pit more than three feet, and suddenly saw a kettle of gold, on the cloud: "God gives filial son Guo Ju, the official shall not take, the people shall not take." Guo Ju (郭巨), a native of Longxi (present-day Anyang Linzhou, Henan Province) in the Eastern Han Dynasty, or Wenxian (present-day Wenxian, southwest of Henan Province) in Hanoi, was originally from a wealthy family. After his father's death, he divided the family's property into two parts and gave it to his two younger brothers, and took his mother's support, to whom he was extremely filial. After the gradual impoverishment of the family, his wife gave birth to a boy, Guo Ju was worried that raising this child would inevitably affect the support of his mother, so he and his wife discussed: "The son can be again, the mother can not be resurrected after death, it is better to bury the son and save some food for the mother." When they dug the pit, two feet underground, suddenly saw an altar of gold, written on the "Heavenly Guo Ju, the official shall not take, the people shall not take". The couple got the gold and went home to honor their mother and raise their children. Guo Ju thought about the provision, burying the child and wishing the mother to survive. The gold is a gift from heaven, and it shines through.
X. Sell your body to bury your father
Dong Yong, a poor family. When his father died, he sold his body for a loan to bury him. And go to pay for the work, met a woman on the way, begged for Yong's wife. They went to the master's house and made him weave thick waterproof silk of 300 pairs, and then he returned. After completing the work in January, she returned to the clubhouse in Huaiyin, and then quit Yong and left. Dong Yong, according to legend, was a native of Qianxian (north of present-day Gaocheng County, Shandong Province) during the Eastern Han Dynasty. He lost his mother when he was a young boy, and moved to Anlu (present-day Hubei Province) to avoid military chaos. When his father died, Dong Yong sold himself to a rich family as a slave in exchange for funeral expenses. On his way to work, he met a woman under the shade of an acacia tree who said she had no home to go to, and the two were married. The woman took one month to weave 300 pieces of brocade for Dong Yong to redeem his debt. On the way back home, when they arrived at the shade of the locust tree, the woman told Dong Yong that she was the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor, and had been ordered to help Dong Yong pay off his debt. After saying this, she left in the air. As a result, Samuel Yin was renamed Xiaogan. When the woman buried her father and loaned money to her brother, she met the fairy goddess on the street. Weaving thick waterproof silk to pay off the debtor, filial piety moves the sky.
XI. Carve wood to serve relatives
Carve wood to serve relatives
Han Dinglan, lost his parents at a young age, did not get to support, and miss the cause of the price of [qú] labor, carve wood as a statue, the thing as if it were alive. His wife for a long time and disrespect, with a needle play stabbed his finger, blood out. When the wooden image saw Lan, tears fell from his eyes. When Lan asked him about his feelings, he abandoned his wife. Ding Lan, according to legend, for the Eastern Han Dynasty Hanoi (present-day Henan Anyang area) people, his parents died at an early age, he often misses his parents' nurturing, so he used wood to carve into a statue of his parents, things as if they were alive, everything is discussed with the wooden statue, the three meals a day to honor his parents before eating, and before going out to be sure to report to the door, and after returning home to be sure to face the face, and never slacking off. Over time, his wife on the wooden statue will not be too respectful, and even curiously use a needle to prick the wooden statue's fingers, and the wooden statue's fingers actually have blood flow out. Ding Lan went home to see the wooden statue of tears in the eyes, asked to know the truth, so his wife repudiated. Carve wood for parents, described in the day time. I'd like to send a message to my sons and nephews that they should be filial to their parents.
XII.
Han Jiang Shi, mother of filial piety; his wife Pang, aunt of the particularly rigorous. Mother nature is good to drink river water, go to the house six or seven miles, his wife out of the draw to serve; and addiction to chopped fish [kuai], couples often make; and can not eat alone, call the neighboring mother **** food. Shed side of a spring, taste like river water, day jump double carp, take for. Jiang Shi, a native of Guanghan, Sichuan Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty, married Pang's wife. Couple filial piety, his home is six or seven miles away from the Yangtze River, Pang often go to the river to fetch his mother-in-law like to drink the Yangtze River water. Granny loved fish, the couple often made fish for her to eat, Granny was not willing to eat alone, they invited the neighboring grannies to eat with them. When Pang returned late from fetching water due to high winds, Jiang Shi suspected her of neglecting her mother and expelled her from the house. Pang stayed with a neighbor, spinning and weaving day and night, and sending her savings home to her mother-in-law. When her mother-in-law found out about Pang's expulsion, she asked Jiang Shi to bring her home. On the day of Pang's return, a spring suddenly gushed out from the courtyard, with the same taste as the water of the Yangtze River, and two carp jumped out every day. From then on, Pang made offerings to her mother-in-law with this water and did not have to travel far from the river. A sweet spring springs from the side of the house, and two carp come out every day. The son is able to serve his mother, and the woman is even more filial to her aunt.
Thirteen. When he was six years old, Lu Jie met Yuan Shu in Jiujiang, where he was treated to two oranges. And return, worship resignation fell to the ground. Art said: "Lu Lang as a guest and pregnant orange?" JI kneeled down and replied, "My mother's favorite, I want to return to leave my mother." The art of great wonder. Lu Jie was a scientist and a native of Huating (now Songjiang, Shanghai) in Wu County of the State of Wu during the Three Kingdoms period. When he was six years old, he accompanied his father, Lu Kang, to visit Yuan Shu in Jiujiang, who took out oranges to entertain him, and Lu Jie hid two oranges in his arms. When the oranges fell to the ground on his way out, Yuan Shu laughed and said, "Lu Lang came to my house as a guest, but when you leave, do you still want to hide your master's oranges in your arms?" Lu Jie replied, "Mother likes to eat oranges, and I want to take them back to my mother to try." Yuan Shu was amazed to see that he knew how to be filial to his mother at such a young age. When Lu Jie became an adult, he was very knowledgeable and proficient in astronomy and calendars. He made the Hun Tian Tu, annotated the I Ching, and wrote the Tai Xuan Jing Note. Filial piety and fraternal duty are all natural, six-year-old children on earth. He carried a green tangerine in his sleeve and left it to his mother to repay him for his breastfeeding.
XIV.
Huang Xiang was nine years old when he lost his mother, and his mother's love for him was so great that people in the countryside called him filial. He was a hard-working man who did his father's best to fulfill his filial piety. In the summer heat, fan cool their pillows and woven mats; in the winter cold, fan pillows and warm coverlets
To warm their mats. The governor of the city, Mr. Liu Guan, said that he was not satisfied with his father's behavior. Huang Xiang, a native of Anlu, Jiangxia in the Eastern Han Dynasty, lost his mother at the age of nine and was extremely filial to his father. In the cool summer, he fanned his father's pillow; in the cold winter, he warmed his father's bedding with his body. When he was a young man, he was a master of the classics and a brilliant writer, and it was widely rumored in the capital that he was "unrivaled in the world: Huang Xiang of Jiangxia". When Emperor An (107-125) was the governor of Wei County (now Hebei), Huang Xiang did everything he could to help the victims of the floods in Wei County. He was the author of "Nine Palace Fugue" and "Ode to the Crown of the Son of Heaven". In winter, the warm coverlet is warm, and the fan pillow is cool on hot days. The children know the duties of the son, know the ancient one Huang Xiang.
Fifteen. The maid for his mother
The Houhan Jiangge, who lost his father when he was young, lived alone with his mother. In the chaos, the mother fled. Several encountered thieves, or want to rob will go, Ge always [sound zhe] sobbing to tell the old mother in, the thieves can not bear to kill. Turn guest Xiapi [sound pi], poor bare trick [sound xian], line maid for mother. Mother's body of things, nothing to give. Jiang Ge, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qi Linzi, a young man lost his father, serving his mother extremely filial. In the war, Jiang Ge fled with his mother on his back, several times encountered bandits and thieves, the thieves wanted to kill him, Jiang Ge cried: elderly mother, no one to support, the thieves saw his filial piety, could not bear to kill him. Later, he moved to Xiapi, Jiangsu Province, to work as a hired laborer to support his mother, his own poverty and barefoot, while his mother needed a lot. He was elected as a filial piety lian by Emperor Ming, and was elected as a virtuous and righteous man by Emperor Zhang, and served as a general of the Five Officials. When he fled from danger with his mother in his arms, he was often attacked by thieves on the poor road. I was able to get out of it by begging for help, and I worked hard to provide for my parents.
Sixteen. Went thunder weeping tomb
Wei Wang裒, filial piety. He was afraid of the thunder, and when he died, he was buried in the mountains. Every wind and rain, heard the sound of the Aroma vibration, that is, ran to the tomb, worship kneeling sobbing said: "裒在此，母亲勿俱。" Wang裒, the Wei and Jin period of Yingling (now southeast of Shandong Changle), erudite and versatile. His father, Wang Yi, was killed by Sima Zhao, and he lived in seclusion to teach as a profession, and never sat facing the west, indicating that he would never be a minister of Jin. When his mother was alive, she was afraid of thunder and was buried in the mountains after her death. Whenever he heard thunder in stormy weather, he ran to his mother's grave, knelt down and comforted her, saying, "The rich son is here, mother don't be afraid." When he was teaching, whenever he read the chapter of Polygonum, he often burst into tears and missed his parents. A loving mother is afraid of hearing thunder, and her icy soul stays on the night table. A shock at the time of Ah Xiang, to the grave around a thousand times.
XVII. Crying Bamboo Shoots
Meng Zong of the Jin Dynasty lost his father at a young age. His mother was old and sick, and she wanted to cook bamboo shoots in winter. Zong was unable to find any, so he went to the bamboo forest, hugged the bamboo and cried. In a flash, the ground cracked and several stems of bamboo shoots came out, which he held and returned to his mother to make a soup for her. After eating, he recovered from his illness. Meng Zong, a native of Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms period, had his father die when he was a teenager, and his mother was very sick in her old age, so the doctor instructed him to use fresh bamboo shoots to make soup. In the winter, there were no fresh bamboo shoots, so Meng Zong was at his wits' end and ran to the bamboo forest alone, holding the bamboo and weeping. A short while later, he suddenly heard the ground cracking sound, only to see the ground grow several stems of young bamboo shoots. Meng Zong was so happy that he took them back to make soup, and his mother really recovered after drinking them. Later on, he was promoted to the post of Secretary of the Treasury. Tears drop in the cold wind, Xiao Xiao bamboo a few poles. The first time I saw the bamboo shoots, I saw the bamboo shoots come out, and I was happy to see that they were safe.
XVIII.
Wang Xiang of the Jin Dynasty was a man named Huuzheng, who lost his mother at an early age and was succeeded by his stepmother Zhu. He lost his mother at an early age, and his stepmother, Zhu, was not kind. His father slandered him several times before, and he lost love for his parents. Tried to eat raw fish, when it was freezing cold, Xiang undressed lying on the ice to seek. The ice suddenly dissolved itself, and the two carp jumped out, holding the return to the mother. Wang Xiang, a native of Langya, lost his birth mother early, and his stepmother Zhu repeatedly spoke ill of him in front of his father, causing him to lose his father's love. Parents sick, he was not dressed to wait, stepmother wanted to eat live carp, when the cold, he unclothed lying on the ice, the ice suddenly melted on its own, jumped out of the two carp. After his stepmother ate them, she recovered from her illness. Wang Xiang lived in seclusion for more than twenty years, and then from the county magistrate of Wenxian County to achieve the great Sinanong, Sikong, lieutenant. The stepmother was on earth, but Wang Xiang was not in the world. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm sure I'll be able to do it," he said.
Nineteen. Choke tiger to save his father
Jin Yang Xiang, aged 14, tasted with his father Feng to the field to get Jie corn, his father for the tiger dragged away. At that time, Yang Xiang was unarmed, but he knew that he had a father but not a body, so he went forward and held the tiger by the neck, and the tiger passed away, saving his father and son from being harmed. Yang Xiang was a native of the Jin Dynasty. When he was fourteen years old, he went to the field to cut rice with his father, suddenly ran a tiger, pounced on his father and took him away, Yang Xiang was unarmed, in order to save his father, completely disregard for his own safety, jumped forward and used all his strength to choke the tiger's throat. The tiger finally put down his father and ran away. Deep in the mountains met the white tiger, efforts to fight the fishy wind. The father and son are safe and sound, and are free from the mouth of the tiger.
Twenty. His family was poor and had no curtains, so every summer night, mosquitoes saved his skin. Wanton drainage cream blood satiation, although more, do not drive, fear of going to their own and devour their relatives. Love of relatives to the heart. Wu Mang, Puyang people in the Jin Dynasty, when he was eight years old, he knew how to honor his parents. Family poverty, no mosquito nets, mosquito bites make the father can not sleep peacefully. Every summer night, Wu Mang always sat naked in front of his father's bed, let the mosquitoes bite and do not drive away, worrying that the mosquitoes leave their own to bite his father. Summer night without curtains, mosquitoes dare not swing. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get into my family's house without getting a lot of blood.
XXI. Taste of feces worry
Nanqi Geng Qianlou, for the Weiling order. To the county has not been ten days, suddenly heart attack sweat flow, that is, abandoned the official return. When his father's disease began two days, the doctor said: "To know the disease, but taste the dung bitter is good." Qianlou tasted the sweet, heart very worried. At the end of the night, he asked for his father's death. Yu Qianlou, a high scholar in Southern Qi, was the magistrate of Weiling County. After ten days in office, he suddenly felt his heart sweating and had a feeling that something was wrong at home, so he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown. When he returned home, he knew that his father had been seriously ill for two days. The doctor said: "to know the condition of good or bad, just taste the patient's feces, taste bitter." Qianlou then tasted his father's feces and found it sweet, he was so worried that he knelt down at night to worship the Big Dipper and begged to die in his father's place. A few days later, his father died, Qianlou buried his father, and kept the system for three years. Before arriving at the county for ten days, Chun Ting was left with a deep illness. I would like to take the place of my father in death, but I am worried about him when I look at the north.
XXII. The grandmother is not idle
Tang Cui Shannan great-grandmother Mrs. Chang Sun, high and toothless. Grandmother, Mrs. Tang, daily pectus wash, rising breast milk its aunt, aunt not grain food, a few years and well. One day sick, the elders and young people gathered, is the declaration said: "no way to repay the new woman's grace, I wish the children and grandchildren of women such as the new woman's filial piety and respect is enough." Cui Shannan, name, the Tang Dynasty Boling (now belongs to Hebei), the official to the West Road Festival Minister, known as "Shannan". Back then, Cui Shannan's great-grandmother Mrs. Chang Sun, old age, tooth loss, grandmother Mrs. Tang is very filial, every day after washing, are on the hall with their own milk to feed her mother-in-law, so several years, Mrs. Chang Sun no longer eat other meals, the body is still healthy. When Mrs. Chang Sun was seriously ill, she gathered the whole family together and said, "I can't repay my new wife's kindness, but I wish her children and grandchildren-in-law would honor her as she honored me." Later, when Cui Shannan became a high official, he really honored his grandmother, Mrs. Tang, as Mrs. Changsun had instructed him to do. I honored the Cui family's wife, and my nurse's aunt washed her hands in the morning. There is no way to repay this favor, and I wish to have children and grandchildren like it.
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Song Huang Tingjian, the Yuan Fu in the Imperial History, nature to filial piety. Although he was a nobleman, he was devoted to his mother. Every night, personally for the mother to clean the drowning vessel, not a moment not to provide the son of duty. Huang Tingjian (黄庭坚), a native of Fenning (present-day Xiushui, Jiangxi) in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a famous poet and calligrapher. Although he was in a high position, he did his best to serve his mother. Every night, he personally washed the toilet for his mother, without forgetting his duties as a son. Although he was famous in the world, he was filial to his parents. He washed the toilet bowl himself, and did not use a concubine.
XXIV. Abandonment of officialdom to seek mother
Abandonment of officialdom to seek mother
Song Zhu Shouchang, seven years old, his birth mother, Liu, was jealous of his first mother, and married. The mother and son did not see each other for fifty years. Shenzong dynasty, abandoned his post to enter the Qin, and his family decided, vowed not to see his mother will not return. After traveling to the same state, got it, when his mother was more than seventy years old. Zhu Shouchang, Song Dynasty, Tianchang people, when he was seven years old, his mother Liu was first mother (father's wife) jealous, had to remarry others, fifty years mother and son do not have access to information. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Zhu Shouchang was a government official, and he once wrote the Diamond Sutra in blood to search for his birth mother in all directions, and when he got the clues, he decided to give up his official position and went to Shaanxi Province to search for his birth mother, vowing that he would never return without seeing his mother. Finally, he met his mother and two younger brothers in Shanzhou, and the mother and son were reunited and returned together, when his mother was already more than seventy years old. At the age of seven, he was born away from his mother, and had been a businessman for fifty years. Once they met, they were happy to move the Emperor's sky.