Traditional Virtues Stories (500 words or more)

Twenty-four Filial Piety ___ filial piety stepmother

Li Yinglin, a Qing Dynasty man who lived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, grew up meek and kind. When his mother died tragically, he persuaded his father to remarry. He supported his parents with the proceeds from the sale of his fortune tellers. Although Yinglin treated his stepmother with filial piety, she regarded him as a thorn in her side and made things difficult for him, often beating him with a stick. Whenever this happened, Ying Lin always knelt down, respectful as ever, without the slightest intention to resist. His father, however, believed his stepmother's slander and expelled him from the house. But Ru Lin did not complain, and every year, on his parents' birthday, he went home to congratulate them with gifts. Soon after he heard that his stepmother was sick, he rushed home to take care of her, and traveled thirty miles away to seek medical help and medicine, rain or shine, every day, until she recovered from her illness. At the same time, Yinglin treated his stepmother's child with extra kindness, which eventually made his stepmother repent, and improved the relationship between mother and child to a level better than that of his own.

The later praised that; not worried about stepmother away from home, the mother home sick service medicine soup; will be brother as a dear hand and foot, mother's end of repentance into kind

Twenty-four filial piety ___ persuade the aunt to filial piety ancestor

Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Shaoxing, Shanyin there is a family surnamed Yang family, married to a child bride named Liu Lansi, only twelve years old, but very sensible, very respectful and attentive to the family. Her mother-in-law, Wang's offense to the elders, often called her grandmother "old man", as a "burden", very rude words.

Late one night, Liu Lanjie came to Wang's boudoir and knelt down. Wang was shocked and asked why. Liu Lanjie replied, "I am worried about my mother-in-law's disrespect for my mother-in-law. In the future, the daughter-in-law will be regarded as an example, and when you are old, you will also be regarded as a "burden", and then you will be how sad ah! It would be a great honor for my family if my mother-in-law could live a long life, so I beg you to think twice about it. Wang heard a sudden realization, while shedding tears and sighed, said: good advice to make me gain ah! So she changed her ways and treated her grandmother with gentleness and respect. And Liu Lan sister treats Wang's the same way.

The daughter of the two-sixth is a good person, see the aunt scolded the ancestor against the intention of relatives; into the room kneeling advice to repent, demonstrating the children and grandchildren to do filial piety word.

Twenty-four Filial Piety and filial piety move heaven

Sun, one of the five emperors of the ancient times, was the son of a goze. From his childhood, he was filial to his parents. His father was an honest and generous farmer. Shun's birth mother died when Shun was in his teens. Shun's father, goze, was blind and was said to have had a talent for music. He married a concubine who was rough and fierce. Shun's mother, who was poor, often spoke ill of and criticized his father. She gave birth to a son named Xiang. When Xiang grew up, he became fierce, brutal, arrogant and unreasonable, and he was also arrogant and disrespectful to his father. Only Shun was consistent and did not blame others, but was obedient to his parents and took extra care of his younger brother and guided him to reform himself. This extraordinary filial piety touched the heavens. When Shun ploughed the fields under the mountain, he was assisted by a godly elephant; and a godly bird helped him to hoe away the weeds. When the then Emperor Yao heard of Shun's filial piety, he sent nine attendants to serve the goze couple and married his daughters, E Huang and N Ying, in recognition of his filial piety. Yao later "ceded" the throne to Shun. People praised Shun for his filial piety and said that he became an emperor from a commoner.

A poem by a later generation said: "The team plowed the spring elephants, and plowed the grass and fowls; he succeeded Yao to the throne, and his filial piety moved the heart of heaven.