Five China Folk Short Stories

Tan Zi was born in the Spring and Autumn Period. My parents are old, suffering from eye diseases, and need to drink deer milk for treatment. He went into the mountains in deerskin, mingled with the deer, and milked them for his parents. When I was getting milk, I saw that the hunter was about to shoot a muntjac. Scorpion quickly uncovered deerskin and came out, telling the hunter that milking deerskin is the fact of treating parents. The hunter respected his filial piety and gave him deer milk as a gift to escort him out of the mountain.

2. Play with color to entertain relatives

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Laizi, a hermit of Chu State, cultivated himself in the southern foot of Mengshan Mountain in order to avoid the chaos in the world. He is filial to his parents and chooses delicious food for them. He is 70 years old and not old. He often wears colorful clothes and plays rattle like a child to make his parents laugh. Once he brought water to his parents and fell down when he entered the room. Afraid that his parents would be sad, he simply went to school on the ground. The children cried and their parents laughed.

3. fish carp on the ice

Wang Xiang, a native of Langya, lost his mother in his early years. His stepmother Zhu spoke ill of him many times in front of his father, which made him lose his father's love. When his parents were ill, he took off his clothes to serve them. His stepmother wants to eat live carp, and it's freezing. He unbuttoned his clothes and lay on the ice. Suddenly, the ice melted by itself and two carp jumped out. After eating, the stepmother really recovered. Wang Xiang lived in seclusion for more than 20 years, and later worked as a senior farmer and an ordinary magistrate from Wenxian County.

4. Mosquitoes are covered with blood

Wu Meng, a native of Puyang in Jin Dynasty, knew how to honor his parents at the age of eight. The family is poor, there is no mosquito net, and mosquito bites keep my father awake. Every summer night, Martin always sits naked in front of his father's bed and lets mosquitoes bite him, instead of driving him away, for fear that mosquitoes will leave him to bite his father.

5. Xiaogan moved to heaven

According to legend, Shun's father, Gu Sou, his stepmother and half-brother, tried to kill him many times: when Shun was asked to repair the barn roof, he set fire to the roof from under the barn, and Shun jumped off with two hats to escape; Shun dug a well and Xiang Ke went down to fill it. Shun dug a tunnel to escape. Afterwards, Shun was not jealous, but still obeyed his father and loved his younger brother.

His filial piety touched the Emperor of Heaven. Shun cultivates in Lishan, elephants plow the fields for him, and birds weed for him. Hearing that Shun was very filial and capable of handling political affairs, Emperor Yaodi married his two daughters. After years of observation and test, Shun was chosen as his successor.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty-four Filial Piety Stories