Filial piety and respect for the elderly is a traditional virtue of Chinese culture, what are the stories about filial piety and respect for the elderly?

Stories of filial piety and respect for parents

Example 1

The story of Zi Lu borrowing rice to honor his parents

There is an old Chinese saying: "filial piety is the first of all virtues". It means that filial piety and honoring one's parents is the first of all virtues. If a person doesn't even know how to honor his parents, it's hard to imagine that he will love his country and its people.

The ancients said: "We should honor our own parents, as well as others'; we should honor our own children, as well as others'". We should not only honor our own parents, but also respect other old people, love and care for young children, in the whole society to create a respect for the elderly and love the young simple folk, this is our new era of students' responsibility.

Zi Lu was a native of Lu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Among Confucius' disciples, he was known for his political skills. Especially known for his bravery. But when Zi Lu was small, his family was very poor, and he lived on coarse grain and wild vegetables for many years.

On one occasion, his elderly parents wanted to eat rice, but there was no rice at all. Zi Lu thought that if he could borrow some rice from his relatives over a few mountains, he would be able to satisfy his parents' request.

So the little Zilu walked ten miles over the mountains and brought back a small bag of rice from his relatives' house. Seeing his parents eating fragrant rice, Zilu forgot his fatigue. The neighbors praised Zi Lu for being a brave and filial good boy.

Example 2

Bao Gong, known as Bao Zheng (999-1062 AD), was a native of Hefei, Luzhou (present-day Hefei City, Anhui Province), and his father, Bao Yi, who served as a minister of the Ministry of Justice, was posthumously awarded the title of Minister of the Ministry of Justice after his death. He was known for his filial piety as a young boy, and his nature was straight and generous. In the fifth year of Emperor Renzong's reign, in 1027, he was awarded a bachelor's degree at the age of twenty-eight. He was first appointed as a judge of the Da Lisi, and later became the governor of Jianchang (present-day Yongxiu, Jiangxi Province). Because his parents were old and did not want to go with him to another country, Bao immediately resigned from his post and returned home to take care of his parents. His filial piety was praised by the officials.

A few years later, his parents passed away, and only then did Bao Gong re-enter the civil service. It was only after the townspeople's bitter persuasion that he went. In feudal society, if the parents had only one son, then that son could not leave his parents behind and just go abroad to become an official by himself. This was against the provisions of the feudal law. Usually, the parents would follow their son for the sake of his future. Or the son and other people in the family would persuade them. It was rare in feudal times for parents to be reluctant to follow their son to retire where he was an official, because it meant that the son would have to abide by the constraints of feudal etiquette - resigning from his official position to care for himself. The history books don't give a specific reason for this; it may have been that his parents were sick and couldn't take the bumps on the road, and that's why Pao resigned from his official position.

No matter what the circumstances were, the fact that Bao Gong was able to voluntarily resign from his official post still shows that he was not the kind of person who was obsessed with officialdom. His filial piety and respect for his parents is also an example for some of today's less qualified people. In the past, most stories were about the iron face of Bao Gong, which overlooked the fact that Bao Gong was filial to his parents.

Example 3

Huang Xiang, a man of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is a historically recognized example of filial piety. When Huang Xiang was a child, his family was in a difficult situation. He lost his mother at the age of 10, and his father was sickly. Sultry summer, he used a fan to beat the mosquitoes before going to bed, fan cool father sleeping bed and pillow, in order to let his father fall asleep earlier; cold winter night, he first drilled into the cold quilt, with his own body warm quilt before letting his father fall asleep; in winter, he couldn't afford to wear a jacket, in order to not let his father sad, he never called the cold, show cheering and leaping appearance, and strive to create a joyful atmosphere in the home, so as to let his father He never screamed about the cold in order to prevent his father from being sad.

Example 4

The old revolutionary Zhu De wrote an article entitled "Memories of My Mother," in which he praised his mother's incomparable love and noble qualities with infinite affection. Mao Zedong received his mother's letter of death, starry night on the road, day and night, he stroked his mother's coffin and wept y, in grief, he wrote "Mother's Writings": "My mother's high style, the first to promote the fraternal love". Song Qingling filial piety to sincerity, in front of her mother's spirit, "weeping". Chen Yi visited his mother, insisted on giving his paralyzed mother to wash clothes. Li Peng's mother is very filial, every holiday, Li Peng and his wife always bring his mother's favorite food, to his mother's place to say hello.

Example five

In Shanghai Jianping Middle School, famous for implementing the "cross-century education project", a 13-year-old teenager's speech entitled "Mom, I'm your eyes" made the 26 members of the National Women Mayors' Study Group weep. This student was 9 years old, his mother is blind, his young shoulders prematurely bear the family's more responsibilities and obligations, in order to buy a mother's favorite Shanghai opera tape, he used his day off to run on the streets of Shanghai for six hours!

Example 6

Chen Yi's filial piety and respect for his parents

I have read many stories about famous people's filial piety and respect for their parents, such as: saving their mothers from the fire, saving their mothers from the phlegm ...... What moved me the most is the story of "Chen Yi's visit to his mother".

In 1962, Marshal Chen Yi returned from a visit abroad, passing through his hometown, took the time to visit his seriously ill mother.

Chen Yi's mother was paralyzed and could not take care of herself. When Chen Yi entered the house, his mother was very happy and was just about to greet her son when she suddenly remembered that the diaper she had changed was still by the bedside, so she instructed the people around her to hide it under the bed.

Chen Yi was very excited to see his mother after a long time, and went up to her and held her hand, asking her questions with concern. After a while, he said to his mother, "Mother, when I came in, what did you hide under the bed?" Seeing that she could not hide it, the mother had to tell the truth. Chen Yi heard, busy said: "Mother, you are sick in bed, I can not serve you, heart very sad, this pants should be washed by me, why hide it." Mother heard very difficult, next to the people quickly took out the diaper, grabbed to wash. Chen Yi hurriedly blocked and said emotionally: "Mother, when I was a child, you do not know how many times you have washed my diapers, today I am washing 10 diapers, but also can not repay you for the grace of parenting!" After saying this, Chen Yi took the diapers and other dirty clothes and washed them clean, his mother smiled with relief.

Marshal Chen Yi is a big man, has a busy official business, but he did not forget his mother at home. In his busy schedule to take the time to go home to visit his paralyzed mother in bed, washing diapers for his mother, warming and comforting his sick mother with words of concern. Although what Marshal Chen Yi did for his mother was just some small things that were too common to be ordinary, but from these small things, we can see his strong love for his mother. He did not forget that his mother had paid every bit for him, understood his mother's hardships and difficulties, and knew to repay his mother for her nurturing.

Twenty-four filial piety includes the following twenty-four stories, different sayings are usually just a different order of arrangement:

One, filial piety moving heaven two, play color entertainment family three, deer milk to serve their parents four, 100 miles negative rice five, rod finger pain six, reed clothes Shun mother seven, tasted the soup and medicine eight, picking up the blackberry is not a device, nine, burying the child to serve the mother, ten, sold his body to bury his father, eleven, carve the wood to serve their parents, twelve, the springs to leap carp, thirteen, pregnant with the orange left pro fourteen, Fan pillow warm cover 15, the line of servants for mother 16, heard the thunder weeping tomb 17, weeping bamboo shoots 18, lying on the ice to seek carp 19, the tiger to save his father 20, want mosquitoes full of blood 21, taste dung worry 22, lactating aunt is not idle 23, clean pro drowning apparatus 24, abandoned the official search for his mother

01 Filial Piety moved heaven

Sun, the legendary ancient emperor, one of the five emperors, surnamed Yao, the name of Chonghua, the number of Yu's, the history of the name of Yu Shun. He was known as Yu Shun. 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 with two hats in his hands; when he was asked to dig a well, goze and Xiang filled it with earth, and he 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 plowed in the Calendar Mountain, elephants ploughed the ground for him and birds hoeed 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. After Shun ascended to the throne of heaven, he visited his father, still respectful, and made Xiang a vassal.

A poem by a later generation praised Shun, saying: "Teams of elephants plowing in the spring, and birds plowing the grass in droves. The emperor's son, Yao, was a great successor, and his filial piety touched the heart of heaven.

02 Taste the medicine

Liu Heng, the fourth son of Emperor Gaozu, was born to Empress Dowager Bo. He was born to Empress Dowager Bo. He became emperor in the eighth year of the reign of Empress Gao (180 BC). 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 see her, and he did not take her clothes off; he tasted the medicines she took before letting her take them. He reigned for 24 years, the importance of virtue, rituals, pay attention to the development of agriculture, so that the Western Han 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".

03 Engaged in finger pain

Zeng Sen, the word ZiYi, the Spring and Autumn period of the State of Lu, Confucius's favorite disciple, the world known as "Zeng Zi", known for 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 why. His mother said, "A guest has suddenly arrived, and I am biting my finger in anticipation of your return." Zeng Sen then received the guest and treated him with courtesy. Zeng Sen was a learned man, and had proposed the cultivation method of "I save myself three times a day" ("Analects of Confucius - Learning to Learn"). It is said that he wrote Confucian classics such as The Great Learning and The Book of Filial Piety, and was honored by Confucians in later times as "Zong Sheng".

04 Hundred Miles of Negative Rice

Zhong Yu, Zi Lu, Jilu, a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and an honored disciple of Confucius, was straightforward, brave, and very filial. In his early years, his family was so poor that 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 carry rice for my parents, where can I get it again?" Confucius praised him and said, "You have done your best to serve your parents in life and miss them in death!" ("Confucius' Family Words - Zhi Si")

05 Shun Mother in a Rutted Garment

Min Lian, with the character Zi Qian, 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, along with Yen 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, "I am the only one who suffers from the cold if I leave my mother behind, but if I leave my mother behind, all three of my children will freeze." The father was very touched and obeyed him. The stepmother heard, repentance know wrong, and from then on treat him like his own son.

06 Deer's Milk for Kisses

Tan Tanzi 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 with his deer skin on and entered a herd of deer, squeezed the milk from the deer, and offered it to his parents. Once to take the milk, saw the hunter was about to shoot a muntjac deer, Tantzi hastily lifted the deer skin out of the present, will squeeze the deer milk for both parents to inform the hunter, the hunter honored his filial piety, to the milk of the deer to give, escort him out of the mountain.

07 Playing color entertainment

Lao Lai Zi, the Spring and Autumn period of the Chu hermit, to avoid the chaos of the world, farming in the southern foothills of Mengshan. His filial piety to his parents, as much as possible to choose the delicious offerings for both parents, 70 years old is not old, often wearing five-color clothes, holding rattles like children play, in order to win the parents happy. Once for both parents to send water, into the house fell, he was afraid of his parents sad, simply lying on the ground on the school children crying, the two old man laughed.

08 Selling his body to bury his father

Dong Yong, rumored to be the Eastern Han Dynasty Qianxian (present-day Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, north) people, teenagers lost their mothers, because of the military turmoil to avoid moving to Anlu (now belongs to the Hubei Province). 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, the woman told Dong Yong that she was the daughter of the Heavenly Emperor and was ordered to help him pay off his debt. After saying this, she left in the air. As a result, the name was changed to Xiaogan.

09 carve wood things relatives

Ding Lan, according to legend for the Eastern Han Dynasty Hanoi (present-day Henan Yellow River North) people, his parents died at an early age, his twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving often think of the parents of the grace of nurturing, so the carving of wood into the statue of his parents, things as if they were alive, all things are and the wooden statue of the discussion, the three meals per day, toast to the two parents after their own consumption, before going out to the door to be sure to report, go home and must meet, never slack. He was never slack in his work. 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.

10 line maid for mother

Jiang Ge, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qi Linzi people, teenagers 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, thieves want 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, and worked as a hired laborer to support his mother, who was poor and barefoot, while his mother was in need of a lot. He was elected as a filial piety lian in the time of Emperor Ming, and was elected as a virtuous square in the time of Emperor Zhang, and was appointed as a general of the five officials.

11 Wistful Orange and Relic

Lu Jie (陆绩), a scientist, was a native of Huating (present-day Songjiang, Shanghai), Wu County, 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, where Yuan Shu brought out oranges to entertain him, and Lu Jie hid two oranges in his arms. When he was leaving, the oranges rolled down to the ground, and Yuan Shu mocked: "Lu Lang came to my house as a guest, but when you leave, do you still need to hide your master's oranges in your arms?" Lu Ji replied, "My mother likes to eat oranges, so I want to take them back and give them to her to try." Yuan Shu was very surprised to see that he knew how to be filial to his mother at such a young age. After Lu Jie became an adult, he was learned and knowledgeable in astronomy and calendars, and had made the "Hun Tian Tu", annotated the "I Ching", and wrote the "Tai Xuan Jing Note".

12 Burying Children to Serve Their Mothers

Guo Ju, a native of Longxi (present-day Linxian County, Henan Province) in the Jin Dynasty, or a native of Wenxian County (present-day southwest of Wenxian County, Henan Province) in the Hanoi Province, was originally a well-off family man. After the death of his father, he divided the family property into two parts and gave it to his two younger brothers, and took his mother's support alone, and was extremely filial to her. After the gradual impoverishment of the family, his wife gave birth to a boy, Guo Ju worried that raising this child, will certainly affect the support of the mother, so he and his wife to discuss: "the son can be again, the mother twenty-four filial piety Picture Source - Tang Language Brick Sculpture can not be resurrected after the death of the mother, it is better to bury the son, save some food for the support of the mother." When they dug the pit, two feet below the ground suddenly saw an altar of gold, written on the book, "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.

13 Fan pillow and warm coverlet

Huang Xiang, Jiangxia Anlu people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, nine years old, lost his mother, his father is very filial. In the cool summer, he would fan his father's pillow; in the winter, he would warm 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, Jiangxia Huangxiang". During the reign of Emperor An (107-125), he was the governor of Wei County (now Hebei). When Wei County was flooded, Huang Xiang did his best to help the victims. Huang Xiang was the governor of Wei County (now Hebei) during the flooding of Wei County. He did everything he could to help the victims.

14 Gathering Mulberry Weapons

Cai Shun, Ru Nan (now belongs to Henan Province) in the Han Dynasty, a young man lost his father, his mother is very filial. At that time when the Wang Mang chaos, and encountered famine, firewood and rice is expensive, only to pick up mulberry mother and child to fill the hunger. One day, met the Red Eyebrows Army, the soldiers asked in a stern voice: "Why the red mulberry and black mulberry in two separate baskets?" Cai Shun replied, "The black mulberry is for my mother's consumption, and the red mulberry is for my own consumption." The Red Eyebrows took pity on his filial piety and gave him three buckets of white rice and a cow to take back to his mother as a token of respect.

15 Gushing Spring Leaping Carp

Jiang Shi, a native of Guanghan, Sichuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, married Pang. Couple filial piety, twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving its home from the Yangtze River six or seven miles away, Pang often go to the river to take the mother-in-law like to drink the Yangtze River water. Granny loves fish, the couple often make fish for her to eat, Granny is 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 used these to make offerings to her mother-in-law and did not have to travel far from the river.

16 Wen Lei Weeping Tomb

Wang裒, Wei and Jin Dynasty Yingling (now southeast of Changle, Shandong Province) people, erudite and versatile. Twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving father Wang Yi was killed by Sima Zhao, he lived in seclusion to teach as a profession, lifelong does not face the west to sit, said never to be a minister of Jin. His mother was afraid of thunder when she was alive 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 taught, whenever he read the chapter of Polygonum, he often burst into tears and missed his parents.

17 Milk aunt is not idle

Cui Shannan, name, the Tang Dynasty Boling (now belongs to Hebei) people, the official to the Western Road, Shannan, twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving people called "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 hope that her children and grandchildren will honor her as much as she honored me." Later on, Cui Shannan became a high-ranking official, and he really honored his grandmother, Mrs. Tang, as Mrs. Changsun had instructed him to do.

18 Lying on the Ice to Seek Carp

Wang Xiang, a native of Luangya, lost his birth mother early, and his stepmother, Zhu, spoke ill of him many times in front of his father, making him lose his father's love. Parents are sick, he was not dressed to wait, stepmother wanted to eat live carp, at the right time the freezing cold, he unclothes 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 later became the chief magistrate of Wenxian County, and later became the chief minister of Wenxian County, as well as the chief magistrate of Wenxian County and the lieutenant of Wenxian County.

19 When mosquitoes are full of blood

Wu Mang, a native of Puyang in the Jin Dynasty, knew how to honor his parents when he was eight years old. The family is poor twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving, there is no mosquito net, mosquito bites so that his father can not sleep peacefully. Every summer night, Wu Mang is always sitting naked in front of his father's bed, let the mosquitoes bite and do not drive away, worrying about mosquitoes leave their own to bite his father.

20 Choking the Tiger to Save His Father

Yang Xiang was a native of the Jin Dynasty. Fourteen years old with his father to cut rice in the field, suddenly ran a tiger twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving, the father pounced on the grips away, Yang Xiang unarmed, in order to save his father, total disregard for their own safety, hastily jumped forward, and used all his body strength to strangle the tiger's throat. The tiger finally put down his father and ran away.

21 Crying Bamboo Shoots

Meng Zong, the Three Kingdoms Jiangxia people, his father died when he was a teenager, his mother is old and sick, twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving doctor's instructions with fresh bamboo shoots to make soup. At the right time of winter, there is no fresh bamboo shoots, Meng Zong can not do anything, alone ran to the bamboo forest, holding bamboo crying. A few moments, he suddenly heard the ground cracking sound, only to see the ground out of 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, he was promoted to the post of Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

22 Tasting Dung and Worrying

Yu Qianlou, a scholar of the Southern Qi Dynasty, was appointed magistrate of Weiling County. After ten days in the office, he suddenly felt his heart sweating and had a feeling that something was wrong at home, so he resigned and returned to his hometown. Back home, know that his father has 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." Qian Lou then went to taste his father's feces and found that it tasted sweet. He was so worried that he knelt down at night and worshipped the Big Dipper, begging to die in his father's place. A few days later, his father died, and Qianlou buried his father and kept the system for three years. The Twenty-Four Filial Piety Picture Source - Tang Language Brick Sculpture

23 Abandon Officialdom to Seek Mother

Ju Shouchang, a Song Dynasty Tianchang man, was seven years old when his biological mother Liu was jealous of his first mother (his father's wife) and had to remarry someone else, and for fifty years, mother and son were not in touch with each other. Twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving Shenzong, Zhu Shouchang in the dynasty as an official, once stabbed blood writing "Diamond Sutra", line the four directions to find the birth mother, get clues, determined to abandon the official to Shaanxi to find the birth mother, vowed to not see the mother never return. Finally met in Shanzhou biological mother and two younger brothers, mother and son reunion, return together, this time the mother has more than seventy years old.

24 Purging Pro Drowning

Huang Tingjian, a native of Fenning (present-day Xiushui, Jiangxi Province) in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a famous poet and calligrapher. Twenty-four filial piety picture source - Tang language brick carving, although in a high position, serving his mother but exhausted filial piety and sincerity, every night, are personally for his mother to wash the drowning vessel (toilet), not a day to forget the son's due diligence.

The Twenty-Four Filial Piety Stories is about the culture of filial piety and love in China has a long history, it is a concept and spirit, is the foundation of a person's life, is the source of social responsibility consciousness, is an important part of traditional Chinese culture.