Ancient Moral Stories

1. Su Wu Shepherds Sheep

This story is about Su Wu, who was ordered to go on a mission to Xiong Nu in the first year of the Tian Han Dynasty (100 years ago) as a lieutenant general with a runic festival, and was detained. The Xiongnu aristocrats threatened and enticed him many times to surrender; then they moved him to the North Sea (present-day Lake Baikal in Russia) to herd sheep, holding the Han Dynasty's talisman and threatening to release him only if the ram gave birth to a son. Su Wu went through a lot of difficulties and stayed in Xiongnu for nineteen years, holding the festival without giving in. In the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Shi Yuan (81 years ago), Su Wu was released and returned to the Han Dynasty. After Su Wu's death, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty listed him as one of the eleven ministers of merit in the Kirin Pavilion, recognizing his integrity.

2. Qi Jiguang's fight against Japanese pirates

Qi Jiguang's fight against Japanese pirates is the struggle of national hero Qi Jiguang against Japanese pirates' harassment.

China and Japan are linked by a river, since a long time ago, the people of the two countries have friendly exchanges, but in the Ming Dynasty, due to the changes in the domestic situation in Japan, the Japanese invasion of China's coastal areas of the Japanese invasion of the Japanese invaders, and Qi Jiguang as the head of the Chinese people and the Chinese army and people to fight against the Japanese invaders of the struggle.

3, Kong Rong let the pear

Kong Rong, the word Wenju, Shandong Qufu people in the Eastern Han Dynasty, is the twentieth grandson of Kong Zi, his grandfather, Kong Shang was the governor of Jueru, his father is Taishan Lieutenant Kong Zu. According to Kong Rong's biography, when Kong Rong was four years old, he ate pears with his brother and always ate the smaller ones. He was asked why he did so. He replied: "Children eat small amounts of food, it is reasonable to take the small. "

4, Sima Guang smashed cylinder

Sima Guang seven years old steady as an adult, heard the teacher explain the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals", very much like, after school and for the family to tell him what he learned, he immediately also understood the connotation of the "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals", and from then on the hand can not put the book, and even to the extent of forgetting about the hunger, thirst, hot and cold.

On one occasion, he was playing with his buddies in the backyard, and a child climbed up to the vat to play and lost his footing and fell into the water in the vat. Other children saw what happened, abandoned him to run, but Sima Guang, but in a hurry, pick up a large stone from the ground, and vigorously to the water tank to hit. The water gushed out and the child was saved.

5, Huang Xiang warm seat

Han Dynasty, there is a person called Huang Xiang, is Jiangxia (now Hubei territory) people. When he was only nine years old, he already knew how to be filial to his elders.

Whenever a hot summer day came, (Huang Xiang) fanned himself with a fan against his parents' tent, so that the pillows and mats would be cooler and the mosquitoes would be far away from (Huang Xiang's parents' tent), so that his parents could sleep more comfortably; and in the cold winter, (Huang Xiang) used his own body to make his parents' quilt warm, so that his parents would feel warm when they slept. As a result, Huang Xiang's deeds spread to the capital city, and he was called "Unique in the world, Huang Xiang of Jiangxia".

Baidu Encyclopedia - Ancient Chinese Moral Tales