The Twenty-four Stories of Filial Piety

The Twenty-Four Stories of Filial Piety 1) Carrying Rice a Hundred Miles Zhong Yu ( 仲由), Zi Lu (子路), Ji Lu (季路), was a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and was a favorite disciple of Confucius. In his early years, when his family was poor, he used to pick wild vegetables for his own food, 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, saying, "You served your parents, so to speak, doing your best in life and thinking of them after death!" (Confucius' Family Words? To Think") 2) Tasting Dung and Worrying Yu Qianlou, a high scholar of the Southern Qi Dynasty, served as the magistrate of the county of Weiling. After ten days in the office, he suddenly felt that his heart was sweating, and he had a feeling that something was wrong at home, so he immediately resigned from his post and returned home. 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 after his father's death, Qianlou buried his father, and keep the system for three years 3) clean pro drowning (niao four sound) ware Huang Tingjian, the Northern Song Dynasty Fenning (now Jiangxi Xiu Shui), a famous poet, calligrapher. Although he was in a high position, he did his best to serve his mother. Every night, he personally washed his mother's drowning vessel (bucket), without forgetting his duty as a son. 4) Choking a Tiger to Save His Father 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, and suddenly ran a tiger, pounced on his father and took him away, Yang Xiang, unarmed, in order to save his father, completely disregarding his own safety, jumped forward and used all his strength to strangle the tiger's throat. The tiger finally let go of his father and ran away. (5) The Orange Remainer Lu Jie was a scientist from Huating (present-day Songjiang, Shanghai), Wu County, Wu State, during the Three Kingdoms period. When he was six years old, he accompanied his father, Lu Kang, to visit Yuan Shu in Jiujiang. Yuan Shu took 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 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 a learned man who knew a lot about astronomy and calendars. He made the Hun Tian Tu, annotated the I Ching, and wrote the Tai Xuan Jing Annotations. (6) carve wood for parents Ding Lan, according to legend for the Eastern Han Dynasty Hanoi (now Henan, north of the Yellow River) people, his parents died in early childhood, he often miss the parents of the grace of nurturing, and so carved out of wood into a statue of his parents, things as if they were alive, all things are and the wooden image of the discussion, the three meals a day to honor the parents after their own consumption, before going out to be reported to the door, after returning home to be sure to meet, never slack. Over time, his wife on the wooden statue will not be too respectful, and even curiously use a needle to prick the wooden statue of the finger, and the wooden statue of the finger actually have blood flow. When Ding Lan came home and saw tears in the eyes of the wooden statue, he asked for the truth and repudiated his wife. 7) Crying Bamboo Shoots Meng Zong, a native of Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms, had his father die when he was a teenager, and his mother was very sick in her old age, so the doctor ordered 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 crying. 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, he was promoted to the rank of chief magistrate. (8) Shun Mother with Reed Clothes Min Lian (闵损), with the character Zi Qian (子骞), was a native of the state of Lu in the Spring and Autumn Period, and a disciple of Confucius. 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 of this, she repented of her mistake and treated him like her own son from then on. (9) Deer's Milk Serves Kindness Tancan (tan two voices) Zi, a person 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 and offered it to his parents. Once to get milk, saw the hunter was about to shoot a muntjac deer, Tanci 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 deer milk gift, escorted him out of the mountain. (10) Burying a Child to Serve His Mother Guo Ju, a native of Longxi (present-day Linxian County, Henan Province) in the Jin Dynasty, or a native of Wenxian County (present-day Wenxian County, Henan Province, southwest of China), was originally from a well-off family. After his father's death, he divided the family's property into two, giving it to his two younger brothers, and took his mother's support alone, and was extremely filial to her. After the family gradually poor, his wife gave birth to a boy, Guo Ju worried that raising this child, inevitably affect the support of the mother, so he and his wife discussed: "son can have another, mother can not be resurrected after death, why not bury the son, save some food to feed 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. (11) Selling his body to bury his father Dong Yong (董永), rumored to be a native of Qianxian (present-day northern Gaoqing County, Shandong Province) during the Eastern Han Dynasty, lost his mother when he was a young boy, and moved to Anlu (present-day Hubei Province) to avoid military turmoil. 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, the name of the village was changed to Xiaogan. (12) "啮" (nie 四声) refers to pain. Zeng Sen (曾参), with the character ZiYi (子舆), was a native of the state of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and was a favorite disciple of Confucius. 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 anticipation of your return." Zeng Sen then received the guest and treated him with courtesy. Zeng Sen was a learned man, and once proposed the practice of "I have three times a day to reflect on my own self" (Lun Yu? He is said to have authored Confucian classics such as The Great Learning and The Book of Filial Piety, and later Confucians honored him as "Zong Sheng". (13) Abandon Officialdom and Seek Mother Zhu Shouchang, a native of Tianchang in the Song Dynasty, was seven years old when his biological mother Liu was envied by his first mother (his father's wife) and had to remarry someone else, and he was not able to communicate with his mother and son for fifty years. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Zhu Shouchang was an official, and he wrote the Diamond Sutra in blood to search for his birth mother in all directions, and when he got the clues, he decided to abandon his official post and went to Shaanxi Province to search for his birth mother, and swore that he would never return to his birth mother if he didn't see her. Finally, he met his mother and two younger brothers in Shanzhou, and mother and son were reunited and returned together, when his mother was already over seventy years old. Liu Heng, the third son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, 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 slacked in serving his mother. When his mother was sick for three years, he often did not see her and did not take care of 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. (15) milk aunt is not idle Cui Shannan, name, the Tang Dynasty Boling (now belongs to Hebei) people, the official to Shannan 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, Cui Shannan became a high-ranking official, and really honored his grandmother, Mrs. Tang, as Mrs. Changsun had instructed him to do. (16) Fan pillow and warm coverlet (qin bang) Huang Xiang, a native of Anlu, Jiangxia, Eastern Han Dynasty, lost his mother at the age of nine and was extremely filial to his father. He fanned his father's pillow in the summer and warmed his father's bedding with his body in the winter. 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 Tong of Jiangxia". 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 Province) when Wei County was flooded. He did everything he could to help the victims. 17) Glean Mulberry (shen four sound) foreign ware Cai Shun, Han Dynasty Runan (now belongs to Henan), a young man lost his father, mother very filial. At that time when the Wang Mang chaos, and encountered famine, firewood and rice is expensive, only to pick 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 to eat, and the red mulberry is for myself." The Red Eyebrows took pity on his filial piety and gave him three buckets of rice and a cow, which he took back to his mother as a token of respect 18) WENLI WEEPING GRAVE Wang裒(pou二声) was a man of the Wei and Jin dynasties, who was a man of great erudition and ability. 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. 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 was teaching, whenever he read the chapter of Polygonum, he often burst into tears and missed his parents. 19) Lying on the Ice 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 later became a magistrate in Wenxian County, and later became a great Shinanong, Sikong, and a lieutenant. (20) Playing with Colors to Entertain His Family Lao Laizi, a hermit of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period, farmed at the southern foot of Mount Meng in order to escape the world's turmoil. He filial piety to his parents, as much as possible to choose the delicious offerings for both parents, 70 years old still do not talk about old age, often wearing five-color clothes, holding a rattle like a child to play, in order to win the parents happy. Once for his parents to bring water, into the house fell, he was afraid of his parents sadness, simply lie down on the ground to learn children cry, the two old man laughed. 21) Filial Piety Moves Heaven Shun, the legendary ancient emperor, one of the Five Emperors, surnamed Yao, first name Chonghua, numbered Yu Clan, 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 it from underneath the barn, and escaped by jumping from the barn 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. After Shun ascended to the throne of heaven, he visited his father and remained respectful, and made Xiang a vassal. (22) line servant for mother Jiang Ge, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qi Linzi people, lost his father as a teenager, serving his mother is extremely filial. During the war, Jiang Ge carried his mother to escape, several times encountered bandits, thieves want to kill him, Jiang Ge cried: old mother, no one to support, the thieves see his filial piety, can 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 in the reign of Emperor Ming, and was elected as a virtuous and righteous man in the reign of Emperor Zhang, and served as the general of the five officials. (23) The Carp Leaping from the Spring Jiang Shi, a native of Guanghan, Sichuan Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty, married Pang Shi. The couple was filial. Their home was six or seven miles away from the Yangtze River, and Pang often went to the river to fetch water from the Yangtze, which her mother-in-law liked to drink. 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 and did not have to travel far from the river. (24) Wanton Mosquito Blood Wu Mang, a native of Puyang in the Jin Dynasty, knew how to honor his parents when he was eight years old. His family was poor and had no mosquito nets, so his father could not sleep peacefully because of mosquito bites. Every summer night, Wu Mang always sat naked in front of his father's bed, let the mosquitoes bite and not drive away, worrying that the mosquitoes leave their own to bite his father. Summarize: "filial piety" is the essence of traditional Chinese culture. The "twenty-four filial piety chart", is Mr. Chen Shaomei 41 years of age when the masterpiece, its subject matter is rare, elegant ink and brushwork, coloring, extraordinary, so it is called a national treasure. The world can not wait for the most things, I personally believe that should be filial piety. In our country, originally is "hundred good filial piety first", "twenty-four filial piety" has always been recited for the people of the country, filial piety is praised by people. In "Water Margin", the fake Li Kui met the real Li Kui, who was killed without pardon, but a sentence of "there is an 80-year-old mother at home" left him with a life. Two days ago, there was a TV report about an ungrateful son who beat his father and cursed his mother, forcing his parents to find it difficult to survive, and then he killed him by accident. During the court hearing of the case, the surrounding neighbors have jointly petitioned the court to forgive the two elderly, unanimously condemned the unworthy son's evil deeds. The human heart is a pole scale, the fixed star is "filial piety". Some people do not disapprove of filial piety, but think filial piety can wait a while, slow down. For example, when you go to school and study, that your parents are young and strong, earn money for their children should be books, do not need to children filial piety; to work, that parents are not sick and carefree, personal marriage and children to pull the family, can not take care of filial piety; people to the middle-aged, children have not yet become a family, their own inside and outside the hard work, there is no opportunity to filial piety; turn the eyes of half a hundred years old, their temples also stained with gray frost, legs and feet are slow, has no ability to filial piety again 。。。。。。 So filial piety cannot wait. I have seen many people in the old man passed away after the heartbreaking, chest beating, self-criticism in the old man alive did not how how, etc., a look of pain and not want to live. Parents died before you know filial piety, it is really late, what did you do earlier? As a young boy, help your parents wipe the table and sweep the floor, take the slippers and pour a cup of water, I think this is filial piety; grown-ups, married and have children, and should realize the grace of parental upbringing, even if the parents are healthy and not sick at this time, but also should bring their wives and children often go home to visit, which is also filial piety. Filial piety is filial piety, originally there is no axiom to speak. Filial piety is not difficult to do, let the old man happy, happy is filial piety. Filial piety can not wait, should always hold, lifelong practice. Have you done it?