The twenty-four filial piety is which twenty-four filial piety?

"Filial piety" is the core of Confucian ethical thinking, is the moral code that has sustained family relations in Chinese society for thousands of years, is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, and is the essence of the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. In the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Jujing compiled the stories of 24 filial piety sons in ancient times into the Twenty-four Filial Piety, which became a popular book to promote filial piety.

01 Filial Piety Moves Heaven

Sun, the legendary ancient emperor, one of the five emperors, surnamed Yao, first name Chonghua, numbered Yu Clan, historically 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 it from underneath the barn, and escaped by jumping down with two 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 plowed 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 government 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 the throne of heaven, he visited his father, still respectful, and made Xiang a vassal.

02 Taste the medicine himself

Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, 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 Dowager Bo (180 BC). He was famous for his filial piety and never slacked off 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, the importance of virtue, rituals, pay 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 Han Dynasty is known as the "rule of Wenjing".

03 Engaged in finger pain

Zeng Sen, the word ZiYi, the Spring and Autumn Period Lu people, 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 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 had proposed the cultivation method of "I save myself three times a day" ("Analects - Xue而"), and it was said that he had authored Confucian classics such as The Great Learning and The Book of Filial Piety, and later Confucians honored him as "Zong Sheng".

04 Hundred Miles of Rice

Zhong Yu, Zi Lu, Ji Lu, a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period, and an honored disciple of Confucius, was a straightforward and courageous man who was 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, saying, "You have served your parents to the best of your ability in life, and you miss them in death!" (Confucius Family Words - Zhisi)

05 芦衣顺母

Min Lian (闵损), with the character Ziqian (子骞), 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 Yan Yuan (顏渊). 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. The stepmother heard, repentance know wrong, from now on treat him like a 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, according to legend, was a native of Qianxian (north of present-day Gaocheng County, Shandong Province) during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and lost his mother when he was a teenager, 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 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, he often miss his parents' upbringing, so he carved wood into a statue of his parents, things as if they were alive, all things are and the wooden statue of the discussion, the three meals a day to honor the parents after their own consumption, before going out to the door to be sure, after going home to be sure to face, and never slacking off. 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. 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, thieves want to kill him, Jiang Ge cried: his mother is old, no one to support, the thieves see his filial piety, could 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 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 Wyatt Tangerine and Relics

Lu Jie was a scientist and 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, who took out oranges to entertain him, and Lu Jie hid two oranges in his arms. When the oranges fell to the ground on his way out, Yuan Shu laughed and said, "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. After Lu Jie became an adult, he was very knowledgeable and proficient in astronomy and calendars, and he 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 in Hanoi (present-day Wenxian County, Henan Province, southwest of the country), was originally of a prosperous family. After his father's death, he divided the family property into two parts, giving 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 was worried that raising this child would inevitably affect the support of his mother, so he and his wife discussed: "The son can be again, the mother can not be resurrected after death, it is better to bury the son and save some food for 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.

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 cold 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, the 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. He wrote "Jiu Gong Fu" and "Ode to the Crown of the Son of Heaven".

14 Gathering Mulberry Weapons

Cai Shun, a native of Runan (now Henan) in the Han Dynasty, lost his father when he was a boy, and was very filial to his mother. At that time, when the Wang Mang chaos, and encountered a famine, firewood and rice expensive, only to pick mulberry mother and child to fill hunger. One day, met the Red Eyebrows army, the soldiers asked in a stern voice: "Why put 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 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 Province in the Eastern Han Dynasty, married Pang. The couple's filial piety, whose home is six or seven miles away from the Yangtze River, Pang often went to the river to fetch the Yangtze River water that his mother-in-law likes 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 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, the Wei and Jin Dynasties Yingling (now southeast of Shandong Changle) people, erudite and versatile. 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, stating that he would never be a minister of Jin. When his mother was alive, she was afraid of thunder 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.

17 Milk aunt not idle

Cui Shannan, name, the Tang dynasty Boling (now belongs to Hebei) people, the official to the western Shannan Road Festival Minister, known as "Shannan". Back then, Cui Shannan's great-grandmother Mrs. Chang Sun, old age, teeth, 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, when Cui Shannan became a high official, he really honored his grandmother, Mrs. Tang, as Mrs. Changsun had instructed him to do.

18 Lying on the Ice

Wang Xiang, a native of Luangya, lost his birth mother early, and his stepmother, Zhu, spoke ill of him in front of his father many times, causing him to lose his father's love. Parents are sick, he was not dressed to wait, stepmother wanted to eat live carp, when the cold, he unclothed lying on the ice, 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 want to eat blood

Wu Mang, a native of Puyang in the Jin Dynasty, knew how to honor his parents when he was eight years old. When he was eight years old, he knew how to honor his parents. His family was poor and there was no mosquito net, so his father could not sleep peacefully because of the mosquito bites. Every summer night, Wu Mang always sat naked in front of his father's bed, letting the mosquitoes bite without repelling them, worrying that the mosquitoes would leave him to bite his father.

20 Choking the 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 a tiger came, pouncing on his father and taking him away, Yang Xiang, unarmed, in order to save his father, completely disregarding his own safety, hurriedly jumped forward, and used his whole body to strangle the tiger's throat. The tiger finally put down his father and ran away.

21 Crying Bamboo Shoots

Meng Zong, a native of Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms period, had his father die when he was a teenager, and his mother was very sick in her old age, so the doctor instructed 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 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 him and kept the system for three years.

23 Abandon officialdom to find his mother

Ju Shouchang, Song Dynasty Tianchang people, seven years old, his biological mother Liu was the first mother (his father's wife) jealousy, had to remarry someone else, fifty years of mothers and children do not have access to mail. During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, Zhu Shouchang was a government official, and he once stabbed himself in the blood to write the Diamond Sutra, and traveled in all directions to look for his birth mother, and when he got the clues, he resolved to give up his post and go to Shaanxi to look for his birth mother, vowing never to return without seeing her. 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 Purely pro drowning

Huang Tingjian, the Northern Song Dynasty Fenning (now Jiangxi Xiu Shui), a famous poet and calligrapher. Although he was in a high position, he did his best to serve his mother, and every night, he washed his mother's drowning vessel (toilet) himself, without forgetting his duty as a son.