What is the main content of the Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures?

The main contents of the Twenty-Four Filial Piety Pictures are as follows:

I. Loyalty and filial piety

Shen Zhixu, a guardian of the Hunan province in the Ming dynasty, had an only daughter named Shen Yunying. Since she was a child, she was smart and studious, and learned a good martial art from her father.

Because his father led the troops to meet the foreign troops died in battle, Shen Yunying was seventeen years old, she climbed to the heights and shouted: "Although I'm a little girl, in order to complete my father's legacy of defending the city, I want to fight to the death. I hope that all soldiers and civilians to defend their hometown." Everyone was y moved and vowed to retake the lost ground. The siege was soon lifted and victory was achieved. Shen Yunying found his father's body and cried loudly and bitterly, and all the soldiers and civilians wore mourning clothes and attended the funeral.

The imperial court ordered Shen Zhixu to be posthumously appointed vice general and Shen Yunying to be a guerrilla general to continue to guard Daozhoufu. Later people built a memorial shrine to her for her loyalty and filial piety. A poem said: foreign troops attacked the city siege of righteous soldiers, Emei sweat horse to solve the siege of the city; father's hatred of the siege of the two difficult to redress the snow, the name of loyalty and filial piety of the ancient history.

Two, looking at the clouds thinking of relatives

Tang Dynasty, there is a person called Dee Renjie, from a young poor family, diligent and studious, and later did the prime minister. He was a clean official, upholding the government with benevolence, the dynasty and the countryside all respect him.

One of his colleagues, on the occasion of the imperial mission to the border, his mother was seriously ill, if so left, unable to serve at the side of the heart is very sad. After Dee knew his pain, he asked the emperor to send someone else. One day Dee Renjie went out on a tour, on the way through the Taihang Mountains (now Jincheng).

He climbed to the top of the mountain looking down at the clouds and said to his entourage, "My relatives live under the white clouds." After wandering for a long time and not leaving, he could not help shedding tears of longing for his relatives. There is a poem that says: "Thinking of my relatives hurt my mind and spirit, climbing up the mountain to look at my mother, tears flow frequently; as a minister, I still cherish filial piety, I am not ashamed to serve the ministers and the people.

Third, the petition to save his father

When Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, there was a man named Chun Yu Yi, who studied with Yang Qing, a famous physician of Qi, and learned excellent medical skills, and once worked as a warehouse commander of Qi. After the death of his teacher, he abandoned his post and practiced medicine. Because of his upright personality, he offended a powerful man while practicing medicine, which led to his being framed and sent to the capital to be punished.

His daughter, Tiga, though a weak woman, traveled a long way to Chang'an to appeal to the emperor. She explained the harmful effects of corporal punishment, and explained that her father, who had been a clean and honest official and practiced medicine, had indeed been falsely accused.

Willing to be tortured for her father. Emperor Wen of Han was y moved by Ti Ha's filial piety and pardoned her father, and abolished corporal punishment by imperial decree. A poem says: "I went to the capital with my father and went through a lot of pain, and I wrote a letter to the Emperor to set my motives straight; I was pardoned by an imperial decree, and I abolished the punishment of corporal punishment to benefit the future generations.

Four, colorful clothes to support their parents

Tang Dynasty, there is a man surnamed Yang, poor, but very filial, by begging for food to support their parents. Therefore, people called him Yang Beggar. All the food he begged for, he brought back home to dedicate to his parents. His parents had never tasted it, and even though he was hungry, he did not dare to taste it first.

When there was wine, he knelt down and offered it to his parents, and when they took the cup, he got up and sang and danced like a child to make them happy. Some people pitied him for his poverty and advised him to work for others and use the income to support his parents. Yang Kil replied, "My parents are old, and if I work for someone else, I will be too far away from home and will not be able to serve them in time." Those who listened to him felt that he was really a filial son.

Then his parents died, and he begged for a coffin to bury them. On every first and fifteenth day of the month, he took food and went to the tomb to cry and offer sacrifices. There is a poem that says, "Begging for wine to serve my parents, singing and dancing to learn the beauty; entertaining my parents and attracting laughter, the room is full of spring breeze constantly blowing.

Five, weeping bamboo shoots

In the Three Kingdoms, there is a filial son, surnamed Meng, the name of the Zong, the word Gongwu (Yangxin County, Hubei, Yangsin Village, Yangshui, people), from childhood on the loss of his father, the family is very poor, the mother and child dependent on each other. When he grew up, his mother was old and weak. Whatever his mother wanted to eat, he tried to satisfy her.

One day, his mother was very sick and wanted to eat bamboo shoots cooked in a soup to cure, but it was winter, freezing, snowy, windy, snowy, where bamboo shoots it? He had no choice but to run to the bamboo forest and cry. After crying for half a day, he felt that his whole body was hot, and the wind blowing over him was also hot.

He opened his eyes and saw that the snow and ice around him had melted, and the grass had turned green from withered, and then he looked carefully and saw many bamboo shoots growing around him. His filial piety touched heaven and earth. He let his mother eat the bamboo shoots, and she got well. There is a poem that says: "Tears drop in the cold wind of the new moon, the bamboo poles; in a moment, the bamboo shoots come out, and heaven's will beckons peace.

Sixth, fighting a tiger to save his father

Jin Dynasty, there is a filial son named Yang Xiang (now Henan Qinyang people), fourteen years old, often followed his father to the fields to harvest crops. One day, suddenly a tiger carried off his father.

Yang Xiang was unarmed at the time, but he knew deep down that he had to save his father, so despite his own danger, he immediately climbed onto the tiger's back and tightly choked the tiger's neck, and the tiger finally let go and fled. The tiger finally let go and fled. His father was also saved from the tiger's mouth and saved his life. A poem says: "I met the white forehead in the deep mountain, and tried hard to fight against the fishy wind; my father and son were safe and sound, and escaped from the tiger's mouth".

Seven, deer milk to serve their parents

When the Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Tantanzi, who was very filial from childhood. When his parents were old, both eyes suffered from eye disease, and they wanted to eat deer milk. Tantzi thought hard and finally came up with a solution. So he put on a deer skin and went to the deer herd in the deep mountains, wanting to obtain deer milk for his parents in this way, not expecting to be found by the hunters.

Just as the hunters raised their bows and arrows to shoot him, he hurriedly cried out, "In order to obtain the milk of the deer, to give my parents, who are suffering from eye disease, to eat before I put on the skin of the deer, and mixed into the deer herd to take the milk of the deer." The hunter knew that it was a man and not a deer, so he put down his bow and arrow and didn't shoot him, and marveled at his filial piety and respect for his parents. A poem praised him, saying: "My dear old man thought of deer's milk, and wore a brown fur coat; if he did not speak loudly, he would have returned from the mountain with an arrow.

Eight, cage negative mother return

Bao out, the word Wenfang, is the latter Han Dynasty Xinfeng people, born of the great, born to filial piety. One day when he was not at home, a group of robbers took his mother away. Upon hearing of the incident, Bao was enraged and copied a knife and chased them down recklessly.

After killing more than a dozen thieves along the way, Bao finally caught up with the bandits who had robbed his mother and saw her tied up with a neighboring crone from afar. He roared and fought his way forward. The thieves saw his ferocity, sharp, scared to flee in all directions. Bao out could not care about chasing the enemy, ran straight up and kowtowed to ask for forgiveness. Kneeling down, he untied his mother and the elderly neighbors and freed them to go home.

Later, when the war broke out, he served his mother and took refuge in Nanyang. When the war was over, his mother returned to her hometown. However, it was difficult to carry a sedan chair on the way, so Bao made a bamboo cage and asked his mother to sit in the cage and carried her back to her hometown. A poem by a later generation says: "Saving his mother was as dangerous as walking on thin ice, trembling with fear and trembling on his shoulders; he was more patient in the face of great danger, and his filial piety was even more remarkable and praiseworthy".

Nine, abandoning his post to serve his parents

Pan Yue, a native of Zhongmou, Xingyang, was the magistrate of Heyang County during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. He was very filial to his parents, and when his father died, he took his mother to his office to serve him. He liked to plant flowers and trees, and over time, the peaches and plums he planted became a forest. Every year when the flowers bloomed, he always chose the windy and sunny days, and personally helped his mother to enjoy the flowers in the forest.

One year, his mother was sick and wanted to return home. The first time I saw him, I was so happy to see him, and he was so happy to see me. He was asked by his superiors to stay. He said, "What kind of son would I be if I were greedy for glory and wealth and refused to obey my mother's wishes?" Touched by his filial piety, the superior official allowed him to resign from his post.

When he returned home, his mother recovered from her illness. The family was poor, so he plowed the fields and planted and sold vegetables, and then bought back his mother's favorite food afterward. He also fed a flock of sheep and milked them every day for his mother to drink. Under his careful care, his mother spent her twilight years in peace. The poem says: "He abandoned his official post to follow his mother's filial piety and devotion, and returned to his hometown to herd the sheep and plant the fields; he nourished his mother with joy, and was happy to return to his mother's old age.

Ten: Shun Mother in Clothing

Min Loss of the Zhou Dynasty, the word Ziqian, was a filial son. His mother died early, and his father took pity on him for his difficulties in food and clothing, so he remarried his stepmother to take care of Min Ziqian. A few years later, the mother gave birth to two sons, treating Ziqian gradually cold. One year, when winter was approaching and his father had not returned, his stepmother was biased and used thick cotton wool for her own sons, while Ziqian was given reed floss.

One day, his father came back and asked Ziqian to help pull the cart out. Ziqian was cold and windy outside, but he suffered in silence and said nothing to his father. Later, the rope wore out the cotton cloth on Ziqian's shoulders. When his father saw the rushes in the cotton cloth, he realized that his son had been abused by his stepmother, and went home to repudiate his wife.

Min Ziqian saw his stepmother and his two youngest brothers crying in pain, so he knelt down and begged his father, saying, "If my mother is here, only my son will suffer a little from the cold; if I drive my mother out, all three children will suffer from the cold." Ziqian's filial piety moved his mother to change her ways. Since then, the mother was kind and the son was filial, and the whole family was happy. There is a poem that says: "Min's family has a good son, why did he ever complain about his stepmother; he left his mother in front of the car, and his three sons were spared from the wind and frost".

Eleven, sold his body to bury his father

During the Han Dynasty, there was a famous filial son named Dong Yong. His family was very poor. When his father died, Dong Yong had no money for the funeral, so he had to take a loan from the landlord to bury his father.

After the funeral was over, Dong Yong went to the landlord's house to repay the money, and met a beautiful woman halfway. He met a beautiful woman on the way and asked Dong Yong to marry her. Dong Yong remembered that the family is poor, but also owes the landlord money, they refused to agree. The woman stopped him and said that she did not love money. The woman said that she did not love money, but only loved him for his good character.

Dong Yong had no choice but to take her to the landlord's house to help. The woman's skillful hand, weaving like a fly. She worked around the clock, only a month's time, weaving 300 feet of fine silk, pay off the landlord's debt, on their way home, came to an acacia tree, the woman said goodbye to Dong Yong.

Rumor has it that the woman was one of the seven fairies in the sky. Because Dong Yong was kind-hearted, the Seven Fairies were touched by his filial piety, so they came down to earth to help him and later married Dong Yong. There is a poem that says: "Burying his father and lending his brother to Confucius, the fairy maiden met him on a stranger's street; weaving threads to pay off his debtors, filial piety moved the heavens".

Twelve, personally tasted the medicine

In 202 BC, Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Bang's fourth son, Liu Heng, later Emperor Wen of Han, was a famous filial son. Liu Heng was very filial to his mother and never neglected her. Once, his mother was seriously ill, which made Liu Heng very anxious. His mother was sick for three years and was bedridden. Liu Heng personally made medicinal soup for his mother, and guarded her bedside day and night. Whenever he saw his mother sleeping, he would lie down on the side of his mother's bed and sleep for a while.

Liu Heng decocted medicine for his mother every day, and every time he finished decocting, he always tasted it first to see if it was bitter or not, and if it was hot or not, and he felt that it was almost ready before he gave it to his mother to drink. Liu Heng's filial piety to his mother was widely rumored in the imperial court and the countryside. People praised him as a son of benevolence and filial piety. A poem praised him as a benevolent and filial son: benevolence and filial piety are known all over the world, towering over all kings; when his mother was sick for three years, the soup and medicine must be tasted first.

Thirteen, lying on the ice to seek carp

During the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Xiang, who was kind-hearted. He lost his mother when he was young. Later, his stepmother Zhu was unkind to him and often talked about right and wrong in front of his father.

His father also grew cold towards him. Wang Xiang's stepmother liked to eat carp. One winter, the weather was very cold, three feet of ice, Wang Xiang in order to get carp, naked lying on the ice. His body was red with cold, but he still prayed on the ice for carp. While he was praying, the ice on his right side suddenly cracked. Wang Xiang was overjoyed and was about to jump into the river to catch the fish when two live carp jumped out of the cracks in the ice.

Wang Xiang was so happy that he took the two carp home and offered them to his stepmother. The story of his action is spreading in the countryside. People praised Wang Xiang as a rare filial son on earth. A poem said: stepmother on earth, Wang Xiang the world no; still on the river water, stay lying ice mold.

Fourteen, heard the thunder sobbing tomb

When the Warring States period of Wei, there is a man named Wang Fu, serving his mother is particularly filial. When his mother was alive, she was born very timid, afraid of thunder, Wang Pu often in the thunder, to his mother's side to give its courage.

After his mother's death, Wang裒 buried him in a quiet place in the mountains and forests, a windy and rainy to hear the ear-splitting sound of thunder, Wang裒 ran to his mother's grave kneeling, and whispered and cried and told: "Children Wang裒 here with you, mother do not be afraid." There is a poem said: loving mother is afraid of hearing thunder, the ice spirit overnight platform; A Xiang when a tremor, to the tomb around a thousand times.

Fifteen, a hundred miles of negative rice

Zhou Dynasty, there is a man named Zhongyu, the word Zilu. His family was very poor, and he often gathered wild vegetables such as quinoa and patchouli outside for food. In order to support his parents, Zi Lu often traveled hundreds of miles to carry back rice to fulfill his filial piety. After his parents died, Zi Lu traveled south to the state of Chu. The king of Chu admired his learning and character so much that he gave Zi Lu an official position with a hundred chariots and horses. His family had a surplus of grain amounting to ten thousand bells.

But Zi Lu still did not forget his parents' hard work, and lamented that although he wished to live as before, to eat wild vegetables such as quinoa and patchouli, and to carry back rice from hundreds of miles away to support his parents, it was a pity that he could not get what he wished for. There is a poem that says: "I would rather be 100 miles away than carry rice to feed my parents; my parents are gone, but I still remember the old price I paid.

Sixteen, the cane hurt the old

Han Dynasty, a man named Han Bo Gui, pure nature, filial piety and respect for his parents, is a famous filial son. His mother was very strict with him, and if he made a slight mistake, she would beat him with a stick.

One day when he was being beaten, he wept. His mother found this strange and asked, "Why are you crying today, when you used to take it well when you were beaten?" Bo Gui replied, "Usually I feel pain when I am beaten, and I know that my mother is still strong and healthy, but today I feel no pain, and I know that my mother's body is declining and her strength is weak. So sadness forbids the shedding of tears.

It is not that the pain is not willing to endure." It shows that he was very filial to his mother. There is a poem that says, "I remember my mother's feelings with all sincerity, and I am very concerned about the weight of my mother's flogging; once I knew that my mother's strength was weakening, I was suddenly sad and wet with tears.

Seventeen, kneeling father to stay mother

Song Dynasty, Jiangnan has a filial daughter named Zhang Juhua. When she was seven years old, her mother died of illness and her father remarried. Juhua did not distinguish the difference between birth and upbringing, and treated her stepmother with respect. Her stepmother, however, had bad intentions.

One day, when her father went out to do business, her stepmother took the opportunity to sell her to someone as a servant girl. By coincidence, Chrysanthemum's father met Chrysanthemum on his way back. When the father meets the daughter, he is overwhelmed with sadness and joy. When her father asked her why she was in such a state, Chrysanthemum did not say anything with tears in her eyes for fear of involving her stepmother, and had no choice but to tell her father when he pressed her. The father was so shocked that he ransomed the chrysanthemums immediately.

Three days later, the father and daughter returned home. His father saw his step-wife and was so annoyed that he wanted to repudiate her. When she saw this, she knelt down and begged for mercy for her stepmother, and her father was finally moved by her filial piety. The stepmother had no children. After her father's death, Chrysanthemum treated her stepmother with the same filial piety as her father did when he was alive, so the world has a poem that says: "A piece of my heart is as solid as a stone, and I have been sold all over the world; I kneel down in deep love to forgive and forgive my mother, and I am pure filial piety, and I am also in the same place as Min Ziqian".

Eighteen, filial piety stepmother

The Qing Dynasty people Li Yinglin, living in Kunming, Yunnan Province, from childhood meek and kind. After the unfortunate death of his mother, he persuaded his father to remarry. He used the income from selling divination to support his parents.

Yinglin treated his stepmother with filial piety, but she regarded him as a thorn in her side and made things difficult for him, often beating him with a stick. Whenever this happened, Yinglin always knelt down, respectful as ever, without the slightest intention of resisting. His father, however, believed his stepmother's slander and expelled him from the house. He was still not complaining, and every year on his parents' birthdays, he would come home with gifts to congratulate them.

Soon Yinglin heard that his stepmother was sick, and rushed home to take care of her, and traveled thirty miles to seek medical help, rain or shine, every day, until she recovered from her illness. At the same time, Yinglin treated the child born to his stepmother with extra kindness, which eventually made his stepmother repent, and improved the relationship between mother and child, which was better than his own. Posterity praise said; not worried about the stepmother away from home, mother's illness home service medicine soup; will be treated as a brother, mother's end of remorse to become kind

nineteen, persuade the aunt filial piety ancestor

Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Shaoxing, Shanyin has a family surnamed Yang, married a wife, named Liu Lansi, only twelve years old, but very sensible, very respectful and attentive to the family. Her mother-in-law, Wang's not always offended elders, often scolded her grandmother "old man", as "baggage", very rude words. Late one night, Liu Lanyi came to Wang's boudoir and knelt down.

Wang was shocked and asked why. Liu Lanjie replied: "I am worried that my mother-in-law is not respecting my mother-in-law," she said, "I am worried that my mother-in-law is not respecting my mother-in-law. In the future, the daughter-in-law will be regarded as an example, when you are old, you will also be regarded as a "burden", then you will be how sad ah! It would be a great honor for my family if my mother-in-law could live a long life, so I beg you to think twice about it.

Wang came to her senses and sighed with tears in her eyes, saying, "I have benefited a lot from the good advice! And Liu Lansi treats Wang's the same way. It is true that the daughter of the two six is a clear understanding of justice, to see the aunt scolded the ancestor against the intention of the relatives; into the room kneeling advice to repent, demonstrating children and grandchildren filial piety word.

Twenty, filial piety moves heaven

Sun, one of the five emperors in the ancient times, was the son of a goze. From his childhood, he was filial to his parents. His father was an honest and generous farmer. Shun's birth mother died when Shun was in his teens. Shun's father, goze, was blind and said to be very musical. He married a step-wife who was rough and vicious in nature.

Sun's mother, who was poor, often spoke ill of and criticized his father. She gave birth to a son named Xiang. Xiang grew up to be fierce, brutal, arrogant, and unreasonable, and he was also arrogant and disrespectful to his father.

Only Shun was consistent and did not blame others, but was obedient to his parents and took extra care of his younger brother and guided him to reform himself. This extraordinary filial piety touched the heavens. When Shun ploughed the fields under the mountain, he was assisted by a godly elephant; and a godly bird helped him to hoe away the weeds. When the emperor Yao heard of Shun's filial piety, he sent nine attendants to serve the goze couple and married his daughters, E Huang and N Ying, to Shun in recognition of his filial piety.

Later, Yao "ceded" the throne to Shun. People praised Shun for his filial piety and said that he became an emperor from a commoner. A poem by a later generation said: "The team plowed the spring elephants, and the birds plowed the grass in droves; he succeeded Yao to the throne, and his filial piety moved the heart of heaven.

Twenty-one, the brothers fight filial piety

The Qing Dynasty, the Yangtze River outside the mouth of the Chongming Island, there are four brothers Wu, when they were young because of the family's poverty, their parents had no choice but to sell them to a rich family as a child servant, in order to find a way out of life. When they grew up, they were diligent and thrifty, and redeemed the deed of sale to return to their hometown to build a house and get married and start a family.

At this time, they had understood the pain of their parents, so they competed to provide for their parents, to show that they did not forget the grace of parenting. In the beginning, it was decided that each family would make offerings for one month. Later, the sisters-in-law thought it was too long to make offerings every three months, so they changed it to one day per family.

Later it was changed to one meal per person from the oldest, and so on down the line. Every five days, the whole family four rooms of young and old together, **** cooking dishes, serve parents. On the table, children and grandchildren, daughters-in-law competing dishes and toast, all kinds of filial piety, it is really a family happy Tao Tao. The two old men are enjoying their lives, and they will live to be nearly 100 years old without any illnesses.

XXII, the 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 "ZengZi", 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 heartache and knew that his mother was calling for him, so he quickly returned home with the firewood on his back and knelt down to ask why.

The 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 method of cultivation of "I have been saving myself three times a day" ("Analects - Xue而"), and 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" (宗圣).

Twenty-three, Lao Lai entertained his parents

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a hermit in the state of Chu named Lao Lai Zi. This old Lai was very filial to his parents, and he was very considerate to them, and did everything he could to please them.

In order to make his parents happy, he raised some beautiful birds for them to play with. He himself often teased the birds, so that the birds make a beautiful call. His father was very happy to hear them, and always smiled and said, "What a beautiful bird's voice!" Old Lai was very happy to see a smile on his parents' faces.

Lao Lai was actually not so young, and was also over 70 years old. Once, his parents looked at their son's gray hair and sighed, "Even our son is so old, and we don't have long to live."

Lao Lai was afraid of his parents' worry and thought of ways to make them happy. He specially made a set of colorful clothes and pretended to dance when he walked, and his parents looked happy.

One day, he played water for his parents on the hall, accidentally fell. Fearing that his parents would be sad, he deliberately pretended to sound like a baby crying and rolled on the ground. His parents really thought that Lao Lei had deliberately fallen and rolled around, and when they saw that he couldn't get up even though he was old, they laughed and said, "Lei Zi is really funny, get up quickly."

Later, the idiom of "entertaining one's parents" became an expression describing how a child would try to make his or her elderly parents feel better.

Twenty-four, Guo Ju buried children

The Han Dynasty. There was a man surnamed Guo Ju. The character Wenju. The family was very poor. He had a son who was very young. Guo Ju's mother used to share her food with her grandson. Guo Ju's family was so poor that he could not support his mother. The son had to share his mother's food, so what could he do? So he always waited for his son to walk out.

And then go to his mother's place to get in food. The aged mother always left the food for her son. Guo Ju then had to bury his son. Guo Ju said. You don't want to alarm the mother. The son can have it again.

The mother is not to be had again. Why don't you bury your son? She dug a hole in the ground. She was about to throw her son in. I was about to throw my son in, when suddenly there was a thunderbolt. And there was a cauldron of gold in the ground. There were words written on it.

This is the first time I've seen a kettle of gold in my life.

This article is from the Twenty-Four Stories of Filial Piety by Guo Jujing of the Yuan Dynasty

Background:

The Twenty-Four Stories of Filial Piety is a book written during the Yuan Dynasty of China, which is a book of reading material for the promotion of traditional Confucian filial piety, in which 24 filial piety stories of filial men and women from the ancient times to the Sung Dynasty were selected for the praise of the feudal dynasties, and were narrated in writing, chanted in poems, and illustrated in drawings. The purpose is to "train children in the feudal virtues of filial piety," and it is widely circulated among the people. In the old society, it can be said to be a household name, everyone knows.

The history of the twenty-four stories of filial piety passed down, we must use the viewpoint of historical materialism to analyze the history of discernment. There are indeed elements worth inheriting and promoting, but there are also dregs. What is worth inheriting and promoting is the spirit of honoring and caring for one's parents and serving them from the bottom of one's heart.

Almost all of the Twenty-four Tales of Filial Piety have this spirit, and this spirit has its eternal value, which is the core and essence of the Twenty-four Tales of Filial Piety. When we read the Twenty-four Filial Piety Stories, we should understand the ancients with a sympathetic heart. They may not have valued the form, so that future generations do everything, but through these stories, they want to tell us that there is still the word "filial piety" in the human world!

From another point of view, because "filial piety" originated from the primitive clan society, developed and strengthened in feudal society, it is bound to carry its historical limitations, especially after the official "filial piety to rule the world" theory, produced the The concepts of obedience, filial piety, superstition, karma, and even deviation from human nature.

Such as "lying on the ice to seek carp", "wanting mosquitoes to be full of blood", "burying children to serve their mothers", "hearing the thunder sobbing tomb "etc., all of which can not be absorbed and advocate, even the" carve wood to serve relatives "although the sincerity of Ding Lan's heart, but in today's view, can not help but some ridiculous, should be abandoned. Today we advocate filial piety should be civilized and rational.

So we can't absorb everything in the Twenty-four Filial Piety without analysis. In short, in today's civilized, legalistic society, parents and children are equal in personality and in law. Parents have the responsibility and obligation to nurture their children, and children have the responsibility and obligation to honor their parents.

Today, there are children who are not filial to their parents, and there are parents who abandon, sell, or even strangle, drown, or kill their own children, all of which are dehumanizing and illegal, and cannot be tolerated by society and the human conscience. Therefore, it is necessary to promote "father's kindness and son's filial piety", inherit and carry forward the essence of filial piety culture.

About the author:

The character Yi Zu, a native of Guangping Village, Youxi County, Yuan Dynasty (now Guangping Town, Dada County). Learned good chanting, not rich and beautiful, and Zhongfan, Zhongshi are famous for poetry. He was very filial in nature, and was very happy to serve his parents, and he did his best to mourn and mourn. He tried to set Yu Shun below twenty-four people filial behavior, order and continue to poetry, with training for children and monks. He was recommended by Yu Ji and Ouyang Xuan, but he resigned. He is the author of "Selected Poems of Twenty-four Filial Piety of Quan Xiang" and "Bai Xiang Poetry Collection".