The story of twenty-four filial piety pictures

Twenty-four Filial Pieties is a popular book compiled by Guo Juye in the Yuan Dynasty, which compiles the stories of twenty-four filial sons in ancient times. Later printed editions are all accompanied by pictures, which are generally called Twenty-four Filial Pieties.

Xiaogan Motivates Heaven: Although Gu Sou, his father, his stepmother and his half-brother tried their best to kill Shun, Shun did not hold a grudge at all, but still filial to his father and cared for his brother. Shun's filial piety touched the Emperor of Heaven. Elephants and birds came to Lishan. One helped him plow the fields and the other helped him weed. Emperor Yao married his two daughters to him, and after he became the emperor, Shun still respected his father and made the elephant a vassal.

Play with color to entertain relatives: In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Laizi, a hermit of Chu, was filial to his parents and nourished them with delicious food. In order to make his parents laugh, he often wears colorful clothes and plays like a child with a rattle in his hand at the age of 7. In order not to worry his parents, he pretended to fall when he fell, lying on the ground and crying like a child.

Deer milk for parents: In the Spring and Autumn Period, in order to treat the eye diseases of elderly parents, the scorpion was put on deerskin and went into the mountains, got into the deer herd, squeezed deer milk to support its parents, and was almost shot by hunters as an elk. A hundred miles of rice: Zi Lu, a disciple of Confucius, was poor in his early years and ate wild vegetables to satisfy his hunger, but he carried rice home from a hundred miles away to support his parents. After becoming an official, he often missed his dead parents and longed to be filial to them.

Significance of Twenty-four Filial Pieties

First of all, this book emphasizes the importance of filial piety to parents. Filial piety is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and the foundation of social morality. By telling the story of filial piety, this book can guide children to establish the concept of filial piety from an early age, thus cultivating good family morality.

Secondly, this book also emphasizes the necessity of respecting elders. Respecting elders is the traditional etiquette of the Chinese nation and the foundation of social harmony. By telling the story of respecting elders, this book can guide children to learn to respect elders from an early age, thus cultivating good social morality. In addition, this book also emphasizes the importance of honesty and trustworthiness. Honesty and trustworthiness are the basic moral principles of human society and the embodiment of personal character.