Several stories of filial piety in the Twenty-four Filial Piety Diagrams, brief description of contents

The Twenty-Four Filial Piety Diagrams is a book about twenty-four stories of filial piety in ancient China, complete with illustrations. Filial piety is the core of Confucian ethical thinking, and has been the moral code that has sustained family relationships in Chinese society for thousands of years, and is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Jujing compiled the stories of 24 filial sons from ancient times and compiled them into Twenty-Four Filial Piety. Subsequent printings of the book were accompanied by drawings, commonly known as the "Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures," which became a popular reading material for promoting filial piety. "Filial piety is the essence of traditional Chinese culture.

These are:

Loyalty and filial piety

Looking at the clouds and thinking of one's parents

Sending a letter to save one's father

Raising one's parents in colorful clothes

Weeping on the bamboo to produce bamboo shoots

Fighting a tiger to rescue one's father

Living on the breast of a deer to serve one's parents

Returning to the cage to carry one's mother back to her home

Abandon official duties to serve parents

Submit to mother in reed clothes

Sell body to bury father

Taste medicine

Lay down on the ice to seek carp

Weeping at the grave of a thunderbolt

Hundreds of miles to carry rice

Hit by the staff to hurt the old man

Kneeling to father to leave mother behind

Filial piety for stepmother

Advising aunt to filial piety

Filial piety moves heaven

Brothers fight for filial piety

Finger-piercing

Lao Lai amuses relatives

Guo Ju buries his son

When I heard that Lei wept at the grave, I was so sorry.