Traditional Moral Tales

『One』Small Stories about Moral Behavior

Small Stories about Moral Behavior I:

Tasting the Medicine Personally

Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, was the third son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, and 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 served his mother. When his mother was sick for three years, he often did not even look at her, and he did not even put on his clothes.

The medicines his mother took were only given to her after he had spoken them himself. During his 24-year reign, he emphasized the rule of morality and manners, and paid attention to the development of agriculture, so that the Western Han society was stable and prosperous, and the economy was restored and developed, and the period of his reign with Emperor Jingdi of Han Dynasty was known as the reign of Wenjing.

Moral Behavior Stories 2:

Engaging the Finger in Pain

Zeng Sen, the word ZiYi, during the Spring and Autumn Period in the State of Lu, Confucius's favorite disciple, known as "Zeng Zi", known for his 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. Zeng Sen suddenly felt heartache, know that the mother is calling himself, then Xiao see Chai quickly returned home, kneeling to ask the green reason.

Mother said: "A guest suddenly came, I credit finger hope you come back. "Zeng Sen then received the guests, to treat them with courtesy. Zeng Sen is a learned man, who has put forward the cultivation method of "I save myself three times a day" ("Analects - Xue而"), and is rumored to have authored Confucian classics such as the University and the Book of Filial Piety.

Moral Behavior Story 3:

Zhao Xiao fights for his life

During the Han Dynasty, there was a man surnamed Zhao, single-name filial piety, watchword Changping, and his younger brother, Zhao Li, was very friendly. One year, when the year was very poor, a group of robbers took over the Yichu Mountain and captured Zhao Li, and wanted to eat him. Zhao Xiao hurried to the robbers and pleaded with them, saying, "Zhao Li is a sick man, and his body is very thin, so it is not good to eat. My body is fat, and I will take the place of my brother, and give you food, and ask you to let my brother go.

Before the robber could speak, his brother Zhao Li must have refused. He said, I was caught by the generals, is dead, but also my own destiny, what is the crime of my brother. The two brothers hugged and cried a lot. The robbers were also moved by them, and released both brothers. This matter spread to the emperor, then issued an imperial edict, to both of their brothers have made the official. He and his two younger brothers, one named Jiang Zhonghai and the other Jiang Jijiang, were very friendly by nature. Once, the brothers went to the capital city together, and at night they ran into robbers who wanted to kill him. They brothers three people are robbed to die, the robbers also released all three people, only robbed some clothes and money to go.

When they arrived in the capital city, the others saw that the brothers had no clothes, and they asked what was the reason for this. Jiang Zhi Zhi used other words to get out of the way, but ultimately refused to explain, touched the robbers this time the matter. The robbers learned, feel very grateful trough, and very remorseful, so they went to the ginger humerus, kowtowed and thanked for their sins, and returned all the objects that had been robbed before to them.

Deer's Milk for Parents

Tan Zi, a man in the Spring and Autumn period. His parents were old and suffered from eye disease, and needed to drink deer's milk to cure. He went into the mountains with his deer skin on, and went into the deer herd to squeeze the deer milk for his parents. Once to get milk, saw the hunter was about to shoot a muntjac deer, Tantzi hastily lifted up the deer skin out of the body, will squeeze the deer milk for both parents to tell the hunter, the hunter honored his filial piety, to the deer milk gift, escorted him out of the mountain.

"II" Chinese traditional virtues story

1, Kong Rong let the pear

Kong Rong four years old, and his brothers ate pears, Kong Rong always take the small eat. An adult asked him why he did that. He replied: "I'm small, small food, according to reason should take the small. "Because Kong Rong was so smart and early, he understood this reasoning at a very young age, and the clan relatives thought he was a genius.

2. Zi Lu carried rice

When Zi Lu's family was poor, he ate a crude meal himself, and carried rice to his parents from a hundred miles away. Later, he used the phrase "carrying rice, carrying rice for a hundred miles" to indicate that he had to support his parents or to seek for rice in order to support his parents.

3. Chiseling the wall to steal light

Kuang Heng was a diligent student, but there was no candle at home. The neighboring family had candles, but the light did not reach his house, so Kuang Heng cut a hole in the wall to draw the light from the neighboring family, so that the light shone on the books to read. There was a big family in the county who were not very literate, but their family was rich and had many books.

So Kuang Heng went to his house to work as a hired laborer, but without pay. The master was surprised and asked him why this was so, and he said, "I wish to read all the books in the master's house." Hearing this, the master was y impressed, so he lent Kuangheng books (用书资助匡衡). So Kuangheng became a great scholar of his generation.

4, Lin Zexu anti-smoking

Lin Zexu is a famous national hero in the late Qing Dynasty. During his tenure as Governor of Huguang, due to the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, British robbers smuggled a drug called opium into China, poisoning the Chinese people.

Lin Zexu responded to all this, very anxious. He wrote to the emperor many times, stating the harm of opium. Emperor Daoguang understood Lin Zexu's recommendation and appointed Lin Zexu as the Minister of Qinzhi, in charge of the anti-smoking.

In March 1839, Lin Zexu came to Guangzhou, and the anti-smoking campaign began rapidly. on June 3, people threw all the seized opium into the nitrate pool. In a few moments, all the opium was destroyed. Lin Zexu did a great thing for the country and the nation. The feat of Humen smoke, to the British invaders with a heavy blow, opened the first page of the Chinese people's anti-imperialist struggle.

5, Huang Xiang warm seat

The Han Dynasty, there is a person called Huang Xiang, is Jiangxia (now Hubei territory) people. When he was only nine years old, he already knew how to be filial to his elders. Whenever a hot summer day came, (Huang Xiang) fanned himself with a fan against his parents' tent to make the pillows and mats cooler and more refreshing, and to keep the mosquitoes far away (from Huang Xiang's parents' tent) so that his parents could sleep more comfortably.

『3』 Ancient Moral Stories in 20 Characters

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 1, Kong Rong letting the pear

Kong Rong was a famous literary scholar in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. When he was young, every time he ate a pear with his brother, he always took the smallest one. When his father asked him why, he said, "I am the younger brother, the youngest, I should eat the smallest." Later, "Kong Rong gave up his pear" became a model of unity and love.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Zeng Zi was a disciple of Confucius, and once again, when Confucius wanted to teach him some profound theories, Zeng Zi, who was originally seated, stood up from his seat and walked to the outside of the seat to stand, expressing his full respect for his teacher.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 3, Thousands of miles to send a goose feather

During the Tang Dynasty, the leader of a minority group in Yunnan sent an envoy, Maeng Bo Gao, to contribute a swan to Emperor Taizong. On the way, Maeng Bo Gao accidentally let the swan fly away, leaving only a few goose feathers. After arriving at Chang'an, Maung Bo Gao paid a visit to Emperor Tang Taizong, presented the goose feathers and wrote a poem, "Gift is light, love is heavy, goose feathers are sent by thousands of miles". This allusion is a metaphor for a gift that is thin, but the love is very strong.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 4.3.1

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Bei asked Zhuge Liang to come out to assist him, and he asked him three times to come out to his place, and finally he waited for Zhuge Liang. The phrase "three visits to a thatched cottage" later became a famous allusion to the thirst for wisdom.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 5, Che Yin Sack Firefly

Che Yin is a Jin dynasty, since childhood, intelligent and studious but poor, often no oil lamp. So he captured fireflies on summer nights, used to illuminate the night reading, learning with each passing day, become a well-known scholars. "Che Yin sac firefly" has also become an allusion to diligent study.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 6: Wang Gong has no body

Wang Gong was a famous scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. When he returned home from his official position in Huiji, an elder of the same clan saw him sitting on a bamboo mat and said, "You came back from the east, you should have a lot of this kind of thing, can you give me one. Wang Gong gave him the mat, but he himself had to sit on a straw mat afterward. The man was very surprised when he heard about this, and said to Wang Gong, "I thought you still had some extra bamboo mats. But Wang Gong replied, "I never have anything extra on my weekdays.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 7: Zhang Liang Worships His Teacher

Before he became Liu Bang's military advisor, Zhang Liang was walking on a bridge one day when he came across an old man who intentionally dropped his shoes under the bridge and asked Zhang Liang to pick them up and put them on him. Zhang Liang according to do, the old man was happy to call him a child teachable, and gave him a book "Taigong Art of War". Zhang Liang studied it carefully and finally became a generation of military commander. This story later became a famous allusion to honoring the elderly.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 8: Xun Jubo sacrificed his life to save his friend

Xun Jubo was a sage during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Once he went to visit his friend who was seriously ill, when the Hu soldiers besieged the city. He refused to run away alone, and willingly gave his own life instead of his friend's. The Hu soldiers were greatly moved. The Hu soldiers were so moved that they withdrew their troops and the city was saved. Xun Ju Bo's loyalty to his friend has also been passed down through the ages.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 9: Guan Bao's Friendship

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Bao Shuya was a strategist for Duke Huan of Qi, and his best friend, Guan Zhong, used to work for the enemy of Duke Huan of Qi, and was captured after his failure. When Duke Huan of Qi asked Bao Shuya to be the prime minister, he recommended Guan Zhong instead. In the end, Guan Zhong became the prime minister, and Bao Shuya became his subordinate, a friendship that has been rumored throughout history.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 10: Xu Heng didn't eat the pear without a master

Xu Heng was a Yuan dynasty philosopher. Once he walked in the middle of summer, very thirsty, encountered a pear tree on the side of the road, others are scrambling to pick pears to eat, only Xu Heng sitting alone. When he was asked, he said, "The pear tree has no owner, but my heart has an owner. I can't accept what others have lost, even if it's the slightest bit unethical.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 11, Cheng Men Li Xue

During the Song Dynasty, Cheng Yi's students Yang Shi and You Yu went to Cheng Yi's house to ask for advice, but when they came to the teacher's house, they found Cheng Yi asleep, and they couldn't bear to disturb him, so they quietly stood and waited outside the door. At that time, it was cold and snowy, and when the teacher woke up, the snow had accumulated a foot deep under their feet. The story of "Cheng Men Li Xue" has become a popular example of respect for teachers.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 12: Fan Shao Zhang Shao's friendships

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Shao and Fan Shao lived together in the Imperial College and were good friends. When they left, they agreed to meet again at Zhang Shao's house at noon on the Mid-Autumn Festival two years later. At mid-autumn two years later, Zhang Shao killed a chicken and prepared a meal, and at noon, Fan Shi really came from thousands of miles away. The story of the two men's friendship and honesty has been passed down since then.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 13: Tie Ha saved her father

During the Western Han Dynasty, the official Chun Yu Yi was sentenced to corporal punishment and was escorted to the capital. His youngest daughter, Chun Yu Ti Ha, insisted on accompanying her father all the way to the capital and wrote a letter to Emperor Wen of Han to save her father, which eventually led to the abolition of corporal punishment, making it a famous example of filial piety.

Idioms by The Free Dictionary 14: The Three Moves of Mencius' Mother

When Mencius was a young boy, the neighborhood of his home was not good, and his mother moved many times in order to better educate her children. The idiom of "Three Moves of Mencius' Mother" has become an allusion to the parents' efforts to nurture their children.

Moral Tales

12, the courage to take risks

For those who are afraid of danger, danger is everywhere.

One day, a lobster and a hermit crab met in the deep sea, and the hermit crab saw that the lobster was taking off its hard shell, revealing only its delicate body. The hermit crab was very nervous and said, "Lobster, how can you give up your hard shell which is the only protection for your body? Aren't you afraid that a big fish will eat you in one gulp? In your current condition, even the rapids will wash you to the rocks, and you will die."

The lobster replied calmly: "Thank you for your concern, but you don't understand, every time we lobsters grow, we must first shed the old shell, in order to grow a stronger shell, the danger we face now is only to prepare for better development in the future."

The hermit crab thought about it carefully, he only looked for a place to hide all day long, and did not think about how to make himself grow stronger, all day long only live in the shade of others, no wonder always limit their own development.

Warm tips: everyone has a certain safety zone, you want to cross your current achievements, please do not limit yourself, the courage to accept the challenge of self-enrichment, you will certainly develop better than imagined.

13. Try again

What's harder than a rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water penetrates hard stone, persistence is all.

A young man applied for a job at Microsoft, which hadn't advertised for it. The general manager was puzzled, and the young man explained in less-than-skilled English that he happened to be passing by, and came in without thinking. The general manager felt very fresh and made an exception for him. The result of the interview was surprising, the young man performed badly. He explained to the general manager was not prepared, the general manager thought he was just looking for a pretext to step down, then casually responded: "when you are ready to come back to try it".

A week later, the young man walked through the doors of Microsoft again, and this time he was still unsuccessful. But he did much better than the first time. And the general manager gave him the same answer as last time: "Come back and try again when you're ready." In this way, this young man has stepped into the door of Microsoft five times, and was finally hired by the company, becoming the company's key training object.

Warm tips: perhaps, our life journey on the swamp all over, thorns and thistles; perhaps our pursuit of scenery is always mountainous, do not see the light of day; perhaps, our steps are always heavy, hobbling; perhaps, we need to fumble in the dark for a long time to find the light; perhaps, our pious beliefs will be the world's dust and fog entanglement, and can not soar freely; perhaps, our noble soul temporarily in the dark, but the world is not the same, but the world is the same. Perhaps, our noble soul temporarily in reality can not find the net land to put ...... then, why can not we take the courage of the brave, firm and confidently say to themselves "try again!" Try again, you may reach the other side of the success!

14, God rewards hard work

No one can rely only on talent to succeed. God gives talent, diligence will talent into genius.

Zeng Guofan is one of the most influential figures in Chinese history, but he was not very talented as a child. One day at home reading, to an article repeated I do not know how many times, still reading aloud, because, he has not memorized. At this time his family came to a thief, lurking under his roof, hoping to wait for the reader to sleep after some advantage. But he waited and waited, but he did not see him sleeping, still reading the article over and over again. The thief was furious, jumped out and said, "What kind of book is this level?" Then recite that article once, and go away!

The thief is very smart, at least smarter than Mr. Zeng, but he can only become a thief, while Mr. Zeng has become *** President are admiring people: "modern times the most have a big Benfu source of people."

"Diligence can make up for clumsiness is a good lesson, a point of hard work a point of talent." The thief's memory is really good, heard a few times the article can be memorized, and very brave, see other people do not sleep actually can jump out of the "anger", after teaching Mr. Tsang, but also to memorize, and went away. But unfortunately, his name is not known, Mr. Zeng later enabled a large number of talents, according to the thief and Mr. Zeng have a one-sided acquaintance, can go to show one or two, but, unfortunately, his talent is not coupled with diligence, become unknown.

Warm tips: great success and hard work is directly proportional to the labor, there is a labor there is a point of harvest, day after day, from less to more, the miracle can be created.

『Wu』 Ancient Chinese Celebrity Short Stories about Morality

Ancient Chinese Celebrity Short Stories about Morality:

1. Wen Tianxiang's Young Man's Righteousness

Wen Tianxiang, a famous national hero of the end of Southern Song Dynasty, lived a difficult life when he was young, and he had the chance to study only with the help of the kind-hearted people. Once, Wen Tianxiang was rich classmates misunderstanding is a thief, he argued, do not allow others to trample on their dignity, and finally proved his innocence, and through this incident, more set up Wen Tianxiang gold list of aspirations.

2, "Chen Ping endure humiliation and bitter reading"

Chen Ping, a famous minister of the Western Han Dynasty, when he was poor, and his brother, in order to uphold his father's order to shine, not to do production, closed-door reading, but for his sister-in-law, in order to eliminate the contradiction between his brother and sister-in-law, in the face of repeated insults, stoicism, with the sister-in-law's exacerbation, and finally could not bear it any longer, leaving home to the end of the world, and his brother was chasing him back, and then, regardless of the previous suspicion, he was able to get back. After being recovered by her elder brother, she stopped her brother and sister-in-law from taking the blame, which was rumored to be a beautiful story in the local community. The story goes that the old man, who came to the city to teach his students for free, was aided by Liu Bang, who accomplished a great deal of dominance.

Basic introduction:

Dao, is the source of all things, is the power to create everything; Virtue, is to comply with the objective needs of nature, society and mankind to do things behavior, do not go against the laws of natural development, to the development of nature, the development of society, to improve their own way of practicing.

The Tao is carrying everything; virtue is showing everything in the Tao. The Tao is speechless and invisible, unseen, unheard and untouchable, only through our thinking consciousness to recognize and perceive it; and virtue, is a concrete example of the Tao, is the embodiment of the Tao, is the heart of what we can see, is the behavior we carry out through the perception. Therefore, without virtue, we would not be able to understand the idea of the Tao so graphically. This is the relationship between virtue and the Tao.

Morality is a social ideology, which is a code and norm for people***s same life and their behavior.