Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Loyalty and Filial Piety

Shen Zhixu, a guard general in Daochuan, Hunan Province in the Ming Dynasty, had an only daughter named Shen Yunying. He has been smart and studious since he was a child, and learned martial arts from his father. Shen Yunying was only seventeen years old at the time because her father died on the battlefield while leading an army to meet a foreign army. She climbed up to a high place and shouted loudly: "Although I am a little girl, I will fight to the death to fulfill my father's legacy of defending the city." I hope all the soldiers and civilians will defend their hometown." Everyone was deeply moved and vowed to regain the lost land. The siege was quickly lifted and victory was achieved. Shen Yunying found her father's body and cried loudly. All soldiers and civilians put on mourning clothes and attended the funeral. The imperial court ordered Shen Zhixu to be promoted to deputy commander-in-chief, and Shen Yunying was appointed guerrilla general to continue guarding Daozhou Prefecture. Later, people built a memorial temple for her to honor both loyalty and filial piety. There is a poem that eulogizes:

Foreign troops attacked the city and besieged the rebels, and E Mei fought hard to relieve the siege; the father's enemy was besieging the city and it was hard to cover the snow, and his reputation for loyalty and filial piety has been passed down through the ages.

Twenty-four filial piety＿Looking at the clouds and missing relatives

There was a man named Di Renjie in the Tang Dynasty. His family was poor since he was a child, he was diligent and studious, and later became the prime minister. He was an honest official, benevolent in his administration, and was respected by both the government and the public. One of his colleagues was sent to the frontier as a missionary, and his mother fell seriously ill. He was very sad if he left like this and could not be by his side. After Renjie knew his painful mood, he hereby asked the emperor to appoint someone else. One day Renjie was on an inspection tour and passed through the Taihang Mountains on the way. He climbed to the top of the mountain, looked down at the clouds, and said to his entourage: "My relatives live under the white clouds." He lingered for a long time without leaving, and could not help but shed tears of missing his relatives. There is a poem that eulogizes:

I miss my loved ones day and night, and my mind and spirit are hurt. I cry frequently when I go to the mountain to see my mother. I still feel filial piety when I live in the Prime Minister’s country, and I am worthy of serving my ministers and worthy of the people.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Send a Letter to Save Your Father

During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Chun Yuyi who became a disciple of Yang Qing, a famous physician in Qi State, and learned superb medical skills. He once performed Passed the Cang Ling of Qi State. After his teacher passed away, he abandoned his official position and practiced medicine. Because of his upright personality, he offended a powerful person while practicing medicine, which later led to his being framed and taken to the capital to be punished. His daughter's name was Tiying. Although she was a weak woman, she spared no effort and traveled long distances to Chang'an to complain to the emperor. She stated the harmful effects of corporal punishment and explained that her father was upright and caring for the people when he was an official, and he was benevolent and helpful to the world when he was practicing medicine. Now he is indeed being framed. I am willing to suffer the punishment for my father. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was deeply moved by Tiying's filial piety, pardoned her father, and issued an edict to abolish corporal punishment. There is a poem that says:

I went to Beijing with my father and endured hardships, and wrote a letter with clear intentions; the imperial edict granted him pardon as a sign of his filial piety, and he also sacrificed his flesh as a punishment to benefit future generations.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Raising Relatives in Colorful Clothes

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a man named Yang. His family was very poor, but he was very filial and relied on begging to support his parents. So people called him Yang Qi. All the food he asked for was taken home and dedicated to his parents. His parents had never tasted it, and even though he was hungry, he did not dare to taste it first. If there is wine, he will kneel down and give it to his parents. When his parents take the cup, he will get up and sing and dance like a child to make his parents happy. Some people sympathized with his poverty and advised him to work for others and use the income to support his family. Yang Qi replied: "My parents are old. If I work for others and are too far away from home, I will not be able to serve them in time." Those who listened felt that he was really a filial son. Later, when his parents died, he begged for a coffin for burial. On every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, people take food and go to the tomb to cry and offer sacrifices. There is a poem in praise of it:

Begging for wine and serving relatives to fulfill the etiquette, singing and dancing to learn how to be charming; entertaining relatives wonderfully makes people laugh, and the spring breeze keeps blowing all over the room

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Crying bamboos grow bamboo shoots

During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a filial son, whose surname was Meng, whose given name was Zong, and whose courtesy name was Gongwu. He lost his father when he was young. His family was very poor, and the mother and son depended on each other. When I grew up, my mother became old and frail. No matter what his mother wanted to eat, he would try his best to satisfy her. One day, my mother was seriously ill and wanted to eat bamboo shoots to make soup. But it was winter, with ice and snow, wind and snow. Where could the bamboo shoots come from? He was helpless and couldn't think of any good solution, so he ran to the bamboo forest and hugged the bamboo and cried bitterly. After crying for a long time, I just felt that my whole body was hot, and the wind was also hot. When he opened his eyes, he saw that the ice and snow around him had melted, and the vegetation had turned from withered to green. Looking carefully, he saw that many bamboo shoots were growing around him. His filial piety moved heaven and earth. He gave the bamboo shoots to his mother to eat, and her illness was cured. There is a poem that eulogizes:

The tears are falling and the wind is cold, and the bamboo poles are fluttering; in a moment, the winter bamboo shoots are coming out, and God's will brings peace.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Fighting Tigers to Save Father

During the Jin Dynasty, there was a filial son named Yang Xiang. When he was fourteen years old, he often followed his father to the fields to harvest crops. One day, a tiger suddenly picked up his father. Yang Xiang was unarmed at the time, but he knew deeply that he had to save his father, so regardless of his own danger, he immediately climbed on the tiger's back and strangled the tiger's neck tightly. The tiger finally let go and escaped. His father escaped from the tiger's mouth and saved his life. There is a poem that says:

In the deep mountains, there are white foreheads, fighting hard against the fishy wind; both father and son are safe, and escaped from the tiger's mouth.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Deer's Milk for Marriage

During the Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Tanzi who was very filial since he was a child. When his parents were old, they both suffered from eye diseases and wanted to eat deer milk. Tanzi thought hard and finally came up with a solution. So he put on deerskin and walked to the deer in the mountains, hoping to obtain deer milk to offer to his parents. Unexpectedly, he was discovered by hunters. Just when the hunter raised his bow and arrow to shoot him, he hurriedly shouted: "In order to obtain deer milk to feed my parents who have eye diseases, I put on deer skin and mixed in with the deer to collect deer milk." The hunter knew that the truth was It was a man, not a deer, so he put down his bow and arrow and did not shoot him. He was also amazed at his behavior of honoring his parents. There is a poem that praises:

I miss the deer's breasts when I am close to my elders, and wear a brown sweater; if I don't speak loudly, I will return with arrows from the mountains.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety _ Returning to the Mother in a Cage

Bao Chu, named Wenfang, was a native of Xinfeng in the Later Han Dynasty. He was born tall and filial. One day when he was not at home, a group of robbers kidnapped his mother. After hearing the news, Bao Chu was furious, picked up a knife and chased after him at all costs. He killed more than a dozen thieves along the way, and finally caught up with the robbers who robbed his mother. From a distance, he saw his mother and the neighbor's old woman tied together. He yelled and pushed forward. When the thieves saw that he was coming with a fierce and unstoppable force, they were so frightened that they fled for their lives. Bao Chu didn't care about chasing the enemy and ran straight forward, kowtow to plead guilty. Kneeling, he untied the ropes of his mother and the elderly neighbor, and freed them to go home. Later, war broke out, and he followed his mother to take refuge in Nanyang. After the rebellion was put down, his mother wanted to return to her hometown. But the road was full of mountains and rivers, and it was difficult to carry the sedan chair. After much thought, Bao Chu made a bamboo cage, asked his mother to sit in the cage, and carried her back to his hometown. Later generations wrote a poem praising:

Saving one's mother is like walking on thin ice, crossing the mountain with a heavy shoulder and walking cautiously; many dangers make one persevere, and filial piety is more than enough to be prudent.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety ＿Abandoning the official position to become a relative

Pan Yue, a native of Zhongmu, Xingyang, whose courtesy name was Anren, was the magistrate of Heyang County during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty. He was extremely filial to his relatives. At that time, his father had passed away, so he took his mother to serve in his post. He liked to plant flowers and trees, and over time, the peaches and plums he planted turned into a forest. Every year when the flowers bloom, he always picks a sunny day and personally helps his mother to enjoy the flowers in the forest. One year, my mother became ill and longed to return to her hometown. When Pan Yue learned of his mother's wishes, he immediately resigned and returned to his hometown to serve his mother. Shangguan repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay. He said: "If I am greedy for glory and wealth and refuse to obey my mother's wishes, then what kind of son am I?" Shangguan was moved by his filial piety and allowed him to resign. After returning to his hometown, his mother recovered from her illness. His family was poor, so he would farm and grow vegetables and sell them, and later buy the food his mother loved. He also fed a flock of sheep and milked the mother every day. Under his careful care, my mother spent her remaining years peacefully. The poem says:

Abandoning his official position and serving his mother as a filial and pious person, he returned home to shepherd sheep and farm. He nourished his mother with her joy and restored her joyful life.

Twenty-four filial piety＿Single clothes and obedience to mother

Min Sun of the Zhou Dynasty, whose courtesy name was Ziqian, was a filial son. His mother died young, and his father felt sorry for Min Ziqian's difficulty in food and clothing, so he remarried his stepmother and took care of Min Ziqian. A few years later, the stepmother gave birth to two sons, but Ziqian gradually became indifferent. One year, when winter was coming and my father had not returned, my stepmother was biased in making cotton-padded clothes. She used thick cotton batting for her biological son and reed catkins for Zi Qian. One day, his father came back and asked Ziqian to help him pull the cart out. It was cold and windy outside, and Ziqian's clothes were cold and his body was cold, but he endured it silently and said nothing to his father. Later, the rope frayed the cotton cloth on Ziqian's shoulders. The father saw the reed flowers in the cotton cloth and knew that his son was being abused by his stepmother, so he wanted to divorce his wife when he returned home. Min Ziqian saw his stepmother and two little brothers holding each other's arms and crying, unable to separate, so he knelt down and begged his father, "If only one of the children is left alone, he will suffer a little cold; if the mother is driven out, all three children will suffer from the cold." Qian's filial piety moved his stepmother and made her change her ways. From then on, the mother was kind and the son was filial, and the family was happy. There is a poem that praises:

The Min family has a virtuous husband, so why would he ever complain about his stepmother? Leaving his mother in front of the car protects his three sons from the wind and frost.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Sell yourself to bury your father

During the Han Dynasty, there was a famous filial son named Dong Yong. His family was very poor. After his father passed away, Dong Yong had no money to pay for the funeral, so he had to use his body to borrow money from the landlord to bury his father. After the funeral, Dong Yong went to work at the landlord's house to repay the money, and met a beautiful woman on the way. She stopped Dong Yong and asked him to marry her. Dong Yong remembered that his family was extremely poor and still owed money to the landlord, so he refused to agree. The woman blocked her and said she didn't like money. Just love him for his good character. Dong Yong had no choice but to take her to the landlord's house to help. The woman was ingenious and could weave cloth like flying. She worked day and night, and in just one month, she weaved three hundred feet of fine silk and paid off the landlord's debt. On their way home, when they walked under a locust tree, they The woman said goodbye to Dong Yong. According to legend, the woman is one of the seven fairies in heaven. Because Dong Yong was kind-hearted, the Seven Fairies were moved by his filial piety and came down to earth to help him. There is a poem that says:

When my father was buried and I borrowed money from Brother Kong, I met the fairy concubine on the street; when I weaved threads to repay the creditor, my filial piety moved the sky.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Try the decoction personally

In 202 BC, Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Bang's third son Liu Heng, later Emperor Wen of Han, was a famous filial son. Liu Heng was very filial to his mother, the Queen Mother, and never neglected her. Once, his mother was seriously ill, which made Liu Heng anxious. His mother had been ill for three years and was bedridden. Liu Heng personally prepared medicinal soup for his mother and guarded her bedside day and night. Every time I see my mother sleeping, I lie down next to her bed and sleep for a while. Liu Heng decoctions medicine for his mother every day. After each decoction, he always tastes it first to see if the medicine is bitter and hot or not. When he feels that it is almost done, he gives it to his mother to drink. Liu Heng's filial piety to his mother was widely circulated in both the government and the public. People praised him as a benevolent and filial son. There is a poem that says:

Benevolence and filial piety are known all over the world, and they are crowned among hundreds of kings. After my mother has been ill for three years, she must taste the medicine first.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Lying on the Ice Asking for Carps

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 not kind to him and often made irresponsible remarks and made trouble in front of his father. His father also gradually became cold towards him. Wang Xiang's stepmother likes to eat carp. One winter, the weather was very cold and the ice was three feet deep. Wang Xiang lay naked on the ice in order to get carp. His whole body was red from the cold, and he was still praying for carp on the ice. While he was praying, the ice on his right side suddenly cracked. Wang Xiang was overjoyed. When he was about to jump into the river to catch fish, two lively carps suddenly jumped out from the cracks in the ice. Wang Xiang was so happy that he took the two carp home as an offering to his stepmother. His actions became a favorite story in the villages ten miles away. People praised Wang Xiang as a rare filial son in the world. There is a poem that says:

There is a stepmother in the world, but Wang Xiang does not exist in the world. To this day, there are still ice molds lying on the river.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Wen Lei Weeping Tomb

During the Warring States Period, there was a man named Wang Pei in Wei State who served his mother with special filial piety. When his mother was alive, she was born timid and afraid of thunder. Wang Pei often went to his mother's side to encourage her when there was thunder. After his mother passed away, Wang Pei buried him in a quiet place in the mountains and forests. Whenever it was windy or rainy and heard the deafening thunder, Wang Pei ran to his mother's grave and knelt down, crying in a low voice and telling her: " Your son Wang Pei is here to accompany you, mother, don’t be afraid.”

There is a poem that says: A loving mother is afraid of hearing thunder, and her ice soul sleeps on the night stand; when the fragrance is shaken, she goes to the tomb a thousand times.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety _ Bearing the burden of rice to support relatives

In the Zhou Dynasty, there was a man named Zhong Yu, whose courtesy name was Zi Lu. My family was very poor, so I often went out to collect terrestris and other wild vegetables for food. In order to support his parents, Zilu often carried rice back to places hundreds of miles away to fulfill his filial piety. After the death of his parents, Yu Lunan traveled to the state of Chu. The King of Chu admired his knowledge and character very much, and granted Zilu an official position with a hundred chariots and horses. The amount of food left over at home reached ten thousand minutes. However, Zilu still did not forget the hard work of his parents and sighed: Although he hoped to live the same life as before, eating quinoa and other wild vegetables, and carrying rice back to places hundreds of miles away to support his parents, it was a pity that there was no way to achieve his wish.

There is a poem that says: Carrying rice to offer delicious food, I would rather leave a hundred miles away; I have lost all my honor and relatives, but I still miss my old hard work.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Being beaten with a stick hurts the old

During the Han Dynasty, there was a man named Han Boyu in Daliang. He was pure in nature and respected his parents. He was a famous filial son. His mother was very strict with him and would beat him with a stick if he made the slightest mistake.

One day when Boyu was being beaten, he cried sadly. His mother felt strange and asked: "You can accept it when I hit you in the past. Why are you crying today?" Boyu replied: "I feel pain when I hit you in the past. I know that my mother still has strength and is healthy, but today I feel no pain." He felt the pain and knew that his mother was weak and weak, so he couldn't help but shed tears. "It showed that he was very filial to his mother.

There is a poem that says: I miss my mother with great affection, and I care deeply about the weight of my mother's hat. Once my mother-in-law's strength weakens, I feel sad and wet with tears.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Kneel down to your father and stay with your mother

In the Song Dynasty, there was a filial daughter named Zhang Juhua in the south of the Yangtze River. When he was seven years old, his mother unfortunately died of illness and his father remarried. Chrysanthemum did not distinguish the difference between childbearing and raising, and treated her stepmother respectfully. Her stepmother has evil intentions. One day, her father went out on business, and her stepmother took the opportunity to sell her to someone else as a maid. As luck would have it, Juhua's father met Juhua on his way back. When father and daughter meet, they are filled with joy and sorrow. When her father asked her why she was in this situation, Juhua was silent with tears in her eyes. She was afraid of injuring her stepmother. When her father pressed her, she had no choice but to tell her. The father was shocked when he heard this and immediately redeemed the chrysanthemum. The father and daughter returned home three days later. When his father saw his second wife, he was very angry and wanted to divorce her. When Juhua saw this, she immediately knelt down to plead for her stepmother. Her father was finally moved by her filial piety and gave up. The stepmother has no children. After her father passed away, Chrysanthemum treated her stepmother with the same filial piety as when her father was alive, so people in the world wrote a poem saying:

A heart of devotion is as solid as a stone, and the whole body is still the same even if it is vlogged; I kneel down with deep love to forgive my mother, Pure filial piety and Qi Min Ziqian.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety＿Xiaogan Stepmother

Li Yinglin, a native of the Qing Dynasty, lived in Kunming, Yunnan. He was gentle and kind since he was a child. After his mother died unfortunately, he persuaded his father to remarry. He used the income from selling divination to support his parents. Although Ying Lin was very filial to his stepmother, her stepmother regarded him as a thorn in her side and made things difficult for him, often hitting him with sticks. Whenever this happened, Ying Lin always knelt down, respectful as before, without any intention of resisting. However, his father believed his stepmother's slander and kicked him out of the house. Ying Lin still has no complaints. Every year on his parents' birthday, he prepares gifts and goes home to congratulate them. Soon Ying Lin heard that his stepmother was ill, so he hurriedly returned home for nursing care, and ran to a place thirty miles away to seek medical treatment. He did this every day, rain or shine, until his stepmother recovered. At the same time, Ying Lin was extraordinarily kind to the children born to his stepmother, which eventually made his stepmother regretful. As a result, the relationship between mother and child improved and became better than that between his own children.

Posterity praise said: Don’t worry about your stepmother being driven away from home, your mother coming home to serve her medicine when she is sick; treating your younger brother as your own brother, your mother eventually regrets and becomes kind

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Encouragement to Aunts Xiaozu

During the Ming Dynasty, there was a family named Yang in Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. They married a child bride named Sister Liu Lan. She was only twelve years old, but she was very sensible and respectful and attentive to her family. Her mother-in-law, Wang, always offends her elders. She often calls her grandmother "old and immortal" and treats her as a "burden." Her words are very rude.

Late one night, Sister Liu Lan came to Wang's boudoir and couldn't kneel down. Wang was shocked and asked why. Sister Liu Lan replied: My son is worried that his mother-in-law disrespects his great-grandmother. In the future, your daughter-in-law will regard you as a role model, and when you are old, she will also regard you as a "baggage". How sad you will be then! My family is very lucky that my great-grandmother lives a long life. I beg you to think twice before doing this. After hearing this, Mrs. Wang suddenly realized, shedding tears and sighing: "Good words have benefited me a lot!" So he changed his ways and treated his grandmother gently and respectfully. And Sister Liu Lan treats the Wang family in the same way. It’s true:

The twenty-sixth daughter understands righteousness and sees her aunt scolding her ancestors for betraying her family’s wishes; she goes into the house and kneels down to persuade her to regret her past mistakes, and demonstrates the filial piety to her children and grandchildren.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety Filial Piety Moves Heaven

Shun, one of the Five Emperors in ancient times, was the son of Gushen. I have been very filial to my parents since I was a child. His father is an honest and kind farmer. Shun's biological mother died when Shun was a teenager. Shun's father, Gusou, was blind and said to be very talented in music. He married a second wife who was violent and cruel. Because Shun's mother was poor, she often spoke rudely and criticized his father. She gave birth to a son named Xiang. When the elephant grows up, he becomes cruel, arrogant, unreasonable, and often arrogant and disrespectful towards his father. Only Shun remained consistent, did not complain about others, was respectful to his parents as usual, paid extra attention to his younger brother, and guided him to change his ways. This extraordinary filial piety moved God. When Shun was plowing the fields at the foot of the mountain, there were divine elephants to help him, and divine birds to help him hoe away weeds. When Emperor Yao heard about Shun's filial piety, he sent nine waiters to serve the Gushou couple, and married his daughters Ehuang and Nvying to Shun in recognition of his filial piety.

Later, Yao also "abdicated" his throne to Shun. People praised Shun and said that Shun's transformation from a commoner to an emperor was due to his filial piety.

Posterity has a poem praising it: Teams plowing the fields are like spring elephants, and they are cultivating grass and fowls; Si Yao ascended the throne, and his filial piety touched the heart of heaven.

Twenty-Four Filial Piety_Brothers Compete for Filial Piety

During the Qing Dynasty, there were four Wu brothers on Chongming Island outside the Yangtze River Estuary. When they were young, their parents were forced to sell them to a wealthy family as servants because of their poverty. In order to find a way out. When they grew up, they all worked diligently and frugally, redeemed their deeds, returned to their hometowns, worked together to build houses, and each married a wife and started a family. At this time, they already understood the painstaking efforts of their parents, so they rushed to support their parents to show that they did not forget the kindness of raising them. Each family will be required to support the family for one month. Later, the virtuous and filial sisters-in-law thought that it was too long to have their turn to make offerings every three months, so they changed it to one day for each family. Later, it was changed to provide one meal for each person starting from the eldest, and then descend in order. Every five days, the whole family, old and young, gathers together to cook delicious meals and feed their parents. At the banquet, the children, grandchildren, and daughters-in-law rushed to serve dishes and toast, showing filial piety in every possible way. The whole family was really happy and happy. The two old people lived in peace and lived nearly a hundred years without any illness.

The poem goes: The kindness of parents is as deep as the abyss, not least being filial piety. The brothers strive to serve each other with delicious wine, and my sister-in-law returns to her virtuous state in pure filial piety.