"Twenty-Four Filial Piety" is twenty-four stories about filial piety, and does not mention the specific types of filial piety.
Twenty-Four Filial Piety:
1. Filial piety moves heaven; 2. Playing with colors to entertain relatives; 3. Offering deer’s milk to relatives;
4. Hundreds of miles of rice; 5. Biting fingers makes one feel sad; 6. Reed clothes obey one's mother;
7. Tasting the medicine; 8. Picking up strange organs; 9. Burying children to serve one's mother;
10. Selling oneself Bury the father; 11. Carve wood for marriage; 12. Carp jump in the fountain;
13. Bear the tangerine and leave behind a relative; 14. Fan pillow and warm quilt; 15. Work as a servant to support the mother;
16. Weeping at the tomb when hearing thunder; 17. Weeping bamboo shoots; 18. Lying on the ice and begging for carp;
19. Struggling the tiger to save the father; 20. Swallowing mosquitoes to fill the blood; 21. Tasting excrement and worrying;
22. The nanny is not idle; 23. The instrument of washing and drowning; 24. Abandoning the official position to find the mother.
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1. Deer milk for marriage
Zhou Tan (tán) son, extremely filial by nature . My parents are old, suffer from both eyesight, and want to eat deer milk. Tan Zi was dressed in deer skin, and went to the deep mountains, among the deer, to obtain deer milk for marriage. The hunter sees it and wants to shoot it. Tanzi expressed his feelings to avoid it.
Tanzi, a native of the Spring and Autumn Period. My parents are old and suffer from eye diseases, so they need to drink deer milk to treat them. He put on deer skin and went into the mountains, got into the deer herd, squeezed the deer milk, and offered it to his parents.
When extracting milk, the hunter saw what he thought was an elk and wanted to shoot him. Tanzi hurriedly lifted up the deer skin and walked out, telling the hunter the fact that he had squeezed deer milk to treat his parents' illness. risk of being killed by mistake.
My dear old man misses deer breasts and wears a brown sweater. If you don't speak loudly, you will return with arrows from the mountains. ?
The deer skin possesses the parents, and the milk is given to treat dizziness. Fengxiao was almost trapped by hunters, and his affection for Tanzi touched people's hearts.
2. A hundred miles of negative rice
Zhou Zhongyou, courtesy name Zilu. The family is poor and often eats quinoa (lí huò). For relatives, they have to live hundreds of miles away. After his death, he traveled south to Chu. He took hundreds of chariots and accumulated thousands of grains. He sat down covered with grass and lined up the cauldron to eat. He then sighed and said: "Although I want to eat quinoa, I have to bear the rice for my relatives, so I can't get it."
Zhong Yuan, courtesy name Zilu or Ji Lu, was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period and a proud disciple of Confucius. He was straightforward, brave and very filial. In his early years, his family was poor, so he often picked wild vegetables to make meals, but he carried rice home from hundreds of miles away to serve his parents.
After his parents died, he became a high official and was ordered to go to the state of Chu. He was accompanied by hundreds of chariots and horses, and he had as much grain as ten thousand bells. Sitting on the folded brocade mattress and eating a sumptuous feast, he often missed his parents and sighed: "Even if I want to eat wild vegetables and carry rice for my parents, where can I get it again?" Confucius praised: "You Serving your parents can be said to be doing your best while you are alive, but you will miss them after you die." ("Confucius' Family Sayings: Thoughts")
It's better to say goodbye to a hundred miles away than to bear the burden of rice. My dear relatives have passed away, but I still miss my old work.
If you keep going for a hundred miles, you will be afraid of returning late; if you go a long way, you will be fed by your own. On the day when the honorable relative has passed away, the rice feast can only express my condolences.
3. It hurts to bite the finger
Zhou Zengcan, whose courtesy name is Ziyu, is extremely filial to his mother. I was gathering firewood in the mountains, and there were guests at home. The mother was at a loss, hoping that the ginseng would not come back, so she bit her finger. She suddenly felt heartbroken and returned home without pay. She knelt down and asked why. My mother said, "There is an urgent visitor coming. I will bite my finger to remind you."
Zeng Shen, courtesy name Ziyu, was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period. He was a favorite disciple of Confucius. He was known as "Zengzi" in the world and was famous for his filial piety. . When he was young, his family was poor and he often went into the mountains to collect firewood. One day, a guest came to the house, and my mother was at a loss, so she bit her finger with her teeth.
Zeng Shen suddenly felt distressed. Knowing that his mother was calling him, he quickly returned home carrying firewood and knelt down to ask why. His mother said, "A guest came unexpectedly. I am biting my fingers in hope that you will come back." Zeng Shen then received the guest and treated him with courtesy. Zeng Shen was a man of profound knowledge and once proposed the self-cultivation method of "I should examine myself three times in a day" ("The Analects of Confucius·Xueer"). It is said that he wrote Confucian classics such as "Great Learning" and "The Classic of Filial Piety". Later Confucians respected him as "Zongsheng" .
The mother finger has just been bitten, and the child is heartbroken. It's not too late to return home after paying a salary, and the love between our flesh and blood is deep. ?
Bite your finger to call the child to feel something, which means that the heartache and anxiety are returning.
I feel sad that I am not slow to treat guests, and my heart is full of feelings for mother and son.
4. Luyi Shunmu
Min Sun, whose courtesy name was Ziqian, was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period and a disciple of Confucius. He was as famous as Yan Yuan in Confucius for his virtue. Confucius once praised him and said: "How filial, Min Ziqian!" ("The Analects·Advanced"). His biological mother died early, and his father married a second wife and gave birth to two more sons. His stepmother often abused him. In winter, his two younger brothers wore winter clothes made of cotton, but they gave him "cotton clothes" made of reed catkins. One day, when his father went out, Min Sun shivered from the cold while pulling the cart, and dropped the rope on the ground. He was scolded and whipped by his father. The reed flowers flew out along with the broken seam, and his father knew that Min Sun had been abused. The father returned home and wanted to divorce his second wife. Min Sun knelt down and begged his father to forgive his stepmother, saying, "If I leave my mother, I will be the only one who suffers the cold. If I divorce my mother, the three children will suffer the cold." His father was very moved and agreed to his request. When his stepmother heard about it, she regretted her mistake and treated him like her own child from then on.
The Min family has a virtuous husband, so why did he ever complain about his late mother? Respecting the virtuous mother in front of me, my three sons are protected from wind and frost.
The reed flowers cannot withstand the wind, frost and cold, and the clothes are loose and the stepmother is fried. Min Sun persuaded him to give up, but his mother was ashamed to marry him and the whole family was happy.
5. Taste the decoction personally
The former Han Dynasty Emperor Wen, named Heng, was the fourth son of the great ancestor and was initially named king. His biological mother, Empress Dowager Bo, was cared for by the emperor. My mother was often ill. For three years, the Emperor's eyes could not cross his eyelashes, his clothes could not be untied, and he could not take the medicine without tasting it by mouth. Benevolence and filial piety are known all over the world.
Emperor Liu Heng of Han Dynasty, the fourth son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was born to Empress Dowager Bo. He became emperor in the eighth year of his reign (180 BC). He was known all over the world for his benevolence and filial piety, and he never slacked off in serving his mother.
When his mother was ill for three years, he often couldn't sleep and couldn't take off his clothes. He personally tasted the decoctions his mother took before letting her take them with confidence. He reigned for 24 years, focusing on moral governance, promoting etiquette, and paying attention to the development of agriculture, which made the Western Han Dynasty stable, the population prosperous, and the economy recovered and developed. His reign with Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty is known as the "Government of Wen and Jing".
Benevolence and filial piety are present in the world, and they are crowned among hundreds of kings. Mo Ting is a good mother, and she must taste the medicine herself.
My dear mother has been ill for three years without neglecting her health. She tastes the medicine and worships the true love of my mother. The decoction is called Ren Xiao De Kai, and the medicine is named Wen Jing Tian Xia Guai.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia---Twenty-Four Filial Piety