1. Poems about taking care of the elderly
1. Filial piety moves the heavens. 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.
Due to the poverty of his family, Shun’s mother often spoke rudely and criticized his father. Shun had a younger brother named Xiang who was often arrogant and disrespectful to 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; there were also 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 and said that Shun's transformation from a commoner to an emperor was purely due to his filial piety.
Later generations wrote poems praising: Teams plowing the fields are like spring, and they are cultivating grass and fowls; Si Yao ascended the throne, and his filial piety touched the heart of heaven. 2. The fifth generation of filial piety. In Yongjia County, Ruian Prefecture, Zhejiang Province during the Song Dynasty, there was a man named Chen whose name was Kan, whose courtesy name was Junhe.
He served his parents with meekness and filial piety, and never let his parents have any worries. Occasionally, if his parents are sick, he will not take off his clothes, stay with them day and night, and make soup and medicine by himself.
After the death of his two elders, Chen Kan was devastated and truly fulfilled the sage's teaching of "do your best in life and think about everything in death". His filial piety was set as a model for the entire family.
Therefore, everyone in the future generations will follow suit, respect the old and love the young, unite brothers, live in harmony between husband and wife, and love sisters-in-law. From then on, it became a legend that the five generations of the Chen family lived together. The emperor of the Song Dynasty issued a banquet in Shufang and gave the title: "Chen Jun of the Xiaomen", and the people called it "Chen Xiaomen".
Later generations wrote poems praising it; The most filial deeds were praised by family members, and descendants admired the legacy from generation to generation; people who lived together for five generations revered him, and Fengchen was moved to issue an edict to commend him. 3. 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 in order to make a living.
When they grew up, they were all diligent and frugal, 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.
It will be recognized that each family will 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 descending 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 toasts, showing filial piety in every possible way. The two old people lived in peace and lived nearly a hundred years without any illness.
Poetry goes: The kindness of parents is as deep as the abyss, not only the filial piety is pious. The brothers strive to serve each other with delicious wine, and their sisters-in-law return to their virtuous lives in pure filial piety.
4. Qingu 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 very caring to her family. Respectful and attentive. 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: I am worried that my mother-in-law disrespects my mother-in-law. In the future, my daughter-in-law will regard you as a role model. When you are old, she will also regard you as a "baggage". How sad will you be then? It is a great blessing for my family that my great-grandmother lives a long life. I beg you to think twice. 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.
Sister Liu Lan treats Wang 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 enters the house and kneels down to urge her to regret her past mistakes, and demonstrates the filial piety to her children and grandchildren.
5. Xiaogan stepmother Li Yinglin, a native of the Qing Dynasty, lived in Kunming, Yunnan. He was gentle and kind since childhood. 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 extremely 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. Later generations praised: Don't worry about your stepmother being driven away from home, your mother is sick and comes home to serve medicine soup; Treating your brother as a biological brother, your mother eventually regrets and becomes kind. 6. 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 by chance 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 in tears and remained silent. 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.
Seeing this, Juhua 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, Juhua treated her stepmother with the same filial respect as when her father was alive. Therefore, people in the world have poems 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. 7. 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 hit 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 beat you in the past. Why are you crying today?" Boyu replied: "I feel pain when I beat me in the past. I know that my mother still has the strength. He is in good health, but he doesn't feel any pain today. He knows that his mother's health is declining and his strength is weak, so he can't help but shed tears.
It's not that he is unwilling to endure the pain. "It shows that he is very filial to his mother.
There is a poem that says: I miss my mother with all my heart, I care deeply about the weight of my mother's hat; Once I know my mother's strength.