Wang Xiang's stepmother wants to eat fresh fish. It was freezing, and Wang Xiang was naked on the ice. When the ice melted, the double carp jumped out, and Wang Xiang took it back to her stepmother.
Lying on the ice to find carp is an ancient folklore story. The Story of Searching for the Gods, which originated from Gan Bao, tells the story of Wang Xiang, a man from A Jin, fishing on the ice for his stepmother in winter, and is regarded as a classic of filial piety by later generations.
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I. Other Filial Piety Stories "Twenty-four Filial Pieties"
In the Yuan Dynasty, the filial piety of 24 ancient people was compiled into a book, which was painted by Wang as "Twenty-four Filial Pieties" and spread all over the world. In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Zhidong and others expanded it into a "hundred filial piety map". At the invitation of Mr. Yuan's 86th birthday, the volume of Twenty-four Filial Pieties was drawn in full accordance with the content of Wang's Twenty-four Filial Pieties in Yuan Dynasty. In contrast, Cao Xu's History of Twenty-four Filial Pieties is more personalized. The Twenty-four Filial Piety Map is as follows:
Xiaogan moved the sky, played colorful games to entertain his relatives, deer milk served his relatives, and took a hundred miles to lose rice. He chewed his fingers, followed his mother, tasted soup and medicine, picked up different tools, buried his son and served his mother, sold himself to bury his father, carved wood served his relatives, leaped over the spring carp, left oranges to warm his pillow, offered servants to serve his mother, and cried with thunder, crying over the grave and bamboo.
Second, the origin of filial piety
Filial piety as an ethical concept was formally put forward in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, filial piety means:
(1) Respect your ancestors and honor them. The main way of filial piety is sacrifice. In the ancestral hall, ancestor worship is a sacrifice, and the object of filial piety is the dead, which has a certain religious form.
(2) carry on the family line. In the eyes of Zhou people, ancestors are the product of our generation's life. Therefore, ancestor worship is to continue the life of ancestors. In a word, filial piety in the Western Zhou Dynasty is a feudal religious ethics.
Third, modern filial piety.
The practice of filial piety is not blindly paid, but conditional, relying on wisdom to maintain a balanced state so that everyone can gain something from it, so as to be stable for a long time.
I don't approve of blindly pursuing traditional ethics, playing a cold game of drawing water from a bamboo basket, and binding my freedom and happiness.
I don't approve of hedonism, and take my parents' kindness for granted, which increases my insensitivity.
What should be recognized is the harmonious state of harp, harp and voice. Limited efforts and wisdom have brought them emotional or material compensation. That is, there is a causal mechanism that pays off and returns, which can ensure benign development.
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