Serving parents is extremely thoughtful.
Insist on brushing the toilet every day,
Regardless of status.
Su Dongpo wrote a hymn,
Call him as filial as the ancients.
original text
Be sincere to your mother. Every night. I cleaned up my mother's filth myself. Don't let the maids and concubines do it. There is never a moment of vacancy. Su Dongpo lamented his poems and his unique list.
Zhao called it a drowning washer. I have my own maids and concubines to do it. Only the dutiful son does not show his official position. It is common to lose your son's post. Flooding equipment and cleaning for professionals. Other sub-positions. There's still a lot to talk about Li Wengeng refers to what the valley has done. Like a stone building. Everyone is willing to serve his son. Those who don't show their leisure by being expensive are also.
Brief analysis
In Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, the symbol of Yuan Dynasty was a teacher, and his nature was filial piety. Although the body is expensive, it is sincere to the mother. I personally wash my mother's drowning device every night, and I have never been absent for a moment. There is a poem praising: you are famous all over the world, and you have been filial to your loved ones all your life. Wash your own drowning machine, without a concubine.
Detailed comments
In the Song Dynasty, there was a great poet named Huang Tingjian, whose name was Lu Zhi, whose nickname was Valley, and a few people called Old Man Shuangjing. He is from Fengning County, Hongzhou City.
Huang Tingjian has been filial to his parents since childhood. He will try his best to serve his parents, no matter how big or small they are, and never refuse. Huang Tingjian was also very studious since childhood. At the age of 23, he was admitted to Jinshi. During the reign of Yuan You, he became a "Taishi" official. Huang Tingjian not only served the official court and benefited the people all over the world, but also devoted himself to moral knowledge and left many works for future generations with extraordinary literary and artistic attainments.
When Huang Tingjian was a "Taishi", his official duties were busy. Although there is a servant at home, he takes pains to take care of his mother's life personally and never slackens. Every day when he comes back from busy business, he will personally accompany his mother, so that he can always feel her physical and mental needs in all aspects. He will also carefully serve her personally and strive to make her happy and satisfied in everything.
Mother has a special habit of loving hygiene, because there was no toilet at home at that time, so people usually prepared an emergency toilet for the convenience of going to the toilet at night. In order to ensure the elderly mother's physical and mental stability, and avoid her worry that the hygiene and cleanliness of the servants are not up to her satisfaction, Huang Tingjian insisted on personally scrubbing the toilet for her mother every day for decades without interruption.
Huang Tingjian's practice has aroused some people's curiosity and incomprehension. On one occasion, someone asked Huang Tingjian, "As a noble court official and there are so many servants, why do you have to do such trivial things yourself, even such humble things as cleaning the toilet for your mother?"
Huang Tingjian replied: "Filial piety is my duty and has nothing to do with my status. How can I ask my servant to do it for me? Besides, filial piety comes from a person's sincere gratitude to his parents. How can there be a distinction between high and low? "
Huang Tingjian's sincere filial piety and incorruptible conduct not only served the court and the people wholeheartedly when he was an official, but also silently showed the virtues of sages to the world through his achievements in calligraphy and literature, and influenced future generations subtly with his works.
In his calligraphy, the palace is tight and divergent on all sides, which embodies the way of life. His poems and essays are full of nature, which makes people feel "natural". The poet Su Dongpo once praised him and said: Huang Tingjian's poems can be described as "an independent table of all things". His poems can stand in the literary world and will never die out.
meaning
Since ancient times, from the monarch of a country to Shu Ren, filial piety is the foundation of self-cultivation. Today, with the development and changes of the objective material environment, people often rely too much on the external material conditions they have because of their so-called "busyness", thus replacing their due responsibilities as children and even "representing" filial piety.
Calm thinking, when we use a lot of money or servants instead of the obligation to honor our parents, have you ever thought: If our parents used money and servants to represent our love and care when we were young, would we have such a healthy body and mind today?
Looking back on the past, Huang Tingjian can imitate the virtues of ancient sages and sages, without being influenced by the external environment, and serve his parents sincerely with filial piety. I believe that today we can also inherit the wishes of our families, practice filial piety and give our parents a healthy and happy old age.
Confucius said in the Book of Filial Piety: "A dutiful son is born with respect, enjoys raising, worries when he is ill, mourns when he is sad, and sacrifices severely." Five things are ready, and then you can get married. "It can be seen that filial piety to parents, big or small, can only be achieved with heartfelt respect.
"If the roots get water, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits will flourish." This is the road of nature. If you want to make your life and career prosperous and fruitful, you can only start with filial piety to your parents and ancestors and love for the root of life, sincerely.