“It’s so hard to love me and be filial, but to hate me is to be filial and virtuous”
When parents like us, filial piety is very easy; when parents don’t like us, or When the discipline is too harsh, we are still filial, and we can also reflect on ourselves, understand our parents' thoughts, try to change and do better, this kind of filial behavior is the most valuable.
Lying on the Ice Seeking Carp
Wang Xiang, whose courtesy name is Xiuzheng, is from Langxie. The most filial nature. She was bereaved early, and her stepmother Zhu was unkind and ridiculed her several times. Because he lost his love for his father, he swept away the cattle every time. My parents are ill and cannot take off their clothes. The mother often wishes to give birth to a fish, but the weather is freezing. Xiang takes off her clothes and cuts through the ice in search of a fish. The ice suddenly dissolved on its own, and the two carp jumped out, holding on to it and returning. The mother thought about the yellow sparrow again, and dozens of yellow sparrows came into her curtain, and again offered to the mother. The villagers were amazed, thinking it was due to filial piety.
Explanation: Wang Xiang of the Jin Dynasty lost his mother in his early years. His stepmother Zhu did not support him and often complained about Wang Xiang in front of his father. As a result, he lost the love of his father, who always asked him to clean the cowshed. His parents were sick, and he was so busy taking care of them that he didn't even have time to untie his clothes. One winter, his stepmother Zhu fell ill and wanted to eat carp, but because the weather was cold and the river was frozen, Wang Xiang lay naked on the ice. Suddenly the ice melted and two carp jumped out from the crack. Wang Xiang was very happy and continued to eat carp. Return to worship my stepmother. The stepmother wanted to eat roasted oriole again, but it was difficult to catch the oriole. When Wang Xiang was worried, dozens of oriole suddenly flew into his bird-catching net. He was overjoyed and immediately used it to worship 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 praising: 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.