Collecting ballads and folktales about filial piety.

[The father is the sky, the mother is the earth, eating the fruits and remembering the branches]

It means that the kindness of parents in nurturing cannot be forgotten. Example: "When you are a younger brother, you should be filial to the elderly (the father is the sky, the mother is the earth, and when eating the fruit, think of the branches. Children should be filial to the elderly)."

There are three things for those who are unfilial: saying that they are filial. To follow one's will is unjust, and it is unfilial. The first is unfilial; the family is poor, and the relatives are old, and they do not serve as officials, the second is unfilial; not marrying and having no children, the ancestors are not worshiped, the third is unfilial. ”

Shun, the legendary ancient emperor and one of the Five Emperors, had a surname of Yao and a given name of Chonghua. His nickname was Yu, and he was known as Yu Shun in history. According to legend, his father Gusou, stepmother, and half-brother Xiang , tried to kill him many times: when Shun was asked to repair the roof of the barn, he set fire under the barn, but Shun jumped down with two bamboo hats in hand to escape; when asked to dig a well, Gusou and Xiang went down to fill the well, and Shun dug a tunnel to escape. Afterwards, Shun showed no resentment and was still respectful to his father and loving to his younger brother. His filial piety moved the Emperor of Heaven. The elephants plowed the land for him and the birds did the weeding for him. Emperor Yao heard that Shun was very filial and dealt with it. Because of his political talents, he married his two daughters Ehuang and Nvying. After years of observation and testing, he selected Shun as his successor. After Shun ascended the throne as emperor, he still visited his father respectfully and granted him the title of Xiang. Princes.

Taste the decoction personally:

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the third son of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, was born to Empress Dowager Bo in the eighth year of his reign (180 BC). His name of filial piety was known all over the world, 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. Governing with morality, promoting etiquette, and paying attention to the development of agriculture made the Western Han Dynasty stable, the population prosperous, and the economy recovered and developed. His reign with Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty was known as the "Government of Wen and Jing"

Li Fumi:

Zhong Yuan, also known as Zilu or Jilu, 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 and he often picked wild vegetables to make meals. He returned home from a hundred 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 food as ten thousand bells. Eating a sumptuous feast on stacked brocade mats, he often missed his parents and sighed: "Even if I want to eat wild vegetables and go out to carry rice for my parents, where can I get it again? Confucius praised and said: "You serve your parents. It can be said that you did your best when you were alive, but you miss them after you die!" ”

Lu Yishun’s mother:

Min Sun, courtesy name Ziqian, was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period and a disciple of Confucius. He was known as well as Yan Yuan among Confucius for his virtues. Confucius once praised He said: "How filial, Min Ziqian! "("The Analects of Confucius·Advanced"). His biological mother died young, and his father married a second wife and gave birth to two sons. His stepmother often abused him. In winter, his two younger brothers wore winter clothes made of cotton, but they gave him 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. He was scolded and flogged by his father. The reeds flew out from the broken seam, and his father knew that Min Sun had suffered Abuse. When his father returned home, he wanted to divorce his stepmother. Min Sun begged his father to forgive his stepmother, saying, "I am the only one who will suffer the cold if I leave my mother. If I divorce her, all three children will suffer." "My father was very moved and accepted him. When his stepmother heard about it, she regretted her mistake and treated him like her own son from then on.

Sold her body to bury her father:

Dong Yong, according to legend, was a thousand-year-old man in the Eastern Han Dynasty. A native of Cheng (now north of Gaoqing County, Shandong Province), his mother died when he was young, so he moved to Anlu (now in Hubei Province) to escape the war. Later, his father died, and Dong Yong sold himself as a slave to a wealthy family in exchange for funeral expenses. He met a woman under the shade of a locust tree and said that she was homeless. The two of them got married. The woman spent one month weaving three hundred pieces of brocade to pay off Dong Yong's debt. On the way home, they went to the shade of a locust tree and the woman told Dong Yong. Yong: She was the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven and was ordered to help Dong Yong pay off his debt. Therefore, Huaiyin changed his name to Xiaogan.

Guo Ju. In the Jin Dynasty, he was a native of Longlu (now Linxian County, Henan Province), or Wenxian County, Hanoi (southwest of today's Wenxian County, Henan Province). His family was originally well-off. After his father died, he divided the family property into two parts and gave them to his two younger brothers. He was solely supported by his mother and was very filial to her. Later, his family gradually became poor and his wife gave birth to a boy. Guo Ju was worried that raising this child would inevitably affect his support for his mother, so he discussed with his wife: "You can have another son, but your mother cannot be resurrected after she dies. It is better to bury the son and save some food to support the mother.

"When they were digging a hole, they suddenly saw a jar of gold two feet underground, with a letter saying, "God has given Guo Ju, officials cannot take it, and the people cannot take it away." The couple got the gold, went home to honor their mother, and were able to raise their children.

Kill the tiger to save his father:

Yang Xiang, a native of the Jin Dynasty, went to the fields to harvest rice with his father when he was fourteen years old. Suddenly a tiger came and knocked down his father and carried him away. Xiang was defenseless, and in order to save his father, he hurriedly jumped forward, used all his strength to strangle the tiger's throat, and the tiger finally let go of his father and ran away.