1, Eupatorium odoratum, repay a favor.
Knotting grass and inscribed rings are ancient legends of gratitude, which come from Zuo Zhuan. The former is about a scholar-bureaucrat who married his father's concubine alone in order not to be martyred. The father of the dead concubine thanked his daughter for the tangled weeds on the ground and tripped over the benefactor's opponent.
The latter said that a child saved the life of a trapped yellowbird, and the yellowbird got four white rings, claiming that this ring could make the benefactor's children white for generations and occupy a high position. After that, the two allusions are combined into one sentence, which means that if you are loved by others, you will get good results, and life and death will remain the same.
Feng Menglong in Ming Dynasty wrote in Awakening the World: Your great kindness is not reported, but engraved in your arms. Title ring grass, life and death do not bear.
2. A meal from a floating mother
When Han Xin was a teenager, his family was poor and his parents died. Although he studies hard and practices martial arts hard, he still has no life. As a last resort, he had to go to other people's homes to eat for free, which was often ignored by others.
Han Xin swallow not to descend this tone, went to the Huaihe River to fish, fish for food, and often had a hearty meal. There is an old woman who washes yarn wadding for others by the Huaihe River. She is called "floating mother". Seeing Han Xin's pity, she gave him her own food. Every day, without interruption.
Han Xin was deeply moved. Han Xin, who was named the marquis of Huaiyin, never forgot the kindness of his wandering mother, sent people to look around and finally gave it to him as a gift.
3, know the grace of the encounter
During the Spring and Autumn Period, Yu Boya was good at playing strings, while Zhong Ziqi was good at listening to sounds and distinguishing meanings. On one occasion, Boya traveled to the north of Mount Tai (now Guishan in Hanyang, Wuhan) and was caught in a rainstorm, hiding under a rock. When he is lonely, he takes out his guqin and plays it.
Zhong Ziqi, a woodcutter who also sheltered from the rain nearby, couldn't help crying, "Good song! What a beautiful song! " Later, every time Boya played a piano piece, he could hear its meaning and interest in the early stage, which surprised Boya.
So they became bosom friends and made an appointment to meet again next year to discuss the piano. But when Boya came to the meeting the next year, he learned that the little chef hippo had died of illness not long ago. Boya lamented his sadness and broke the guqin. From then on, she stopped playing the strings to thank her for her rare bosom friend.
4. A scholar dies as a bosom friend.
A scholar who dies as a confidant means that he is willing to give his life to those who appreciate and cultivate himself. Yurang was the retainer of the branch family in the Spring and Autumn Period. In 453 BC, Zhao of the State of Jin defeated Zhi in Jinyang with Han and Wei. The head of the Zhi family was killed and the head was used as a wine vessel.
In order to repay the kindness of meeting him directly, Yu rang went to the toilet to swallow charcoal pen and stabbed him many times. Later, when it was exposed, he committed suicide, leaving behind the eternal swan song of "A scholar dies for a bosom friend, and a woman delights herself".
5. The legacy of Huai Opera
Lu Ji was a scientist from Huating (now Songjiang, Shanghai) in Wu and Wu counties during the Three Kingdoms period. At the age of six, he went to Jiujiang to see Yuan Shu with his father Lu Kang, and Yuan Shu took out oranges to entertain him. Lu Ji hid two oranges in his arms.
When he left, the orange fell to the ground. Yuan Shu sneered: "When Lu Lang came to my house, did you have to hide his master's oranges when you left?" Lu Ji replied, "My mother likes oranges, and I want to take them back for her to taste." Yuan Shu was surprised to see that he knew how to be filial to his mother at an early age.
After Lu Ji became an adult, he was knowledgeable and familiar with astronomical calendar calculation. He once wrote the map of the muddy sky, annotated the Book of Changes and wrote the Annotation of the Xuanjing.
6. Connect different devices
Cai Shun, a native of Runan (now Henan) in Han Dynasty, lost his father and his mother was very filial. At that time, it was the chaos of follwed, and there was a famine. Rice was expensive, so we had to adopt mulberry and mother to satisfy our hunger. One day, I happened to meet the Red Eyebrow Army, and the rebel soldiers sharply asked, "Why do you put red mulberries and black mulberries in two baskets?" Cai Shun replied: "The black mulberry is for my mother, and the red mulberry is for myself." ?
The Red Eyebrow Army pitied his filial piety and gave him three barrels of white rice and a cow to take back to his mother as a token of respect.