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Several stories about "filial piety"
The story of Manglietia saved her mother: "The man with Manglietia has great strength. His mother fell into the hungry ghost road, and the food mouth turned into flames. Hunger was too bitter. Unable to save his mother, Mu Lian asked the Buddha for advice. In order to talk about the Lanpen Sutra, she taught July 15th to make a Lanpen to save her mother. " According to legend, Mulian went through all kinds of hardships in the underworld, met her dead mother Liu and found that she was tortured by a group of hungry ghosts. Manglietia tried to give her a bowl of vegetable rice, but the vegetable rice was taken away by the hungry ghost. Mu Lian had to ask the Buddha for help. The Buddha was moved by Mu Lian's filial piety and gave him the Lanjing. According to the instructions, Manglietia arranged a vegetarian feast for her mother in a orchid pot on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. The hungry mother finally got the food. Buddhists hold a grand "bonsai" every year to commemorate the filial piety of Manglietia, which is what we now call "Ghost Festival".

Femoral cutting treatment relatives: thigh: thigh. It used to mean that a dutiful son gave up the meat on his leg to treat his parents' illness.

From Volume 9 of Han Shi Zhuan, the original text is "The husband wants to be quiet and the wind will not stop, and the son wants to raise and not wait for his relatives."

The above exclamation was felt by gaoyu after his parents died. Gaoyu travels around the world to visit teachers and friends, so he seldom stays at home to serve his parents. Unexpectedly, his parents died one after another, and Gao Yu was shocked that he could no longer be filial. He deeply regrets that his parents failed to take care of the bed when they were alive, and now he regrets it!

Gao Yu described her helplessness in losing her parents with "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop". Big trees don't like to swing too much in the wind, or their branches will fall off; But the wind never stopped, and the trees were constantly being blown. The wind is endless, which is the helplessness of the tree; The absence of relatives is the helplessness of the dutiful son!

Because of this, later generations used "the sadness of the wind tree" to refer to the pain of bereavement.

Cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, govern the country, and level the world "comes from the Book of Rites, which says," Everything must be known, knowledge must be sincere, honesty must be correct, mind must be correct, body must be practiced, family must be practiced, country must be practiced, and country must be practiced. "

First, the feudal society "cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, govern the country and level the world"

The famous saying "cultivate one's morality, keep the family in order, govern the country and level the world" in history was not written for ordinary people, because it was impossible for ordinary people in that era to read it, and it did not rise to the civil service system of social management. It is written for officials (nobles) and even monarchs, inspiring life and achieving the pursuit of life. Self-cultivation means that you have enough talent and virtue. Keeping one's family well means managing one's manor, governing the country means assisting the monarch (or the monarch himself) to manage the country well, and leveling the world means achieving the world (the concept of the world at that time was the so-called "China" north of the Yangtze River basin). Times have changed, and tomorrow's feudal society has already turned into historical dust. However, in the history of China, I don't know how many great heroes were inspired and guided by this famous saying. "Cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, govern the country and level the world" comes from the book Book of Rites University. The book says, "We should know things in hindsight, be sincere in hindsight, be sincere in hindsight, cultivate one's mind in hindsight, cultivate one's morality in the future, and govern the country after the family, and the world will be at peace after the country is governed". The background of this old saying is a typical feudal society in China. At that time, the society was completely different from today's society, that is, Qin Shihuang unified China for more than two thousand years. The Zhou Dynasty sealed eight hundred vassals, each of which was a country. Every country has relatively independent administrative, financial, judicial and military powers, but it is definitely not a sovereign country in the modern sense. The vassal state was divided into several aristocratic families, each of which was a home, equivalent to a manor; Such a home is far from the home of ordinary people in modern society. At that time, families in today's society could only be called households, and ordinary citizens in today's society could only be called slaves or slave owners at that time.