1. How to describe filial piety to parents-in-law in ancient Chinese
1. Be cautious when going in and out for support, and don’t get tired of serving them day and night.
It means: Parents should be careful to support them when entering and exiting (doors), and don’t get tired of serving them in the morning and evening. From "Encouragement to Repay Parents' Favors".
2. If you can be filial to your parents, you will be a good son; if you are filial to your mother-in-law, you will be filial and you will be virtuous. It means: being filial to your parents means you are a good son, being filial to your father-in-law and mother-in-law will lead to a reputation of being both filial and virtuous.
From "Encouragement to Repay Parental Favors". 3. Disciples will be filial when they enter, and they will be younger when they leave.
It means: young disciples should be filial to their parents when they return home, and they should respect and love their brothers when they go out. From the (Spring and Autumn) "The Analects of Confucius·Learning is the First".
4. Don’t be slow when your parents call you; don’t be lazy when your parents order you. It means: when your parents call you, you should quickly answer; when your parents give orders, you should quickly do it.
From (Qing Dynasty) Li Yuxiu's "Disciple Regulations". 5. A husband's filial piety is the scripture of heaven and the righteousness of earth.
Meaning: Filial piety is a natural and right thing to do. From "The Classic of Filial Piety".
6. Don’t be slow to answer the call, be sincere and cheerful. It means: When your parents call you, you should answer immediately, do not neglect, and be sincere and with a smile on your face.
From "Encouragement to Repay Parental Favors". 8. Good food should be used by parents first, and good clothes should be worn by parents first.
It means: Give your parents good food first, and give your parents good clothes first. From "Encouragement to Repay Parents' Favors".
9. A poor family knows a filial son, and a country in chaos knows a loyal minister. It means: Only when the family is poor can a true filial son be discovered; only when the country is in danger can a true loyal minister be identified.
From "Collection of Famous Sages". 10. He who is arrogant towards his relatives is also disrespectful to his relatives.
Meaning: People who do not respect other people’s parents will certainly not respect their own parents. From "Three Kingdoms·Book of Wei".
11. Mencius said: "If you don't have relatives, you can't be a human being; if you don't have relatives, you can't be a son." Mencius said: "(In Shun's eyes) the relationship between a son and his parents is good. If you are not well-behaved, you cannot be a good person; if a son cannot obey his parents in everything, he cannot be a son."
From (Chun Qiu). "Mencius Li Lou Shang". 12. Mencius said: "Old people are as old as others, and young people are as young as others."
Mencius said: "Respect the elders of your own family, and by extension, also respect the elders of other families; caress and care for them." One's own children should be spread to caress other people's children." From "Mencius: King Hui of Liang" (Spring and Autumn Period).
13. Mencius said: "Kissing relatives is benevolence; respecting elders is righteousness." Mencius said: "Loving parents is benevolence; respecting elders is righteousness."
From (Spring and Autumn Period) "Mencius: Devoting Your Mind to the Heart". 14. Mencius said: "Everyone loves his relatives and grows up with them, and the world is peaceful."
Mencius said: "As long as everyone loves his parents and respects his elders, then the world Naturally, there will be peace." From "Mencius Li Lou Shang" (Spring and Autumn Period).
15. Don’t let your parents suffer from hard work, and don’t let your parents suffer from sorrow. It means: Don’t let your parents suffer, don’t let your parents share your worries.
From "Encouragement to Repay Parental Favors". 16. If you like what you like, use your strength to protect it; if you dislike what you like, be careful to get rid of it.
It means: Children should try their best to prepare things for their parents if they like them; things that their parents hate should be carefully removed for them. From (Qing Dynasty) Li Yuxiu's "Disciple Regulations".
17. If a relative has a fault, he will correct it if he remonstrates. My color is calm and my voice is soft.
Meaning: Parents are at fault, advise them to change. Smile and speak softly.
From (Qing Dynasty) Li Yuxiu's "Disciple Regulations". 18. If you love me, it’s hard to be filial; if you love me or hate me, filial piety is the only way to be virtuous.
It means: My parents love me, so what is the difficulty in being filial; my parents hate me, but I still show my filial piety, which is virtuous. From (Qing Dynasty) Li Yuxiu's "Disciple Regulations".
19. A virtuous wife will bring few troubles, and a son will be filial to his father and have a generous heart. It means: if a wife is virtuous, her husband will have fewer disasters; if the children are filial, the parents will be happy.
From "Zengguang Xianwen" (Ming Dynasty). 20. Among thousands of classics, filial piety and righteousness come first.
Xiang is nine years old and can warm the mat. When Huang Xiang was a child, life at home was very difficult. When he was 9 years old, his mother died.
Huang Xiang is very sad. He was very filial to his parents. When his mother was ill, Xiao Huangxiang stayed by his side and guarded her mother's bedside. After his mother passed away, he cared more about his father and tried to make his father worry less.
On winter nights, the weather is extremely cold. At that time, farmers did not have any heating equipment in their homes, so it was really difficult to sleep.
One day, when Huang Xiang was studying at night, she felt very cold. The hand holding the scroll became cold after a while. He thought that in such a cold weather, his father must be very cold. He had been working all day during the day and could not sleep well at night.
Thinking of this, Xiao Huangxiang felt very uneasy.
In order to save his father from the cold, he quietly walked into his father's room after reading, spread the quilt for him, then took off his clothes, got into his father's bed, and used his body temperature to warm the cold bed. After that, he asked his father to go to bed.
Huang Xiang warmed her father's heart with her filial heart. The story of Huang Xiang Wen Xi spread like this, and everyone in the neighborhood praised Huang Xiang.
Summer is here, and the low house of Huang Xiang’s family is extremely hot, and there are many mosquitoes and flies. At night, everyone was enjoying the cool air in the courtyard. Although everyone kept shaking the cattail leaf fans in their hands, they still didn't feel cool.
It was night, and everyone was sleepy and ready to go to bed. Only then did everyone realize that Xiao Huangxiang was never here. "Xiang'er, Xiang'er."
His father quickly raised his voice and called him, "Dad, I'm here." With that, Huang Xiang walked out of his father's room.
His head was covered with sweat and he was holding a big cattail leaf fan in his hand. "What are you doing? It's hot weather," Dad said distressedly.
"It was too hot in the house and there were a lot of mosquitoes. I fanned hard and the mosquitoes ran away. The house also seemed cooler. You can sleep better." Huang Xiang said.
Dad hugged Huang Xiang tightly, "My good boy, but you are sweating all over yourself!" From now on, in order to let his father have a good rest, Huang Xiang always held a I fanned them to drive away the mosquitoes and flies, and also fanned the bed and pillow where my father slept, so that my father could fall asleep earlier after a tiring day. This is how 9-year-old Xiao Huangxiang honors her father. Huang Xiang, known as Wenxi, is unparalleled in the world.
When he grew up, people said that those who can honor their parents must also know how to love the people and their country. That's exactly what happened. Huang Xiang later became a local official, and he lived up to expectations and did a lot of good things for the local people. The story of his filial piety to his parents has been passed down through the ages. 2. 24 How to translate the ancient text about filial piety
1. Filial piety moved the heaven, Yu Shun, and blind filial piety moved the son of the heaven (ɡǔ sǒu).
The most filial nature. The father is stubborn, the mother is loud, and the younger brother is proud.
When Shun plowed Mount Li, elephants plowed it and birds plowed it. Such is his sense of filial piety.
When Emperor Yao heard about it, he gave the matter to nine men and two women as his wife, so he gave the world to him. Teams of spring plowing elephants are cultivating grass and fowls.
When Si Yao ascended the throne, his filial piety moved the heart of heaven. Shun, the legendary ancient emperor and one of the Five Emperors, had a surname of Yao, a given name of Chonghua, a nickname of Yu, and 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 they asked Shun to repair the roof of the barn, they set fire under the barn. Shun jumped down and escaped with two bamboo hats in hand; When Shun was asked to dig a well, Gusou and Xiang filled the well with earth, 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. When Shun was farming in Mount Li, elephants plowed the land for him and birds weeded for him.
Emperor Yao heard that Shun was very filial and had the ability to handle political affairs, so he married his two daughters Ehuang and Nvying to him. After years of observation and testing, Emperor Yao selected Shun as his successor. After Shun ascended the throne as emperor, he went to visit his father. He was still respectful and made Xiang a prince.
2. Playing and entertaining relatives Zhou Lao Laizi is the most filial, serving his second relative. He is extremely sweet and honest. He is seventy years old and does not say he is old. She often wears colorful clothes and plays with her babies.
He also tried to take the water to the hall, pretended to fall down and lie down on the ground, and made a baby cry to entertain his relatives. Lao Laizi, a hermit from the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period (Eastern Zhou Dynasty), farmed at the southern foot of Mount Meng to avoid the chaos.
He was filial to his parents and served them all the delicacies. He was still young at the age of 70. He often wore colorful clothes and played with a rattle like a child to make his parents happy. Once, I brought water to my parents, pretended to fall, and lay on the ground to learn. The child cried while the parents laughed.
The spring breeze moves the colorful clothes. The parents laughed, and the whole court was full of joy.
3. Deer’s milk for marriage Zhou Tan (tán) son, extremely filial in nature. My parents are old, suffer from both eyesight, and want to eat deer milk.
Tan Zi was dressed in deer skin and went to the mountains to get into the herds of deer to obtain deer milk for marriage. The hunter sees it and wants to shoot it.
Tanzi expressed his feelings to avoid it. Tanzi, a native of the Spring and Autumn Period.
My parents are old and suffering from eye diseases and need to drink deer milk for treatment. So he put on deer skin and went into the mountains, got into the deer herd, squeezed the deer milk, and offered it to his parents.
When extracting milk, the hunter saw what he thought was an elk and wanted to shoot him. Tan Zi hurriedly lifted up the deer skin and walked out, telling the hunter the fact that he had squeezed deer milk to treat his parents' illness. risk of being killed by mistake. Kissing the elderly and thinking about deer milk, wearing a brown sweater.
If you don’t speak loudly, you will return with arrows from the mountains. 4. A Hundred Miles of Negative Rice Zhou Zhongyou, courtesy name Zilu.
His family was poor and he often ate quinoa (lí huò). He had to live hundreds of miles away for his relatives. After his death, he traveled south to Chu. He took hundreds of chariots and accumulated thousands of millet grains. He sat on the bed covered with grass and lined up the cauldron to eat. He sighed and said, "Although I want to eat quinoa, I have to bear the rice for my relatives, so I can't get it."
Zhong Yuan, also known as Zilu or Ji Lu, 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, so he often picked wild vegetables to make meals, but he carried rice home from hundreds of 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 grain as ten thousand bells. Sitting on the folded brocade mattress and eating a sumptuous feast, he often missed his parents and sighed: "Even if I want to eat wild vegetables and carry rice for my parents, where can I get it again?" Confucius praised: "You Serving your parents can be said to be doing your best when you are alive, but you will miss them after you die." ("Confucius' Family Sayings") It is better to bear the rice and offer it to you than to say goodbye hundreds of miles away.
My dear relatives have passed away, but I still miss my old work. 5. Biting fingers hurts Zhou Zengcan, courtesy name Ziyu, who is extremely filial to his mother.
When I was gathering firewood in the mountains, there were guests at home. The mother was at a loss, hoping that the ginseng would not be returned, so she bit her finger.
Shen suddenly felt heartbroken and returned home without pay. He knelt down and asked why. My mother said: "There is an urgent visitor coming. I will bite my finger to remind you."
Zeng Shen, courtesy name Ziyu, was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period. He was a favorite disciple of Confucius. He was known as "Zengzi" and was famous for his filial piety. . When he was young, his family was poor and he often went into the mountains to collect firewood.
One day, a guest came to the house, and my mother was at a loss, so she bit her finger with her teeth. Zeng Shen suddenly felt distressed. Knowing that his mother was calling him, he quickly returned home carrying firewood and knelt down to ask why.
His mother said, "A guest came unexpectedly. I am biting my fingers in hope that you will come back." Zeng Shen then received the guests, biting his fingers in sorrow, and treated him with courtesy.
Zeng Shen was very knowledgeable and once proposed the self-cultivation method of "I should examine myself three times every day" ("The Analects of Confucius·Xueer"). It is said that he wrote Confucian classics such as "Great Learning" and "The Classic of Filial Piety". Respect him as the "Zongsheng". The mother's finger has just been bitten, and the child's heart aches.
It’s not too late to return home without a paycheck, and the love between flesh and blood is deep. 6. Lu Yishun’s mother Zhou Minshu, also known as Ziqian, lost his mother early.
The father married the stepmother and gave birth to two sons, who were clothed in cotton wool; jealous, clothed in reeds. My father ordered me to damage my chariot, my body was cold, and I lost my temper.
The father found out and wanted to get rid of his stepmother. Hui said: "When a mother is born, her son is cold, and when a mother is gone, her three sons are alone."
When the mother heard about it, she repented. Min Sun, whose courtesy name was 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 the Confucian sect for his virtue.
Confucius once praised him and said: "How filial, Min Ziqian!" ("The Analects·Advanced"). His biological mother died early, and his father married a second wife and gave birth to two more sons.
His stepmother often abused him. In winter, his two younger brothers wore winter clothes made of cotton, but they gave him "cotton clothes" made of reed catkins. One day, when his father went out, Min Sun shivered due to the cold while pulling the cart, and dropped the rope. He was scolded and whipped by his father. The reed flowers flew out along with the broken seams, and his father knew that Min Sun was being abused.
The father returned home and wanted to divorce his second wife. Min Sun knelt down and begged his father to forgive his stepmother, saying, "I am the only one who will suffer the cold if I leave my mother behind. If I divorce my mother, the three children will suffer the cold."
His father was very moved and agreed to his request. When his stepmother heard about it, she regretted her mistake and treated him like her own child from then on.
The Min family had a virtuous husband, so why did they ever blame the late mother? Respecting the virtuous mother in front of me, my three sons are protected from wind and frost. 7. Taste the decoction in person. Emperor Wen of the former Han Dynasty, named Heng, was the third son of Emperor Gaozu and was first named King of Dai.
The emperor’s biological mother, Empress Dowager Bo, took care of her without any slack. My mother was often ill. For three years, the Emperor's eyes could not cross his eyelashes, his clothes could not be untied, and he could not take the medicine without tasting it by mouth.
Benevolence and filial piety are known all over the world. Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty Liu Heng, the third son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was born to Empress Dowager Bo.
He became emperor in the eighth year of the reign of Emperor Gao (180 BC). He was known all over the world for his benevolence and filial piety, and he never slacked off in serving his mother.
His mother had been ill for three years, and he often couldn't sleep without blinking an eye or taking off his clothes. He personally tasted the decoctions his mother took before letting her take them with confidence. He reigned for 24 years, focusing on moral governance, promoting etiquette, and paying attention to the development of agriculture, which made the Western Han Dynasty stable, the population prosperous, and the economy recovered and developed. 3. Asking for a classical Chinese translation of "Min Ziqian's Filial Piety"
Original text:
There were two brothers, Min Ziqian. Their mother died, and their father remarried and gave birth to two sons. Zi Qian was guarding his father and lost his bridle. His father was holding his hand. He was cold and his clothes were very thin. When the father returns, he calls his stepmother, holds his hand, is warm and his clothes are thick. That is to say, he said to the woman: "The reason why I married you is to be my son. Now you are bullying me, and I will leave you alone." Zi Qian said before him: "When the mother is here, one son is cold; when the mother is gone, the four sons are cold." His father was silent, and his stepmother also regretted it.
Translation:
After the death of their mother, their father married a stepmother who gave birth to two more sons. Min Ziqian was driving a horse for his father and lost the bridle. His father held his hand and found that his hand was cold and his clothes were thin. After the father returned, he called his stepmother's son and held his hand. His hand was warm and he was wearing thick clothes. He said to his wife: "The reason why I married you was for my son. Now you have deceived me and let my son suffer from the cold. Go away and don't stay in my house anymore." Ziqian stepped forward and said, "If my mother If you stay at my house, only one of my sons will catch the cold; if my mother leaves us, all four sons will catch the cold." His father didn't say a word and was silent for a long time, and his stepmother also regretted herself. practices. 4. Ancient texts about filial piety, ancient sentences, famous sayings, famous sentences, aphorisms, articles, etc.
Hello! The nurturing of a filial son is to be happy with one's heart and not against one's aspirations.
——"Book of Rites" There are three kinds of filial piety: first, respecting relatives, secondly, not being humiliated, and secondly, being able to support. ——"Book of Rites" It is important to know the age of your parents.
One is joy, the other is fear. ——"The Analects of Confucius" Uncle Meng Wu asked about filial piety, and Confucius said: "Parents are only worried about their illness."
——"The Analects of Confucius·Wei Zheng" Love what parents love, and respect what parents love. ——Confucius The elders and the younger are in order.
——Mencius When I am old, I am in harmony with others; when I am young, I am in harmony with others. The world can be transported in the palm of your hand.
——Mencius The most important thing for a filial son is to respect his relatives. ——Mencius Only being filial to your parents can relieve your worries.
——Mencius Father and son are related, monarch and ministers are righteous, husband and wife are different, elders and young are related, and friends are trustworthy. ——Mencius Which one is the greatest thing? It is the greatest thing to do things closely; to protect oneself, which one is greater? Keep your body intact.
I have heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies; I have not heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies. What's wrong? Serving relatives is the foundation of everything; who doesn't keep it? Keeping oneself is the foundation of keeping oneself.
——Mencius The true form of benevolence is to serve relatives; the true form of righteousness is to obey elder brothers. ——Mencius If you don’t have relatives, you can’t be a person; if you don’t have relatives, you can’t be a son.
——Mencius A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. Having both parents and having brothers without any reason is one happiness; looking up to Heaven and not being ashamed of others is the second happiness; being able to educate the talented people from all over the world is the third happiness.
A gentleman has three kinds of happiness, but the king of the world does not share them. ——Mencius: There are five unfilial persons in the secular world. The fourth is laziness. The first is unfilial, and the person does not care about the support of his parents. The second is unfilial. He is fond of gambling and drinking, and does not care about the support of his parents. The second is unfilial. The third is unfilial. Also, following the desires of the ears and eyes, thinking that one's parents are killed is the fourth form of unfilial piety; being brave and fighting ruthlessly, endangering one's parents, is the fifth form of unfilial piety.
——Mencius Without a father and a king, he is a beast. ——Mencius The virtuous and the unworthy cannot be separated. If fate cannot be changed, if good and evil cannot be moved.
——"Lu Shi Chun Qiu" A filial son does not flatter his relatives, and a loyal minister does not flatter his king. This is the prosperity of ministers. ——Zhuangzi Those who serve their relatives do not choose the right place to live in peace, which is the utmost filial piety.
——Zhuangzi The propriety is broken and long, and the short is continued. There is more than enough damage but not enough benefit. It expresses love and respect and cultivates the beauty of righteousness. ——Xunzi The nature of heaven and earth is that human beings are noble; no human behavior is greater than filial piety, and no filial piety is greater than a strict father.
——"The Book of Filial Piety·Shengzhi Chapter" Parents are the foundation of human beings. ——Sima Qian Treating relatives with respect is more beautiful than three animals.
——Zhi Yu If father and son do not believe, then the family will not be harmonious. ——Wu Zetian Whoever speaks the heart of grass will be rewarded with three rays of spring.
——Meng Jiao. Those who are harmonious at home will have a prosperous family. ——Lin Bu Everyone has a heart of kindness and filial piety.
——Su Zhe The elders should stand, the young should not sit. The elders should sit, it is their destiny to sit. In front of elders, one should keep one's voice low, but it is not appropriate to not listen.
If you advance, you will have to move forward, but if you retreat, you will be late. When asked, don’t look away. ——Li Yuxiu All parents love their children.
——Chen Hongmou When serving elders, it is easy to keep your voice quiet. Do not shout loudly for trivial matters. ——Zhou Bingqing If an elder asks, don’t bully someone; if an elder orders, don’t be late to do it; if an elder gives a gift, don’t dare to refuse.
——Zhou Bingqing: A person who values ??wealth and despises his parents is not a good son. ——Zhu Bolu Losing a loving mother is like a flower in a vase. Although it still has color and fragrance, it has lost its roots.
——Lao She Nothing can replace a mother. ——Ba Jin In the eyes of parents, children are often a part of themselves, and children are an opportunity for their ideal self to come back again.
——Fei Xiaotong The elderly are like history and drama, which can serve as a reference for our lives. ——(Ancient Rome) Cicero Start, child, start getting to know your mother with a smile! ——(Ancient Rome) Virgil Goodwill produces happiness, and civilization brings harmony.
——(France) Hugo If a person makes his mother sad, no matter how prominent his status is, no matter how famous he is, he is a despicable person. ——(Italy) Amicis Respect in old age is the first privilege that appears in human society.
——(Far) Lafargue We should be considerate of the elderly as we would treat children. ——(Germany) Goethe In front of their children, parents must be good at hiding all their happiness, troubles and fears.
——(British) Bacon Mother is the only force that can make death surrender. ——(Former Soviet Union) Gorky All the glory and pride in the world come from the mother.
——Gorky The death of an old man is equivalent to the collapse of a museum. ——Gorky Respect for the elderly is the most beautiful privilege of the human spirit.
——(France) Stendhal Old age, like a nightingale, should have its nocturne. ——(Germany) Kant All outstanding extraordinary people have outstanding mothers. In their later years, they respect their mothers very much and regard them as their best friends.
——(English) Dickens In the mouth and heart of the child, the mother is God. ——(UK) Thackeray In this world, we always need to repay the best person, this is mother.
——(Former Soviet Union) Ostrovsky It is at our mother’s knees that we acquire our noblest, most sincere and most ambitious ideals, but there is rarely anything in them. money. ——(U.S.) Mark Twain Communism is not only manifested in the fields and sweaty factories, it is also manifested in families, around the dinner table, among relatives, and in mutual relationships.
——(Former Soviet Union) Mayakovsky The ugly sea monster is not as scary as the ungrateful children. ——(UK) Shakespeare Both kindness and beating begin at home.
——Beaumont and Fletcher Charity should extend to your loved ones, but it should not end there. ——Fuller As a person, you must respect your parents, be kind to your children, be generous to your poor relatives, and be polite to everyone.
—— (USA) Russell For children, the value of parental charity is that it is more reliable and trustworthy than any other emotion. ——Russell The foundation of a family is undoubtedly the special affection that parents have for their newborn daughter.
—— Russell What is more sacred than the emotions contained in the hearts of parents? The hearts of parents are the most merciful judge, the most considerate friend, and the sun of love. Its flame shines and warms the intentions condensed deep in our hearts! ——Marx A wise son makes his father happy, a foolish son brings shame to his mother. ——Solomon Respectful and responsible children emerge from families where love and discipline are properly combined.
——James Dobson A ewe will never answer the cry of a calf if she cannot hear the cry of her own lamb. ——Shakespeare At dusk, you collect everything that was scattered in the morning; the sheep return to the shed, and the children return to their mothers.