Celebrity idiom stories about filial piety

Abandoning an official to find his mother

Zhu Shouchang was born in Tianchang, Song Dynasty. At the age of seven, Liu, his biological mother, was jealous by his first mother (his father's wife) and had to remarry. For fifty years, the mother and son could not hear from each other. After searching for the birth mother, he decided to abandon his official position and go to Shaanxi to find his birth mother, vowing never to return until he saw his mother. Finally, I met my biological mother and two younger brothers in Shaanxi. Mother and son got together and returned together. At this time, my mother was over 7 years old.

crying bamboo shoots

Meng Zong was born in Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms period. His father died when he was a teenager, and his mother was seriously ill when she was old. The doctor told him to make soup with fresh bamboo shoots. It was winter, and there were no fresh bamboo shoots. Meng Zong had nothing to do, so he ran to the bamboo forest alone and helped the bamboo to cry. After a while, he suddenly heard a crack in the ground and saw several tender bamboo shoots growing on the ground. Meng Zong was overjoyed and picked it back to make soup. After drinking it, his mother really recovered. Later, he became an official.