Wang Xiang, a native of the Western Jin Dynasty, was greatly famous in China and ranked twenty-four filial pieties.
The "Biography of Wang Xiang in the Book of Jin" contains,
Auspicious to filial piety
。 Wang Xiang was a particularly filial piety, and had reached the point where filial piety was beyond filial piety.
Wang Xiang's mother died early, and her stepmother Zhu Shi was not a good stubble, and often said Wang Xiang's small words in front of Wang Xiang's father, and when he said too much, his father was a little unwilling to see Wang Xiang. However, Wang Xiang had no complaints about how filial piety his parents should be or how filial piety they should be. Wang Xiang's family raised cattle and cleaned up cow dung. When his parents were sick, Wang Xiang took good care of them and did not take care of them; the soup medicine was boiled well, and he must have tasted it himself first, and then served it to his parents. It was cold, the stepmother suddenly wanted to eat fresh fish, Wang Xiang came to the river, the river surface was frozen, Wang Xiang took off his coat and prepared to smash the ice to catch fish. A magical scene appeared, the ice on the river suddenly cracked, and two large carps whizzed out! Wang Xiang carried the fish home to stew fish soup for his stepmother.
【Lying on ice for carp】
Note: The original text of the "Biography of Wang Xiang in the Book of Jin" is: The mother often wants to give birth to fish, when the weather is cold and frozen, Xiang will dissect the ice and ask for it, the ice will suddenly dissolve itself, and the double carp will jump out and hold on to it. This matter was falsely rumored by later generations that Wang Xiang took off his shirt and lay on the ice, trying to melt the ice with his own body temperature and then catch fish. That's how the idiom "lying on the ice and asking for carp" comes from.
Wang Xiang's stepmother has a lot of moths, eats fish, drinks fish soup, and wants to eat yellow bird barbecue. Wang Xiang was thinking about how to catch the yellow sparrow, but without thinking, suddenly dozens of yellow finches flew in, lined up, shouted trumpets, and hula pounced into Wang Xiang's tent. Wang Xiang was not polite at all, plucked the hair and cut the abdomen to pickle the cumin pepper noodles, roasted the outer charred and tender and fragrant, and served to the stepmother.
【I don't know what this thing tastes like?】 】
These few things immediately spread in the township, and everyone agreed that it was Wang Xiang's filial piety that touched the heavens and the earth!
At that time, it was the last year of the Han Dynasty, the world was in chaos, Wang Xiang took his stepmother and brother to Lujiang for refuge, lived in seclusion for more than thirty years, and the prefectures and counties recruited him to be officials, but he resolutely refused to do it. After the death of his stepmother, Wang Xiang kept the funeral, pure to filial piety, strictly abided by all kinds of funeral rules, hungry and haggard, eyes full of Venus, and could not stand up without crutches.
At this time, Wang Xiang was already sixty years old, and his fame was spread all over the world, and he was finally invited to become an official. In the seven and eight, Wang Laohan successively held the posts of Grand Si Nong, Guang Lu Xun, Si Li Colonel, and Tai Chang of the Cao Wei government, and was given the title of Marquis. From time to time, Wang Laohan also taught the emperor at that time, Cao Xian, the duke of noble township, how to govern the world, and from the emperor to the ministers, they were quite excited and determined to do a good job.
In the fifth year of Ganlu (260 AD), Emperor Cao Xian could not stand the oppression of the great general, Xiang guo, and The Jin company Ma Zhao, and brought a group of people to find Sima Zhao. The result was, of course, very sad, and Cao Xian was pierced by a spear from Sima Zhao's men.
The emperor died, the courtiers were very sad, and Wang Xiang was crying even more darkly, crying and shouting,
It's all my sins
！ Old Han Wang cried so much that the other courtiers were ashamed -- when it came to crying, he couldn't catch up with Comrade Lao Wang on a rocket.
The paradox of history was staged again, and the historian turned his pen sharply and wrote down the next sentence:
Is it,
Bai Sikong, Transfer Lieutenant, Jia Shi Zhong.
The word "is" vividly expresses the true face of this old official.
So much so that when I read this, I was suddenly confused. Wang Xiang old man, when you are crying emperor Cao Xian, crying bitterly, crying so much that the heavens and the earth change color, and crying with the shame of the courtiers,
What the hell are you crying about?!
When he finished crying, he wiped his tears, straightened his beard, straightened his sleeves, dusted off the dust, and immediately became Sima Zhao's Sikong and Lieutenant! You don't have any psychological burden at all!
Then, suddenly, I woke up. The emperor died, and the old man wept bitterly,
It wasn't because he was sad, nor did it mean he wanted to investigate the cause of the emperor's death
。 Wang Laohan cried bitterly, only because it was a link in the Confucian etiquette system.
When the emperor is dead, he should cry, and he should cry very sadly
。 As long as this link is done well, it is an excellent Confucian scholar. Whether you are loyal to the emperor or not depends on whether you cry seriously enough, whether you are sad enough, as for the cause of the emperor's death, do you want to avenge the emperor and care about my birds? That is to say, the emperor of the Weeping Cao Family and the official of the Sima Family are two different things at all, not only not contradictory, but also complementary to each other, huh.
Wang Laohan relied on his proficiency and adherence to the Confucian etiquette system, and the official road was prosperous.
After Sima Yan, the Emperor wu of Jin, seized the Cao family's throne, Wang Laohan was promoted again, achieved Taibao, and was made a duke.
[I don't know who painted it, but I didn't even paint a picture of Wang Taibao with my beard]
Wang Xiang has five sons, and he loves The Fourth Child Wang Lie and the Little Fifth Child Wang Fen the most. Wang Lie and Wang Fen had short lives and both died at about the same time. Before his death, Wang Lie said that he wanted to be buried back in his hometown, and Wang Fen said that he wanted to be buried in the capital. Wang Xiang said a word with tears in his eyes:
Don't forget your hometown, Renya; don't love the locality, Tatsuya. But Ren and Da, my second son has a heart
。
Ariel does not forget his hometown, this is benevolence! Ah Fen does not love the homeland, this is Kuangda! Ren Yi and Kuang Da, my two sons have done it!
Once again, I was stunned by The Train of Thought of Old Han Qingqi. You can't talk if you don't brag, right? The death of your son can also be used by you to self-proclaim!
According to the logic of Wang Laohan, I came to a completely different conclusion:
Do not forget the hometown, not reached also; do not love the homeland, not benevolent also. Ren and Da, my two sons have not also
Ariel does not forget his hometown, not broad enough; Affin does not love his homeland, is not benevolent enough, my two sons can't do it!
hehe.
In the fifth year of the Tai Dynasty (269 AD), Wang Xiang died at the age of eighty-five.
Wang Xiang, who has adhered to the etiquette system all his life, in my opinion, is an old official who has no standards of right and wrong. This kind of person, full of falsehood, bigness, emptiness, and emptiness, has a lifetime of morality and tranquility, and no matter how long he lives, he cannot be called a living person.
【Picture from the network】