The "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" epitomize the filial piety concept of China's feudal society, which is quite bad, such as Lu Xun criticized the "burying children and serving the mother" and so on, however, it can not be erased all, and there are also several stories that are quite touching. From childhood, we are familiar with the allusion of lying on the ice and asking for carp, and the behavior of children who are pure and filial in nature is admirable. Today we will pick up the story of Wang Xiang, who is famous for "lying on the ice and seeking carp".
This is also the story recorded in the Book of Jin, Wang Xiang lost his mother at an early age, his stepmother Zhu Shi was not good to him, often said bad things about him in front of her husband, and Over time Wang Xiang's father did not love him very much. The saint said, "Repay grievances with directness, and repay virtue with virtue." Wang Xiang, on the other hand, "repaid his grievances with virtue" and was even more respectful and filial. When his parents were sick, he did not take his clothes off his clothes and waited with soup and medicine. In the big winter, the stepmother wanted to eat live fish, it was cold, Wang Xiang went to the river to undress and wanted to lie down to melt the ice, the heavens and the earth had a spirit, the river ice seemed to feel this rare filial piety, suddenly thawed themselves, and even two carp jumped out directly, which is lying on the ice to ask for carp. Another time, the stepmother wanted to eat wild yellow finches, filial piety touched the heavens, and dozens of yellow finches gave their heads one by one, flew into the curtain, Wang Xiang grabbed and boiled them for his mother to eat. Mother loves to eat the fruits of the Danju tree, let Wang Xiang watch, Wang Xiang has no complaints and no regrets every day to see attentively, once the wind and rain, watching the branches and fruits of the Danju were destroyed, Wang Xiang cried bitterly like a mourning concubine.
Later, at the end of the Han Dynasty, Wang Xiang took his mother and brother from the lang evil hometown to Lujiang to live a secluded life, but once he lived in seclusion for thirty years, the prefecture and county conscription never went, until his mother died he did not go out of the mountain, when he came out of the mountain was almost sixty years old. The Xuzhou Assassins appointed Wang Xiang as the other driver and put in charge of state affairs. Do you think that Wang Xiang is just a Confucian student who is filial to his parents, in fact, he knows a lot about the military, at that time, the thieves in Shandong were blazing, Wang Xiang led the soldiers to strike many times, and for a while, Xuzhou was political and clean, and the people had songs and ballads to praise.
Wang Xiang started from Wenxian County Order step by step, and gradually rose to the rank of Grand Si Nong. During the reign of Sima Shi, Cao Fangyi ordered Sima Shi to be killed, but was discovered by Sima Shi, so Sima Shi took the initiative to be strong, cut off his wings, deposed Cao Fang as emperor, and after a game with Empress Xingning, pushed the noble township duke Cao Fu up. Among them, Wang Xiang had the merit of making a decision, and he was given the title of Marquis of Guannei. At the time of the conquest of Wen Qin and Wu QiuJian, he also made military merits, increased the number of titles, sealed the Marquis of Wanshouting, and also promoted to Taichang, and the Son of Heaven made him the elder of the country. Even when Cao Xian went to Taixue to listen to the lectures, Wang Xiang sat in the north to teach, pretending to be a teacher, and Tianzi listened to the lectures in the south ("begging words"), Wang Xiang stated the way of enlightenment of the sages and sages in the past and the present, and the Tianzi and the hundred officials and tai students who came to listen were all solemnly shocked and excited. Look at the people, when they came out of the mountains at the age of sixty, they had already become emperor-level figures in a few years.
Wang Xiang also has a side of bone qi and soaring. When the noble township duke was executed, the courtiers mourned as usual, but Wang Xiang bitterly blamed himself for "the old minister has no form", and the snot flowed, and the courtiers next to him were ashamed. Nevertheless, the replacement of Cao Wei by the Jin Dynasty had become an immutable process. The relationship between Wang Xiang and Emperor Wu of Jin is quite intriguing, in the previous article we introduced, Sima Yan, the emperor of JinWu, can be described as a renjun mingjun in one or two decades, benevolent and generous, frugal and lenient, renjun usually has a label, that is, there is a tolerance for people, which emperor Wu of Jin did very well.
When Emperor Wu of Jin was still the King of Jin, Wang Xiang, who was already one of the "Three Dukes", and Xun Yan, another "Three Dukes", went together to congratulate Sima Yan on succeeding him to the throne of Jin. At the door, the two discussed the etiquette of meeting each other. Xun Yan said: "The King of Jin is both a Xiangguo and a Great King, how respectful, when King Xiang was a prince, you and I were so respectful, and now we should bow down according to the courtesy." Wang Xiang listened, expressed disdain in his heart, did not show his face, but explicitly refused, and robbed him of a meal: "Of course, Xiangguo is honorable, but it is only the prime minister of my Great Wei." We are also the three dukes of Great Wei, and compared with the gong and the king, they are only one order away, and the rank of the class is roughly the same. Gong Ke had heard in the history books that there were three sons of heaven and prostrated themselves to others. Worship is not only harmful to the national dynasty, but also to the virtue of the King of Jin. The ancients said, 'A gentleman loves his neighbor with courtesy.' 'Worship yourself, and I will not do it.' Xun Yan's old face was red, and he didn't know what to say. When they entered the door to meet each other, Xun Yan waited for Na Tou to worship, and only Wang Xiang was alone. Sima Yan, the King of Jin, not only did not think that he was ashamed, but sincerely praised: "Today I know why Mr. Is so valued by the world." After Wang Xiangzhishi, Emperor Wu of Jin also specially gave "money millions and five hundred silk horses."
Is this scene familiar, remember the story of the Hai Rui Hai pen holder? At that time, Hai Rui was not even a Qipin County Order, and was a teacher in Nanping, Fujian Province, similar to the director of education and in charge of county studies, and the province sent a chief to inspect the work, and all the personnel knelt down to greet him, only Hai Rui Changyi, and said: "If you are above the public court, the lower officials meet the Shangguan, naturally they should meet the shangguan." But this is the school, the place where the way of the saints is spread, and only the saints can be worshipped, so how can they worship ordinary officials? One person stood tall in the middle, and the others knelt low next to it, which is the origin of the "sea pen holder". Wang Xiang's pride in this part has a bit of Hai Rui's meaning.