Twenty-Four Filial Pieties 240 - Huai Tangerine Widow: Is it advisable for Lu Ji to act filial piety by stealing? Real purpose?

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Second Emperor Huanling had no way, foreign relatives and eunuchs exchanged power, sold officials (yù) knights, and were absurd and unscrupulous, and the government was extremely dark. The empire is decaying, and the most bitter thing is the people. Looking around, mourning is everywhere, dry bones are everywhere, and the people are not happy. The eunuchs in power, represented by the "Ten Permanent Attendants", are even more flying and stumbling, bullying men and women, and doing no evil. Against this background, the Yellow Turban Uprising broke out, and the world gathered to respond. Powerful people from all over the world also raised troops, among which the famous ones were Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Liu Bei and so on.

In the fourth year of Zhongping (187, the fourth year of the Han Ling Emperor), the flames of the Yellow Turban Rebellion continued to burn, Zhuge Liang's father Zhuge Jue died, and the later Usurper Of Wei Emperor Cao Pi was born. Born in the same year, there is also the male number one Lu Ji in this article.

The Lu family is a famous family in Jiangdong. Lu Ji's father, Lu Kang, was honored as the Taishou of Luzhou (庐州, in present-day Hefei, Anhui) because of his loyalty to the Eastern Han court and his outstanding political achievements. When Lu Ji was six years old, Lu Kang took his son and went to Shouchun (now located in Lu'an Shou County) in Jiujiang County to meet Yuan Shu.

When the "deceased" meets, whether it is true or false, it is always necessary to be polite. After the greeting, the guest and host are seated. Yuan Shu instructed his subordinates to entertain the young guest Lu Ji with the above good Huainan citrus. Not wanting Lu Ji to take advantage of people's lack of attention, he hid two in his sleeve. When it was time to say goodbye, the orange fell from Lu Ji's sleeve. Yuan Shu laughed and said, "Huangkou Xiao'er came to my house as a guest, and when he left, did he still have to hide his master's oranges?" ”

Lu Ji replied unhurriedly, "My mother has always liked to eat oranges, and the oranges of General Yuan's family taste very good, so I want to take two for my mother to taste." After Yuan Shu listened, he was greatly surprised, saying that such a small child knows how to honor his mother so much, which is really rare. So he ordered the next person to prepare some oranges and let Lu Ji bring them.

Such a story of "wèi relatives" was compiled into the "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties", and many people expressed their incomprehension, and the main points were as follows:

Filial piety to the mother, the mood is understandable, but there is no need to steal the way, right? Lu Ji could tell Yuan Shu at the feast that his mother liked to eat oranges, and with Yuan Shu's status, what about a few oranges? Is there any reason not to agree? Taking a step back, the Lu family's position is prominent, Lu Kang is Also Lujiang Taishou, no matter how many oranges Lu Ji's mother wants to eat, what kind of oranges to eat, it should not be a difficult thing, right? Brother Lu Ji, who has been well educated since childhood, is it necessary to steal other people's oranges?

From the perspective of ordinary people, no matter what the name, stealing the things of the master's family without the permission of the master is selfish and immoral. Some people will say that a childlike child who is only six years old may not have the concept of stealing; or that Xiao Lu Ji is embarrassed to say to Yuan Shu, so he secretly took two, which is no big deal; or that Lu Ji's starting point is good, after all, he wants to honor his mother!

If you are entangled in "stealing" and "filial piety", it is estimated that it is difficult to say clearly. But to use the "stealing" way to perform filial piety, even if the purpose is not wrong, the behavior is uncomfortable, even misunderstood. If you use the behavior of "carrying oranges to leave behind" to promote filial piety and teach students, students may think: "Lu Ji can use stealing to do filial piety, why can't I?" In this way, not only will it not play the role of promoting filial piety, but it may also be counterproductive.

Back to the event itself. We still have some questions: Why did Lu Ji take Lu Ji to meet Yuan Shu? Lu Ji is pregnant with oranges, is it just to honor his mother? Before answering these two questions, let's look at what happens after that!

Soon after Lu Kang's father and son returned to Luzhou, due to the shortage of grain in Shouchun, Yuan Shu asked Lu Kang to ask for 30,000 yuan. Lu Kang thought that What Yuan Shu had done was a rebellious act, so he ignored his unreasonable demands. Yuan Shu was furious and sent Sun Ce to attack Lu Kang and encircle the city of Luzhou on three levels outside. Because Lu Kang won the hearts of the people and was united in his will, he has been struggling to hold out for two years. Two years later, the city fell.

In this war and the great famine caused by the war, nearly half of the people of the Lu family clan died, including Lu Kang.

No matter how unscrupulous the imperial court was, and whether Cao Cao was holding the Son of Heaven hostage to order the princes, Lu Kang was bent on the Han family, there was no doubt. Since he was so dignified, then what had happened before he had taken his son Lu Ji to see Yuan Shu?

Yuan Shu was not right in his heart, narrow-minded, arrogant and extravagant, and wanted to take advantage of the name of the fourth and third dukes of the Yuan family to take the throne and be honored. When he divided Jiujiang County, he was not willing to do so, but instead wanted to kill the four sides. He was bent on wooing Lu Kang and rebelling with him. And Lu Kang was bent on thinking about the Jiangshan Sheji of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Yuan Shu's immoral behavior made him greatly dissatisfied. Under this circumstance, he took Lu Ji to see Yuan Shu, nothing more than to persuade Yuan Shu to restrain his horse from the precipice, to be a loyal vassal of the Great Han, and not to do disobedient things.

There will be no good feast, there will be no good meeting. One side is aggressive, the other side does not budge, and the meeting with each other is likely to be tense. Yuan Shu and his subordinates may even have moved to kill, but they were also jealous, because the Lu family's reputation was too great. If his Yuan Shu was unfavorable to Lu Kang, then not only would he not get the people's hearts, but he would be attacked by the masses.

On such an occasion, Lu Ji stole the orange, did he want to use the orange as a metaphor to advise Yuan Shu? Or is he improvising, not afraid of danger, by using the way of "carrying oranges and bequeathed" to surprise himself and his father?

If this is the case, then the young Lu Ji is simply the embodiment of great wisdom; the story of "Huai Tangerine's Widow" must also be interpreted in another way.

As an adult, Lu Ji was knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and was familiar with astronomy, almanac, "Hun Tiantu", "I Ching", and "Notes on the Taixuan Classic". After wu, he dared to speak out, and was appointed as Yulin Taishou (郁林太守) and a general of Jia Wei. Unfortunately, he died young at the age of 32. By the way, he had a nephew who was four years older than him, and his name was Lu Xun. It was this Lu Xun who "burned seven hundred miles in the camp" and killed Liu Bei in a big defeat and loss.

Original title: Cultural Essay 747 - "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" Fourteenth Filial Piety: Huai Tangerine Widow

"Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" Fourteenth Filial Piety: Pregnant Orange Widow