Emperor Wen of Han, Liu Heng, was the fourth son of Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and his mother was Bo Ji. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han, he stabilized the feudal ruling order of the early Han Dynasty, restored the economic development and opened the prelude to the rule of Wenjing. Next, it is up to the editor to reveal the history of Liu Heng.
Liu Heng's name of filial piety is not empty, he has done several great filial pieties that "no ancients before, no one after".
The mother is sick and offers soup medicine. Liu Heng's mother, Bo Shi, was originally from the southern Wu state, and when she was young, a looker named Xu Negative once said that she was the fate of a nobleman. Where is her life? Gui gave birth to Liu Heng after she had a "one-night stand" with Liu Bang, and has never been favored by Liu Bang again. The so-called "blessings and misfortunes", not favored by Liu Bang, escaped the persecution of the jealous and mad Lü Hou (Lü Hou had killed Liu Bang's four sons), and Liu Heng's mother and son left the imperial city to come to the feudal land, and lived a relatively poor but very stable life in a down-to-earth manner.
Bo Shi was a virtuous man like Meng Mu, who had a good god son, and Liu Heng's academic cultivation was mostly influenced by his mother. After Liu Heng ascended the throne as emperor, Bo Shi lay ill for three years, and Liu Heng disregarded his status as emperor, often blind, untied, and personally served his mother. The soup medicine that his mother took, he always had to taste it himself, and only after the hot and cold were suitable could he rest assured that his mother would take it. As an emperor, it was said that as long as he issued a holy decree, I don't know how many eunuchs and palace ladies came to serve him, but he did not, only in this way did he show the sincerity of his filial piety. As the saying goes: "Loyal subjects and filial piety are respected by everyone, and the traitors and thieves of the Party leave a curse." Liu Heng's approach won the heartfelt support of many courtiers, and assisted him in creating a good situation of "the rule of Wenjing".
Great filial piety benefits cangsheng. Liu Heng's filial piety was not only aimed at his own mother, as an emperor and lord of all peoples, he had filial piety to the elderly under the whole world. The kindness of a thought won the cheers of all the people. When he ascended the throne, the first holy will was "amnesty for the world", which was no different from other emperors, and the second holy will he ascended the throne, "to provide relief for the poor, to provide for the elderly", and "to make the four parties not to come to sacrifice" were something that many emperors could not do, and this holy will expressed Liu Heng's will to love the people, sympathize with the people's feelings, and care for the elderly: "For the elderly over eighty, each person can give one stone of rice, twenty pounds of meat, and five buckets of wine every month; for the elderly over ninety, each person will be given two horses and three pounds." Gifts given to the elderly over the age of ninety must be delivered by the county clerk (the subordinate officer of the county order, whose authority is second only to the county order) or the county lieutenant (second only to the county clerk); the others are delivered by the county clerk (the township official). "On behalf of the country to perform filial piety to the elderly, Liu Heng can be said to be the first to open the precedent." How could such a benevolent emperor not be supported by the people?
Fulfill filial piety and abolish torture. Liu Heng himself is a person of great filial piety, and he naturally feels sorry for his filial piety and grandson. More than two thousand years ago, there was a famous story of "Ti Qian saving his father", which also said something related to Liu Heng: during the time of Emperor Wen of Han, there was a reader named Chun Yuyi, who was just and straight, did not want to be with corrupt bureaucrats, resigned from the official position of Taicang Ling, and became a doctor in Puji, Chun Yuyi was a master of medicine and was the apprentice of the famous physician Yang Qing. But there was an oversight, once in the treatment of a disease offended a powerful person, accused him of misdiagnosis and killed people, according to the law at that time, Chun Yuyi should be sentenced to "corporal punishment", which is a very cruel punishment, or tattooed on the face, or cut off the nose, or cut off the left or right foot, Chun Yuyi was worried, at this time his little daughter Chun Yu Ti Qian volunteered to save her father's difficulties, she followed her father to Chang'an, entrusted the people to write a letter, and handed it to the gatekeeper at the palace gate. Emperor Wen of Han heard that the Songzhang was written by a little girl, but he also attached great importance to it, and the Songzhang wrote: My name is Ti Qian, and I am the younger daughter of Taicang Ling Chunyuyi.
When my father was an official, the people of Qidi said that he was a clean official. This time he committed a crime and was sentenced to corporal punishment. I felt sorry not only for my father, but also for all those who had been tortured. A person who cuts off his foot becomes crippled; if he cuts off his nose and can no longer put it on, he will want to reform himself in the future, and there is no way. I would rather take the government as a slave and atone for my father's sins so that he would have a chance to reform himself. Touched by the filial piety of the brave little girl, Liu Heng summoned the chancellor to issue an order abolishing the cruel corporal punishment. Ti Qian saved his father's beauty and fame, and Liu Heng's benevolence was also spread around the world.