According to Sima Qian's records in the "Records of History", Emperor Shun's surname of The Three Emperors and Five Emperors was Yao Chonghua (姚重華), yu (虞氏), and was known as Yu Shun .e. Yu Shun's father's name is Called 瞽叟, Yu Shun's biological mother died when he was four years old, his father married Yu Shun to a stepmother named Nongnu, the stepmother was very vicious against Yu Shun, either beating or scolding, about a year the stepmother gave birth to a boy, that is, Shun's half-brother named Xiang, so That Shun seemed to become an outsider in this family, and the stepmother intensified her efforts against Shun, thinking of driving Shun out of the house. Later, he became blind in both eyes, became violent and cold-hearted, and hated Shun to the bone at the instigation of his stepmother. Although Shun is very filial to his parents and kind to his brother, they always want to get rid of Shun. Although his blind father could not see it, he was very good at poisoning tricks to harm Shun.
Emperor Yao was old and needed to find a successor, but Emperor Yao found that his son could not bear it
As the emperor's heavy responsibility, he began to look around for virtuous and virtuous people to inherit the throne, knowing that Yu Shun was a very virtuous person, and heard about his filial piety to his parents, he wanted to pass the throne to Shun, in order to test what kind of person Shun really was, he married his two daughters, Emperor E and Daughter Ying, to Shun.
And rewarded Shun with a large number of cattle and sheep, a tall barn and a lot of cloth and grain, so that Shun still honored his parents and treated his brother as well as before. He devoted himself to leading the people in the vicinity to plant crops, graze cattle and sheep, and teach people to make pottery. But the father, stepmother, and younger brother are even more aggressive, wanting to kill Shun and then hurry up, so that the younger brother can get everything that Shun has.
Once The top of the large barn where The emperor Yao rewarded the storage of grain leaked rain, and at that time the barn was surrounded by tree branches and straw, and the top of the barn was also made of long wooden sticks, which were covered with straw and firewood to prevent rain, and now the top of the barn leaked rain Shun moved the ladder to climb to the top of the barn to repair it, at this time Shun's blind eccentric father Let the younger son elephant quickly remove the ladder, so that Shun, who was at a high place, could not come down, and then let the younger son set fire around the barn, wanting to burn Shun, this vicious three people thought that it was foolproof Shun will undoubtedly die.
Shun found that the fire was up, and it was on fire around the bottom of the barn, and the ladder was gone, he knew that his father, stepmother and brother wanted to harm themselves, and when the situation was extremely critical, Yu Shun saw that there were two large buckets on the top of the barn that were worn on his head to shield the sun, so he grabbed a bucket with one hand and jumped down from the top of the high barn like a bird with its wings, Yu Shun's arm strength was amazing, not comparable to ordinary people, he controlled the bucket with both hands steadily, and slowly glided down from the sky, and it was safe. His father, stepmother, and brother said that the fire was an accident that caused Yu Shun.
Later, in order to irrigate the land, Yu Shun began to dig a deep well, at first his father, stepmother and brother did not come to help, Shun had to find neighbors to help dig the well, Yu Shun dug the soil below, several neighbors used ropes to lift the soil on it, and when the deep well was about to be dug, Yu Shun's brother Elephant ran to see it and came back to tell his father and mother. Knowing that the deep well was about to be dug, he immediately came up with a poisonous plan, and he asked his younger son to tell Yu Shun that he would quit the neighbors after finishing work today, and that he would not let the neighbors come to help him dig the well tomorrow, and his father, mother, and elephant would come to help dig the well.
The next day, Yu Shun, stepmother, and younger brother Xiang came to help dig the well, and Yu Shun went down to the bottom of the deep well to continue digging the soil, and Yu Shun asked his younger son Xiang and his stepmother to fill the well with him, in an attempt to bury Yu Shun under the well. But Shun had already prepared yesterday, he dug an inclined well in advance, and Yu Shun managed to escape when his brother and stepmother filled the well.
Father Xuan, stepmother and younger brother Xiang filled the well, thinking that Yu Shun's death was certain, and returned home happily, and the younger brother Elephant sneaked into Yu Shun's house and wanted to occupy Yu Shun's wife and property, as if he had just arrived and had not yet stood firm, Yu Shun came back, and yu Shun was trembling with fear, and thought that Yu Shun's ghost had returned, and the fart and urine ran away.
Although Yu Shun felt all kinds of grievances in his heart for his family's humiliation of himself, he still reflected on himself, believing that he had served badly, did not remember his family in the slightest, and was as good as ever. It is Yu Shun's attitude that I believe that even a stone has long been melted.
Shun's filial piety touched the heavens, and when he was ploughing the land, various animals came to help him, and birds came to hoe grass for him. After various investigations, Emperor Yao finally let him inherit the throne, that is, Emperor Shun, one of the Five Emperors.
After Becoming Emperor Of Heaven, Shun was still very filial to his parents and was very good to his brother, as always, without the slightest change! His filial piety was passed down in this way, and was touched by the first filial piety name compiled into the Twenty-Four Filial Pieties by posterity, and has been praised by posterity!
I found that many stepmothers were very vicious, and they all learned from Yu Shun's stepmother more than three thousand years ago, and they did not expect that domestic violence against children had existed more than three thousand years ago! But I hope that people will only learn Yu Shun's noble virtues and filial piety to their parents, do not learn the sinister and vicious nature of the Blind Sorcerer, do not learn the ruthlessness of the nuns, and do not learn the viciousness and greed of the elephants, good virtue will make the world full of warmth and love, bad conduct can only make the world become cold and terrible, we must inherit and carry forward the good virtues of the ancients, remove its dross, and make the world a better place!