Pang Gongren, a native of Xiangyang, Nan County

Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Volume 113, Yimin Biography

Pang Gong, The Xiangyang people of Nan County, live in the south of da Nang Mountain, have not tasted the city government, and the husband and wife respect each other as guests. Jingzhou Thorn History Liu Table number of delays, can not bend, and wait for it. It is said: "If the husband preserves his body, if he is familiar with preserving the world?" Pang Gong smiled and said, "The nest of the great bird is above the high forest, and the nest of the shrew is under the abyss, and the nest of the shrew is under the abyss, and the nest of the husband is also the nest of the people." And each has its own dwelling, and the whole world is not protected." Because the release is cultivated on the long, and the wife is in the front. The table pointed out and asked: "If the gentleman lives in an acre and refuses to luise, why will he leave his descendants in the future generations?" Pang Gongyue: "Everyone in the world has left behind a danger, and now it is left alone to be safe, although the leftovers are different, it is not said that there is nothing left." The table sighed and went away. Later, he took his wife and climbed Lumen Mountain, because he did not react to the medicine.

Interpretation

Pang Gong was a native of Xiangyang, Nan County, who lived in the south of Da Nang Mountain, had never entered the city government, and the husband and wife respected each other as guests. Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, invited him many times, but he could not bend, so he waited for him in the field. He said to Pang Gong, "If you protect yourself, how can you compare to protecting the world?" Pang Gong replied with a smile: "The birds nest in tall trees, and they have shelters at night, and the weasels dig their burrows in the abyss, and they have a place to sleep at night. Because the two were chatting, Pang Gong put the tillage tools on the ridge, and his wife and children were already in front. Liu Biao pointed at them and asked, "If Sir has been living here and doesn't want to take the state, what will he leave to his descendants in the future?" Pang Gongyue: "People in the world are all dangers left behind, but what I leave behind is safety, although the legacy left is different, but it cannot be said that nothing is left." Liu Biao sighed and left. Later, Pang Gong took his wife and children to the Lumen Mountain, and did not return home mainly to collect medicine.