In the Spring and Autumn Period, Lao Laizi, a hermit of Chu State, cultivated himself in the southern foot of Mengshan Mountain in order to avoid the chaos in the world. He is filial to his parents, and he chooses delicious food to provide them. He is 70 years old and not old. He often wears colorful clothes and plays rattle like a child to make his parents laugh. Once he brought water to his parents and fell down when he entered the room. In order not to worry parents, he imitated the "whoops" of children crying, and parents laughed.

The main contents of Guo Ju's burial of children:

Guo Ju (now from Linzhou City, Henan Province), who was concerned about the country and people in Jin Dynasty, had a well-off family. After his father died, he divided his property into two parts and divided it between his two younger brothers. He takes care of his mother alone and is extremely filial to her. Later, the family became poorer and his wife gave birth to a boy. Guo Ju's mother loves her grandson very much. She is always reluctant to eat, but she left her only food to her grandson.

Guo Ju was deeply disturbed and felt that raising the child would inevitably affect his mother's support. He discussed with his wife: "A son can have another one, but his mother can't be resurrected after death. It is better to bury his son and save some food to feed his mother. " When they were digging a hole, they suddenly saw a golden altar two feet underground, which read: "Guo Ju, the son of God, is not desirable for officials and people."

Husband and wife get gold, go home to honor their mother and have children at the same time. From then on, Guo Ju not only lived a good life, but also spread the reputation of filial piety all over the world.

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Lu Xun's comments and postscript in Twenty-four Filial Pieties: As for Guo Ju's son, he really deserves sympathy. He was held by his mother and smiled happily; His father is digging a hole to bury him. Shi Yun said, "South Korea's family is poor, and she has a three-year-old son. Her mother eats as little as possible. The giant refers to the wife, saying that poverty cannot feed the mother, and the son is the denominator. Bury this child? "

However, what Liu tells in The Biography of the Filial Son is somewhat different: the giant family is rich, and he gave it to his two younger brothers; The child is just born, not yet three years old. It's over, and it's almost the same again. "Dig two feet, you can get a bucket of gold. Its cloud: Guo Jutian gave it, the official can't take it, and the people can't take it! " I was really worried about my children at first, and I didn't feel relaxed until I dug up a bucket of gold.

However, I am not only afraid of being a dutiful son myself, but also afraid of my father being a dutiful son. The family is getting worse and worse, and I often hear my parents worry about firewood; Grandma is old again. If my father should learn from Guo Ju, then I should be buried. It would be a blessing if I could dig a bucket of gold without going out of shape, but at that time, although I was young, I seemed to understand that there might not be such a smart thing in the world.

In the Ming Dynasty, Li Mo also scolded Guo Ju (The Lonely Tree Talk, Volume II). Let's translate the original text into fluent vernacular and see how people at that time knew this: filial piety is to serve their loved ones well. If it is unreasonable, it is unfilial to eat a lot of fish every day. Besides, just to give me a good bite, I have to kill an innocent young son.

This is to trap relatives in injustice, which is a great sin! If this is filial piety, it is really unreasonable. This is the excavated gold. If it is not dug up, the dead can't be resurrected. Killing is a big crime, and there is no escape!