无奈天有不测风云，老父一病不起，盍然逝去，董永伤心万分，哭得死去活来，更难办的事情还在后头，为了医治父亲的病，家里已一贫如洗，甚至连给父亲买棺材的钱都没有，怎样安葬老人家 ? 如何尽人子之孝 ? 后来，他实在无计可施，决定卖身葬父。
— 个富翁怜惜他，又见他诚实憨厚，便买下他，董永用卖身所得钱给父亲办了丧事，然后在父亲墓前搭了一间草棚，虔诚地为父亲守孝；三年孝满，他便履行卖身契约，到富翁家当长工抵债。
他正行至 — 棵老槐树下，遇到了一名女子，她主动要求嫁给董永为妻，并与他一同去富翁家抵债。
富翁告诉他们，若能织出三百匹细绢，才可让董永赎身回家。
那女子心灵手巧，一个月后便将细绢织成，得以提前偿债赎身，董永带着妻子高高兴兴地回家，谁知刚到他们初次相识的老槐树下，妻子便辞别董永，凌空飞去。
孝顺历来是中华民族的传统美德，从前歌颂她，赞美她。
人们敬佩卖身葬父的董永，给董永的故事增加了仙女相助的美好传说，更有著名的黄梅戏曲《天仙配》，便是依此创作的。据说，湖北孝感县就是董永与仙女相见和分别之处，县名 “ 孝感 ” 即由此而来。
无论唱不尽的名曲，还是用作地名，都是孝的赞歌。
According to the legend, Dong Yong was a man of Qiancheng (today's north of Gaoqing County, Shandong) in the East Han Dynasty.
His mother died when he was young and the family moved to Anlu (in today's Hubei) to avoid the war.
Later, his father died and Dong Yong sold himself to a rich family as a slave so as to bury his father.
When he was on his way to work, Dong Yong met with a woman under a pagoda tree and she said that she was homeless, so they got married.
The woman wove 300 bolts of cloth in one month and bought back Dong Yong's freedom. When they passed the pagoda tree on their way home, the women told Dong Yong she was the daughter to the Emperor of Heaven and was ordered to help him repay the debt.
With that said, she flew away. Henceforth the pagoda tree was renamed "compassion for piety".
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