Tuesday, November 16, 2010

行佣供母

后汉时期有一位叫江革的人,从小便失去了父亲,独自与母亲住在一起,相依为命。

时逢乱世,战争逼迫得人们到处逃难,江革背着母亲也加入了逃难者的行列。他们一路颠沛流离。盗贼见他身强力壮,想将他劫去,强迫他去服劳役。


江革哭着哀告,诉说自己老母尚在,无人奉养,请求他们放他一条生路。盗贼见他这样孝顺,也起了恻隐之心,不忍杀他。 后来,江革辗转到江苏邳县,生活越发困顿,甚至连双鞋都没有,如何奉养母亲 ? 

他来到一个富裕人家当佣人,每天天不亮便开始担水、劈柴、烧火、做饭、牧马放牛,不分昼夜地干活,江革将挣来的钱全部用来给母亲添置各种物什,母亲所需的样样齐备了,他却舍不得将钱花在自己身上。

后来,江革的母亲去世了,他非常的哀伤,在庐墓之间大声地哭泣,就像找不到父母而无依无靠的孩子一样,他的哀恸逾恒,超过一般的常人,感动了邻里之人。

整整三年,江革结庐住在母亲的坟旁,因为他挚诚地思念母亲,连晚上睡觉的时候也不愿把孝服除去。   

三年的服丧期满,他还不忍脱去孝服,感动了地方的父母官派人去安慰他,又举荐他做了孝廉。但是江革淡泊名利,屡屡拒绝做官的机会,后来皇帝还聘他为谏议大夫。

谏议大夫做了不久,他就辞官去了。
江革行佣供母的事迹传开后,人们称赞他,对他仰慕不已。

现代社会里像江革这样孝顺母亲,一心只为父母着想的人越来越少有了,人们为了满足自己的私欲甚至不顾亲情,悲哉!


Jiang Ge was a man of Zibo, Kingdom Qi in the period of the East Han Dynasty,his father died when he was young and he was very pious to his mother.

He carried his mother on his back to avoid war and met with bandits on several occasions, they would kill him and he wept to say: "My mother is old and no one would support her."

Seeing he was pious, the bandits let him go.

Later he moved to Xiapi, Jiangsu and supported his mother by working as a laborer, he was poor and barefooted himself, but he supported his mother quite well.

He was recommended for his piety in the period of Emperor Ming and for his virtues and integrity in the period of Emperor Zhang and appointed general.

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