Thursday, November 18, 2010

扇枕温衾

后汉时期的黄香,自小便是在父母的钟爱下度过的。

可是当他九岁的时候,慈爱的母亲突然染病身亡,黄香一时接受不了这个事实,于是,日夜思念母亲,形容日见憔悴,因母亲不在,黄香小小年纪就得操持家务,非但如此,他还恭敬地侍奉父亲,极尽孝道,天天给父亲做饭、洗衣,千方百计也要让父亲吃好穿暖。
 
夏天天气格外炎热,为了能让父亲睡个安稳觉,每次父亲 睡觉前,小黄香都用扇子为父亲将枕席扇凉:寒冷的冬天,他总是先钻进被子,用自己的身体给父亲暖热被褥,随后才叫父亲上床歇息。


太守刘护得知他的孝行,非 常惊讶,对他进行了表彰,并将他树为榜样,号召全郡守的儿童都来向他学习。后来,他的事迹被编入《三字经》中,供后人作为启蒙时期的学习资料。

孔子说过, 要建立在 敬心 的基础上,认为孝顺父母主要不在于给父母提供优越的生活条件,而在于有那份心、那份情。古时如此,现代亦然。

Huang Xiang was a man of Anlu, Jiangxia in the East Han Dynasty.

His mother died when he was nine years old and he was very pious to his father, he cooled the mattress with a fan in hot summer and warmed the quilt with his body in cold winter for his father.

He was familiar with classics when he was young and wrote beautiful articles. A saying circulated in the capital that "There is no parallel to Huang Xiang in Jiang Xia". When he was prefect of Wei County (in today's Hebei) in the period of Emperor An (107-125 A.D.), the county suffered a flood. Huang Xiang relieved the victims with all he had. He wrote the Poem of Jiugong and the Anthem to King's Crown.

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