[Extraordinary family history from "Twenty-four Filial Piety"]

In the twenty-third year of Chenghua (1486 AD), fifteen or sixteen-year-old Wang Yangming accompanied his father Wang Hua to live in the official office of his Beijing Division.

So, he came to the official office in front of the bamboo, took the futon and sat down, concentrating on the bamboo, not long after, his mind was in a trance, he raised his eyes and saw a young man in black beside him, he was stunned for a moment

He asked, "Who is Brother Tai?" ”

The young man did not lift up his head and said, "I am you."

Wang Yangming blurted out: "You are me, so who am I?" ”

The young man smiled and said, "You are Wang Shouren. Don't make a fuss, I'm meditating."

Wang Yang Mingqi said: "What are you thinking? ”

The young man laughed, "I think of my ancestors."

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Raising my eyes, I have traveled to the world of my childhood, my hometown in Yuyao, Zhejiang. The old and young of the hometown have passed on the story of filial piety of a pair of brothers from generation to generation.

"Wang Xiang Lying on Ice" is a classic in the story of "Twenty-Four Filial Piety". It was first recorded in Ganbao's "Sou Shen Ji", and was later included in the "Book of Jin" compiled by Fang Xuanling, and Guo Ju Jingfang of the Yuan Dynasty included it in the "Twenty-four Filial Piety", and so far this story has been listed as the first of the twenty-four filial pieties, which is very remarkable.

The protagonist of the story is called Wang Xiang, and he is the elder brother of my distant ancestor Wang Lan.

The ancestral home of the Wang Xiang brothers is Langya, a native of Linyi, Shandong Province.

It is said that Wang Xiang is filial piety, his biological mother died when he was very young, and his father married Zhu, this female femme fatale heart, very dislike Wang Xiang, and this woman set insidious, vicious and other villain vices in one, in front of Wang Xiang's father said a lot of bad things about Wang Xiang, causing his father to gradually alienate Wang Xiang.

Despite this, Wang Xiangzhen is not simple, he did not take his stepmother's various evil deeds to heart, but was more respectful and cautious. When his parents were sick, he couldn't untie his clothes, and he decocted the soup and boiled medicine, and the medicine must be tasted first to verify whether it was poisonous.

Since ancient times, the sages have been different, if I want Wang Yangming to be like this, it will never be.

The story is here, one day the stepmother got nervous and insisted that she wanted to eat fresh fish, but at this time it was freezing and icy outside, and no one shuddered when she thought about it.

Wang Xiang went out to the river, the water had already become frozen, but seeing that he didn't even want to take off his clothes to break the ice to catch fish, at this moment, the ice suddenly cracked, two carp jumped out of it, Wang Xiang caught the fish and went home to honor his stepmother.

Amazing! There is more godly, one day the stepmother had evil thoughts again, wanted to eat roasted yellow finches, Wang Xiang went back to the house to make preparations for hunting, suddenly saw the window open, strange things happened, there were dozens of yellow finches flew into Wang Xiang's tent, Wang Xiang roasted it and honored his stepmother to eat.

Whenever I think of the uncles and aunts in the township who are foaming at the mouth and talking about these myths, I must believe it in my heart, because our Wang family has a Taoist fate, if I don't believe it, it doesn't mean that I don't have a wisdom root, I am not convinced, but if I want to say 100% faith, hehe, let's change the topic......

This vicious stepmother was not moved by Wang Xiang, and what was even more excessive was that Wang Xiang's family had a red persimmon (nài) tree, and when the fruit was about to ripen, the stepmother came to make things difficult for him, asked him to guard, and said hello, and asked him if he wanted to lose one of the fruits.

One day, suddenly the wind and rain came, Wang Xiang hugged the tree and cried, afraid that the fruit would fall. Of course, later God appeared again, and the fruit naturally became a lot. Even so, Wang Xiang never resented his stepmother, because he was a loyal and filial person. I believe that a person of pure filial piety, a gentleman who is influenced by the traditional Confucian culture and can introspect and self-cultivation can really do it.

Subsequently, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, there were frequent wars, in order to avoid war, Wang Xiang supported his stepmother, and fled to Lujiang with his younger brother Wang Lan, and after living in seclusion for more than 30 years, his stepmother died.

After the death of his stepmother, Wang Xiang, the great filial son, still refused to go out as an official after the expiration of the mourning period, and then under the continuous persuasion of his younger brother Wang Lan, he was called out of office at the age of nearly sixty, which is the so-called "late bloomer", when he arrived at Cao Wei, Wang Xiang had been promoted to the rank of Tai Lieutenant, ranked as the third prince (equivalent to today's Minister of National Defense), and after the succession of Emperor Wu of Jin, he was on the rise, serving as the Taibao, and became a senior official who tutored the prince.

Wang Xiang's story is finished, but I still have to tell the story of our distant ancestor Wang Lan. Yes, Wang Xiang is filial piety, our distant ancestor Wang Lan is not ambiguous, Wang Xiang is filial piety to his parents, and Wang Lan is to his brother.

When he was five or six years old, every time he saw his biological mother beating his brother Wang Xiang, he would cry and hug his brother to prevent his mother from committing violence.

Seeing that this was not good, Zhu turned around and arranged for Wang Xiang's wife to do this and that for no reason, and was picky in every way. However, if there is a husband, there must be a wife, and at this time, Wang Lan's wife will also take the initiative to help Wang Xiang's wife work like her husband, and after the Zhu family found out, they were really speechless.

Since the death of his father, Wang Xiang has gradually become famous, Zhu is unbalanced again, gritting his teeth, he wants to poison Wang Xiang with poisonous wine, this woman is really vicious, but Wang Lan was aware of it, so he immediately got up to grab his brother's wine glass, and Wang Xiang also suspected that the wine was poisonous, so he insisted on not giving it to his younger brother. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhu Shi hurriedly took a few steps forward and grabbed the wine glass.

Since then, all the meals that Zhu made for Wang Xiang, Wang Lan must taste it first, Zhu was worried that his own son Wang Lan would be poisoned, so he broke off the idea of poisoning, since then, Wang Lan's reputation for filial piety is not much worse than Wang Xiang.

Later, Wang Lan was promoted to Guanglu doctor as an official, and Wang Lan's deeds were recorded in the first volume of the book "Mengqiu", called "Wang Lanyouyi", which is ironclad evidence.

I remember one day when my grandfather and father were both present and chatting with the family. When my grandfather mentioned Wang Xiang, I said, "Wang Xiang was so unlucky to meet a vicious stepmother like Zhu."

Grandpa smiled and said, "Then I'll tell you another story, a character who is more unlucky than Wang Xiang, but greater and more accomplished." I reacted immediately: "Grandpa, you're talking about Emperor Shun, right?" Not only did he meet a vicious stepmother, a murderous and blind father, and a brother with a heart like a femme fatale, but he did a better job so that he could become a generation of saints who ruled the world with filial piety."

The father smiled and said, "You are smart, so what will you do if you want to change you to Wang Xiang and Di Shun?" ”

I replied without thinking: "I will never be as stupid as they are"

My father was furious and pointed at me and yelled, "You dare to be unfilial? ”

I looked at my father's angry look and quickly took two small steps back.

Grandpa was still good to me, blocking my father with one hand, and said to me kindly: "Bo'an, don't be afraid, you can talk about it"