1、Xiaogan, move the world With filial pietyFilial piety, is the traditional trdinl virtues of Chinese nation. Virtues of filial piety as the first, this is the story of national history. Xiaogan, my hometown, is a city which possess pzes of profond cultural heritage of filial piety.Xiaogan is located
2、in northeast of Hubei province. It was denominated according to an affecting story during the Eastern Han Dynasty dinsti, which talked about a dutiful son who had buried his father by selling himself . There were many dutiful sons in Xiaogan since ancient times, just as Dongyong ,Huangxiang and Menz
3、ong, those whose stories were embodied in the “the twenty four Stories of Filial Piety,“ a book which was compiled in the Yuan Dynasty. AD 454, so to “filial prosperity“, the county was named “Xiaochang” because there were a large number of dutiful sons. AD 924, according to Dong sold himselves for
4、burying his father, Huang xiang made warmth his fathers quilt by his body, and Meng zong was granted bamboo shoots in cold winter by the god for his filial piety,the “xiaochang” was replaced by “xiaogan”as the citys name. Between the three dutiful sons Dong yong ,Huang xiang and Meng zong, the story
5、 of Dong yong and the seventh female celestial is specially wide spread.Once up on a time, there was a dutiful son named Dongyong. His family was so pool that he had to work for a moneybags to support his father. When his father died of illness, he had to sell himself to the moneybags to bury his fa
6、ther. A beautiful girl was touched by the filial piety of Dongyong , so she got married with him as his wife. Afterwards, they began to work together for the moneybags to pay off their debt. Actually , the beautiful girl was the seventh daughter of the Jade Emperor , and she was very skilled in silk
7、 weaving. She had finished 300 bolts of cloths within seulment a month, that helped Dongyong to pay off the debt and then they retuned to their family together and lived a happy life.Unfortunately, the good times didnt last long, the Jade Emperor was aware that the seventh female celestial had gone
8、to the mans world privately and got married with a men there. He was furious wax and sent the divine troops to the mans world to arrest the seventh female celestial and put her into prison. In the prison, the seventh female celestial gave birth to a child and she sent the baby into the mans world wh
9、ere he could be brought up by his father. No matter how strenuous for Dongyong to be as both father and mather, No matter how difficult the life was, Dongyong was thankful for that he and his son sticked together and helped each other in difficulties.How time flies! The little Dongyong was already s
10、even years old in a twinkling of an eye. Dongyong sent his son to the school which was opened by Kuei Ku-tzu,who was well known about the background of little Dongyong ,and was profoundly impresses by the cleverness and intelligence of the child that he wanted to teach him all his knowledge and abil
11、ities. The classmates were very jealours that the teacher payed much more attention to little Dongyong, so that they offen satirized him by sarcastic comments. In stead of grieving about that, Little Dongyong didnt pay attention to the sarcastic comments but to study diligently and train hard. One d
12、ay,a student was failed in the debatement with little Dongyong, so he laughed at him and said that little Dongyong was a child without mather. Little Dongyong was very sorrowfull and he cried to ask the teacher :”did I have mather,teacher?” “why not,child?”“Where is my mather ? I need her, i need he
13、r so much! ”Little Dongyong cried much more heartbrokenlyKuei Ku-tzu was deeply touched by the empressement of the child, so he said to him affectionately:”my kid ,your mather is in the sky” he told him the past in detail.After listening the story, little Dongyong cried and asked the teacher:”oh,ple
14、ase my dear teacher, please tell me how can i meet my mather again? ” just after thingking for a moment, Kuei Ku-tzu told him:”go to kneel down on the stone bridge which is situated in the south of the town, after 49 days, you can meet you mather. ”Little Dongyong was so anxious for meeting his math
15、er that he went to kneel down on the bridge either in cold morning and evening or at hot afternoon. He knelt down there for 49 days, left two profond round pits there.However, little Dongyong hadnt even saw anything, he bursted out crying.Kuei Ku-tzu was moved by the little boys devout heart, he sig
16、hed deeply and told the little boy:”What a dutiful son! my kids, there are seven female celestials who will pass the bridge at dawn tomorrow, just kneel down there waiting for them and the female celestial wearing green skirt is your mather.” Little Dongyong was so exited to hear that that he tuned
17、tears into smiles.At the following dawn, little Dongyong knelt down on the bridge very early. How eagerly he waited there! Finally, The sky was turning bright in the east, and he really saw seven female celestials walking gently forward him in the glow of the sunshaine, wearing colorfuls skirts such
18、 as red, yellow, cyan, green, purple. Little Dongyong was very exited , he went to kneel down in front of the female celestial wearing green skirt, hold her legs in his arms and cried loudly:”mather, mather, i finally meet you!” The seventh female celestial was both surprised and delighted, she was
19、so excited that she didnt know what to do, just fondled with the kids head and kissed his face. All the other female celestials were also very pleased.Althought this is simplement a legendary story, the filial conduct of Dongyong and his son will still be widely spread and be admired by our posterit
20、y. Filial piety is our time-honored culture and traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, is our valuable historical wealth. Ancient xiaogan people have set for me an example of filia piety, I should inherit and carry forward the traditional virtue. For what we love is filial, to be filial towards our parents is more, do our filial respects to our country and our nation is the most. Therefore, i should be filial ,start from relatives , towards parents, towards families, and towards the whole nation.
