Xijing Miscellaneous Records records a story of filial piety from the mother.
In the Western Han Dynasty, there was a person from Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), named Gu Ao, who was poor when he was a child, his father died early, and his mother worked hard to pull him up.
When he was preparing to enter the examiner, his mother, who had worked hard for many years, fell seriously ill.
Gu Ao is very filial, in order to repay his mother's nurturing kindness, he gave up his career and stayed at home to serve his mother carefully.
His family lives by the Taihu Lake, and his mother likes to eat carved mushroom rice. Carved mushroom rice is rice made from mushroom rice.
Wild rice, also called wild rice, the plant of ordinary rice is rice, and the plant of wild rice is called wild rice! The so-called mushroom is the predecessor of the common water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and the wild rice is the fruit of the ripe white and the seed of the mushroom. Like rice, so it is called wild rice. Originally, it was one of the main grains in ancient China, and the six grains of wild rice ranked sixth, and now it has been eliminated because the yield is too low. Without wild rice, the grain is now called grain.
It grows in the shallow water of the lake, and pulls out its stems in September, with leaves like reeds and small light purple-red flowers. The fruit is more than an inch long, picked after the autumn frost, and the skin is black-brown.
Mushroom rice made with wild rice is smooth and delicious to eat.
Its beige black. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu's poem "Jiang Ge Lying Sick and Sending the Pen to Cui and Lu Two Servants" has the sentence "Slippery memories carve Hu rice, fragrant smell brocade with soup". Exposed to dry and washed, the rice is fragrant and smooth. Therefore, in Du's poem "Eight Songs of Autumn Xing", there is a sentence of "the waves drift and the rice sinks into the clouds and black, and the dew cold lotus room falls pink".
Her mother loves to eat mushroom rice, so Gu Ao often takes her children into the water to pick them. But wild wild rice is very limited, so in order to let his mother often eat wild rice, Gu Ao channeled the water flow and planted wild rice in a piece of Taihu Lake water in front of his home.
Miraculously, since then, a large number of wild rice has grown naturally in the lake, other aquatic plants have disappeared, and all kinds of insects and birds have not flown down to feed.
The locals unanimously believe that it was his filial piety that touched the heavens.
Planting by himself, carefully cared for, and supporting his mother with wild rice, he was commended by the county government, and the plaque awarded was hung in the hall of the Gu family.
The original text of "Mother to Filial Piety":
Gu Ao, the auditor, rarely loses his father, and his mother is filial. The mother eats carved rice, and the handsome children often pick themselves. Return home, guide the water to dig the river, self-planting and support, and every time there is a reserve. Home is also close to Taihu Lake, after the lake is self-growing, there is no residual grass, insects and birds do not dare to go, so they can be raised. The county and county table its Lu House.
Translation: Gu Ao, a native of Huiji County, lost his father when he was young, and served his mother with great filial piety. The mother eats carved hu rice, and Gu Ao often leads her children to pick it in person. After returning home, he led the water to dig the river, and planted his own carved beard to support his mother, and used it as a reserve every time he had a surplus. His home is also close to Taihu Lake, and there are no other aquatic plants growing in the lake, and insects and birds dare not fly down there to feed. The county remembers his filial piety above him.