Cheng Yanzun is a very filial son, and his love and obedience to his mother have reached the extreme. However, his mother was extremely strict and hated his wife so much that she expelled her from the house.
At that time, Cheng Yanzun was in the prime of life, but in order to obey his mother's wishes, he decided not to marry a wife for life. His wife was very virtuous, and although she was expelled from her husband's house by her mother-in-law, she did not complain at all. She knew that this was a sacrifice made by her husband in order to fulfill his filial piety, so she silently endured all this.
Every New Year's holiday, Cheng Yanzun's wife will definitely go back to her husband's house to say hello. She herself lived alone, and refused to remarry for the sake of her husband's observance. Her perseverance and loyalty touched the scholars at that time, and they all thought that Cheng Yanzun's wife was a rare and virtuous wife.
In order to praise her filial piety, the scholars at that time also made a filial piety biography for her. In this biography, they described in detail Cheng Yanzun's perseverance and filial piety to his wife, and praised her quality of keeping festivals for her husband and fulfilling her filial piety for her mother-in-law.
Cheng Yanzun's wife is not only a virtuous wife, but also a virtuous filial woman. Her perseverance and loyalty not only let people see her personal qualities, but also let people see her love for family and the pursuit of traditional virtues.
This story tells us that filial piety is not only an obligation, but also a quality. Only those who truly know how to fulfill filial piety can achieve true filial piety in life. At the same time, this story also tells us that a person's qualities and behaviors are recognized and celebrated. Only those who are truly virtuous can be respected and admired by people in society.