By:
vivian
on segunda-feira, outubro 16, 2017
“Wang Pou of the state of Wei, at the time of the Three Kingdoms, served his mother with filiality. When she was alive, she was afraid of thunder. When she died, she was buried in a hilly wood. Whenever there was wind and rain and Pou would hear the loud sound of thunder like the passing of the chariot of the thunder goddess Axiang, he would hurry to the grave and kneel and pray. He would weep, saying, ‘Pou is here. Mother must not be afraid.’”-
Circa 1300, China. Wang Pou was so admired for his filial piety, someone even wrote a poem in Pou’s honor:
His loving mother feared hearing thunder;
Now her chill spirit dwells among the dead, and
When Axian thunders over and over
He goes to the tomb to walk about it a thousand times.
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