{"collection":"Confucian Documents","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd22_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd22_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cfu_bfd_bfd22_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/bfd/bfd22.htm","summary":"The Filial Piety that influenced Heaven\nY\u00fc Shun, the son of Ku Sou, had an exceedingly filial disposition; his father, however, was stupid, his mother perverse, and his younger brother, Hsiang, very conceited. His actions are related in the Shang Shu, in the Chung Yung, and in the works of Mencius. Those who speak of him say that Shun cultivated the hills of Li (in the province of Shansi), where he had elephants to plough his fields and birds to weed the grain.","tags":["Confucian Filial Piety","Hsiao Ching","Wisdom of the East Series"],"text":null,"title":"The Book of Filial Duty: The Twenty-Four Examples: No. I: The Filial Piety that influenced Heaven","tradition":"Confucian Documents","translated_text":null,"word_count":372}