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The Book of Filial Duty: No. XIII: For his Mother's Sake ...

Confucian Filial PietyHsiao ChingWisdom of the East Series

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For his Mother's Sake he would bury his Child In the days of the Han dynasty lived Kuo Chü, who was very poor. He had one child three years old; and such was his poverty that his mother usually divided her portion of food with this little one. Kuo says to his wife: "We are so poor that our mother cannot be supported, for the child divides with her the portion of food that belongs to her.