Introduction There is a common saying among the people: Raise children to prevent old age. This common saying comes from the article "Story of Lin Guangji" written by Chen Yuanliang. There is a sentence in this article: " Raise children to prevent old age, accumulate grain to pre

Introduction

There is a common saying among the people: Raise children to prevent old age. This common saying comes from the article "Hidden children to prevent old age, and accumulate grain to prevent hunger." From then on, there was a saying that raising children to prevent old age.

In 2014, China Survey and Data Center of Renmin University of China conducted a survey on the concept of raising children to prevent old age. This survey adopted a stratified and multi-stage probability sampling method, and the survey scope covered 28 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) across the country except Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Hainan, Xinjiang and Tibet. The final overall sample size of the survey was 11,511 people, of which 49.04% were men, 50.96% were women, 52.96% were urban household registration, and 47.04% were agricultural household registration.

survey results show that 66.2% of agree with the view of "raising children to prevent old age", 29% of people disagree with this view, and the remaining people need to "depend on the specific situation."

So, how could so many people agree with the view of "raising children to prevent old age"?

In fact, this is related to our traditional habits. According to relevant information, in ancient my country, almost 100% of people had the concept of "raising children to prevent old age".

A historian pointed out that in ancient times, the development level of social productivity in was very low and the economy was quite backward. In order to enable anyone to have a good time to support themselves, the ancients thought of a way, which was: vigorously promoted the "filial son".

"The Book of Songs·Daya·Jijiji" says: "Filial piety is not scarce, and it will never be like this." The great sage Confucius also said: Your parents are here, and you will not travel far away. These statements are ultimately one word - "filial piety".

According to linguists, the word " filial piety" was first seen in Shang Dynasty . The character shape of this character is like a child supporting an elderly person. It means that children should do their best to support their parents. This shows the good intentions of the ancients when creating characters.

’s discussion on “filial piety” is often mentioned in ancient books. For example, in "Er Ya", it is said: "Good parents are filial." For example, in " Book of Rites ", it is said: "Filial piety is an animal. Following the Tao and not going against morality, it is called animal." In short, the ancients attached great importance to "filial piety".

A folk expert pointed out that " filial piety" is a basic element of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation . Ancient my country formed a complete filial piety cultural system. During the weekly , people considered filial piety as a person's basic morality. At that time, the concept of " Three Virtues " was proposed. In the private school founded by Confucius, he always put filial piety first as the foundation of a person's basic morality. Confucius emphasized: "A gentleman is fundamental, and the foundation is established and the way is born. Those who are filial piety and brotherhood are the basis of benevolence"; while Mencius highly praised Confucius' concept. Mencius believed that "human nature is good" should be used as the theoretical basis to promote the culture of filial piety. In terms of developing Confucius' thoughts, Mencius proposed "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, and trustworthiness." Mencius said: "There are five things that secular worldly unfilial: laziness of limbs and ignore the upbringing of parents, one is unfilial; playing games and wanting to drink, not taking care of the upbringing of parents, two is unfilial; being fond of goods and wealth, private wives, and disregarding the upbringing of parents, three is unfilial; following the desires of ears and eyes, killing parents, four is unfilial; being brave and fighting, ruthless, and endangering parents, five is unfilial."

In short, under the influence of promoting the culture of filial piety and advocating the concept of "everyone is a filial son", the ancients believed that as long as they have children, their own pension problem will be solved.

So, as long as you have children, can your own pension problem really be solved?

answer is: Not sure.

This happened on October 9th, in Shangqiu, Henan Province -

Event

Although it is still autumn, the climate this year seems to be a bit abnormal. In the Yellow River basin and the area north of it, it is not an exaggeration to wear a cotton jacket in this season.A netizen from the Shangqiu area said that the somatosensory temperature on the morning of October 9 is expected to not exceed 15 ℃, and it is windy and very cold.

For young people, the temperature of 15℃ is not very low. After all, young people are energetic and have stronger resistance to freezing. However, for a 90-year-old man wearing short-sleeved shirts, the temperature of 15℃ is not high. After all, if you are old and have weak vitality, you will not have the ability to resist freezing.

However, on the morning of October 9, a thinly dressed 90-year-old man in Shangqiu, Henan was wandering in the cold wind.

So, who is this old man? Why did he wander in the cold wind?

A neighbor of the old man, Mr. Huang, said: "The old man's name is Huang Mouzhong, and he is 104 years old this year. The old man raised three sons in total. The eldest son is in his 60s, and the remaining two sons are also in his 50s."

Mr. Huang continued: "When the old man's wife was alive, he and his wife were alone. Since he died seven or eight years ago, he has taken turns to follow him. With three children to have dinner. According to the agreement of the three brothers, the number of days in turn was three months. "

Mr. Huang continued to introduce: "On October 9, Mr. Huang Mouzhong's turn was his eldest son's house. So, Mr. Huang Mouzhong came to his eldest son's house early, but what the old man didn't expect was: no matter how the old man shouted and slapped the door, no one answered the eldest son's house. In desperation, the old man was at the door pun html After sitting on the 4 for a while, he kept wandering on the village road facing the cold wind. When many neighbors saw this scene, the neighbors cried. "

Mr. Huang finally introduced: "Why do neighbors cry? The main reason is that not only has this phenomenon happened several times, but it has also happened in the house of every son of the old man. The neighbors once advised Huang Mouzhong's three sons to give the old man a key, but the three sons were unwilling to give the key to the old man. Based on this, the old man was often blocked outside the door and could not enter the house. The neighbors all said: It's really hard to raise a father! If the old man had only one son, this might not be the case."

Another neighbor of Huang Mouzhong, Sun, said that the three months of life was not easy to remember, and the old man Huang Mouzhong's did not start with No. 1. Perhaps for this reason, the three sons may forget when they should take care of their father. When the three sons should take care of their father's life, so old man Huang Mouzhong will often be blocked outside the door.

Sun then introduced that, for any reason, Huang Mouzhong's eldest son did not open the door until 8 o'clock in the morning. At this time, the old man had breakfast by his neighbors. The eldest son of Mr. Huang Mouzhong took him back from his neighbor's house. What is mentioned above in

is a general process of this event.

When many netizens learned about this incident, netizens started a heated discussion.

Netizen voice

Netizen Qingqing River grass: As the saying goes------"There is no rain." It means: the more dragons there are, the more it means three or four. In fact, this will happen after a person raises too many sons. Because every child thinks that other brothers are in charge of the elderly! Therefore, you don’t care about it, which leads to the fact that the elderly sometimes have no one to care about it!

Netizen Guzi Aicai: I really can't figure out why the three sons are unwilling to give the old man a key. Do you suspect that his father will steal his own things? Speechless.

In short, netizens have a lot of discussions.

Lao Hu’s opinion

We have all heard of the story of “Twenty-Four Filial Piety”. A philosopher once said: Respecting the elderly is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. No matter what era it is, this virtue should be passed down.

As for this incident, we must not argue that the son of Mr. Huang Mouzhong is unfilial. However, the three sons of Mr. Huang Mouzhong seem to have not done well enough in some aspects, and there are still some things to improve when dealing with the elderly.For example, when it is the old man's turn to have a meal, he should take the old man home instead of letting the old man go home by himself; for example, it's okay to give the old man a key. Please believe that the old man will still marry his son, and he will never steal his son's things to others. If the three sons of Huang Mouzhong could improve their treatment methods, I believe the elderly would not have been wandering in the cold wind because they could not enter the house.

What do you think?