Reading and Answering the Filial Piety in Donghai in Classical Chinese

In the East China Sea, there are filial wives, few widows and dead children. I am very eager to raise my aunt. My aunt wants to marry her, but she doesn't want to. Aunt said to her neighbor, "I am diligent in filial piety and mourn for the loss of my son." I am old and tired for a long time. what can I do? "Later, my aunt died, and my aunt told the official," That woman killed my mother. "The official catches the filial wife, and the filial wife doesn't kill the aunt. Official trial treatment, filial piety and false take. With prison (1) on the house, for this woman care for more than ten years, to filial piety, will not kill it. The satrap refused to listen, contended with others, and he won, but he was locked in prison and cried in the palace because of his illness. The satrap talks about killing a filial wife. This county has been dry for three years in a row. After the satrap, divination.

Therefore, Yu Gong said, "The good wife died inappropriately, and the former magistrate forced her to break it. Blame what? " So the satrap killed the cow and sacrificed himself to the tomb of Xiao. I am 3 years old because of the heavy rain.

(selected from the biography of Xue Pingpeng neglected by Han Shujuan by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty)

To annotate ...

(1) Imprisonment: All files on which conviction is based. 2 divination: in ancient times, divination was called tortoise shell divination and yarrow divination. 3. Same as "cooked".

practise

1. Explain the following additional words:

(1) I'm glad to have my aunt ()

(2) Gu died after her death ()

(3) The satrap should kill the filial wife ()

(4) The responsibility lies here ()

2. Translate underlined sentences in the text in modern Chinese.

3. What is the reason for "dying in public"? (Answer in your own words)

? Look at the answer:

? 1.( 1) grandma (2) hanged herself (3) and finally (4) guilty?

2. The filial daughter-in-law raised me very carefully. I lament that she has no son and has been widowed for a long time. What should I do if I get into trouble with her for a long time when I am old? 3. Because Yugong thinks that a filial wife will support her mother-in-law for ten years and won't kill her, but she won't listen.

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