The tenth filial piety Wang Xiang lies on the ice for his mother.
Wang Xiang, a native of Langya, lost his mother in his early years. His stepmother Zhu spoke ill of him many times in front of his father, which made him lose his father's love. When his parents were ill, he took off his clothes to serve them. His stepmother wants to eat live carp, and it's freezing. He unbuttoned his clothes and lay on the ice. Suddenly, the ice melted by itself and two carp jumped out. After eating, the stepmother really recovered. Wang Xiang lived in seclusion for more than twenty years, and later worked as a senior farmer and an ordinary magistrate from Wenxian County.
Fourteen filial piety Meng Zong cried bamboo, and winter bamboo shoots were born.
Meng Zong, a native of Jiangxia in the Three Kingdoms, lost his father when he was a teenager and his mother was seriously ill. The doctor told him to make soup with fresh bamboo shoots. It was winter and there were no fresh bamboo shoots. Meng Zong had nothing to do, so he ran to the bamboo forest alone and held the bamboo to cry. After a while, he suddenly heard a crack on the ground and saw some tender bamboo shoots growing on the ground. Meng Zong was overjoyed and picked it back to make soup. After drinking it, his mother really recovered. Later, he became an official.