Lu Jihuai orange brick

[Lu Jihuai orange brick]

Lu Jihuai orange brick, Northern Song Dynasty, 19 cm high, 26 cm wide, and 3 cm thick
The brick is rectangular, the brick surface is concave and chiseled into a pot door, and the word “Lu Ji” is engraved on it. Yuan Shu sits at the bottom of the tree on the right side of the picture, and Lu Ji, a six-year-old boy, bows down on the left side. An orange falls to the ground
Lu Jihuai orange is one of the stories of the twenty-four filial piety. Lu Ji’s story can be found in The Three Kingdoms. Lu Ji, the word Gongji, is from Wujun. When he was 6 years old, he met Yuan Shu in Jiujiang. Yuan Shu gave him oranges to eat, and he carried three of them. When he said goodbye, the oranges tumbled to the ground. Yuan Shu asked him why he carried oranges? Lu Ji replied that he wanted to take it home for his mother. Yuan Shu was surprised that a 16-year-old boy could do so. The legacy of Lu Jihuai’s orange mother is one of the ancient twenty-four filial piety stories, which is somewhat similar to Kong Rong’s pear, but Kong Rong, which is more widely spread among children, has not been included in the twenty-four filial piety story. I don’t know why. People who live in society do not necessarily take the world as their own responsibility. They have to do magnificent things, but often see their interests and true feelings in ordinary things. Lu Jihuai’s story may give us some inspiration.