Meng Zong cried for bamboo bricks

[Mengzong crying bamboo bricks]

Mengzong crying bamboo bricks, Northern Song Dynasty. Height 19 cm, width 26 cm
The brick is rectangular, the inside of the brick is concave into a pot door, and the word “Meng Zong” is engraved on it. In the middle of the room, a man crouched down, facing the bamboo forest, covering his face with two sleeves, crying. An old woman at the top of the slope, looking down, seemed to be expecting something. Meng Zong’s weeping for bamboo is one of the twenty-four filial piety stories. The old mother of Menzong was old and wanted to eat fresh bamboo shoots, but it was in the middle of winter. It was freezing and there were no bamboo shoots to find. Meng Zong holds a bamboo basket and has no place to pick it. God was moved by his filial piety. Xinzhu suddenly appeared. Meng Zong picked fresh bamboo shoots and went home to show filial piety