黄香为父亲暖被窝
Huang Xiang Warming His Father’s Sleeping-Bag
黄香是东汉时期一个九岁的男孩。那是一个非常寒冷的冬天，黄香每天看书学习，父亲每天下地干农活。有一天，刮着西北风，天空乌云密布，看不到太阳，父亲照常去地里干活，黄香照常看书学习。可是，天实在太冷了，两手僵硬，拿不住书，握不住笔，两脚疼痛似猫咬一般。他只好在屋子里走来走去，边走边学习。天色晚了，父亲从地里干活回来，两唇发紫，胡子上和眉毛上都冻上了冰，舌头发硬，说话不清，全身发抖。家里没吃的，只能喝口热水暖和一下。快到睡觉时候了，黄香去为父亲辅床。他一摸被褥，也寒凉如冰，心想，“父亲干了一天活，够累的了，睡不好觉，明天怎么去干活呢？”他突然有了个主意，脱了鞋子和衣服，立即钻进父亲的被窝。被窝暖热了，此时父来睡觉了。父亲躺在暖暖的被窝里，不一会儿就睡着了。看着熟睡的父亲，黄香心里乐滋滋的。在那个冬天剩余的日子里，他天天这么做，在尔后每年的寒冬，他都坚持这么做。父母夸他是好儿子，村里人称赞他孝顺，人人以他为榜样。
Huang Xiang was a nine-year-old boy of the East Han. It was a cold winter, but Huang Xiang, the son would read and learn every day while the father went to do farming. One day, it was extremely cold with a strong northwest wind blowing, the sky full of thick dark clouds and the sun totally unseen. The father went to the farm to work as usual and the son managed to read and learn all the same. However, it was so cold that Huang Xiang found it hard to take firm hold of the book with both his stiff hands and fingers and difficult to bear the cat-bitten-like aches of both feet. He couldn’t help walking up and down the room to get warmth back to his feet and hands over reading and learning. It was getting late and towards evening, the father came back from the farm. His lips were both dark purple and his tongue was not flexible. Hence he could not speak clearly. On his beard and eye-bows were all small pieces of ice or frost. He was shivering all over. As there was no food, he could drink some hot water to get himself warmed. Soon it would be bedtime, and Huang Xiang went to make bed for his father in the usual way. When touching the sleeping quilt, Huang Xiang felt it icily cold. Instantly he began to worry, thinking, “How could Father have a good sleep in such a cold quilt after a day’s toiling? And he will have to do farm work tomorrow.” All of a sudden, he had an idea. He took off his shoes and clothes immediately and and got into his father’s sleeping bag. The sleeping bag was warmed when the father went to bed. In the warm sleeping bag, the father soon fell asleep.And the son was delighted. During the remaining days of the very cold winter, he persisted in warming the sleeping bag for his father. From that winter on, Huang Xiang kept doing so every winter. The parents praised him as a good son. Neighbors had high opinions of him for his filial piety and every one else filial followed his sample.

Credit: Chinese Culture