Ason warming the bed for his parents on cold winter nights and sleeping bare-chested on summer days to prevent mosquitoes from attacking his parents are examples of stories that extol filial piety in Chinese history.
A compilation of the filial conduct can be found in the ‘Twenty-Four Filial Exemplers’ (Er Shi Si Xiao) written by Yuan Dynasty scholar, Guo Ju Jing.
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