One elderly Kong general, after defeated on the battlefield, cut his throat for the sake of his dignity. When the news reached the Kong mansion in Qufu, his son hanged himself as an expression of filial piety. After discovering the body, his wife hanged herself out of female virtue. On hearing this, the emperor bestowed the family with a board, inscribed “A family of faithfulness and filiality.”
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