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潔婦者，魯秋胡子妻也。既納之五日，去而宦於陳，五年乃歸。未至家，見路旁婦人採桑，秋胡子悅之，下車謂曰：「若曝採桑，吾行道遠，願託桑蔭下飡，下齎休焉。」婦人採桑不輟，秋胡子謂曰：「力田不如逢豐年，力桑不如見國卿。吾有金，願以與夫人。」婦人曰：「嘻！夫採桑力作，紡績織紝，以供衣食，奉二親，養夫子。吾不願金，所願卿無有外意，妾亦無淫泆之志，收子之齎與笥金。」秋胡子遂去。 |
| | Jie Fu was the wife of Lu Qiuhu. Five days after marrying her, he left to serve as an official in Chen and returned only five years later. Before reaching his home, he saw a woman picking mulberry leaves by the roadside. Qiuhu was pleased with her and got out of his carriage to say, "Since you are picking mulberry leaves in the sun, I have traveled far on my journey and would like to take shelter under your mulberry tree for a meal; please allow me to rest here." The woman continued picking mulberry leaves without stopping. Qiuhu said, "Working the fields is not as good as encountering a bountiful year, and working with mulberry trees is not as good as meeting a national official." "I have some gold," he said, "and I wish to give it to you, Madam." The woman said, "Ah!" "Picking mulberry leaves and working hard, spinning and weaving cloth are what provide clothing and food, support my parents-in-law, and raise my husband." "I do not wish for gold. What I desire is that you have no thoughts outside our marriage, and I also have no intention of immoral behavior. Take back your food and the basket of gold." Qiuhu then left.
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至家，奉金遺母，使人喚婦至，乃嚮採桑者也，秋胡子慚。婦曰：「子束髮脩身，辭親往仕，五年乃還，當所悅馳驟，揚塵疾至。今也乃悅路傍婦人，下子之裝，以金予之，是忘母也。忘母不孝，好色淫泆，是污行也，污行不義。夫事親不孝，則事君不忠。處家不義，則治官不理。孝義並亡，必不遂矣。妾不忍見，子改娶矣，妾亦不嫁。」遂去而東走，投河而死。君子曰：「潔婦精於善。夫不孝莫大於不愛其親而愛其人，秋胡子有之矣。」君子曰：「見善如不及，見不善如探湯。秋胡子婦之謂也。」《》云：「惟是褊心，是以為刺。」此之謂也。 |
| | When he arrived home, he presented the gold to his mother and sent someone to call his wife. To his surprise, it was the woman who had been picking mulberry leaves earlier; Qiuhu felt ashamed. The wife said, "You combed your hair and cultivated yourself, bid farewell to your parents to go into officialdom, and returned after five years. If you had someone you were pleased with, you would have hurriedly galloped forward, raising dust as you arrived quickly." "But now you were pleased with a woman by the roadside, took off your belongings, and gave her gold; this is forgetting your mother." "Forgetting one's mother is unfilial. Liking beauty and engaging in immoral behavior is a corrupt conduct, and corrupt conduct is unjust." "If one does not show filial piety to his parents, he will not be loyal to his ruler." "If one is unjust in managing his household, then he cannot properly govern as an official." "With both filial piety and righteousness lost, you will surely not succeed." "I cannot bear to see this; you should remarry. I shall never marry again." She then left and ran eastward, threw herself into the river, and died. The gentlemen said: "Jie Fu was precise in her virtue." "There is no greater unfilial piety than not loving one's own parents but loving another person; Qiuhu indeed had this." The gentlemen said: "When seeing virtue, pursue it as if you cannot reach it soon enough. When encountering wickedness, avoid it as one would avoid reaching into boiling water." "This is what was meant by the wife of Qiuhu." The Book of Songs says: "It is this narrow-mindedness that makes it a reproach." This is what is meant by that.
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頌曰：秋胡西仕，五年乃歸，遇妻不識，心有淫思，妻執無二，歸而相知，恥夫無義，遂東赴河。 |
| | Ode: Qiuhu went west to serve as an official, and returned only after five years. He met his wife but did not recognize her, and harbored lustful thoughts. His wife remained steadfast without any wavering; upon returning home they recognized each other. Ashamed of her husband's lack of righteousness, she went eastward and threw herself into the river.
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