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It was said that during the De Zong time in the Tang Dynasty, Xu
Zhongyuan was once the chief of Hefei and since his father moved from
Xuancheng to Wangjiang, his family inhabited in Wangjiang. He was famous
for his filial piety, and the story that he respected his mother spread
widely in the folk. In the first year of De Zong time, his mother Ms
Li's left eye was inflamed with tears all through the day and she could
not get to sleep with the unbearable pain. Gradually her left eye went
blind after the failure of drug treatment from many famous doctors. Soon
the right eye suffered the same illness and neither could the doctor
treat it. Once on the back way for doctors he heard from two old men
that the soup of the children's flesh might cure the mother's disease.
With a ray of hope, he came back home and prepared to cut off his flesh.
He milled a knife at night and the next morning he took a bath and then
cut a flesh from his thigh. His wife cooked the soup made from his
flesh. Surprisingly, his mother gradually recovered ever since she drank
the soup and therefore she kept her right eye.
