法苑珠林 49.38

49.38

又丁蘭。河內野王人也。年十五喪母。刻木作母。事之供養如生。蘭妻夜火灼母面。母面發瘡。經二日妻頭髮自落。如刀鋸截。然後謝過。蘭移母大道。使妻從服三年拜伏。一夜忽如風雨。而母自還。隣人所假借。母顏和即與。不和則不與（鄭緝之孝子傳曰。蘭妻誤燒母面。即夢見母痛。人有求索許不先白母。隣人曰。枯木何知。遂用刀斫木母流血。蘭還悲號。造服行喪。廷尉以木感死。宣帝嘉之拜太中大夫者也）。

Furthermore, Ding Lan was a man of Yewang in Henei. At the age of fifteen he lost his mother. He carved wood into the likeness of his mother and served and provided for it as if she were alive. Lan's wife one night burned the mother's face with fire; the mother's face developed sores. After two days, the wife's hair fell out of its own accord as if cut by knife and saw. Only then did she apologize for her fault. Lan moved the wooden mother to the main road, making his wife observe mourning attire for three years, bowing and prostrating. One night, a sudden gale and rain arose, and the wooden mother returned on its own. Whenever neighbors came to borrow items, if the mother's countenance was mild, he would lend them; if not mild, he would not lend them. (Zheng Jizhi's Xiaozi zhuan says: Lan's wife mistakenly burned the mother's face, and immediately dreamed of the mother in pain. Someone came asking for a loan, and Lan had agreed without first informing the mother. The neighbor said, 'What does withered wood know?' and thereupon struck the wooden mother with a knife, drawing blood. When Lan returned, he wailed in grief, made mourning clothes, and carried out funeral rites. The commandant of justice considered that the wooden figure had been moved to the point of death, and Emperor Xuan praised him and appointed him grand palace grandee.)