法苑珠林 49.49

49.49

揵為符先泥和。其女者名雄泥和。至永建元年為縣功。曹縣長趙祉遣泥和拜檄謁巴郡太守。以十月乘船於城湍。墮水死屍喪不得。雄哀慟號咷。命不圖存。告弟賢及夫。命勤覓父屍。若求不得。吾欲自沈覓之。時雄年二十七。有子男貢年五歲貰三歲。又為作繡香囊一枚。盛金珠環預嬰二子。哀號之聲不絕於口。昆族私憂。至十二月十五日父喪。未得。雄乘小船。於父墮處哭數聲竟自投水中。旋流沒底。見夢告弟。至二十一日與父俱出。投期如夢與父相持。並浮出江。縣長表言。郡太守蕭登承上尚書。遣戶曹掾為雄立碑。圖像其形令知誌孝（右二驗出搜神記）。

Fu Xian Nihuo of Qianwei had a daughter named Xiong. In the first year of Yongjian, Nihuo served as a merit officer of the county. Zhao Zhi, the county magistrate, dispatched Nihuo to present an official letter and pay respects to the grand administrator of Ba Commandery. In the tenth month, he took a boat through the city rapids, fell into the water, and died; his corpse was lost and could not be recovered. Xiong wailed in mournful grief, having no thought of staying alive. She told her younger brother Xian and her husband, bidding them to search diligently for her father's corpse: "If you cannot find him, I wish to submerge myself to seek him." At that time Xiong was twenty-seven years of age; she had sons named Gong, aged five, and Shi, aged three. She had also made an embroidered incense pouch filled with gold, pearls, and rings, which she bestowed on her two children in advance. Mournful wailing did not cease from her mouth, and her clan quietly worried. On the fifteenth day of the twelfth month, her father's corpse had still not been found. Xiong boarded a small boat, wailed several times at the spot where her father had fallen, and finally threw herself into the water, sinking to the bottom in the swirling current. She appeared in a dream to her younger brother, saying that on the twenty-first day she would emerge together with her father. Her plunge fulfilled the appointed time just like the dream: embracing her father, she floated up together with him out of the river. The county magistrate submitted a memorial reporting the matter, and the grand administrator of the commandery, Xiao Deng, transmitted it upward to the Department of State Affairs. They dispatched a clerk of the Revenue Section to erect a stele for Xiong and depict her image to commemorate her filial piety (these two verifications are taken from the Soushenji).