When ZHŪ Shòuchāng 朱寿昌 of the Sòng 宋 dynasty (period 15) was seven years old, his mother, a concubine from the LIÚ 刘 family, because of the envy of the first wife, was married out again to another family. Little Shòuchāng was prohibited from even mentioning his mother. Filled with grief he could not express, he devoted himself to studies and eventually was appointed to high office in Guǎngdé 广德 county in Ānhuī 安徽 province. For fifty years the mother and son did not see each other, and Zhū Shòuchāng though about her constantly.
Finally Zhū Shòuchāng could stand it no longer; he gave up his office and went to the region of Qín 秦 in Shaǎnxī 陕西 province, to find his mother, vowing not to return until he did so. He eventfully journeyed to Tóngzhōu 同州 in Shānxī 山西 province, where she was living modestly with her children by a second husband, now deceased. At that time his mother was already seventy years old. Zhū invited his mother and his half-siblings to come and live with him, and provided well for them the rest of his life.