Our guide in the Forbidden City showed us a gorgeous four foot tall golden pagoda with ornate carvings, pearls and jade, one of the precious treasures of China. He told us this story:
The Emperor who commissioned the golden pagoda loved his mother very much. He did everything he could to make her happy. One day she was distressed because she found some hair from her head on her pillow. She was sad because she was growing older and afraid all her hair would fall out. The Emperor commissioned the golden pagoda for his mother and had it placed by her bedside. His mother asked her son why he bought her the pagoda. The Emperor picked several hairs from his mother's pillow and placed them inside an opening in the pagoda. He turned to his mother and said, "This priceless golden pagoda is not worth as much to me as a single hair from your head."
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