Hyangdeok向德
1Hyangdeok
向德，熊川州板積鄕人也。父名善，字潘吉，天資溫良，鄕里推其行。母則失其名。向德亦以孝順，為時所稱。天寶十四年乙未，年荒民饑，加之以疫癘，父母飢且病，母又發癰，皆濱於死。向德日夜不解衣，盡誠安慰，而無以為養，乃刲髀肉以食之。又吮母癰，皆致之平安。鄕司報之州，州報於王。王下敎，賜租三百斛、宅一區、口分田若干，命有司立石紀事，以標之。至今，人號其地云孝家里。
Hyangdeok was a man of Panjeok village in Ungcheonju. His father's name was Seon and his courtesy name was Bangil. He was gentle and good by nature, and the village held up his conduct as an example. His mother's name is lost. Hyangdeok too was spoken of in his time for his filial devotion.
In the fourteenth year of Cheonbo, an eulmi year, the harvest failed and the people went hungry, and a plague came on top of it. His father and mother were starving and ill as well, and his mother had a boil besides, and both were close to death. Hyangdeok did not take off his clothes by day or by night, and he gave his whole heart to comforting them. But he had nothing to feed them with, so he cut the flesh of his thigh and gave it to them to eat. He also sucked his mother's boil, and he brought them both to ease.
The village office reported it to the province, and the province reported it to the king. The king sent down an order and gave him three hundred seom of grain, one house, and a portion of allotted land, and he commanded the office in charge to set up a stone and write the matter on it so that it would be known. To this day people call that place Hyoga-ri (孝家里).