Ying treated his mother with great filiality in everyday affairs and always asked her to partake of their meals before him.
穎考叔是春秋時代鄭國人，約生於西元前七七○﹘﹘七○○年間，是當時有名的孝子，他不但自己事親至孝，也經常在言行間提醒、協助別人孝順父母。下面這則是穎考叔替鄭國國君莊公解決問題，促使莊公於許下永不見母后的重誓後，仍能重新盡人子之心的故事。