What are the social and social functions of traditional filial piety culture?

The traditional family old-age security mechanism is based on the following aspects:

From the perspective of economic base, agricultural civilized production technology comes from the experience accumulated in production practice, and land and family property are recognized as symbols of wealth. Because of their rich experience, the elderly have become the core of production and life activities, gained the leading position in production and family economy, and then gained a lofty position in society. Children's means of production and technical sources after adulthood are parents, so parents must be supported and respected.

From the perspective of family structure and household registration system, in agricultural society, due to backward technology, individual production and life risks are high and their ability to resist risks is low. A relatively economical and reasonable institutional arrangement is family enlargement, and the ability to resist risks is improved by forming a huge family for several generations. Moreover, China's traditional family concept is that children and grandchildren are around their knees, and four generations live under one roof, so the family size has always been relatively large. Under such circumstances, from the perspective of consanguinity and resource evaluation, the older elders naturally become the managers of the family and uniformly distribute the resources within the family. At the same time, in agricultural society, the household registration system is strict, the population mobility is inconvenient, and close relatives who are related by blood often live in similar areas, which provides the possibility and premise for the formation of large families. From the perspective of social culture, filial piety culture has become the mainstream value orientation, and the social organization structure has also provided strong support for family pension security. "Filial piety is the first of all virtues". For the purpose of strengthening social control and stabilizing the ruling order, feudal rulers vigorously promoted the culture of "loyalty and filial piety", making filial piety an important evaluation index for individuals to settle down and gain recognition from the outside world. Outside the family, the patriarchal clan system and clan organization are important mechanisms to supervise the implementation of Taoism, and the behavior of disrespecting the elderly and unfilial will be severely punished by the patriarch and his relatives. Coupled with strong social ethics and public opinion pressure, filial piety culture is deeply rooted and has become the mainstream value orientation of society, which has ensured and continued the traditional old-age security mechanism.