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How to view the traditional concept of filial piety in Confucian culture

Whoever you are in the world, everyone should be equal, whether you are a parent or a child, you only have the relationship of obligation and responsibility, and there is no relationship of privilege and power, because children are not slaves of their parents, and parents are not slave masters of their children! Only on this basis can there be reasoning and right and wrong, otherwise it becomes extreme shackles and fallacies!

First of all, the decision of a child to come into this world does not lie with the child, but with the parents themselves. The child does not force the parent to bring him/her into the world, but the parent forces his child into the world. When you come into the world, are you happy? Of course not, there are sorrows and joys and sorrows in life, and there are even many people who go to work as oxen and horses and labor for life for the sake of the family. Since you have not brought any happiness to your children, how can you say that you have been so gracious? Parents do work hard to raise their children, but don't children work hard to support their parents in their old age? The cycle of human life and death is a natural instinct. Today, some people put the mother's head of gray hair, the father's body bends to blame for the children's labor results, this is how ridiculous and ignorant, ask: even if you do not go to raise children, when you get to a certain age, do not you will not aging? If you do not go to the birth of children, human beings can live forever? Indiscriminate filial piety is the children tightrope!