What are the characteristics of family ethics in old China

Features of family ethics in old China:

1. Family ethics is patriarchal. On the basis of advocating father's kindness and filial piety, brother's friendship and brother's respect, and harmony between husband and wife, it emphasized the filial piety of the son to the father, the respect of the brother to the brother, and the obedience of the wife to the husband, making the relationship between father, son, brother, and husband into a relationship of superiority and inferiority, and a relationship of dominance and obedience. This is determined by the patriarchal hierarchy and the cultural concepts of "rites" and "benevolence".

2, family ethics to the father and son as the main axis of human relations, with filial piety as the core. The king and the minister are the extension of the father and the son, and filial piety becomes loyalty; the friend is the extension of the brother, and to call a brother a friend is to call a brother a friend, and the ethical culture of China has developed in this way in the continuous extension of the main axis of the father and the son's human relationship. This was determined by the backward mode of production and the social structure of the family and the state.

3. Family ethics emphasizes the family. The family is regarded as the nucleus, the individual is subordinate to the family, and the members of the family are not economically independent and must live on the family's **** and property. This is determined by the natural economy of self-sufficiency.