Is filial piety a symbol of traditional culture?

Filial piety is a symbol of traditional culture. The definition of Erya, China's earliest book to explain the meaning of words, is: "Being kind to parents is filial piety". Jia Yi's New Book of Han Dynasty is defined as "filial piety". Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Those who are kind to their parents, from the old province, from their children, from their children to their elders." .

Filial piety as an ethical concept was formally put forward in the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, filial piety means:

1, Zunzu Jingzong. The main way of filial piety is sacrifice. In the ancestral hall, ancestor worship is a sacrifice, and the object of filial piety is the dead, which has a certain religious form.

2. carry on the family line. In the eyes of Zhou people, ancestors are the product of our generation's life. Therefore, ancestor worship is to continue the life of ancestors. In a word, filial piety in the Western Zhou Dynasty is a feudal religious ethics.