The Writing Background of Twenty-four Filial Pieties

"Twenty-four Filial Pieties" is a book telling the story of twenty-four filial sons in ancient China, with pictures. Its main purpose is to promote feudal filial piety. Starting with the feeling of reading Twenty-four Pictures of Filial Piety when he was a child, Mr. Lu Xun emphatically described the strong antipathy caused by reading two stories, Lao Lai Entertainment and Guo Ju Burying the Son, and vividly exposed the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety.

Twenty-four filial piety pictures were written by Lu Xun, a famous modern writer, and came from Lu Xun's Memories of Time Past and Flowers in the Morning. "Filial piety" is the core of Confucian ethics, the moral criterion for maintaining family relations in China for thousands of years, and the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. In Yuan Dynasty, Guo compiled the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times into Twenty-four Filial Piety Classics.

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Starting with the children's books at that time, this paper recalls the feelings of reading Twenty-four Filial Pieties in childhood and reveals the hypocrisy and cruelty of feudal filial piety. The stories of filial piety, such as "Seeking carp on the ice", "Old Lai entertaining relatives" and "Guo Ju burying children", are emphatically analyzed, accusing this feudal filial piety of ignoring children's lives, taking nausea as pleasure, "taking unkindness as a training, slandering ancient evils and teaching future generations ill". The work sharply criticized the tendency of opposing vernacular Chinese and advocating retro at that time.

In fact, the story of the dutiful son in Twenty-four Filial Pieties should be very touching. It is a pity that generations of people have covered it with silk and cosmetics, smearing the touching truth into a disgusting sitcom. Lu Xun wants to tell us through this article that filial piety is justified, pedantry is stupid, blind obedience is sad and defending morality is hateful.

How to advocate filial piety is still a question worthy of consideration and discussion for China people now. Those perfect gods who have been painstakingly "decorated" and worshipped and admired cannot touch people's hearts. What really touches us ordinary people will always be those ordinary heroes, those who used to be cowardly, selfish and hesitant, but finally chose brave, persistent and determined people.