What is the connotation of filial piety in Chinese tradition?

1, Confucian filial piety:

Filial piety is one of the core concepts of Confucianism. Xiaojing was promoted by Confucianism is also recognized by the people, ancient rulers also established a set of laws with filial piety as the main body of law.

In ancient times, the younger generation would be sentenced by the local self-established patriarchal law if they insulted their elders, and children would be sentenced by the official law if they hit their parents, a crime that could lead to death. If parents died, children were required to mourn for them for three years, and officials were required to remove their official uniforms and resume their duties after the mourning period. All of these things, without further ado, show how important the word "filial piety" was in ancient China.

Confucianism's filial piety plays a huge role in Chinese cultural thought and has made a great contribution to maintaining social stability and social order.

2, filial piety's modern significance

Today's society in the economic form of mass production, the family, geo-local ties are increasingly diluted, loose. But the overall connection of the society is gradually strengthened. Our understanding of "caring for one's elders and for the aged" has shifted from a hierarchical promotion of kinship to a universal love that takes into account the whole of society.

So our relationship with our parents and elders is one of free and equal negotiation, not absolute obedience, and free communication under the premise of equality, not "no change in the father's will". It is economic mutual aid and complementary, not mandatory support. It is a harmonious relationship of respect for the old and love for the young, not a differentiated hierarchy of "seniority and order".

We should respect our parents, communicate with them as equals, and live in harmony so that family relations will be harmonious. If we do this, we have already fulfilled the filial piety of today, and there is no need to sublimate it again. Otherwise, insisting on conservatism, retrograde retro, will be out of step with the times.

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1, personally tasted the soup

Liu Heng, Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the third son of Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was born to Empress Dowager Bo. He became emperor in the eighth year of the reign of Empress Gao (180 BC). He was famous for his filial piety and never slacked off in serving his mother. When his mother was lying ill for three years, he often did not see her eyes or wear her clothes; he tasted the medicines she took before letting her take them.

He reigned for 24 years, emphasizing the rule of morality, etiquette, attention to the development of agriculture, so that the Western Han society is stable, prosperous, economic recovery and development, he and the reign of Emperor Jingdi of the Han Dynasty is known as the "rule of Wenjing".

2, lying on the ice to seek carp

Wang Xiang, Langya people, his mother died early, his stepmother Zhu repeatedly in front of his father to say bad things about him, so that he lost his father's love. Parents are sick, he was not dressed to wait, stepmother wanted to eat live carp, when the cold, he unclothed lying on the ice, ice suddenly melted on its own, jumped out of the two carp. After his stepmother ate them, she recovered from her illness. Wang Xiang more than twenty years of seclusion, and then from the Wen County magistrate to do the big Sinanong, Sikong, lieutenant

3, want to mosquitoes full of blood

Wu Mang, the Jin Dynasty Puyang people, at the age of eight years old know how to filial piety and respect for their parents. Family poverty, no mosquito nets, mosquito bites so that his father can not sleep peacefully. Every summer night, Wu Mang always sat naked in front of his father's bed, letting the mosquitoes bite without repelling them, worrying that the mosquitoes would leave him to bite his father.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Filial Piety