What idea does the book Twenty-four Filial Pieties preach?

"Twenty-four Filial Pieties" is a book telling the story of twenty-four filial sons in ancient China, with pictures. In the Yuan Dynasty, Guo compiled the stories of 24 filial sons in ancient times into Twenty-four Filial Pieties. Later, all the printed books were accompanied by pictures, commonly known as twenty-four filial piety pictures.

Main story content: There are 24 stories, which are: loyalty and filial piety, longing for parents, writing to save father, adoptive parents' colorful clothes, crying for bamboo shoots, fighting tigers to save father, deer milk serving parents, cage-bearing mother's return, abandoning official position to serve parents, Lu Yi obeying mother, selling herself to bury father, tasting soup medicine, begging carp on ice, crying at Lei Yin's tomb, and Li Bai.

Main idea: Filial piety is the core of Confucian ethics, the moral norm to maintain family relations and the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Twenty-four Filial Piety Pictures has become a popular reading to promote filial piety, which is the essence of China traditional culture.

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Book Review of Twenty-four Filial Pieties;

The story of Twenty-four Filial Pieties handed down in history must be analyzed dialectically and historically from the viewpoint of historical materialism. There are indeed contents worthy of inheritance and development, but there are also dross. What is worth inheriting and carrying forward is the love and care for parents and the spirit of serving parents from the heart.

In the story of Twenty-four Filial Pieties, almost all have this spirit, which has its eternal value. This is the core and essence of the story of Twenty-four Filial Pieties. When we read the story of Twenty-four Filial Pieties, we should sympathize with the ancients. They may not value form and let future generations do it one by one, but they want to tell us through these stories that there is still a word "filial piety" in the world!

On the other hand, because "filial piety" originated from primitive clan society,