In China, stories of filial piety can be seen everywhere. Why are there few examples of filial piety abroad?

Because in the west, "loyalty" and "filial piety" are not mainstream values.

The west is a civil society, and a citizen can do his duty as a citizen. As for filial piety, there is no moral compulsion, because neither the state nor the citizen groups will actively advocate this kind of values, and naturally there will be no "role models" to actively practice this kind of values.

Fei Xiaotong said in "Native China": In the self-centered social relationship network, the most important nature is "self-denial and self-respect" and "self-cultivation-oriented"-this is the starting point of the moral system in the differential order pattern. The social scope formed by self-extension is a personal connection, and each rope is maintained by a moral element. Social scope is derived from "self", and there are various routes in the process of launching. The most basic ones are relatives: parents and compatriots, and the matching moral elements are filial piety and filial piety. "Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence." Pushing another route is friends, and matching is loyalty. "Do people seek and cheat? Do you believe in making friends? " "The Lord is faithful, and he who has no friends is not as good as himself." Confucius once concluded: "Disciples are filial when they enter, and filial when they leave. They are sincere and believe. They have always loved people, but they are kind. "

Fei Xiaotong also said: not only in our traditional moral system, there is no such concept as "love" in Christianity-disorderly fraternity; Moreover, it is not easy for us to find individual moral elements for the group. In western society, fulfilling official duties and obligations is a clear code of conduct. This is against the tradition of China. Now we sometimes put the word "loyalty" in this position, but the meaning of loyalty in the Analects of Confucius is not the case. The loyalty I quoted in the sentence "I am unfaithful to others" is the annotation of "loyalty and forgiveness" and "being sincere to others". The loyalty of "loyalty to the Lord" can be linked with the word "heart" and is sincere.

Due to the differential order pattern of traditional China, a large homogeneous society lacks citizen groups and the concept of rights and obligations of civil society. People don't need to be responsible for the group, and they can't get any rights from the group. As an individual, the superstructure is directly the country, so as long as everyone in the country can be "monarch, minister, father, son and son", they can rule the world. The country only needs your loyalty and filial piety. How can it give you citizenship?

Don't you see, how to deal with a son who revenges his father has never been clearly debated from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Tang Dynasty, because it involves the moral value standard of "filial piety", which leads to a bad debt that can never be sorted out. Liu Zongyuan said in "Refuting Revenge": "Book of Rites" transferred people, and ten thousand people took revenge. Anyone who kills a man bravely is ordered not to retaliate, and the enemy will die. If there is an anti-killer, the country will make enemies. "How safe is the other person who loves and hates?" "Biography of the Spring and Autumn Ram" said: "If the father does not punish, the son can take revenge. When the father is punished, the son will retaliate. This is the way to push the blade, revenge does not kill people. "Today, if you kill each other twice with this, it will be in line with the ceremony." What he means is that his father was killed innocently, and his son was seeking revenge, so he could not be sentenced to death, so he couldn't explain it clearly over and over again.

Therefore, stories and typical figures advocating filial piety are rarely seen in the west, because such examples do not conform to their mainstream values. Therefore, when westerners see Lu Ji sneaking oranges into his sleeves, they will only say "good boy" and will never set up a typical dutiful son of "Huai Ju Lu Lang".