The Chinese concept of family

Under the agrarian culture, the family is a basic production unit, and China's agrarian society is particularly long, which is the most basic reason for the Chinese people's heavy family concept. Regarding the importance of family concept, let's take a look at the "heirlooms" left behind by the Chinese: raising children for old age; relying on parents for the first 30 years and relying on children and grandchildren for the next 30 years; filial piety is the first thing to be done; honoring one's ancestors; prospering in the family; being industrious and thrifty in maintaining the family; having many children; planting rice seedlings early, knotting grains early, getting married early and enjoying good fortune; parents are here and don't go far away; and not to spread the family's shame to the outside world; The children and grandchildren are all around the knees; the grandchildren are all around the knees; the grandchildren are all around the knees. And so on. Agricultural society is a society that emphasizes experience, weak resistance to risk, low productivity, and few changes. Zi said, "If the father has not, observe his behavior; if he does not change his father's way for three years, he can be called filial." Three years means a long time. Confucius meant that after the death of the father, one can still do things without changing the rules set by the father for a long time before one can be called filial.

Eating by the sky, the son keeping his father's business, following experience, can keep the peace, and the concept of the family helplessly includes conservatism.