Quotations and aphorisms about fine traditional culture

The filial son's upbringing is also, happy with his heart, not against his will. --Ritual Records There are three types of filial piety: the first one honors and respects the parents, the second one does not insult them, and the next one can raise them. --Ritual Records The year of the parents must not be unknown. The first is to rejoice, the second to fear. --The Analects of Confucius Meng Wu Bo asked about filial piety, and Zi said, "Parents are only worried about their illnesses." --Lun Yu (论语-为政) What parents love they also love, and what parents honor they also honor. --Confucius The order of the young and the old. --Meng Zi The old as we are, and the old as we are; the young as we are, and the young as we are. The world is in the palm of your hand. --Meng Zi There is no greater filial piety than honoring one's parents. --Meng Zi The most important thing for a filial son to do is to honor his parents. --Mencius: Father and son have kinship, ruler and subject have righteousness, husband and wife have distinction, elder and younger have reclassification, and friends have faith. --Mencius: What is the greatest thing to do? What is greater than serving one's relatives? To guard one's body is the greatest. I have heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies, and I have not heard of those who can serve their relatives without losing their bodies. Who is not a matter? The first thing to do is to do something for your family; the second thing to do is to keep your body in order to keep it. To keep one's body is the essence of keeping one's body. --Meng Zi The reality of benevolence is to serve one's relatives; the reality of righteousness is to follow one's brother. --The truth of benevolence is to serve one's relatives; the truth of righteousness is to follow one's elder brother. --Mengzi A gentleman has three joys, and the king of the world does not exist with them. The parents are all present, the brothers have no reason, a joy; up not ashamed of the sky, down not subterfuge, the second joy; get the world of talent and education, the third joy. The gentleman has three joys, and the king of the world does not exist with them. --Meng Zi The secular so-called unfilial five, inert its four branches, regardless of the parent's support, one unfilial also; gaming good drinking, regardless of the parent's support, two unfilial also; good goods and wealth, private wife, regardless of the parent's support, three unfilial also; from the ears and eyes of the desire for the parent to kill, four unfilial also; good courage to fight, in order to endanger the parents, five unfilial also. --Mencius, without father and without ruler, is a beast. --Meng Zi The wise and the unscrupulous cannot be separated from each other, if the order cannot be changed, and if the beauty and the evil cannot be removed. --Lü Shi Chun Qiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi) A filial son does not flatter his relatives, and a loyal minister does not flatter his ruler. --Zhuang Zi A filial son who does not flatter his relatives and a loyal minister who does not flatter his ruler are the best of filial piety. --Zhuang Zi The etiquette is to cut off the long and continue the short, to lose more than enough, to gain less than enough, to reach the text of love and respect, and to nourish the beauty of behavior and righteousness. --Xunzi The nature of heaven and earth, the human being is precious; the behavior of human beings is no greater than filial piety, and filial piety is no greater than being strict with one's father. --The parents are the foundation of man. --Parents are the foundation of a man. -Shi Ma Qian. --If father and son don't believe in each other, the family will not be in harmony. --Wu Zetian Whoever says the heart of an inch of grass can repay the light of three springs. --Meng Jiao (孟郊) The harmony within the family is the key to the prosperity of the family. --The heart of filial piety is shared by all. --Su Zhe (苏辙) The elders stand, the young ones don't sit; the elders sit, they are ordered to sit. When you are in front of your elders, keep your voice low, but it is not appropriate to keep it low. The first thing you should do is to ask questions and not to move your eyes. --All parents love their children. --Chen Hongmou When you serve your parents, your voice is easy to be solemn, and you should not shout at them for trivial matters. --Zhou Bingqing The elders ask, do not deceive; the elders order, do not be late; the elders give, do not dare to resign. --Zhou Bingqing The importance of wealth, thin parents, not a man son. --Zhu Bailu Losing a loving mother is like sticking a flower in a bottle, although it still has color and fragrance, it has lost its roots. --Laoshe A mother can't be replaced by anything. --Ba Jin