You do not understand the meaning of the "unfilial three, no later for the great" what is the real meaning?

China's traditional culture is colorful, although the life of the only generation does not have modern high-tech, but there are still many classics of literature passed down to today, and everyone knows them by heart. It's like this sentence: "If you are not filial, you are not filial". In life, each one of us is constantly advocating the filial piety culture of our country, filial piety is the traditional culture of our country, in the culture of filial piety in many of the essence is worthy of future generations to continue to learn and study. However, although each of us has a certain understanding of traditional culture. But there will still be some wrong understanding in people's minds. For example, people usually think that the real meaning of this saying is that there are three unfilial things, but not having children is the biggest and the most serious. But in fact, the real meaning of this sentence is not so at all.

? This sentence is from Mencius's "Mengzi Li Lou Shang", in this whole article, a detailed account of the inheritance of Mencius for filial piety and how to fulfill the responsibility of being a child to their parents. In the original text. What the author wants to express is that there are many kinds of unfilial behaviors of children, but failing to do what the descendants do is the most serious. What is said here is that children do not do what they should do as offspring, not that a woman without children is the most unfilial. The true meaning of this interpretation is unknown to many people, and is only clear to a small number of people who have knowledge of the original text. Modern people for this sentence is similarly applied to a wrong place, even in our feudalism, patriarchal families take this sentence as a motto, used to let the woman to give birth to male children, in order to continue the so-called incense.

? However, the more time passes, the more the true meaning of this phrase is forgotten. But that doesn't mean that the misinterpreted meaning of true traditional culture won't be corrected, the true essence of culture is to be passed on, it's just a matter of time.