China's traditional culture has a long history. What does filial piety culture mean?

China's traditional culture has a long history, which has been changed and spread in different times for thousands of years. It is also China culture that has influenced nearly one third of the world's population. There are many categories of China culture, almost all of which are "bright pearls" in the history of China. One of them is the filial piety culture in China.

In the history of China, filial piety culture has always been highly respected. Moreover, there have been many dynasties' models of "ruling the world with filial piety", which is also a means for rulers. The essence of filial piety culture is "benevolence", which can be said to be "serving the country faithfully if you can do filial piety at home" "Loyalty and filial piety" in history is both integrated and independent. This is based on the macro feelings of the home country. Filial piety is also the foundation of the country. Imagine: if an emperor doesn't even respect the most fundamental filial piety, how can this dynasty exist?

In fact, let's understand the word filial piety from the perspective of onlookers. Anyone who has been to Hubei Province knows that there is a city in Hubei Province called Xiaogan City. The word "filial piety" also originated from Yong Dong, the dutiful son of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who sold his body to bury his father and touched the world. Not only has the story spread to this day, but Xiaogan is also the only city named after filial piety in the history of China, which is not only the publicity of the city, but also the embodiment of filial piety culture in China.

We often say "filial piety". What is filial piety? The definition of Erya, China's earliest book to explain the meaning of words, is: "Be kind to your parents"; Jia Yi's New Book of Han Dynasty is defined as "filial piety". Xu Shen in the Eastern Han Dynasty explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "Those who are kind to their parents, from the old province, from their children, from their children to their elders." . They all interpreted the meaning of filial piety from different angles. In fact, filial piety is the inevitable connection between children and parents.

In China, I often hear a saying, "Raising children to prevent old age", which is also a kind of forward-looking thinking of parents, and has been circulated for thousands of years. It is believed that adopting a son means that someone needs to take care of him when he is old, which is also caused by China's backward concept of productivity economy at that time. In fact, in ancient times, children took the initiative to "provide for the aged and die" to their parents, which was an exposition of filial piety from any angle.

In ancient China, there were many touching "filial piety" characters and stories, such as Yu Shun Xiaogan moving heaven, Wang Xiang sleeping on ice as a carp, Han Heng tasting soup, burying his son as his mother, Zhu Shouchang abandoning his post to find his mother, etc ... There are many such stories, all of which interpret China's filial piety culture from various angles.

Filial piety culture has a long history. In the new era, because we are all working or studying in other places, the contact with our parents is to be caring and attentive on the phone or WeChat. Because of the needs of social form, we may be more or less lack of care for our parents. In ancient culture, we know a saying: parents are not far away, which is ancient filial piety; So now, we should not only give our parents material filial piety, but also give them spiritual comfort. From birth, to toddler, to school fame, to successful career, and finally to marriage and children, all bear the love of parents. Then even though I am busy, I can't forget to take care of my parents. The biggest sorrow in life is that "the son should be filial and his relatives are absent"!

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