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What is filial piety...what is unfilial piety?

What is filial piety...what is unfilial piety?

I have always thought that filial piety is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. After reading Professor Zeng Shiqiang's "Characteristics of Chinese Culture", I realized that it is actually wrong. We should not be filial. "Filial piety" is right. The Chinese have the "Book of Filial Piety" and There is filial piety, there is filial piety, there is filial piety... But what is "submission", obedience, obedience, absolute obedience? What about the combination of filial piety and obedience? When filial piety reaches the point of being obedient, there is no right or wrong! "The king ordered the minister to die. The minister "The father tells the son to perish. The son has to perish." I guess there are not many people today who pay attention to this kind of filial piety! For example, one day, your father said: Son, dad wants to eat strawberries, you go Steal a few from the fields out front for me. What will you do? Do you want to steal? If you do, it will harm your father, because it will ruin your father's reputation. That is unfilial! Then you say Do you want to steal it for your father? That is also unfilial, because you will bring shame on your father's face. Let me teach you a way. When your father wants you to steal it, you just say: Dad, it's not that I don't want to steal it, it's just that I can't climb trees! At this time, your dad must be furious: Don't say you are my son from now on. You have no common sense at all. Do strawberries grow on trees? Then you have to say pitifully: I can't climb the tree, I can't see it. Considering the situation around me, what should I do if someone tries to catch me? If I don’t admit that I am your son, that would be unfilial. If I admit that I am your son, it would tarnish your face and that would be unfilial. I might as well just crawl away. If you don't climb the tree, you can't steal the strawberries. At this time, your dad will think carefully. If you listen to your dad, that is filial piety, but it is actually unfilial. If you can persuade your dad to give up this idea, that is filial piety. It is true filial piety. Filial piety and filial piety are different. Filial piety is wrong, but filial piety is right.